So the librarian sewed the seeds for all life in the galaxy to flourish and she basically plans chief and cortana. Why would every all of her plans for biological diversity be thrown out the window over a small oversight of ancilla revolt. The genius of artificial life vs biological life vs the flood is great… but why even go so far as to create humans again just to plan their death? The forunners has their own artifical intelligence.
Sorry phone grammar
> The Mantle, which is brought up in the game, is a responsibility that has been passed down to different species for millenia. First, the Precursors (brought up in the novel Cryptum) and then the Forerunner. It was then going to be passed down to whichever species was more evolutionary complete (humans). In Halo 4, Chief’s evolutionary process is pushed farther, making him essentially no longer -Yoink!- sapien. This would set Chief’s lineage as the beginning of a new species.
> The Mantle was left to humanity by the Precursors (basically the species that created everything else, including the Forerunner), but the Forerunner revolted against their creators, as they believed themselves to be evolutionary superior (Didact in Halo 4 fully believed in this premise, as he viewed humans as weaker than him). The Forerunners wiped out the Precursors, only to have them return in a last ditch effort as the mutated Flood. I shouldn’t have to explain that if you’ve played the games.
> Now, with the Forerunners gone, humanity should have evolved at a faster rate and attained The Mantle, but they didn’t as they were busy slaughtering each other for no good reason. That was until humanity met the Covenant. The threat of a common enemy of humanity pulled people out of galactic civil war and combined forces. Since the Covenant were defeated (and no one outside of the military knew of the Flood), humanity went back to killing each other and not trusting the Covenant races.
> The first season of HTT focuses on the atrocities by ONI as they calculate human casualties rather than try to save everyone, and the second season focuses on the rebellions lack of civilian casualities as they have a “win at all costs” mentality.
> You should have probably read at least Halo: The Fall of Reach as it gives you a huge backstory to Halo 5 (Blue Team’s upbringing). I’ve read every Halo book/comic and love the lore. True fan of it. As for Hunt The Truth, it was an amazing series that showcased the atrocities ONI did in the Spartan-II program, as well as the lack of human empathy throughout the known galaxy. The entire franchise is based upon human evolution and our place in the galaxy. The series was deidcated to how we are SO bent on killing each other that we forget (or don’t care) that there are much worse things out there. That speaks on a real-world level. The whole series focuses on how humanity gets in its own way of evolution. It relates to the game because:
> Cortana has now merged with the Forerunner Domain, a Forerunner collection of knowledge and records, saving her from rampancy, but turning her ideas of the Mantle against bilogical creatures. Like the Forerunner, she turned against her creators, believing her and other artificial beings to be superior to her predacessors.This is the basis for the newer games as the saga is called “The Reclaimor Saga” as humanity works to “reclaim” the Mantle.
I think humanity was planned for the reclamation but the Warden and Cortana think otherwise.
That is the point. Her plans did not account for the didactic being ALONE and out of the domain for 100000 years…
And wake up pissed at humanity and bats**t crazy which lead to Cortana’s predicament.
Also…I firmly believe the Warden is manipulating Cortana and that she will turn around in halo 6
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> > This is the basis for the newer games as the saga is called “The Reclaimor Saga” as humanity works to “reclaim” the Mantle.
But they don’t even have the mantle yet…
The mantle belongs to humanity. Im excited for Halo 6.