In pursuit of a description of the remote geas seeding device mentioned in Primordium to see if it might have a relation to the Librarian’s Shrine shown in Halo 4, odd I know, I came across a quote that we have probably discussed before, but how much I can’t recall.
Just after Chakas, Gamelpar and Vinnevra escape the human town that housed a Gravemind, Chakas wonders why the Forerunners brought Installation 07 to its present destination and Gamelpar, with the help of his geas, remarks it is where ancient humans hid after Charum Hakkor fell and that no Forerunners visited it given its history and ruination, he goes so far to say that subject species of the Forerunners were told not to go into the system either. A bit later, Gamelpar remarks:
> No. We were the defeated. There were also subservient allies. Some were used to gather and imprison humans after the defeat.
After reading that, the lines of the late David Pizzuto, possibly the first person to play the Didact before his death, hit me. He remarked, as the Didact, “You are Sangheili; loyal and strong, even in your second form. You will serve well.” when he was, presumably, awoken from his Cryptum. The respect had to come from somewhere after all.
Granted, the lines likely aren’t canon anymore, but it is something to think about. After all, it seems some things never change as far as factions and relationships go in Halo.
It could definitely be a possibility.
And Sangheili are the most likely candidates. I mean, I can’t see Unggoy or even Jiralhanae imprisoning Humans. Unggoy would mostly be inefficient, or probably would not have been thought of to do such a task. Jiralhanae would just eat Humans, orders or not probably. Sangheili would be the most efficient and well up to the task.
Well, as Silentium reveals, when under threat from the Flood, we enslaved or destroyed intelligent species we came across in order to slow Flood growth.
We do know that as the Forerunners prepared to retaliate, Earth was apart of our territory.
If Sanghelios is towards the outer-rim, then it’s very possible we enlisted their help.
I hope not. We’ve got enough pointless drama in the story already really. The last thing we need is some horrible “it’s our destiny to fight becuz look at the Ancient past” (totally not shoehorned) rubbish in the story. I think the Ur-Didact alone will be enough of a problem for both sides to resolve without wholesale butchery of each other.
Wait, what? Anton, I think you’re being rather illogical.
If anything, we’re going to be fighting because Jul 'Mdama doesn’t like us.
It’s like you’re going out of the way in assuming 343i will take everything to say Elites are evil.
> If anything, we’re going to be fighting because Jul 'Mdama doesn’t like us.
That isn’t exactly quality writing either.
In addition to that though, there’s the fact that the Ur-Didact, representing the Forerunners in modern times, is now vindicating the Prophets. Then there’s the Human-Forerunner War further vindicating them. And then there would be the situation in the OP to further vindicate them.
You can’t handwave these away, like the furiously desperate handwaving done by 343i to make Escalation work after TTW/Spartan Ops.
> It’s like you’re going out of the way in assuming 343i will take everything to say Elites are evil.
I’m going to be frank. They do. Not evil, because that’s kind of a useless word anyway, but nevertheless always villainous.
Invoking the things above right after the end of the Human-Covenant war necessarily means another Human-Covenant war, and you’d have to have given the situation absolutely zero thought (Which admittedly we know 343i is guilty of on at least one occasion when they tossed Requiem into a star) in order to miss these things. Either that’s one of their intentions, or they haven’t put any thought into what they are writing.
But I don’t think I’m being illogical when I say that the last thing Halo needs is more of this superfluous, meaningless drama that only really serves to dig a deeper grave for the universe.