So here’s my really quick theory about how the domain is back in halo 5. At the end of the Forerunner books the gravemind speaks to the librarian and tells her the domain is precursor and will be destroyed by the halos, and it seemingly is. However it returns for halo 5. What if flood/precoursers hidden in/outside the galaxy meant for its return and for Cortana to take claim of it. Why would they want Cortana in control? They can consume the galaxy the same way they defeated the forerunners. The logic plague. Cortana has already been subjected to a gravemind and who knows what rampant shard of her reached the domain but she could be easily twisted by a gravemind the same way as mendicant bias.
This also leads to mendicant coming back to help humanity, or alternatively a digitized didact being redeemed by choosing to fight the flood over humanity after realising that Spartans are kinda dope.
History is repeating itself. The Primordial told Bornstellar the Forerunners were being tested and that the Humans’ time would come. This is our test. The Precursors/Flood turn our best against us (Ur Didact/Menidcant) and see how we fare.
I will be incredibly disappointed if The Didact and/or Bornstellar are not in any of the games going forward.
I have posted on other threads my wish for the return of the flood. They were a formidable adversary! Not to mention they were the only “scary” enemies that halo had. 343’s attempt to replace them with promethean enemies just isn’t the same. I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
-Brutus118
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> I have posted on other threads my wish for the return of the flood. They were a formidable adversary! Not to mention they were the only “scary” enemies that halo had. 343’s attempt to replace them with promethean enemies just isn’t the same. I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
> -Brutus118
Amen spartan, it be epic if the precursors came back. I think that the domain could of also returned because the Forerunner’s knew that the domain would be destroyed. So to protect it, they hid a part of it.
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> I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
> -Brutus118
That’s pretty much how I would want the series to go, history repeating itself
- Flood comes back
- Cortana helps fight it with the Guardians
- Didact puts aside his hatred of humanity to help
- Flood still too strong
- Chief has to fire the Halos
The End
or have a cliche ending where humanity passes the precursors test and everything goes happily ever after
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> > I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
> > -Brutus118
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> That’s pretty much how I would want the series to go, history repeating itself
> - Flood comes back
> - Cortana helps fight it with the Guardians
> - Didact puts aside his hatred of humanity to help
> - Flood still too strong
> - Chief has to fire the Halos
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> The End
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> or have a cliche ending where humanity passes the precursors test and everything goes happily ever after
Now that ending would be absolutely incredible. 343 please do this story.
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> So here’s my really quick theory about how the domain is back in halo 5. At the end of the Forerunner books the gravemind speaks to the librarian and tells her the domain is precursor and will be destroyed by the halos, and it seemingly is. However it returns for halo 5. What if flood/precoursers hidden in/outside the galaxy meant for its return and for Cortana to take claim of it. Why would they want Cortana in control? They can consume the galaxy the same way they defeated the forerunners. The logic plague. Cortana has already been subjected to a gravemind and who knows what rampant shard of her reached the domain but she could be easily twisted by a gravemind the same way as mendicant bias.
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> This also leads to mendicant coming back to help humanity, or alternatively a digitized didact being redeemed by choosing to fight the flood over humanity after realising that Spartans are kinda dope.
yes the could definitely be… Cortana started her rampancy back when she was in the clutches of the gravemind at the end of halo 2…
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> > > I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
> > > -Brutus118
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> > That’s pretty much how I would want the series to go, history repeating itself
> > - Flood comes back
> > - Cortana helps fight it with the Guardians
> > - Didact puts aside his hatred of humanity to help
> > - Flood still too strong
> > - Chief has to fire the Halos
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> > The End
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> > or have a cliche ending where humanity passes the precursors test and everything goes happily ever after
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> Now that ending would be absolutely incredible. 343 please do this story.
Good, theories . 343 please do this story.
Maybe if we flood 343 with requests for the return of our aforementioned enemy they will listen to what we want… Pun intended…
-Brutus118
The Domain to me predated even the Precursors and that they themselves didn’t fully understand it. The following passages come from Silentium.
“We are your children, Librarian. But we are also their children. And what they learned across many billions of years they stored in this galaxy. We do not know where. The Gravemind tells us something impossible to understand—that most of what has been gathered comes from before there were stars. We do not believe in such a time, but the Mind insists… The life-patterns and living wisdom of a hundred billion years. They tell me the immense field projected by this reserve is known to Forerunners, was once accessed by them. Is that so, Librarian?”
The Gravemind no more understands the whole truth than we do. It is past all our understanding, from the greatest to the smallest. This reserve was wrapped in Precursor architecture, protected for many billions of years. Out there. Perhaps if there were enough time, we could find it. But when the Halos are fired, not only will sentient life across the galaxy vanish, but all that knowledge will vanish as well. The greatest treasure of all will be destroyed."
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> The Domain to me predated even the Precursors and that they themselves didn’t fully understand it. The following passages come from Silentium.
> “We are your children, Librarian. But we are also their children. And what they learned across many billions of years they stored in this galaxy. We do not know where. The Gravemind tells us something impossible to understand—that most of what has been gathered comes from before there were stars. We do not believe in such a time, but the Mind insists… The life-patterns and living wisdom of a hundred billion years. They tell me the immense field projected by this reserve is known to Forerunners, was once accessed by them. Is that so, Librarian?”
> The Gravemind no more understands the whole truth than we do. It is past all our understanding, from the greatest to the smallest. This reserve was wrapped in Precursor architecture, protected for many billions of years. Out there. Perhaps if there were enough time, we could find it. But when the Halos are fired, not only will sentient life across the galaxy vanish, but all that knowledge will vanish as well. The greatest treasure of all will be destroyed."
Word
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> I have posted on other threads my wish for the return of the flood. They were a formidable adversary! Not to mention they were the only “scary” enemies that halo had. 343’s attempt to replace them with promethean enemies just isn’t the same. I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
> -Brutus118
Precursors did come back in another capacity…as the Flood.
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> The Domain to me predated even the Precursors and that they themselves didn’t fully understand it. The following passages come from Silentium.
> “We are your children, Librarian. But we are also their children. And what they learned across many billions of years they stored in this galaxy. We do not know where. The Gravemind tells us something impossible to understand—that most of what has been gathered comes from before there were stars. We do not believe in such a time, but the Mind insists… The life-patterns and living wisdom of a hundred billion years. They tell me the immense field projected by this reserve is known to Forerunners, was once accessed by them. Is that so, Librarian?”
> The Gravemind no more understands the whole truth than we do. It is past all our understanding, from the greatest to the smallest. This reserve was wrapped in Precursor architecture, protected for many billions of years. Out there. Perhaps if there were enough time, we could find it. But when the Halos are fired, not only will sentient life across the galaxy vanish, but all that knowledge will vanish as well. The greatest treasure of all will be destroyed."
This just goes to show that knowledge is the greatest power, that he who has more knowledge shall rule. But, only those that can comprehend said knowledge shall rule, hence the AI shall gain ultimate understanding or shall perish like the Precursors and Forerunners before them.
May the shadows hide your assault.
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> > I have posted on other threads my wish for the return of the flood. They were a formidable adversary! Not to mention they were the only “scary” enemies that halo had. 343’s attempt to replace them with promethean enemies just isn’t the same. I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
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> Precursors did come back in another capacity…as the Flood.
True… But the book also eludes to the fact that the precursors may have come from another galaxy entirely and the forerunners only killed off a small group of them.
-Brutus
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> History is repeating itself. The Primordial told Bornstellar the Forerunners were being tested and that the Humans’ time would come. This is our test. The Precursors/Flood turn our best against us (Ur Didact/Menidcant) and see how we fare.
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> I will be incredibly disappointed if The Didact and/or Bornstellar are not in any of the games going forward.
I agree. It’s also interesting to note that humanity’s situation right now is similar to the Precursors’ during the Precursor-Forerunner war. The Created (Forerunners) are rising up against their creators (Precursors) in order to claim the Mantle of Responsibility. Something tells me this is all part of the Precursors’ ever evolving plan of testing humanity, to see how humanity reacts when facing a similar fate to the Precursors themselves.
That’s actually a pretty cool idea, I like the idea of history repeating itself and the return of Mendicant Bias and the Precursors. Despite my disappointment with the story of Halo 5, I actually do think it opens the door to a lot of interesting possibilities. They definitely need expand the story of the next game past Cortana (though she should remain an antagonist) and bring in the Domain and the Precursors into the story.
To be honest, I’m still waiting for the return of the Forerunners. I may be miss remembering, but in the epilogue of Halo 4, the Didact had a speech that really made it seem that the Forerunners were going to return in force and the crap was about to hit the fan. Also, bring back the Didact. I know he is “dead” but he was still the best villain this series had outside the Gravemind.
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> That’s actually a pretty cool idea, I like the idea of history repeating itself and the return of Mendicant Bias and the Precursors. Despite my disappointment with the story of Halo 5, I actually do think it opens the door to a lot of interesting possibilities. They definitely need expand the story of the next game past Cortana (though she should remain an antagonist) and bring in the Domain and the Precursors into the story.
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> To be honest, I’m still waiting for the return of the Forerunners. I may be miss remembering, but in the epilogue of Halo 4, the Didact had a speech that really made it seem that the Forerunners were going to return in force and the crap was about to hit the fan. Also, bring back the Didact. I know he is “dead” but he was still the best villain this series had outside the Gravemind.
What about the prophet of truth ( to say the truth, he was an -Yoink-, though)
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> > That’s actually a pretty cool idea, I like the idea of history repeating itself and the return of Mendicant Bias and the Precursors. Despite my disappointment with the story of Halo 5, I actually do think it opens the door to a lot of interesting possibilities. They definitely need expand the story of the next game past Cortana (though she should remain an antagonist) and bring in the Domain and the Precursors into the story.
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> > To be honest, I’m still waiting for the return of the Forerunners. I may be miss remembering, but in the epilogue of Halo 4, the Didact had a speech that really made it seem that the Forerunners were going to return in force and the crap was about to hit the fan. Also, bring back the Didact. I know he is “dead” but he was still the best villain this series had outside the Gravemind.
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> What about the prophet of truth ( to say the truth, he was an -Yoink-, though)
He was a good villain. His dialog and voice acting were suburb and I loved the idea of a religious cult leader being the main bad guy. The reason he is behind Didact for me is because he was kind of an idiot in the end. He believed the Halo’s sent you on the great journey (nope,they just kill you) even when there was boatloads of evidence to contrary, and he tried to exterminate the Elites and triggered the Great Schism at the worst possible moment, allowing humanity to win the war. He basically snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
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> > I have always hoped that the halo series would end with the Chief having to make the same decision the Bornstellar-Didact had to make. Or if they chose to continue the series… having the precursors come back in some capacity.
> > -Brutus118
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> That’s pretty much how I would want the series to go, history repeating itself
> - Flood comes back
> - Cortana helps fight it with the Guardians
> - Didact puts aside his hatred of humanity to help
> - Flood still too strong
> - Chief has to fire the Halos
>
> The End
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> or have a cliche ending where humanity passes the precursors test and everything goes happily ever after
Humanity inheriting the Mantle wouldn’t necessarily be a cliche happily-ever-after.
Cliche science fiction poses humanity as the underdog, as a people venturing out into the unknown where they meet aliens who are advanced far beyond humanity’s knowledge and technology. They’re always the rambunctious upstarts, the plucky children. Humanity taking the Mantle would turn that cliche on its head, and pose humanity as towering masters over all known life in the galaxy. We often see humanity trying to win mastery, or fighting against another power which has mastery, but what happens when it’s humanity on the very top? What happens when they’re told they have to be responsible for the well-being and growth of all life? Do you really think the Elites would accept the leadership of humanity? What about the Prophets, or the Brutes?
Even if humanity fights back the Flood and the Precursors acknowledge them as true inheritors of the Mantle, there will still be a time of conflict. To stop that conflict, humanity would have to either admit that they shouldn’t have the Mantle (will the Precursors accept a galaxy with no Mantle holders?) or they have to do exactly what Cortana is trying to do now: force the matter upon everyone. Given the power on offer there, I think we know which way humanity will want to go.
There is no happily-ever-after for the galaxy when it comes to the Mantle; not with humans holding the reins (and the whips).