I’m sure most of you may have no idea what I’m talking about, but I did find Mara from Primordium to be an interesting non-human, semi-sentient character. A giant ape who could somewhat communicate with our band of ancient human travelers on Installation 07? Awesome stuff as far as I’m concerned. She was the last of her kind and that leaves her eventually fate somewhat decided, but I wanted to know what happened to her after Chakas and company were taken by Mendicant Bias to the Palace of Pain. Well, I asked Greg Bear and here is his answer:
> From: Greg Bear
> Date: 11/25/2014
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> She was likely included in the Librarian’s private preserve. And since Gigantopithecus seems to leave the terrestrial fossil record about 100,000 years ago, I presume we have yet to find the traces of those lovely apes who were repatriated, along with the many varieties of human beings, after the Halos were fired.
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So there is something if you are interested like I was.
So the Librarian revived them but they when extinct naturally? Reasonable enough to believe. The Librarian revived the other species of human, but they died too after their reintroduction. It’s interesting to hear that Mara was probably taken to the Librarian. I assumed she must have died by the end of the events of Halo: Primoridum.
What I want to know now is how many apes have achieved a near human level of sapience. We know all the varieties of humans are sapient, but nothing of other prehistoric apes. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were others as intelligent as Mara. If so, what kind of society did Mara’s kind and their relatives form? I know that they were scarce in numbers. But it would still be interesting to see what tier of technology they developed.
What I would like to know is where Mara disappeared to while Chakas was going through his spinal tap brain washing installation 07 …stuff…?
Huh…always figured she was simply returned to Earth and perished either during the array or after. Either way, she was an oddly interesting and unique character and in a way glad to know now.
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> So the Librarian revived them but they when extinct naturally? Reasonable enough to believe. The Librarian revived the other species of human, but they died too after their reintroduction. It’s interesting to hear that Mara was probably taken to the Librarian. I assumed she must have died by the end of the events of Halo: Primoridum.
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> What I want to know now is how many apes have achieved a near human level of sapience. We know all the varieties of humans are sapient, but nothing of other prehistoric apes. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were others as intelligent as Mara. If so, what kind of society did Mara’s kind and their relatives form? I know that they were scarce in numbers. But it would still be interesting to see what tier of technology they developed.
My degree is in anthropology and I remembered asking a similar question to one of my professors. Why is there a thorough fossil record for humanity, but not really one for other apes. Her answer is 25 years old, so there might be changes, but most apes live in tropical, moist environments. When they die, composition, including skeletal remains is nearly 100%. The human lineage had this bad habit of exploiting areas that were more beneficial for skeletal preservation.
That’s a real life answer (a hypothetical one), not a Halo answer.
Cheers,
Brad