In an effort to do something “productive”, I thought it would be nice to present a brief overview of important information regarding the overall Halo Universe that very well seems to have relevance with Halo 4 and the Reclaimer Trilogy as a whole. The information comes from the books, Halo: Glasslands, Halo: Cryptum and Halo: Primordium. If you are reading any of these, I will have the information in spoiler tags. That way you get to enjoy your book and the people who just want to know can find out. Any speculation people wish to contribute is welcomed and any speculation that really stands out will be noticed. Since I feel this information is what will have the most impact, I might leave certain bits out. If anyone feels I missed anything, post it and I will add it to the list.
Enjoy.
Glasslands
UNSC Infinity
The UNSC Infinity is a special ship produced by the Office of Naval Intelligence in secret in the Oort cloud outside of the Sol System. It appears that it has been in construction since before the end of the Human-Covenant War up to 2553. It contains a number of Forerunner upgrades and enhancements, potentially Covenant too. Such upgrades come from as of yet revealed sources prior to the appearance of Trevylan, the new name for the Onyx Shield World, and from Trevylan after ONI established a presence on it. Besides it’s standard crew, lead by Andrew Del Rio, it also contains a crew of Spartan-IV supersoliders.Spartan-IVs
Spartan-IVs are the next generation of the Spartan-IV supersolider program. From the information available, they are all volunteers from the best of the UNSC military and will also probably have members from the S-II and S-III programs culled into it’s ranks. They appear to be outfitted with MJOLNIR Mk.VII Powered Assault Armor. Their last known location was on-board the UNSC Infinity.Trevylan
Formerly known as Onyx, Trevylan is the name of the Dyson Sphere that recently exited a Slipspace bubble. It is the roughly the size of Earth’s orbit around the sun. While not the location of Halo 4, the Forerunner technology inside will be used on the UNSC Infinity.Cryptum
The Didact
The Didact is the highest ranking Forerunner military commander during the Human-Forerunner War, a war between the Forerunners and humanity when they were once an intersteller empire, the result was a human defeat and de-evolution, and the subsequent Forerunner-Flood War. For both of these conflicts, there were two Didacts. The first was the original Didact, now dead as a result of the corrupt Forerunner named Faber, also known as the Master Builder. The current Didact was once known as Bornsteller Makes Eternal Lasting, a young Manipular, think teenager in a sense. He discovered the Didact on Earth in a tomb-like preservation device called a Cryptum with the help of two humans named Chakas and Riser. Upon traveling the galaxy with the Didact, he is given a brevet mutation and slowly assumes the identity of the original Didact. Now Bornsteller is the Didact and must combat the Flood that have once again reappeared.The Librarian
The Librarian is the highest ranking Forerunner Lifeworker. She specializes in the study and preservation of the species of the galaxy. She operates mostly on one of the two Arks and occasionally influences other races with a geas, a sort of genetic command. She is also the wife of the Didact and helped preserve humanity after the end of the Human-Forerunner War.Precursors
The Precursors were/are a race of extraterrestrials that at one point surpassed the Forerunners in terms of technological advancement and in fact created the Forerunners, humanity and potentially all the other races of the galaxy. However, the Forerunners rebelled against the Precursors and killed off a vast many of their race, forcing the surviving Precursors to flee.The Timeless One (Part I)
The Timeless One claims to be the last living Precursor and was imprisoned for an unknown reason on the world of Charum Hakkor. During the Human-Forerunner War, he told humanity that the only way to defeat the newly emerged threat of the Flood was to sacrifice 2/3 of their population with a genetic counterattack of their own. It worked, but such losses finally ended the Human-Forerunner War in the Forerunners favor. The Didact met with the Timeless One, still imprisoned, who gave him a dire warning about the Precursors response coming for them. Upon visiting Charum Hakkor 1,000 years later in the wake of a test firing of a rouge Halo, the Timeless One had escaped.Mendicant Bias
Bias is the most powerful Forerunner ancilla, or AI, a Contender-class. His original purpose was to control the Halo Array. However he and his Halos vanished for over 40 years. He ended up conversing with the Timeless One who managed to convince Bias to join his side against the Forerunners. After the end of the Forerunner-Flood War and his fragmentation, Mendicant Bias lived on and began to repent for his crimes. His influence is what allowed Chief to escape Installation 04 (II). Whether he continues to live on is a mystery.Primordium
Chakas
Chakas is an ancient human who has previously journeyed with the original Didact, Bornsteller and a fellow human named Riser. He is seperated from the group by the Master Builder and ends up on Installtion 07, a Halo controlled by the rouge AI Mendicant Bias and the Timeless One. He meets up with a group of humans kept captive on the ring and journeys with a girl named Vinnevra, her grandfather Gamelpar and eventually Riser to the Timeless One’s fortress, the Palace of Pain, a place of horrific human experimentation and proving ground of the Flood. He is constantly at odds with the genetic memory of an ancient human military leader named the Lord of Admirals. Eventually Chakas’ body can no longer handle the strain of his great journey and his consciousness is placed inside a Monitor. Over 100,000 years later the Monitor is found and interrogated by a team of ONI scientists. After telling his story, Chakas manages to hijack the ship he is on, speculated to be the UNSC Infinity, and ventures off to find the Librarian, thought dead long ago but apparently still alive. The Timeless One (Part II)
After leaving Charum Hakkor, the Timeless One became a full-blown Gravemind. He oversees horrifying human experiments on Installation 07 until the Didact and his forces find the ring. Upon interrogation by the Didact, with Chakas attending, the TO reveals that the Flood are a part of a plan against the Forerunners and that humans are meant to inherit the Mantle of protectors of the galaxy that the Forerunners worship. After revealing that the cure the humans had found was a lie and that the Flood willingly chose not to infect, the Didact vaporizes the Timeless One. However, he hints that his death will bring out the presence of “another child” and that in a hundred and one thousand centuries, the Precursors and Flood would come back to bring about unity.Thursday War
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