If you read the book like i have then you know at the end that what’s left of the Covenant is heading for a nearby planet inside Onyx to take refuge on an ancient Forerunner ship that could potentially be reactivated after the huragok does it thing. Potential pt 2 to this story i think with that being in there but anyhow. If there is one ancient forerunner ship that is in storage then there has to be more. Granted Onyx itself has some but what about the rest of the galaxy. Are there more and do you think that it might be a possibility of seeing one in the next halo game? Yes, i realize High Charity was built around a forerunner ship. That one was already established.
Surely there must be dozens, if not hundreds, of Forerunner ships available, if hidden. Even if you were to suppose that by the final battle of the war all ships that did not participate in the final battle were destroyed – and, no, that doesn’t sound even remotely likely to me – then you’d have to accept that the battle did not end in total annihilation of one side’s resources. After the rings fired, both Biases kept fighting, but once Offensive Bias seized and partitioned Mendicant Bias the fighting stopped, and whatever Mendicant Bias controlled would have passed to Offensive Bias – who himself would have had resources also, or else he would not have been able to capture Mendicant Bias.
Also, for clarification: the antagonists of Legacy of Onyx are, realistically speaking, not all that’s left of the Covenant. There’s gotta be a ton of holed-up fanatics in the corners of the galaxy trying to pull together resources for their personal attempt at restarting that ancient empire. The Servants of the Abiding Truth are just one of the better-known, slightly-more-successful examples of that movement. The Keepers of the Abiding Truth are another example, and for all we know they’re still out there in 2558.
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> Surely there must be dozens, if not hundreds, of Forerunner ships available, if hidden. Even if you were to suppose that by the final battle of the war all ships that did not participate in the final battle were destroyed – and, no, that doesn’t sound even remotely likely to me – then you’d have to accept that the battle did not end in total annihilation of one side’s resources. After the rings fired, both Biases kept fighting, but once Offensive Bias seized and partitioned Mendicant Bias the fighting stopped, and whatever Mendicant Bias controlled would have passed to Offensive Bias – who himself would have had resources also, or else he would not have been able to capture Mendicant Bias.
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> Also, for clarification: the antagonists of Legacy of Onyx are, realistically speaking, not all that’s left of the Covenant. There’s gotta be a ton of holed-up fanatics in the corners of the galaxy trying to pull together resources for their personal attempt at restarting that ancient empire. The Servants of the Abiding Truth are just one of the better-known, slightly-more-successful examples of that movement. The Keepers of the Abiding Truth are another example, and for all we know they’re still out there in 2558.
Well their leader Castor is most likely still standing by that time since he lives through the events of Retribution, despite the best attempts of ONI, the Ferrets and Blue Team…so more than likely, he’s built it again from the ground up.
In other words, yeah. The Servants are far from all thats left.
One thing I didn’t enjoy about Legacy of Onyx was the fact the UNSC had been living in the Slipspace Dyson sphere for years. Then Dural comes along with a Huragok with no previous experience with the sphere itself, but somehow knows the portal grid better than the residing Huragok for 100 millenia! The UNSC nor the Huragok had no knowledge of other habitable planets within the Dyson sphere, didn’t know about operational* Forerunner ships! How is this even remotely possible? The UNSC should have at least ASKED the Huragok about the other planets and main bases where the Forerunners were to convien in the event of a catastrophe. Even ships and weapons, instead they focus thier efforts on an inactive Guardian. Overall the book was decent, but it has its plot holes.