Recall in Halo 4 that the Librarian unlocked the Genesong she placed inside of John. She said that it included many things, and that immunity to the Composer was just one of them. Now, in Halo 5, I think it’d be really cool to see what other things the Genesong provided John, the possibilities are endless! Any ideas?
no, ooohh wait. what if it gives him the ability to be even more epic !!
Access to Forerunner-only technologies. I mean, humans couldn’t have inherited ALL the Forerunner tech, right?
Also, just as a theory of mine, is it possible the Domain could live again? The Librarian was a Lifeshaper, is it possible she could have hid seeds for a new Domain inside the Chief’s genesong? The Domain was a living thing, so it was killed by the Halos. However, all living things, as a species, have the ability to reproduce, so is it possible that, like a plant, the Domain could live again? Perhaps it wouldn’t retain all the information of the past, but it could still store information from that point on.
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> Access to Forerunner-only technologies. I mean, humans couldn’t have inherited ALL the Forerunner tech, right?
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> Also, just as a theory of mine, is it possible the Domain could live again? The Librarian was a Lifeshaper, is it possible she could have hid seeds for a new Domain inside the Chief’s genesong? The Domain was a living thing, so it was killed by the Halos. However, all living things, as a species, have the ability to reproduce, so is it possible that, like a plant, the Domain could live again? Perhaps it wouldn’t retain all the information of the past, but it could still store information from that point on.
Well, Guilty Spark said that Chief specifically was “inheritor of all they left behind.” Other humans are still just “reclaimers.” The reason for this has probably something to do with Mendicant Bias reaching out to Chief for atonement.
I’m on board with the domain idea but in my honest opinion, I think it’s gone forever from what Agent Testament said: “We deserve to be forgotten.” But the domain could be stuffed away somewhere far off in the galaxy where it might have survived the Halos
Access to Forerunner combat skin and their advanced AI. I would love to see the chief in a badass forerunner armor with floating parts, like the Didact’s.
Is that genesong only inside the Chief, or did all humanity inherit them.
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> Access to Forerunner-only technologies. I mean, humans couldn’t have inherited ALL the Forerunner tech, right?
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> Also, just as a theory of mine, is it possible the Domain could live again? The Librarian was a Lifeshaper, is it possible she could have hid seeds for a new Domain inside the Chief’s genesong? The Domain was a living thing, so it was killed by the Halos. However, all living things, as a species, have the ability to reproduce, so is it possible that, like a plant, the Domain could live again? Perhaps it wouldn’t retain all the information of the past, but it could still store information from that point on.
We don’t know that the Domain is, strictly speaking, “alive”.
If it is, it’s not alive in the same bio-mechanical sense that animals are… it can’t be categorized as a “species” from what we know of it, however little that is.
Remember, even the Forerunners didn’t understand the Domain. There is no way the Librarian understood it at a base enough level to engineer Domain-seeds to store anywhere, let alone in the genes of humanity. Now, the ability to access the Domain the way Forerunner once did… that’s certainly a possible gift hidden in the genesong (assuming there’s still a Domain anywhere to access).
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> Well, Guilty Spark said that Chief specifically was “inheritor of all they left behind.” Other humans are still just “reclaimers.” The reason for this has probably something to do with Mendicant Bias reaching out to Chief for atonement.
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> I’m on board with the domain idea but in my honest opinion, I think it’s gone forever from what Agent Testament said: “We deserve to be forgotten.” But the domain could be stuffed away somewhere far off in the galaxy where it might have survived the Halos
I think you’re misunderstanding Spark. He didn’t mean Master Chief specifically was the inheritor, he meant humanity in general. “You are the children (plural) of my makers…” Plus, that quote is kind of on the fringe of canon anyway, since at that point Bungie was working with the lore of Forerunners being ancient humans, not the two being separate: “You (humanity) are Forerunner, but this ring is mine.” That point was kept pretty foggy until Halo 4 and its extensions solidified the current canon.
This “individual rather than in general” is a common misconception when it comes to information being revealed to the Chief.
When the Librarian is describing the genesong to John, she isn’t talking about him specifically and only. The “you” in “You are the culmination of a thousand lifetimes of planning” doesn’t mean that the Librarian planned out John as a person when she wrote the genesong, all it means is that she put humanity on a course which would eventually advance to a point where they would manufacture things like “combat skin” and “advanced ancillas”. John only happens to be the culmination of those gifts because he happened to be the one chosen to be a Spartan, and happened to be the Spartan chosen to carry Cortana.
The biological aspects he was born with (along with those imposed on him) and the technological aspects humanity provided him with were the “eventuality” the Librarian mentioned, not specifically this person as a person.
There’s nothing special or unique about Master Chief in the grandest scale of things, he’s just at the tip of the spear when it comes to human advancement. All of humanity carries the same genesong, otherwise what would be the point? Why would she only give one individual human the potential for things like immunity to the Composer? The Librarian says that in order to unlock the genesong, the Chief’s “evolutionary journey must be accelerated”. That seems to mean that all of humanity would have evolved into the same gifts John now has, eventually.
I have a feeling that it’s only plot purpose was the justify the Chief’s survival of the composer.