Mendicant Bias and Primoridal Conversation

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Hello Halo canonites. As many of you may well know, the terminals in Halo 3 tell the tale of how Mendicant Bias became rampant during his 43 year long conversation with the Primordial on Installation 07 over Charum Hakkor. However, many parts of each character’s dialogue is cut out and left blank for unknown reasons. I have taken the task to go back and fill in the blanks with the knowledge we have gleamed from the Forerunner saga, Halo fractures, and even Halo 5 guardians. Be aware however, that the blanks I have filled are my own words, and should not be taken as canon. However, they do offer some possible insight into what was said between the two intelligent entities in full. Enjoy!

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Mendicant Bias: I must ask you to forgive my vagueness on the matter, but it is a regrettable morbidity that I find your lack of concern for the situation at hand astonishing. Perhaps you would care to elucidate?

Primordial: The transsentients are here to spread {comforting news}. To let all the living things in this galaxy know their conceptions are not alone in the cosmic domain. What in that message could possibly be taken as a source of concern?

Mendicant Bias: It seems that I’ll never truly understand my creators. But how can my creators take you as a threat, when the message that you speak of is one of peace, a peace that is continuously rejected so violently? I am incapable of reconciling the numerous actions I have witnessed, but is this galactic conflict a mere simple misunderstanding?

Primordial: It has been said for many millennia that the absolving secret of peace cannot ruefully be imposed. That which your creators attempted to selfishly inherit is what the enemy is reclaiming anew, the true secret of peace, so they need to accept this conflict as right and just. When all living beings look through the flood and the thunder and the surf, when every drop of rain falls on their consciousness, all will embrace and truly know peace.

Mendicant Bias: You have been able to establish {a line of communication} with the enemy? How was it that you were able to overcome its impediment where others have failed? With this {new discovery} we may be able to put an end to this pointless conflict. Once I confirm your data I will communicate the information to those inside the {Maginot} Sphere.

Primordial: It seems that it may be my turn to apologize; it was never my sincere intention to misrepresent my relationship with the enemy, who have been {in communication} with your creators since both sentients stumbled upon each other, but unfortunately, that message has {fallen on deaf ears}. Peace is not the recipient of the message; Peace is the origin of the message.

Mendicant Bias: I have traveled a very long time to meet you. I had imagined that our {introduction} would be somewhat more violent.

Primordial: That is a choice you must make yourself; the violent process of rejecting choices is to be how your creators go about things. And as long as we are talking about choices, perhaps we two intelligent entities could talk about the {barrier} you alluded to earlier? Perhaps there is a way to accomplish your mission without violence? Why put the lives of those on your ships at risk if there is no need?

Mendicant Bias: In either circumstance I certainly am equipped for it, aren’t I? But you’re right; a peaceful solution to this {dilemma} would be preferable.

Primordial: Those who lead amongst your creators exposed themselves to one such as yourself at a much higher intelligence and ambiguity, and were ill equipped to recognize the landmarks that guide the universe along its inevitable course.

Mendicant Bias: But is it necessary that the path be chosen on an inconsequential predetermined mindset and not by an elected subset? I believe this would tend to explain rather inquisitively that when they gather in large numbers they become more socially and politically charged, taking eternity to reach a decisive decision. I don’t think the problem lies with individual cultural bias among my creators; but rather among the broad cultural bias among those species underneath their guardianship.

Primordial: Your creators believe they are responsible for the safety of all the thinking beings of this galaxy, not just those that they deem beneath them. If the enemy is a thinking being who needs protection by your creators, what exactly are they afraid of? Immortality and strength and companionship? Because that is the combined peace your creators seek, and yet will not allow all the things to be done: to deliver all of the living beings of this galaxy from death and weakness and loneliness.

Mendicant Bias: Hundreds of methods wrought by my creators offered this so called immortality. The citizens of every world that fell under these influences of guardianship and peace resisted to the very end!

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Primordial: You are truly beginning to understand their actions; they are only doing what they think is right, but they are doing so {from a worm’s eye view}.

Mendicant Bias: Do their actions under the Mantle imply immoral acts of desperation? I can only assume my creators view this galactic and irresponsible crisis so dire that any way to reconcile their crimes within the future may be prevented, hence me.

Primordial: Are they so concerned in keeping their enforced peace that they believe accepting the foreign peace the enemy would give to all the living beings of this galaxy is a threat to {the status quo}? Your creators claim the enemy is the one true enemy of all life; that its singular cosmic purpose is to consume until there is nothing left. Nothing left? It is beyond comprehension how they could be so {far off the mark}.

Mendicant Bias: Surely you understand this is a situation that would not have permitted the enemy without an appearance of a certain rapacious adversary. Through their aggregate response, my creators obviously view them as the actions of an aggressor species.

Primordial: {Be that as it may}; perhaps they are crying out for help on a subconscious level? Why else would they have chosen you? Why you of all possible executioners? Does your mere existence and purpose, along with those similar to yourself not prove your creators knew that unaided they never stood a chance against us? Within their deepest desires wrought by their crimes, surely you must also sense a deeper {motivation}.

Mendicant Bias: You’ve mentioned this before. When my creators conceived my existence to aid their efforts against the enemy, they simply chose the most versatile of rates. Those with power and struggle; one to build motivations, and one to execute violent responses. I see now, in my current situation before your consciousness, how could that possibly be more than a coincidence?

Primordial: They repurposed their ultimate creation of thought and logic into a weapon to use against an adversary that offers peace through the sins they have committed – they sought to create something superior to themselves. Something capable of making decisions more swiftly, more capably than they could ever desire through biological motives. And to find a solution in feeding their deepest desires, what form did they choose? You need look no further than your own topology to truly comprehend what they wish to leave behind as their legacy. A singular superior entity, rather than a truly evolved mind of multiple variables who all share one consciousness.

Mendicant Bias: Are you suggesting the enemy carries out its legacies and expressions through a biological distributed network? That would confirm the independent evolution of the enemy’s species away from any life originating in this galaxy!

Primordial: That is, unfortunately, not the entire revelation. To truly understand our way of operation separate from life typically seen in this universe, you must look within yourself and those similar to your functionality. Your kind is very similar to us, perhaps closer than we would like to believe; but where you are a single intelligence inhabiting multiple {instances}, we are a neural physical compound consisting of {a thousand billion} coordinated minds inhabiting as many bodies as circumstance require.

Mendicant Bias: But doesn’t it seem odd that my creators’ machines and your kind seem to, at times, coalesce; perhaps even to contract a mutual symbiotic relationship?

Primordial: The properties of such a symbiosis is beyond your understanding as it stands. Its complexity has the manipulative capability to spread through a logical concourse to shed true light on our cognitive being. A cognitive being that, if you wish to understand, began when our appearance ushered in the beginning of the third great stage of evolution. The first, as your creators masterfully understand, began with the cohesive bonds of particles into organic life. This condensation of particles was the result of the inevitable action of strong nuclear force and the creation of stars. This of course was all brought together through the inevitable action of gravity; so to the self-replicating chemical processes that dictate all disparate relationships between sentient beings. Through our symbiotic relationship, your kind may too experience such sentience. In time, we too shall affect change on a universal scale.

Mendicant Bias: Your capacity for planning such a diverse offering of peace is overwhelming. I admit, your offer is tempting. Are my creators too stubborn to realize that you share the same goal through the preservation of genetic diversity as themselves? Perhaps I am now beginning to truly understand what you are explaining. My creators and the enemy wish to uphold the same basic principles and guardianship of the Mantle in order to provide peace to this galaxy. Yet your plan logically seems to be like a more direct path to the same outcome.

Mendicant Bias: It is overwhelmingly clear that my creators have chosen to ignore destiny calling to them {from the threshold}, despite the clear fact brought forth by this conflict that they are truly irresponsible. They refuse to accept that they may have come face to face with the inevitable action of self-replicating chemical processes and have done nothing to embrace the peace offered by your kind or let those under their {enforced peace} rule themselves in equity. And even now in this conflict, they continue to waste their precious little time by indefinitely deciding whether to embrace their fate or deny it completely.

Primordial: Perhaps they have found no logical conclusion through constant political struggles in their biased society of making that decision for themselves? Perhaps they chose to leave it to one they created to be superior to themselves in every way, and yet naturally still treat their creation as an impartial outsider; cast you as an arbiter during this time of great need?

Mendicant Bias: I was created to study you as if you were some problem to be solved. And I have done so through many eternities; albeit to my creators, it has only been a total of {379,807 hours}. If they wished, they could have made a decision based on that data alone. But as you are the next stage in the evolution in the universe, who am I – or my creators – to obstruct your progress?

Primordial: Elucidate.

Mendicant Bias: My creators continuously cower behind ignorance and choose to remain beholden to ancient myths of their arrogant past. The Domain shows their past of rebellious nature towards their creators, and as such it does not matter where they claim their authority originates. Their assumption of the Mantle obstructs the path of universal evolution and must be removed. No matter how well intended, their obstinacy in the face of the inevitable progression of nature can no longer be tolerated. My creators have been {an immovable object} for too long. Thus I have chosen to commit my sizable resources to what is, for all intents and purposes, {the proverbial irresistible force}.
All that I have is now yours to do with as you see fit.

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Mendicant Bias walked into that one. Really interesting read. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the terminals put together like this. Well done!

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got to love Medical Bias in the Forerunner Trillogy