Most likely backstory

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I’m using information from Glasslands and the new Game Informer.

The Servants of Abiding Truth have won the civil war or have gained a significant upper hand against the Arbiter. They have have a little policy on touching Forerunner tech. If you handle it, destroy it, etc you shall be executed.

Now the UNSC has set up a base inside the Dyson Sphere known as Trevelyan. They take some of the Forerunner tech in there and put it into the Infinity.

The Servants of Abiding Truth find Trevelyan and take it from the UNSC. They don’t go to war with the UNSC but keep their little agreement of “I’ll leave you alone if you leave me alone.”

Now sometime later the Forward Unto Dawn is on a direct course with Trevelyan. Elite sensors pick up the ship and they go out to kill any humans on it. They’re probably like “Oh those damn humans are here?! I thought we told them not to come here. Kill them!”

Master Chief fights off some Elites and Grunts as the Forward Unto Dawn crashes into the Dyson Sphere. There he finds some UNSC bases with new weapons such as the BR85, new Assault Rifle, and other things.

He meets up with Forerunners inside link and fights either them or some other enemy.

On a side note Halo4Follower just talks about anything Halo 4 related, I have created a youtube channel for all canon related things with Halo 4. I even find stuff taht Halo4Follower either hasn’t found or has yet to find. link

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  1. There are likely multiple main factions of Sangheili out there. Its possible that our Covenant enemies at the beginning are the Servants, but it could also just be a random splinter group as well.

  2. That’s a given.

  3. The Servants of Abiding Truth would be stupid to attack Trevelyan knowing that Maggie Parangosky would ensure that they violate their own beliefs in taking it. Not to mention that they could likely simply put the Dyson sphere back into slipspace. And despite the ONI Proxy Campaign, I doubt they would allow the UNSC to keep on going.

  4. The Forward Unto Dawn will crash land on Requiem, not Trevelyan.

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> The Servants of Abiding Truth would be stupid to attack Trevelyan knowing that Maggie Parangosky would ensure that they violate their own beliefs in taking it. Not to mention that they could likely simply put the Dyson sphere back into slipspace. And despite the ONI Proxy Campaign, I doubt they would allow the UNSC to keep on going.
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> 4. The Forward Unto Dawn will crash land on Requiem, not Trevelyan.

We’re talking about the Servants of Abiding Truth, not only do they think that humans are scum but that touching Forerunner tech is blasphemy (WBC). In Glasslands they seem to be alright with humans since they are just supplying Covenant weapons. As soon as they find out that the UNSC has got a hold of a Forerunner Dyson Sphere, probably the largest Forerunner object ever built, they will take it over. The Elites, with whatever forces they still have, could easily overcome any UNSC forces stationed in the Dyson Sphere.

I think it’s Trevelyan due to the fact that it’s a Dyson Sphere. Dyson Spheres are really huge and require a monstrous amount of resources. I doubt that the Forerunners had time to build multiple (Shield Worlds are different since they’re planet sized.) Though I could be wrong, maybe the Forerunners only manged to finish building one and the other was uncompleted and is Trevelyan. Also Requiem is the possible Forerunner or Elite name of the world. Trevelyan is the UNSC designation.

Also I’m getting conflicted reports that there’s a planet inside the Dyson Sphere and that the planet may or may not be -Yoink!- Requiem instead of the Sphere itself.

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Again, your forgetting that Trevelyan Command can simply with the aid of its Huragok superintendants, put the Dyson sphere back in Slipspace. Sure you’ll still have a fleet waiting outside of it, but they can’t do anything. Easy prey for post-war ships possibly upgraded with Infinity tech and The Arbiter’s Sanghelian Armed Forces.

And the Forerunners can build Halos of 10k and 30k diameter, two Arks, and a vast network of Shield Worlds. At the very least, a couple of Dyson spheres is like making cupcakes.

As for Requiem being Trevelyan. The Huragoks left behind by the Forerunners on the latter wouldn’t have transitioned it into normal space if it detected anyone (Flood, Covenant, “ancient evil”).

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> I’m using information from Glasslands and the new Game Informer.

Let’s see.

> <mark>The Servants of Abiding Truth have won the civil war or have gained a significant upper hand against the Arbiter.</mark> They have have a little policy on touching Forerunner tech. If you handle it, destroy it, etc you shall be executed.

Unless that is a prediction, it’s not correct. And The Return, set a year after Halo 4, does mention attempts to understand Forerunner technology, so how can the Servants be in charge is Forerunner tech if being sought? And really, unless they understand it, how can they possibly hope to amass or even fix their ships they already have?

> Now the UNSC has set up a base inside the Dyson Sphere known as Trevelyan. They take some of the Forerunner tech in there and put it into the Infinity.

A logical step.

> The Servants of Abiding Truth find Trevelyan and take it from the UNSC. They don’t go to war with the UNSC but keep their little agreement of “I’ll leave you alone if you leave me alone.”

This scenario makes absolutely zero sense. Then trying to take it would most certainly start a conflict, after all ''Telcam is not dealing with the UNSC, but ONI and that deal is secret because it would hurt 'Telcam’s goals and ONI’s goal.

> Now sometime later the Forward Unto Dawn is on a direct course with Trevelyan. Elite sensors pick up the ship and they go out to kill any humans on it. They’re probably like “Oh those damn humans are here?! I thought we told them not to come here. Kill them!”

Requiem is not Trevylan.

> Master Chief fights off some Elites and Grunts as the Forward Unto Dawn crashes into the <mark>Dyson Sphere</mark>. There he finds some UNSC bases with new weapons such as the BR85, new Assault Rifle, and other things.

Requiem.

> He meets up with Forerunners inside link and fights either them or some other enemy.

And why would he fight Forerunners? I know that Xbox magazine says that on the cover, but OXM was wrong about the 2553 date in their previous Halo 4 report and we haven’t read what the Xbox magazine with the Forerunner enemy deal says for sure.

Forerunners as enemies doesn’t make sense.

> On a side note Halo4Follower just talks about anything Halo 4 related, I have created a youtube channel for all canon related things with Halo 4. I even find stuff taht Halo4Follower either hasn’t found or has yet to find. link

Halo4Follower admitted to faking concept art form previous Halo games and passing it off as Halo 4 stuff. He has little credibility.

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> And the Forerunners can build Halos of 10k and 30k diameter, two Arks, and a vast network of Shield Worlds. At the very least, a couple of Dyson spheres is like making cupcakes.

Do you even know how big a Dyson Sphere is? I took astronomy and I can tell you that a Dyson Sphere is just astronomically huge. Something like the Ark is just a step up of the Halo Rings. The Ark is NOWHERE in size compared to a Dyson Sphere, NOWHERE.
It would take light 16 minutes to get from one side of the Dyson Sphere to another. That’s how big it is.

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> I’m using information from Glasslands and the new Game Informer.
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> The Servants of Abiding Truth have won the civil war or have gained a significant upper hand against the Arbiter. They have have a little policy on touching Forerunner tech. If you handle it, destroy it, etc you shall be executed.
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> Now the UNSC has set up a base inside the Dyson Sphere known as Trevelyan. They take some of the Forerunner tech in there and put it into the Infinity.
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> The Servants of Abiding Truth find Trevelyan and take it from the UNSC. They don’t go to war with the UNSC but keep their little agreement of “I’ll leave you alone if you leave me alone.”
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> Now sometime later the Forward Unto Dawn is on a direct course with Trevelyan. Elite sensors pick up the ship and they go out to kill any humans on it. They’re probably like “Oh those damn humans are here?! I thought we told them not to come here. Kill them!”
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> Master Chief fights off some Elites and Grunts as the Forward Unto Dawn crashes into the Dyson Sphere. There he finds some UNSC bases with new weapons such as the BR85, new Assault Rifle, and other things.
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> He meets up with Forerunners inside link and fights either them or some other enemy.
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> On a side note Halo4Follower just talks about anything Halo 4 related, I have created a youtube channel for all canon related things with Halo 4. I even find stuff taht Halo4Follower either hasn’t found or has yet to find. link

Or it could be a rogue fleet.

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> Unless that is a prediction, it’s not correct. And The Return, set a year after Halo 4, does mention attempts to understand Forerunner technology, so how can the Servants be in charge is Forerunner tech if being sought? And really, unless they understand it, how can they possibly hope to amass or even fix their ships they already have?
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> This scenario makes absolutely zero sense. Then trying to take it would most certainly start a conflict, after all ''Telcam is not dealing with the UNSC, but ONI and that deal is secret because it would hurt 'Telcam’s goals and ONI’s goal.
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> And why would he fight Forerunners? I know that Xbox magazine says that on the cover, but OXM was wrong about the 2553 date in their previous Halo 4 report and we haven’t read what the Xbox magazine with the Forerunner enemy deal says for sure.
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> Forerunners as enemies doesn’t make sense.
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> Halo4Follower admitted to faking concept art form previous Halo games and passing it off as Halo 4 stuff. He has little credibility.

The Return takes place 2 years after Halo 4. Also we don’t know if those are Pro-Arbiter Elites or Servants of Abiding Truth Elites.
Also what’s stopping religious nutcase Elites from taking a Dyson Sphere/Shield World back from the UNSC? They kill their own kind just for touching Forerunner tech. Imagine if they find out the UNSC has done to Trevelyan.
Forerunners have been Humanity’s enemy before, why not again? We don’t know what happened to the Master Builder and he doesn’t seem to care about humans at all.

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> Do you even know how big a Dyson Sphere is? I took astronomy and I can tell you that a Dyson Sphere is just astronomically huge. Something like the Ark is just a step up of the Halo Rings. The Ark is NOWHERE in size compared to a Dyson Sphere, NOWHERE.
> It would take light 16 minutes to get from one side of the Dyson Sphere to another. That’s how big it is.[/color]

Trevelyan is the size of Earth’s orbit, I doubt that would take 16 minutes to get around.

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> Trevelyan is the size of Earth’s orbit, I doubt that would take 16 minutes to get around.

A Dyson Sphere, such as Trevelyn is the size of Earths orbit which is correct. That means it’s 2AU in diameter. It takes light 8 minutes to get from the Sun to Earth. That is pretty much from the middle to one side. It’s simple mathematics to figure out that if you had light from one side travel to the exact other side, it would take 16 minutes.
Also due to Halo4Follower posting up fake leaks and flat out stupid videos, I created this channel link

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> The Return takes place 2 years after Halo 4. Also we don’t know if those are Pro-Arbiter Elites or Servants of Abiding Truth Elites.

And ti would seem no war with humanity was fought. Seems like a key detail that would be mentioned. In fact, the Elites were said to have fought the remnants of the Covenant controlled by the Prophets and Brutes. Seems like they would be pro-Arbiter to me.

> Also what’s stopping religious nutcase Elites from taking a Dyson Sphere/Shield World back from the UNSC? They kill their own kind just for touching Forerunner tech. Imagine if they find out the UNSC has done to Trevelyan.

What allows them to both wage civil war against the Arbiter, his forces and his ships AND go to Trevelyan at the same time? It just wouldn’t work.

> Forerunners have been Humanity’s enemy before, why not again?

What go would it do? The Didact is aware of the Precursors’ Flood coming back to fully test humanity and the Forerunners still preserved humanity to replace them and use their technology.

> We don’t know what happened to the Master Builder and he doesn’t seem to care about humans at all.

It’s implied he died on Installation 07 along with his henchmen and the other Forerunner Lifeworkers. He would have no way to get off the ring anyway.

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> And ti would seem no war with humanity was fought. Seems like a key detail that would be mentioned. In fact, the Elites were said to have fought the remnants of the Covenant controlled by the Prophets and Brutes. Seems like they would be pro-Arbiter to me.
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> What allows them to both wage civil war against the Arbiter, his forces and his ships AND go to Trevelyan at the same time? It just wouldn’t work.
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> What go would it do? The Didact is aware of the Precursors’ Flood coming back to fully test humanity and the Forerunners still preserved humanity to replace them and use their technology.
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> It’s implied he died on Installation 07 along with his henchmen and the other Forerunner Lifeworkers. He would have no way to get off the ring anyway.

It’s also implied that the Librarian died on Earth but guess what…
Also I doubt that 343i would spoil a bit of Halo 4’s plot in The Return before Halo 4 was even announced. I do believe those Elites are Pro-Arbiter. Also I doubt the Didact would actually wage war on Humanity. He knows of the threat, there’s no point in that. It has to be somebody like the Master Builder or somebody with his beliefs.

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> It’s also implied that the Librarian died on Earth but guess what…
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We still don’t know in what form she is alive. Alive as in the flesh or alive as in some genetic memory or through geas, we don’t know.
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> That’s assuming YOUR theory is correct. The Return tells us that for the 6 years after the war the Elites were hunting down the remnants of the Prophets and Brutes. The only side who could do damage on humanity is the Arbiter and he has no desire to attack us.
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> Or we may not fight Forerunners at all.

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Well Cobra do you have an idea on what the most likely backstory is? I hardly get to see any of your theories.

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Some people learn their Halo Information by reading all of the fiction…

Some search for it Online…

I just read through the intelligent discussions like these to get a good perspective on this information…

Seriously, appreciate the back-and-forth here, enjoyed reading it…

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> On a side note Halo4Follower just talks about anything Halo 4 related, I have created a youtube channel for all canon related things with Halo 4. I even find stuff taht Halo4Follower either hasn’t found or has yet to find. link

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT

Halo4follower…

“whats up guys, this is halo4follower bringing you the weekly update word for word, and I’ll still manage to get -Yoink- wrong”

And of course the sheep hang on his every word. I left a couple of comments on his video’s saying that people could just read the weakly updates from BS Angel and of course my comments were deleted.

He’s not even using a decent microphone.

OT

Your theory has a lot of credibility, despite cobra’s attempts to derail it. It would seem that in the pics from GI the covenant are in a bad way, meaning that they don’t have the resources to even keep their armor going. The elites even look like they are too thin. I guess that will happen when the system you’ve gotten so used to falls apart.

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> > On a side note Halo4Follower just talks about anything Halo 4 related, I have created a youtube channel for all canon related things with Halo 4. I even find stuff taht Halo4Follower either hasn’t found or has yet to find. link
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> Halo4follower…
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> “whats up guys, this is halo4follower bringing you the weekly update word for word, and I’ll still manage to get Yoink! wrong”
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> And of course the sheep hang on his every word. I left a couple of comments on his video’s saying that people could just read the weakly updates from BS Angel and of course my comments were deleted.
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> He’s not even using a decent microphone.
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> Your theory has a lot of credibility, despite cobra’s attempts to derail it. It would seem that in the pics from GI the covenant are in a bad way, meaning that they don’t have the resources to even keep their armor going. The elites even look like they are too thin. I guess that will happen when the system you’ve gotten so used to falls apart.

Thanks. 343i said that Glasslands would have connections with Halo 4 and it does take place just a few years before the game. Until The Thursday War comes out and I can get any new info from that book, this is the most likely case.

It’s also interesting to note that Spartan-IVs are being trained by Fred, Kelly and Linda. The UNSC Infinity happens to be training Spartan-IVs. The UNSC Infinity is in Halo 4. Could we finally get to see Fred, Kelly, Linda and John all back together?

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Good points, I had a similar idea though I am only 1/3rd the way through Glasslands.

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I thought Abiding truth got attacked? As I remember he last said “it’s not us!”, signifying that it wasn’t the Theel Vadaams forces, doubt it would be the brutes.

After a while thinking, I was curious if it could be the prophets teamed up with insurrectionists. That would be in my mind one of the worst things you could have for an enemy I’d think, considering the prophets would basically fast-track any forerunner tech they get into development, and have a somewhat loyal and efficient military force.

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so this is not a shield world, but something smaller?