My theory starts with the flood returning. In Halo Escalation we see that the flood is most definitely still alive. If this played no further part in the series I’d be Blammed. This explains “Peace is shattered when colony worlds are unexpectedly attacked.” maybe it’s the flood. Chief then goes AWOL in order to find… Mendicant Bias. The teaser trailer shows Chief with an AI chip moving towards a forerunner construct. I think this construct is the one mentioned to be Bias’s tomb. Chief plans to transfer Mendicant to his chip as to replace Cortana. The Iso-Didact said Bias would be awakened when he was needed if the flood returned because he would be useful having immense knowledge about the flood. Finally, the explanation for the Locke searching for Chief and Chief being a traitor is simple. In humanities unexpected attack from a powerful enemy, their greatest hero left them, Master Chief “Betrayed them”. This may explain the “Reclaimer” trilogy being called that. The Precursors used the flood to test humanity and the forerunners. I think humanity is being tested to be the Precursors’ Reclaimers and not the Forerunners’. I believe in the end, Chief and Locke will team up to fight the flood. Maybe with a little Arby action too
I hate to burst your bubble, but personally the idea of the flood becoming a prominent antagonist again kinda undermines Halo 3, as the sacrifices made by Johnson, Miranda and the rest of the UNSC soldiers who went to the ark to destroy the grave mind and the flood would be all for nothing.
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> I hate to burst your bubble, but personally the idea of the flood becoming a prominent antagonist again kinda undermines Halo 3, as the sacrifices made by Johnson, Miranda and the rest of the UNSC soldiers who went to the ark to destroy the grave mind and the flood would be all for nothing.
The same thing sort of happens during the campaign of Halo Reach: Jorge sacrifices himself to ‘stop’ the Covenant threat, but then suddenly the entire fleet arrives and lays waste to the planet. I wouldn’t rule out his theory just because of this.
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> > I hate to burst your bubble, but personally the idea of the flood becoming a prominent antagonist again kinda undermines Halo 3, as the sacrifices made by Johnson, Miranda and the rest of the UNSC soldiers who went to the ark to destroy the grave mind and the flood would be all for nothing.
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> The same thing sort of happens during the campaign of Halo Reach: Jorge sacrifices himself to ‘stop’ the Covenant threat, but then suddenly the entire fleet arrives and lays waste to the planet. I wouldn’t rule out his theory just because of this.
Indeed. They stopped THAT Gravemind, there’s likely to be another out there
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> I hate to burst your bubble, but personally the idea of the flood becoming a prominent antagonist again kinda undermines Halo 3, as the sacrifices made by Johnson, Miranda and the rest of the UNSC soldiers who went to the ark to destroy the grave mind and the flood would be all for nothing.
We already know it’s for nothing besides temporarily halting the Delta Halo Outbreak.
Th Gravemind outright said that his defeat at the Ark would not be his end.
They sacrificed their lives and it was meaningful. That doesn’t mean they can’t bring flood back. If they didn’t do what they did they all would of diedo then
Although I don’t mind the flood, my gut feeling is that the forerunner are the main enemy From the information we have at this junction. However the flood is the underlying cause to the problem humans and forerunners have with each other.
