> Your comparing the Masterchief and Bornstella, ok. Why? I mean, two completely different characters, completely different motives. Why would you want them to be similar?
Dude…I’m just saying Bornsteller’s adventure in Crpytum looks similar to what Chief is going to undergo in Halo 4. That’s it.
> Is it not more interesting to see how their stories differ?
I’m not saying they need to be the same, I’m pointing out parallels. Why is that hard to understand?
> We know from Cryptum, that Humans were given geas from the Librarian. Also In Halo 1 343 Guilty Spark, upon meeting the Master Chief wishes to confirm his gea alignment. I may be misquoting.
That doesn’t mean they don’t work, in The Flood Master Chief just naturally knew how to use Forerunner technology.
> From what I can tell, that suggests that it’s possible that geas can malfunction, of some sort.
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> In Halo Reach it is Cortana that studies the Forerunner artifacts, to unlock their knowledge. And it is Cortana who navigates the Pillar of Autumn to installation 4.
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> Cortana gains access to Forerunner knowledge via the Cartographer on Installation 4.
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> She gains the Index for the Halo ring.
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> She leads the master chief to the Ark, <mark>and now Requiem.</mark>
Except that is where you are wrong. In the final Halo 3 Terminal Mendicant Bias says:
“And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I’m not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. <mark>But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.</mark>”
Gee, whatever could that mean?
> The Halo books cover the Forerunner saga. of course, however the timeline hasn’t been linear. In Silentium, for all we know, we could be looking at the time when the Ur-Didact actually commissioned the Halo Array. Up until his death, then carry on with Bornstellar’s role.
"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood—a horrifying shape-changing parasite—has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.
Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination.
Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood.
The Precursors created many technological species, including humanity and the Forerunners. But the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity, carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before…
Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian–husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict–hold the keys to a solution.
Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time—to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe."
That’s the description and it does not seem to be past tensed as you imply.
> The Flood as far as we know are all defeated, <mark>the only remaining flood exist in containment on the surviving Halo installations.</mark>
What about outside the galaxy? Ever consider that?
But seriously, I’m not sure how you managed to completely miss what I said in the OP. I merely said I saw parallels between Halo 4 and Cryptum and wondered if that would be the same for the rest of the Reclaimer trilogy. That’s it, Wazooty, LeroyvL and J2H dinoman understood what I meant.
Not sure what you’re issue is.
