From what I gathered they seem to have been trying to create some new type of bioweapon and at some point the thing was let loose on the station. From what I’ve gathered from the data logs the thing was super quick to infect and kill humans and pretty much wiped out the entire station before anyone really had any time to react (hence all the Prowlers still beind docked) What is more, even when the station’s AI vented the atmosphere from infected sections it could still detect traces of the weapon in those parts of the station. Aaaaand to top it all off, the bioweapons seems to only affect humans since the Covenant had no trouble going around Argent Moon without special gear (Blue Team have the Mjolnir to deal with anything in the air). So am I the only one getting the sneaking suspicion that this could actually be the Flood? Remember that the parasite does not always have to manifest as space zombies (i.e. how the Flood came to be in Ancient Humanity’s/San Shyuum empire). Either way, what the HELL ONI!?
ONI has always been portrayed as a shady organization, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they were indeed toying around with the Flood to develop some new weapon. Is it incredibly dumb? Yes. Is it beyond ONI? Doubtful.
That’s a great point you make ONI using or attempting to use the Flood as a potential bio weapon.l find it intresting how some of the more casual less fantastical story elements reflect some real world issue’s .
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> ONI has always been portrayed as a shady organization, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they were indeed toying around with the Flood to develop some new weapon. Is it incredibly dumb? Yes. Is it beyond ONI? Doubtful.
They have already done it, Section Three, clandestinely. They didn’t make much publicity on if it was a plan of the Section or just “operational autonomy” of the unnamed officer (John Smith is no name). I think he wasn’t scapegoated and instead got out well, avoiding martial court, as usual for ONI.
I have to analyse the data comms better, but from what you said it wasn’t the flood. And ONI didn’t risk the flood on themselves the first time, they wouldn’t for sure the second one.
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> That’s a great point you make ONI using or attempting to use the Flood as a potential bio weapon.l find it intresting how some of the more casual less fantastical story elements reflect some real world issue’s .
Mona Lisa, the story about ONI using the flood as a weapon, is heavily inspired by a spin-off of Starship Troopers.
The element from nightfall seems plausible, but why try adjusting the element to kill other species (provided they didnt intend using it on humans themselves) while they already had the genetically engineered grains to deal with the elites.
Besides, wasn’t the rest of the element destroyed along with the piece of the halo?
ONI is always tinkering with anything that can be weaponized. They already developed a pathogen that targeted only Elites, so it could have been something along those lines that got loose on the station, but rather for humans.
To be honest its a really stupid scenario in my opinion. The station was being used to develop and build a large scale stealth warship if I recall correctly, so why would they also throw in some bio-weapon RnD as well? Its just a really “all your eggs in one basket” kind of mentality that an organization like ONI doesn’t need to involve itself with.
On another note, did anyone else find it odd that the ships AI was missing when Blue Team showed up? I almost wonder if Cortana had something to do with what happened to the ship in the first place, and ended up taking the ships AI with her when she was done.
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> On another note, did anyone else find it odd that the ships AI was missing when Blue Team showed up? I almost wonder if Cortana had something to do with what happened to the ship in the first place, and ended up taking the ships AI with her when she was done.
Not every ship has an AI. Keyes’ ship before getting the Autumn didn’t. It’s possible they lacked them while undergoing testing.
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> To be honest its a really stupid scenario in my opinion. The station was being used to develop and build a large scale stealth warship if I recall correctly, so why would they also throw in some bio-weapon RnD as well? Its just a really “all your eggs in one basket” kind of mentality that an organization like ONI doesn’t need to involve itself with.
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> On another note, did anyone else find it odd that the ships AI was missing when Blue Team showed up? I almost wonder if Cortana had something to do with what happened to the ship in the first place, and ended up taking the ships AI with her when she was done.
According to the audio logs, the ships AI reached it’s expiration date and shut down 6 months after the fatal event occurred.
What’s weird is that the ship was drifting in a way that was not what was anticipated by its last known trajectories. I think something else happened. Perhaps another antagonistic alien race.
One of the Audio logs details the ship’s AI plotting a course that would keep the Argent Moon from running into any habitable systems due to the exposure of whatever went down on the station. As far as the putting all your eggs in one basket idea, nothing could be further from the truth. Argent Moon was a deep space R&D platform. The stealth ship being built was probably only one of god know’s how many research projects were being performed there.
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> To be honest its a really stupid scenario in my opinion. The station was being used to develop and build a large scale stealth warship if I recall correctly, so why would they also throw in some bio-weapon RnD as well? Its just a really “all your eggs in one basket” kind of mentality that an organization like ONI doesn’t need to involve itself with.
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> On another note, did anyone else find it odd that the ships AI was missing when Blue Team showed up? I almost wonder if Cortana had something to do with what happened to the ship in the first place, and ended up taking the ships AI with her when she was done.
Cost-cutting is a likely cause. Secret bases aren’t cheap to build and there’s only so much money that UNSC is willing to divert to project titled “None of your business!”. Plus i think the stealth ship was meant as a prototype weapons delivery platform for the WMD they were developing there (and i personally think it was the Nightfall element that ONI had either recovered or managed to recreate with their access to other Halos) so it would kinda make sense if the containment for the weapon requires some special construction that would raise red flags elsewhere.
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> To be honest its a really stupid scenario in my opinion. The station was being used to develop and build a large scale stealth warship if I recall correctly, so why would they also throw in some bio-weapon RnD as well? Its just a really “all your eggs in one basket” kind of mentality that an organization like ONI doesn’t need to involve itself with.
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> On another note, did anyone else find it odd that the ships AI was missing when Blue Team showed up? I almost wonder if Cortana had something to do with what happened to the ship in the first place, and ended up taking the ships AI with her when she was done.
