Dunno if anyone played the Spartan Strike game…But they refer to a Forerunner artifact called “The Conduit”. Much like the Conduit in Mass Effect (which it derives its name from, I presume?), it is a sort of mass teleportation device. It can activate slipspace ruptures/portals all over the galaxy. Anyways, it was used to teleport the Didact’s ship and Prometheans all over the galaxy during the events of Halo 4.
Here’s the video with all the cinematics from the game. Spoiler alert!
It might be something akin to it. But I’m tempted to say it may be Precursor in nature. The star roads of the Precursors were able to negatively impact Forerunner slipspace travel and while they were said to be destroyed with the firing of the Halo Array, some may have survived. If so, that may be were the slipspace anomalies lay. Or it may be something completely different.
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> It might be something akin to it. But I’m tempted to say it may be Precursor in nature. The star roads of the Precursors were able to negatively impact Forerunner slipspace travel and while they were said to be destroyed with the firing of the Halo Array, some may have survived. If so, that may be were the slipspace anomalies lay. Or it may be something completely different.
I am tempted to say Jul 'Mdama with whatever he got from the absolute record.
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> It might be something akin to it. But I’m tempted to say it may be Precursor in nature. The star roads of the Precursors were able to negatively impact Forerunner slipspace travel and while they were said to be destroyed with the firing of the Halo Array, some may have survived. If so, that may be were the slipspace anomalies lay. Or it may be something completely different.
Pretty much sums up my intuitions about the anomalies as well… If I were to guess I would assume that they’re Precursor in nature. It’s about time that 343i brings the Precursors into the spotlight of the main story arc anyhow and at least it could also be something, “new,” at the same time (New in regards to something that Halo players haven’t seen yet). The conduit would be a little anti-climactic to me so I’d rather see something completely new versus that.
mendicant bias would be my guess having somthing to do with it. My take on how the over all way things are going is quite complex, but its mostly about mendicant bias gathering up all his fragmented parts to become whole again, and being so clever hes manipulated the entire galaxy since halo ce time line up to h5 to gather these parts again, first of starting with getting chief and cortana at the right places, hence going to halo o4 and high charity where cortana detects an a.i presence, ect.
These deep space anomalies i feel have somthing to do with this, and i wouldnt be surrpsied if mendicant bias gets his old freiends the flood back into the mix to help finish up his job. There no doubt mendicant bias is a big part of whats coming up nxt, hence the E3 halo 5 trailer. Chief just might want cortana back that much that he might work with mendicant bias and make things a whole lot worse than he realizes.
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> It might be something akin to it. But I’m tempted to say it may be Precursor in nature. The star roads of the Precursors were able to negatively impact Forerunner slipspace travel and while they were said to be destroyed with the firing of the Halo Array, some may have survived. If so, that may be were the slipspace anomalies lay. Or it may be something completely different.
Agreed.
I havent played that game yet, but it is a bit odd that suddenly in the fiction this artifact appears if never to be used again
Who or what had the conduit last in the game?!
My guess is that it has something to do with chief and mendicant bias.
Why would the precursors suddenly ,at this particular moment,show any activity? how would they(343) explain the survival of precursor technology? It seems too far fetched for my taste.
Just cause it’s Precursor tech doesn’t mean it’s Precursors. Flood can use it too
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> mendicant bias would be my guess having somthing to do with it. My take on how the over all way things are going is quite complex, but its mostly about mendicant bias gathering up all his fragmented parts to become whole again, and being so clever hes manipulated the entire galaxy since halo ce time line up to h5 to gather these parts again, first of starting with getting chief and cortana at the right places, hence going to halo o4 and high charity where cortana detects an a.i presence, ect.
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> These deep space anomalies i feel have somthing to do with this, and i wouldnt be surrpsied if mendicant bias gets his old freiends the flood back into the mix to help finish up his job. There no doubt mendicant bias is a big part of whats coming up nxt, hence the E3 halo 5 trailer. Chief just might want cortana back that much that he might work with mendicant bias and make things a whole lot worse than he realizes.
I’m fine with your first paragraph, but didn’t Mendicant Bias betray the flood according to the last Terminal in Halo 3 where he said something like this “And once again I betray a former master…” and that he helps chief the best he can to pay for his sins? So he seems to have learned from his faults and be anti-flood this time…
Note: I only read the first halo books, therefore I’m not that much into the lore (not a great comic book fan). So if I’m wrong please correct me(:
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> I havent played that game yet, but it is a bit odd that suddenly in the fiction this artifact appears if never to be used again
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> Who or what had the conduit last in the game?!
The UNSC, I think. But it disappeared. The thing had its own slipspace drive, used it to hop all over the place whenever it thought it was in danger.
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> My guess is that it has something to do with chief and mendicant bias.
> Why would the precursors suddenly ,at this particular moment,show any activity? how would they(343) explain the survival of precursor technology? It seems too far fetched for my taste.
Truth be told, only one star road had to have survived and I think it has been speculated that if any Precursor tech was in transit during the Halo rings firing it may have survived. Humanity or the Covenant have nowhere near the technology of the Forerunners, so one star road would be more than sufficient to wreak things I believe.
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> It might be something akin to it. But I’m tempted to say it may be Precursor in nature. The star roads of the Precursors were able to negatively impact Forerunner slipspace travel and while they were said to be destroyed with the firing of the Halo Array, some may have survived. If so, that may be were the slipspace anomalies lay. Or it may be something completely different.
HOLY CRAP!!! You finally have accepted your destiny DecepticonCobra… or is it Catherine Elizabeth Halsey? I just hope it ain’t too difficult to type with one hand, and Jul always looking over your shoulder. 
The Precursors can only come back as a sleeping giant kind of thing. They took cover when the Halos blasted and have been asleep since and when someone wakes it/them up it’ll/they’ll kill everything, it’s a stroke of genius
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> The Precursors can only come back as a sleeping giant kind of thing. They took cover when the Halos blasted and have been asleep since and when someone wakes it/them up it’ll/they’ll kill everything, it’s a stroke of genius
“Someone” is the chief, obviously.
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> My guess is that it has something to do with chief and mendicant bias.
> Why would the precursors suddenly ,at this particular moment,show any activity? how would they(343) explain the survival of precursor technology? It seems too far fetched for my taste.
Why farfetched? Precursors live in many galaxys they were only “wiped” from the milkyway.
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Gosh… Idiot…
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> Just cause it’s Precursor tech doesn’t mean it’s Precursors. Flood can use it too
They’re the same thing. The Flood are the latest incarnation of the Precursors.
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> Why farfetched? Precursors live in many galaxys they were only “wiped” from the milkyway.
perhaps the firing of the incomplete halo 4b at the ark in halo 3 caught their extra galactic eye. The arc is outside the galaxy as well so the precursors may come back to see what was going on after all the millenia of quiet from the forerunners.
what if halo 6 is like CE, where we fought the covenant and than the flood show up, in 6 we fight the forerunners than the precursors show up.
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Did I say something wrong?