Is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression that this is being written for children or simpletons?
Seriously, who brings a unknown Forerunner device onto their flagship when they have no clue what it is? I mean, you know, it could be the Forerunner equivalent of a nuclear weapon or worse. Hello…?
And then, after it displays the dangerous ability to disrupt power to the Infinity, Lasky quite happily stands there while clichéd boffin number one decides to start prodding at it like a kid on Christmas morning, only to end up ‘digitized’ or something.
It’s like watching idiots, rather than trained professionals.
Infinity’s crew was supposed to comprise of mankind’s finest. Clearly we lost too many people in the Covie war and this was all we had left… -_-
Well, you gotta do what you gotta do to study the artifact. I understand that scientists have this attitude of always pursuing knowledge so I think it was natural for this mistake to happen in the pursuit for greater understanding. Like in Halo 4, was taking the Composer out of the Halo ring such a good idea? I think not.
It was something they could get from the forerunner’s so they took it for study, the term curiosity killed the cat is perfect for humans because anytime we find some kinda new toy we wanna poke it and do stuff with it.
Story, yes. But I prefer something that displays some level of common sense and intelligence.
There’s no way it should have just been casually offloaded in a un-quarantined hanger bay. At the very least you would expect them to treat it with kid gloves and erect some form of shielding around the offloading area and exercise extreme caution until they knew what they were dealing with.
I certainly wouldn’t expect boffin Glassman (sp?) to start randomly prodding at it, especially after previous berating Lasky for bringing the artefact on board and expecting any kind of predictable behaviour from it…
Reminds me of a Ripley quote: “Did IQ’s just drop sharply while I was away?”
pray tell…where would you like them to study such object? on Requiem with Prometheans up their rectums?
GRANTED…the infinity is a super carrier as shown in the first episode. The science team should have their own small ship ready to be remotely detonated in the (very likely) eventuality that they screw up whatever they are studying.
> pray tell…where would you like them to study such object? on Requiem with Prometheans up their rectums?
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> GRANTED…the infinity is a super carrier as shown in the first episode. The science team should have their own small ship ready to be remotely detonated in the (very likely) eventuality that they screw up whatever they are studying.
Indeed. A smaller quarantined science vessel would have made far more sense for initial study. From a tactical viewpoint, you don’t bring an alien object of unknown capabilities into the core of your base of operations. You keep it isolated until you know more.
> > pray tell…where would you like them to study such object? on Requiem with Prometheans up their rectums?
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> > GRANTED…the infinity is a super carrier as shown in the first episode. The science team should have their own small ship ready to be remotely detonated in the (very likely) eventuality that they screw up whatever they are studying.
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> Indeed. A smaller quarantined science vessel would have made far more sense for initial study. From a tactical viewpoint, you don’t bring an alien object of unknown capabilities into the core of your base of operations. You keep it isolated until you know more.
there are other issues that are not brought up that might influence such a decision. Like, would it be resource effective to just keep protecting such object on requiem? do the smaller ships have appropriate labs, if they do, do they have the power to operate them? Would a smart AI be required? if so is Roland the only one? how much does ONI want them to risk for forbidden forerunner tech?
I just have a dumb question. The Doc said War criminal. When he said about the artifact being a 100,000 years old and have a war criminal bolt it on the ship. Im confused who the war criminal is. I read all the books except for Thursday War have not got around to it.
Did I not hear it right or am I missing something?
@Celtra09
He was referring to the ships engines being 100,000 year old forerunner/covenant tech. The war criminal hired to “bolt them to the ship” was Halsey.
> @Celtra09
> He was referring to the ships engines being 100,000 year old forerunner/covenant tech. The war criminal hired to “bolt them to the ship” was Halsey.
Ah, so Glassman’s comment was about the engines, not the artefact. My bad. Still, minor point really.
> also…Sarah’s Spartan kicking the object was hilarious.
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> What do you guys think happened to the doctor?
chuckles It was amusing, in a ‘If in doubt, smack it about’ kind of way.
As for what happened to him…? Good question. It could be some kind of portable indexing device, teleporter, or stasis unit. Be interesting to see if Dalton is right about the same thing happening to the Gagarin science team…
I think it was a smaller composer or something. Like the one person said to you in the campaign, the Forerunners could compose people just fine, but returning them from the digital realm was something they couldnt do.
Also off topic but-in Halo 5 when Chief gets digitized and goes into the digital world…He should get Digimon! Cortanomon!
> @Celtra09
> He was referring to the ships engines being 100,000 year old forerunner/covenant tech. The war criminal hired to “bolt them to the ship” was Halsey.
Thank you. Yea I thought the Doc was talking about the artifact to. Got it. Makes since now. When I heard the term War Criminal I thought of Halsey, But she was no where in sight so I didnt get it.
Hmmm and where would they have put it? Because everywhere else is a non-secure area that could be swarm and attack by the covenant or the prometheans for that matter. No matter the scenario the only logical and relatively safe position to study it while around Requiem is in the UNSC Infinity.
I felt the “pelican crash” bit was pretty lame, since they’re basically like “oh here’s smoke, you got shot down, no we wont show you the pelican, but all 4 of you are going to be standing just fine and dandy at the end of Sniper Alley.”
> Hmmm and where would they have put it? Because everywhere else is a non-secure area that could be swarm and attack by the covenant or the prometheans for that matter. No matter the scenario the only logical and relatively safe position to study it while around Requiem is in the UNSC Infinity.
Well, as DropzOfCrimzon mentioned, the Infinity is a supercarrier of sorts (see initial episode vid), so deploying a smaller ship for the purpose with a science team on board would have made much more sense for an initial examination, given that they have no idea what the artefact actually is.
Simply put, anything unknown really should be quarantined until they are better able to understand its purpose. Then, if something goes wrong, at least you can minimise potential damage and loss of life and not put your command vessel at risk.
Still, I guess there’s less drama in being sensible…
