I’m wondering how the Domain even still exists in halo 5 for Cortana to use? it was destroyed when the halo array fired. There is tons of lore about this happening, how come it is completely ignored in halo 5? I don’t understand how the writers of halo 5 utterly ignored this fact?
I just want someone to explain how it survived.
Good point. I didn’t think about that.
Pretty much the entire story of halo 5 revolves around it so I’d like to know how its still around?
apparently, it didn’t get destroyed. It apparently just went into a “hibernation”.
But if you ask me, sounds like lazy story telling since that’s what this game’s story really is.
That’s a really good question
Could it be possible that the Didact or Cortana was able to fix some of it?
There are audio logs found on Genesis where a supposedly still living Forerunner says that the ancilla “Cortana” is rebuilding the destroyed Domain. I’ve also heard theories that the Gravemind (itself a Precursor entity) could be behind the reconstitution of the Domain and used to logic plague once Cortana entered into it to have her turn against the UNSC, thus making the galaxy much more susceptible to another Flood invasion.
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> Could it be possible that the Didact or Cortana was able to fix some of it?
The Domain was created by the Precursors using Neural Physics. When the Halos fire they destroy anything made with Neural Physics. When the Forerunners fired the whole array they destroyed everything the Precursors had created in the galaxy, including the Domain. There was nothing to fix it was gone.
It seems like 343 basically took all of the Forerunner Lore up to this point and punted it out the window. If the Forerunners had the Guardians there wouldn’t have been a Human-Forerunner war nor a Forerunner-Flood war since the Guardians would have stopped them before they even really got started. Add to that the Guardians are against everything the Mantle stood for. It was not a way to impose rule but rather the responsibility to protect and guide all life in the galaxy.
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> It seems like 343 basically took all of the Forerunner Lore up to this point and punted it out the window. If the Forerunners had the Guardians there wouldn’t have been a Human-Forerunner war nor a Forerunner-Flood war since the Guardians would have stopped them before they even really got started. Add to that the Guardians are against everything the Mantle stood for. It was not a way to impose rule but rather the responsibility to protect and guide all life in the galaxy.
Exactly ^ If the forerunners had Guardians on even a majority of planets in the universe, then the flood would have been stopped, or at least the flood would have destroyed all the Guardians that fought the flood.
Space Magic did it. Duh
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> Could it be possible that the Didact or Cortana was able to fix some of it?
If the Didact could fix it, why wasn’t he using it? Why didn’t he use it during the events of Halo 4 or after?
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> Space Magic did it. Duh
This.
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Seems like the best option to believe in at this moment.
Having sped through the campaign over the weekend and having seen the spoilers beforehand, I’m sincerely shocked and annoyed with the direction 343 is taking the story. Is Casey Hudson ghostwriting this crap? Because really, it almost feels as if some ideas were thrown at a wall and the folks responsible decided to take the worse of what the Mass Effect Trilogy had to offer: powerful [rampant] AI launching a war for CONTROL of the galaxy in what’s basically a AI vs. organics conflict, using gigantic Reap - I mean, “Guardians” as her deterrent, with only John Conn - I mean, John Shepar - I mean, John-117 as our only(?) hope for survival now, possibly with three colored-coded, heart-breaking choices in the end.
I mean, really?
The Domain? Destroyed with the firing of the Halo array 100,000 years ago.
Cortana? Went rampant, apparently found metastability and in her last moments saved her beloved John.
Humanity? Up 'til now, the Reclaimers of the Forerunner tech and their Mantle.
But now, all of that’s changed now. Through space magic both Cortana and the domain survived and the Created (AI’s) are the true Reclaimers? I suspect the Warden and rampancy may have twisted her vision of what the Reclaimers truly are, but still, ugh. I am dissapoint, utterly. I think for Halo 6, I’ll just wait for the youtubers to post the campaign cutscenes and spare myself the heartbreak and pain of spending $60+ on utter garbage storytelling.
god never thought of it but I think ill let other people decides.
If you look at the literature, there is of evidence to suggest that some form of the Domain still persists in the galaxy. Especially in Halo Evolutions, Human Weakness. It’s a short story that focuses on Cortana’s conversations with the Gravemind while trapped on High Charity between Halo 2 and 3. In it, the Gravemind shows Cortana glimpses of what can be interpreted as the Domain. Here’s a piece explaining it in more detail:
At least part of the Domain still exists, but it’s most likely heavily corrupted with the Gravemind’s/Primordial’s AI Logic Plague. This could explain why Cortana (or her fragment) is acting the way she is in H5.
Food for thought: who’s the only AI we know of to be thoroughly entranced by the logic plague and “cure” themselves of it? Who’s already been down this path Cortana’s taking and knows how to resolve the logic plague?
… enter Mendicant Bias
Halo 6 could be epic
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> If you look at the literature, there is of evidence to suggest that some form of the Domain still persists in the galaxy. Especially in Halo Evolutions, Human Weakness. It’s a short story that focuses on Cortana’s conversations with the Gravemind while trapped on High Charity between Halo 2 and 3. In it, the Gravemind shows Cortana glimpses of what can be interpreted as the Domain. Here’s a piece explaining it in more detail:
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hmm, interesting, but why couldn’t any previous remaining forerunner construct or the Didact himself use the Domain? Why wasn’t it ever implied to still be working till halo 5? I don’t know the exact timeline of the events directly after Halo 4, but if Cortana could enter the Domain right as she helped stop the didact, why didnt she before? Why didn’t the Didact use it? Seems kinda hard to believe that only Cortana could use the Domain.
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> Could it be possible that the Didact or Cortana was able to fix some of it?
Precursor in origin and a human AI, remarkable AI though, being able to fix it? I prefer to bet on -Yoink- story telling, go Brian Reed and Fronk A’conir.
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> I’ve also heard theories that the Gravemind (itself a Precursor entity) could be behind the reconstitution of the Domain and used to logic plague once Cortana entered into it to have her turn against the UNSC, thus making the galaxy much more susceptible to another Flood invasion.
I actually like this theory. It’s the only plausible answer to why Cortana suddenly, without any explanation, went all evil.