Episode 9 of Spartan Ops. Halsey gets the key to all forerunner technology. I think we all know what’ll happen; it’ll get destroyed. Sorry 343, but this is pretty predictable. Most movies involve the key to all power, which is promptly destroyed in the middle of a fire fight. Anyone else wishing for something more original?
Humanity is not being given the knowledge of how to use it, just its location. The Librarian intended for her husband to be that knowledge on how to use what they were given. Unless you include the latent genesongs the Librarian used on Humanity to make them compatible with Forerunner technology.
And so long has the Greater Ark exists they will be able to rebuild whatever is lost.
Since there is one episode left, Season 1 of Spartan ops is setting up for Halo 5. I have a feeling Halo 5 will be a race to find most of this forerunner technology OR the Spartan ops (if it continues in Halo 5) will be about Fireteams tracking down said technology.
There is suppose to be three seasons of Spartan Ops, so here is to hoping all three are produced, it is really the only reason I’ve kept Halo 4 this long.
But as the Librarian states, Requiems time is nearly at an end. She put both the Didact and the Keys there for Humanity to find. The keys would show Humanity were all the Forerunner technology is at. I wouldn’t want missions that involve constantly fighting over said relics. Some of them are probably in the hands of both factions of the Covenant. Though maybe there is a teleport/recall ability built into some the larger or more powerful relics.
What I would love to see is a half completed project of astro-engineering. Some uncompleted world with all manner of Forerunner ships in high orbit. Didn’t they get that process to under 5,000 years (or was it 10,000 years?)
Show us what made them so different but also so very alike since both species were engineered by the Precursors.
Hmmm… if Requiem’s time is almost over… does that mean we get to blow it up? =D
On topic: I think most of that tech will be either destroyed or jsut be useful on the last minute… and maybe all the Forerunner structures include the location of the remaining Halos.
So… why didn’t the Didact use the Key
to find the Composer faster? Was he unable to because of the Librarian’s will to protect it from him?
Or did he just know it’d be on the Halo 03?
Maybe he discovers about its location in Silentium?
Maybe he actually had it? Maybe another Key?
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Her will was to protect Humanity. She knew the Forerunners had failed, but Humanity would succeed. Humanity would get the keys. The Didact would be their teacher.
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From the terminal videos it never shows it being moved. Before it is moved she shoots him. So he probably knew it was there.
3 and 4: Perhaps we shall find out in the next book, but if it wasn’t moved from its position after the first harvest. And with the imminent firing of the rings. The sealing of Requiem into its Shield World layout. At that moment it was about ensuring the survival of all life.
> So… why didn’t the Didact use the Key
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> to find the Composer faster? Was he unable to because of the Librarian’s will to protect it from him?
> Or did he just know it’d be on the Halo 03?
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> Maybe he discovers about its location in Silentium?
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> Maybe he actually had it? Maybe another Key?
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He wouldn’t need the key as he can use the domain still.
> Episode 9 of Spartan Ops. Halsey gets the key to all forerunner technology. <mark>I think we all know what’ll happen; it’ll get destroyed.</mark> Sorry 343, but this is pretty predictable. Most movies involve the key to all power, which is promptly destroyed in the middle of a fire fight. Anyone else wishing for something more original?
I don’t see why that has to happen.
> > So… why didn’t the Didact use the Key
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> > to find the Composer faster? Was he unable to because of the Librarian’s will to protect it from him?
> > Or did he just know it’d be on the Halo 03?
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> > Maybe he discovers about its location in Silentium?
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> > Maybe he actually had it? Maybe another Key?
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> He wouldn’t need the key as he can use the domain still.
Wasn’t the Domain unaviable for well… a 100.000 years?
I can’t see that happening soon, the key seems to be too much of a pivotal point in the story.
Just a thought, but this discovery could open up the opportunity for humans to stand against the precursors if they happened to return. With all forerunner technology at their disposal, I suppose humanity could stand a chance.
> > > So… why didn’t the Didact use the Key
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> > > to find the Composer faster? Was he unable to because of the Librarian’s will to protect it from him?
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> > > Maybe he actually had it? Maybe another Key?
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> > He wouldn’t need the key as he can use the domain still.
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> Wasn’t the Domain unaviable for well… a 100.000 years?
Yes to anyone but forerunners. What’s saying the Didact being one of the top forerunners can’t still use it. That’s where the terminals in Halo 4 come from is the domain.
> Since there is one episode left, Season 1 of Spartan ops is setting up for Halo 5. I have a feeling Halo 5 will be a race to find most of this forerunner technology OR the Spartan ops (if it continues in Halo 5) will be about Fireteams tracking down said technology.
343i already announced that Halo 5 is going to be darker than the other Halo games. They also already confirmed that they will reveal Master Chief entire face in Halo 5.
> I can’t see that happening soon, the key seems to be too much of a pivotal point for humanity.
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> Just a thought, but this discovery could open up the opportunity for humans to stand against the precursors if they happened to return. With all forerunner technology at their disposal, I suppose humanity could stand a chance.
The Precursors abandoned technology once they achieved Neural Physics. They are the ones that uplifted both species. The original holders of the Mantle that protected all life until the uprising of the Forerunners. If any Precursors remain they could be any where and go any place, instantly. That is not the kind of foe that is easily made into a video game without some sort of Deus Ex machina that takes control away from the player.
I for one would be happy with Humanity once more achieving its tier 1 status. Remember the Ancient Humans were only marginally behind the Forerunners in terms of sophistication of technology. Had they not been fighting two wars at the same time who knows if the conflict with the Forerunners would have started. Perhaps the species would have blended then. Both are the products of the Precursors after all.
And the Greater Ark still exists so maybe we will see far more of the Forerunners.
> The Precursors abandoned technology once they achieved Neural Physics. They are the ones that uplifted both species. The original holders of the Mantle that protected all life until the uprising of the Forerunners. If any Precursors remain they could be any where and go any place, instantly. That is not the kind of foe that is easily made into a video game without some sort of Deus Ex machina that takes control away from the player.
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> I for one would be happy with Humanity once more achieving its tier 1 status. Remember the Ancient Humans were only marginally behind the Forerunners in terms of sophistication of technology. Had they not been fighting two wars at the same time who knows if the conflict with the Forerunners would have started. Perhaps the species would have blended then. Both are the products of the Precursors after all.
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> And the Greater Ark still exists so maybe we will see far more of the Forerunners.
Haha, that does sound kind of difficult to implement. Nonetheless, it’ll be interesting if we get to see them actively later on. And who knows what will be possible in the storyline later on? Perhaps my thinking is a bit far-fetched, but ya never know.
I would be happy with that as well, and this key will be a big help. I haven’t read much out of the books, but I was wondering if anyone knows if this Didact is the only Forerunner that went rogue? Because I don’t know how Halo 5 and 6 will continue in the Forerunner saga otherwise. As far as I know, the rest of the Forerunners agreed that humanity should have the mantle.
Didact is still alive^
He didn’t go rogue so much as taking an extreme stance to protect his people. In order to win a war you have to take actions a good deal of your populace will not like. He was willing to take those sacrifices to protect both the Forerunners and the galaxy.
Another thing that slightly bothers me. In the Terminal videos during the war against the flood. It makes no mention of Mendicant Bias’ defection to the flood. Or the new Contender-Class AI, Offensive Bias sent to retrieve him.
To my knowledge Offensive Bias lead all fleet operations in the later stages of the war. And only after the firing of the Halo assembly was he able to finally destroy the fleet that Mendicant Bias controlled. Capturing the rogue AI and then fragmenting his core for transportation to the Ark.
Why the Lesser Ark, home of Humanity. And not the Greater Ark, home of their masters?
Why are the Elites so sloppy in this episode? They know Halsey is literally about to have the key to the most precious thing to them in their existence and they all get assassinated like fat slobs. They have to call Knights to rescue them? And Jul didn’t even make a tiny attempt at retrieving the other half of the key when Halsey threw it.
Nice.
> Why are the Elites so sloppy in this episode? They know Halsey is literally about to have the key to the most precious thing to them in their existence and they all get assassinated like fat slobs. They have to call Knights to rescue them? And Jul didn’t even make a tiny attempt at retrieving the other half of the key when Halsey threw it.
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> Nice.
Tha’s because Jul didn’t knew what was the artifact, and he was getting assaulted on his own base, and if he dies, everything would have been a compelte waste.