Noticed it on multiple threads and comments but can find piss all for it?
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/weapon-tuning-update
> The Energy Sword is unique in this tuning test as it’s the only item in the bunch that’s actually not being changed but is instead receiving a totally new, separate version. The goal behind this work was to address issues associated with the movement speed boost granted by the default energy sword – particularly in competitive multiplayer situations.
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> However, the team didn’t want to just outright remove the speed boost since it has many practical uses across Campaign and other modes of play. To solve for this, a new version of the sword, the "Relic Sword”, was created that essentially mirrors the default sword but removes the 20% movement speed bonus. The “Relic Sword” will be added to Forge and custom palettes with this next game update.
They also show the relic sword off on mixer through their weapon tuning update livestream, it’s about 2 hours long and worth the watch.
It’s the Gunfighter Magnum of energy swords: no movement speed bonus, faster switch-to speed.
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> It’s the Gunfighter Magnum of energy swords: no movement speed bonus, faster switch-to speed.
That’s a way better way of explaining than how I was trying to explain it.
Does it look any different?
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> That’s a way better way of explaining than how I was trying to explain it.
I’m just calling it the H2 Sword with how fast it can switch and swing.
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> I’m just calling it the H2 Sword with how fast it can switch and swing.
That’s sort of how I started but it doesn’t do the, “Swing from the pocket” quite as well as the H2 sword so I added a bunch of quantifiers.
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Nope!
The Relic Sword removes the 20% speed boost to running you got while at the same time allowing for faster switching between your weapons.
Whatever the “Relic Sword” is in Multiplayer, I think it’s probably named “Relic” after this sword, as seen in the statue in this puzzle picture our heads are turned to see when we land in “Enemy Lines”. Worked it out yet? What type of sword is it, with that characteristic “flat-end”?
Need a hint?
Elites on Sanghelios also have one of these?
My Answer…
If as well as humans having a flat-ended “Cortana Sword” in their coronation traditions, we now find that Elites on Sanghelios also have a “Cortana sword” in their coronation traditions, how many “Cortanas” are revealed to exist in the Halo galaxy now? 
And of the two “columns” either side, the left one is “upright and true” (like Chief in the Guardians Shelter and fight), but the right one is “crooked” (like Locke in the Guardians Shelter and fight, trying to arrest Chief on a made-up AWOL Charge). So, either side of that “Cortana”, we see the left column is Chief’s viewpoint of the “Truth” about Cortana being innocent, the other is Locke’s beliefs based on the “Lies” about “Cortana is behind the Guardians”!
Therefore, this is another hint that there are two Cortanas in Halo 5: Chief’s original Halo 4 Cortana who is alive but innocent of any wrongdoing, and an imposter who is part of a sinister plot which is being covered up by framing Chief’s original Cortana for Genocide…
Hunt that Truth! Hunt it to the last!
After studying this “Relic Energy sword” in my Forge Laboratory, it takes of 20% of that Movement Speed along with…it being your default energy sword
Oh yeah forgot to mention switching weapons with it is quicker
idk