It seems from 343 Guilty Spark’s ramblings that the Librarian had planned for humans to take up the Mantle relatively quickly after the Array’s firing. As we know, however, humanity was given no knowledge of the Mantle and Halo wasn’t rediscovered for another 100,000 years.
So what took so long? If the Librarian was such a great planner, why did her plan for humans to assume the Mantle fail to happen as quickly as was planned?
All the humans she had stored on Omega Halo were composed by the Ur-Didact and the humans stored on the Greater Ark were also destroyed by the Flood. She took what she could and combined them with the humans on Earth but very few varieties survived. The humans on Earth were also not supposed to be part of her plan but after she lost everything to the Flood and her demented husband, she had to improvise. I’m sure that’s what set her plans back by a few thousand years. Still, the Spartans and AI like Cortana were eventually made so it’s not like it failed completely.
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> All the humans she had stored on Omega Halo were composed by the Ur-Didact and the humans stored on the Greater Ark were also destroyed by the Flood. She took what she could and combined them with the humans on Earth but very few varieties survived. The humans on Earth were also not supposed to be part of her plan but after she lost everything to the Flood and her demented husband, she had to improvise. I’m sure that’s what set her plans back by a few thousand years. Still, the Spartans and AI like Cortana were eventually made so it’s not like it failed completely.
Ahh. That makes sense now. Thanks!