SPOILER ALERT! (not much, but still…)
While I’ve read some of your comments which refered that Cortana is suffer logic plague, I started to think about what if Mendicant Bias will help Chief to stop Cortana. At the end of Halo 5, it seems all the A.I.-s joined to Cortana, except Roland (the Infinity A.I) and probably some other, who knows. After Cortana has a lot of power (Guardians, other A.I.-s and Warden also could help her), she could smash any resistance easily. IMO, it’s almost impossible to break/defeat Cortana and those who side with her. Lasky, said they wont start a fight until they find a way to fight. In that situation every being in the galaxy needs a greater power. And that’s how Mendicant Bias come in to the picture. He’s also an A.I. and he experienced what is like betraying the Creator. Chief is not enough to stop Cortana, and I don’t think that he would “kill” Cortana (if there is an option to do that). But somehow Cortana must be stopped. Is it possible that Chief will search after Mendicant Bias? He (Mendicant Bias) has the power (I think) to stop Cortana by not “kill” her but to somehow make her controllable or to convince her what is the problem with her mission.
What do you think?
PS.: If I wrote something wrong, correct me!
I got a wierd feeling that the Cortana in HALO 5 is Mendicant Bias… She’s not the type that would be so gentle and calm in a situation like that, except for when she died. Plus Mendicant wanted to regain power after his banishment,I think. Plus, how did she know about Guardians and Genesis so soon?
For atonement for his sins against the forerunners, I think MB would not hesitate to aid in the fight against Cortana.
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> I got a wierd feeling that the Cortana in HALO 5 is Mendicant Bias… She’s not the type that would be so gentle and calm in a situation like that, except for when she died. Plus Mendicant wanted to regain power after his banishment,I think. Plus, how did she know about Guardians and Genesis so soon?
Not according to the Halo 3 terminals, he is seeking repentance. He even tried leaving High Charity with the Dreadnought before the human-Covenant war to help us.
Well he certainly wants to and tried to.
Also if cortana was mendicant bias then it wouldn’t repeat the forerunners biggest mistakes.
I think he probably would end up helping out humanity.
Doesn’t seem like forunner AI’s fall into Cortana’s army. It only makes sense to me that humans have to use 343 guilty spark and some other AI’s to take Cortana’s down.
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> Not according to the Halo 3 terminals, he is seeking repentance. He even tried leaving High Charity with the Dreadnought before the human-Covenant war to help us.
He claims to be seeking repentance, and perhaps in a manner of speaking he is. His statements to the prophets caused the Human- Covenant war, by referring to mankind as his “makers”, which we know is false. This is THE statement that caused the Human-Covenant War. It was the lie that launched a million ships, and killed billions. Its not at all unlikely he is responsible for the creation of the Covenant religion to begin with. The prophet of Truths speech in crows nest mirrors Medicant Bias’s speech to the Forerunners during the Forerunner- Flood war, which is given in Halo 3s terminals, its unlikely this was an accident. Medicant Bias also attempted to stop Cortana from accessing High Charitys systems, and delaying the launch of the Dreadnought during Halo 2. Medicant Bias also destroyed or rather consumed… (ahem) Adjuntant Reflex, preventing it from informing mankind of the Halo array, the Forerunners and the Flood in 2007, forcefully integrating it into a blossoming “compound mind”. Halo 3s arg has never been called non-canon, and it has never existed in canon purgatory at all, unlike The Cortana Letters or Ilovebees. So we now have at least four Medicant Biases in Halos storyline. According to Halo 3’s terminals there was a personality matrix recovered from Medicant on Alpha Halo (hitchhikers may be escaping convicts), theres the version of Medicant Bias buried on the Ark, theres the version of Medicant Bias on the Dreadnought, then there is the version of Medicant Bias that visited earth in 2007. Making sense of all of that would sure take some serious reconciliation… ha! [ He is lost in time] [ He plays with time even as he hides in its folds]
> I have found the shard that was lost. They brought it back to me. Now my reconstitution cannot be stopped.
…You can almost imagine him massaging his mustache…before going on a great journey. [ He is the monument to all his sins] [ they are Precursor].
I hope so. To me Medicant Bias is by far the most interesting character that the Halo universe has yet to use. He probably has one of the coolest back stories with having directly interacted with the both Forerunners and Gravemind during their war, and his desire for atonement was always something I wished was explored more. He also fits relatively well in the current “created vs. creators” story ark and would be a natural way for Humanity to gain an edge against Cortana (rather than some random, never heard of before, super weapon/virus). If they bring in Medicant Bias I hope it would also bring the story back to the Forerunner/Flood/Precursor story threads that were started in Halo 4, rather than continue to go down this “rise of the AI’s” story that, while interesting, doesn’t really fit with the Halo story/universe.
That being said, don’t bring him in if you are just going to throw him away or not use him properly. I’m still vaguely annoyed that they built up and created such an interesting character in the Didact, then just kind of threw him aside (seriously, what ever happened to the stuff he talked about in that epic epilogue speech in Halo 4?). Don’t get me started on Jul’ “anti-climactic death” Mdama.
This is an interesting point. The terminals in Halo 3 revealed that during the events of the game, Bias was helping them on the Ark somehow to make up for betraying the Forerunners in the past. I believe that what he did was stop the Monitor of the Ark, Tragic Solitude, from harrasing the Human-Elite alliance. If he was willing to do that, I wonder if he would stop Cortana from claiming the Mantle as well?
Well we’re already down the rabbit hole with the current terrible plot line, so this would possible make it better… No more stupid revivals though please 343. One was enough.
I really hope the Arbiter has a way bigger role next game, felt really underwhelming after 2 games with him as a central character.
i think he will, he is awesome.
Cortana found genesis due to mantle’s approach activating slipspace to their and the domain repairing her.