I Mendicant Bias

I think this belongs here if not move it or delete it but i would like to spread this around and get many people aware as possible. "Since the formation of Planetary Resources, our primary goal has been to build technology enabling us to prospect and mine asteroids. We've spent the last year making great leaps in the development of these technologies. These advancements have presented us with the opportunity to engage in another passion of our team: to make space exploration accessible to everyone. Space has always been something that most people only dream about. Very few ever get the chance to experience space — to feel that overwhelming sense of awe described by astronauts. Our challenge and vision is this: how can we make that a reality?" Seeing as we are all halo fans i feel like this would be something very important to bring up. Sure it isn't the first spaceship,mining colony,etc but this is a pretty big step towards those goals. Even if you aren't going to donate at least spread this around to those that may and encourage them to do the same. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0

What was stated in the OP was written in the Halo 3 beasturium and is touched upon in the art books along with the encyclopedia. For those that need the reference

well all the information here is a mix from the books.

He knows himself in silentium though not to mention he was compartmentalized not lobotomized. Only the information that could aid the flood was erased such as the location of the arks,halos,etc.

Well it still stands though. they were over 100 years old and were more or less fine. If anything i say AI's go rampant after 7 years because they are told they will.

Bungie never said that. in Contact havest (written by a bungie employee) it was stated that AI's are deleted after seven years for fear of rampancy. not to mention you have loki being like over 100 years old and that AI in cole protocol that was holding it off because she kept herself busy.

silentium shows it wasn't. Not to mention in the terminals (past) he notes how the forerunners have been around for a thousand generations but at the end he just says "countless".

If palmer shot Jul instead of Her then it wouldn't be so hot.

whoa i sense a little hostility. I posted because many of the things weren't correct and instead of retyping something i already posted i just linked it.The didact was the only part of the post i directed elsewhere everything else i explained right here man.

The entire point of killing cortana off is so chief would be forced to talk with actual humans. Cortana is the only being outside of his spartans that john TALKS to, johnson doesn't even compare to the relationships he should be having with other humans. 27 years fighting for humanity and he doesn't even know how to hold the most basic conversations because he does all of that with cortana. If he needs back up cortana calls for it, Cortana asks all the questions does all the planning, everything. Without her he will have to ASK others for these things and rely on them. Do you want to see how the great chief acts without cortana? Read "The Flood", he seriously found himself "talking" to noone because he was so used to cortana being there all the time. He almost got killed several times because he was used to cortana watching his back, he even started freaking out because he did not have cortana. So if 343 wants to humanize john then getting rid of cortana is the best way to do so.

Here you go Ha One of the main subplots in the first two novels "primarily cryptum" was the notion of the two races being the same due to how similar they are. It would probably take me an hour composing all of the stuff from cryptum but i will give you this crazy excerpt from primordium. This was when chakas was fused with a forerunner so at this moment both of them are thinking this with their combined knowledge. It's so effing crazy. I have talked pages worth of babble over this passage. It was forced. In primordium chakas constantly makes a distinction from other AI's we have seen and 343. Yet in primordium he just pops up and is named 343 despite what he said in primordium about not knowing about him.

343I has lied far far few times than bungie and i think you are overracting and being unfair to them.

Um those were elements that were left out because they were going to be explained later. There is an epilogue released which you can find on youtube detailing the Trail of Mendicant bias and showing the forerunners leaving to somewhere. Infinity was assembled in the Oort cloud at the edge of our system. Not outside the galaxy. What was really left out was the subplot with the humans and forerunners once being the same that was being hinted at in the last two novels. The whole "Chakas is 343" segment was forced and didn't fit what he just said in primordium. The San Shyuum never had their true involvement explained,etc etc.

I still don't understand how the amount of people playing halo 4 has anything to do with how you enjoy halo 4. A lot of my friends don't like eating at golden corral but that doesn't stop me from going.

Yea, The Didacts ship would probably be able to take on the entire fleet of high charity alone.