Rion visits her mom to tell her about what happened to John Forge. Reader beware! I might add to this list later.Įdit: I didn't realize when I made this post that spoilers don't have to be tagged in this thread. I'll tag them individually so you don't have to see them all if you don't want to. Read this book as soon as you can, you won't regret it! Here are some spoilers for those who want them. I have said it before: Kelly Gay's stories and characters are my favorites in the Halo universe - and this book only reinforces that! TLDR: The precursors are the space Illuminati.What an awesome book! A very worthy sequel to Renegades, the Forerunner Saga, and so much more. I think the endless are more dangerous than the flood, because they can bring back the designers of the flood. The xalanyn/endless are key to this cycle, rings within rings, repeating, endlessly. The precurors play the long game and remain in control through cycles of purging and rebirth within the galaxy through the halo array. Perhaps it’s a mass effect type thing, where this has happened many times before. You can’t fight an enemy that you don’t know exists. All while the galaxy is none the wiser, they never know the precursors remain in control. The flood rise to power, force the forerunner into a corner, and they fire the halo arrays, resetting the galaxy, and the endless would return their precursor masters to power. The precursor design is slipped into the halo array blueprint, and the halo won’t kill the endless (xalanyn?). This species happens to be immune to their grand design, the halo array. And engineer a servant species to work for them, allowing them to remain in control from the shadows. Precursor intentionally degenerate into flood dust. Precursors get killed by forerunner when humans declared worthy of mantle. Some grand precursor design is all I can rationalize. So what could be worse than the flood? Precursors. I would think the existence of the endless would undermine the forerunners claim to the mantle and strengthen cortanas as she is the dominant force in the galaxy presumably leading up to her defeat. But I don’t think the endless could usurp cortanas claim as they haven’t been witness to any of her atrocities (which actually don’t seem half bad when compared with the forerunner?) The forerunners fear losing the mantle to another species more than the flood ending the galaxy as they know it.īut that doesn’t explain cortana’s stance, unless her and the created’s claim on the mantle would also be threatened. I have spent a lot of time thinking about what in the halo universe could be worse than the flood. So that means that they’re also worse in cortana eyes. However, cortana seems to indicate that “there are things worse than the flood” on the ring. One would think they would have discovered the extent of the threat they pose to the galaxy, or the forerunners more specifically. If they were imprisoned because halo couldn’t kill them, and the engineers were going to go to work learning their secrets. That's the state in which we see her in Infinite, and going from that point, it makes sense why she acts that way in Conservatory. In her final audio log chronologically, it seems like she might feel foolish for feeling sympathy towards them at one point, now knowing the threat they pose, and truly fears them. "Enemy within." That is the meaning of the runes carved into this monument. We can see the ultimate result of this in her final audio log in the Forerunner Artifact series: They show parts of Despondent Pyre's research into the Endless and her transition from confusion over why the Forerunners would imprison a race who asked for their help, to the eventual realization of their threat. The key is the looking at her arc through the Archeological Findings, Legendary Ending, and Forerunner Artifact Audio Logs.
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