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Posted by: mchief111
My deciphering of the Smuggler bit:
2401 Penitent Tangent, at its last known location, was rampant, and in the clutches of the Gravemind. The destruction of Installation 04, as shown from 343 Guilty Spark's survival from Halo 1, would not be enough to destroy an important enough Forerunner artifact as a Monitor; and the lighting of a ring wouldn't even affect a non-sentient A.I. In Halo 2's ending, Delta Halo was never actually lit: it misfired, and nothing more was said about the Flood on it.
Most people have completely forgotten or disregarded the fate of Delta Halo. However, what actually did happen to the Flood? It is ridiculously unlikely that they would send all their available ships to combat: they would most likely try to infect more beings. With control of High Charity, the Flood are undoubtedly left with unrestricted access to data banks containing the locations of all their planets. And the beings on them.
In the case of 2401 Penitent Tangent, it is probable that it's fate went along the same lines as Mendicant Bias. As Tangent wasn't as advanced as Bias, it didn't even take as long for Gravemind to convince it to join the Flood. This leaves the Flood in a powerful position: in control of multiple Covenant forces (and a crashed human one), with a Forerunner installation, complete with its' Monitor.
Why are you all convinced the Fight is Finished?
Someone finally gets to an interesting point. I doubt that when a compound mind finally forms (Gravemind) and with all of its memories seemingly intact, it decides that it'll concentrate all of its efforts on attacking Master Chief and the Arbiter. It has control of slip space technology. My guess is that the moment gravemind could, it began hurling flood pods in every direction of space possible, if not raining them down on covenant and human worlds with the data it collected from human and covenant ships. And btw, who has evidence that the arc was destroyed? When halos are lit, they only affect organic life. For all we know, the arc is still infected with flood, as well as delta halo and there are pieces from the halo 1 ring also floating around.
Relating this to the update, I would like to think that the smuggler part may relate to a new map, but also to something else in the future. Good update!