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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Posted by: turokman2000
My point with DP #12 and #15 is that there is evidence of the possibility of getting in touch with Mendicant Bias because
1) The desire to reach out to Covenant AI
3) Access to the Covenant network
No evidence that it happened, just that it very well could.
About Forerunner tech, I mean to say that humans CAN access the tech, but the AIs CANNOT. By superimposing themselves on a human, they can thereby interface with the Forerunner tech as well.
That's a humdrum idea though, which is why I'm speculating about what makes humanity so special. Maybe humanity's brain was manipulated by the Forerunner, or the Precursor, or just happened to evolve to be special. I have no idea, I'm just speculating whether there's 'something' about the human mind that makes it 'special'. There are two things that humans have that no one else does: AI, and the mantle of reclamation. Given DP #18, I'm wondering if they're related, that's all.
Also, DP #17 makes it clear that the AIs are pondering abandoning their traditional role shepherding mankind. They seem reluctant, but nevertheless consider the possibility. DP #18 mentions becoming 'true companions' which I take as a sort of independence for the AIs. Basically, the beginning of the path that leads away from giving a care about mankind.
But Hysterical Joker's argument is the most sensible. It seems like the AI were trying to build 'a better man'. There's evidence for this with the whole ORION effort.
So, it makes sense that the AI would consider the taking of an AI mind and implanting it onto a human to be the 'ideal man'. That does make the most sense.
The only problem is where do we see this? For example, half of Halo 3 Master Chief is alone. So... where's the symbiosis that saves mankind? More secret programs?
If the Data Pads are self-contained, then #18 would really be the end of the story. The AIs have decided to 'merge' literally with humanity going forward. In fact, Cortana and MC are who basically saved the world many times over, proving the effectiveness of the relationship.
Then again... there's the issue of John's luck. There's the issue of Halsey's discussions on destiny. There's the whole Slipspace experiment. I'm still on this horse about the AIs trying to stop Dr. Sorvad from getting the latchkey to Halsey.
I feel like DP #18 offers good closure if considered by itself. But in the greater context there are just too many loose ends. This is why I speculate.
And Didact's 'Great Journey' as a euphemism - I love that! But where'd the Forerunner all go? What about the Precursor artifact? Why was humanity chosen to be reclaimers? And more...
I think DP 18 is a sign of things to come, more than things that are already occurring, perhaps in reference to future work by 343. As of now, there is nothing to go off of suggesting they followed in MC/Cortana's footsteps until after the war, which we know little about.
Forerunners are generally thought to have died out, made it onto shield worlds, or fled the galaxy. But there's no evidence to support either possibility fully, and there's no evidence to suggest that shield worlds are safe from Halo(that I know of).
An excellent point. But then, Maybe the shield worlds are safe from Halo. Refer too Halopedia for that. The Shield World is protected by a Micro Dyson Sphere, located within a Slip-space bubble of compressed space-time. The only way in is a small portal that constitutes the only real-space component of a Shield World. Access to Shield Worlds was only possible upon the imminent activation of the Halo Array. So maybe when all of the Halo's were fired simultaneously to fight off the flood before the galaxy was repopulated, the Forerunners made it to one of the shield worlds. So I would assume that the shield worlds are protected from the Halo Array seeing as all halo's were tested several trillion times before the final firing (Needs a reference).