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Posted by: Primo84
Okay, so I just finished the book, and let me get all of this straight in one SPOILER-laden post: I'll leave the things I'm fuzzy on in italics; maybe someone can clarify them for me.
- Ancient Humanity had a space-faring empire that rivaled the Forerunners.
- Humans and Prophets, who were also around at the time, had an alliance.
- Humans were the first to encounter The Flood, then the Prophets.
- Because they were being pushed back into Forerunner-occupied space, the Forerunner and Human-Prophet alliance went to war.
- Humans and Prophets created their own virus to combat The Flood, and succeeded.
- Because of fighting on two fronts, the Humans and Prophets are defeated by the Forerunner, commanded by The Didact. The Prophets strike a deal and are quarantined to two worlds, while the Humans are stubborn and are devolved into several subspecies, then exiled on Earth.
- Having heard of The Flood, but not experiencing it firsthand, several Forerunners, including the Master Builder and Bornstellar's father, propose the Halo Array, which is met with controversy from The Didact and the Warrior-Servant Class.
- The Didact loses a political battle and is exiled, later to have his cryptum relocated to Earth by his wife, The Librarian. From there, the Warrior-Servants, who were once prominent in Forerunner society, lose their status.
- The Forerunners make first-contact with The Flood well before the beginning of the book, but it is not well-known throughout Forerunner society. This is why the Librarian sent the events of the book into motion.
- Bornstellar is sent away to what is essentially a foster family on Mars, for being a pain in the ass to his family.
- The two Humans Bornstellar hooks up with on Earth were imprinted with a geas at birth by The Librarian, which essentially buried the memories of their ancestors within their subconscious. In the final chapter of the book, it is revealed that this was done in order to reveal exactly how the Humans defeated The Flood.
- The Prophets revolted after misunderstanding the Librarian's message, which was really about The Flood.
- The Prophets, as a race, were entirely destroyed after The Master Builder activated a Halo within their quarantine. Only those The Librarian indexed survived.
- Mendicant Bias, 43 years before the events of the book, defected to The Flood and hijacked a single Halo installation, which he was tasked with testing at that one planets with Precursor ruins whose name I don't feel like looking up in order to spell correctly.
- During the Master Builder's trial, Mendicant Bias, now rampant, shows up for the first time in 43 years, deactivates whatever it was that oversaw/regulated all AI constructs on the capital planet, takes control of what Halo's he can, and destroys the Forerunner capital.
- The Halos were at the capital for decommission.
- Only one Halo makes it to The Ark intact.
- The Didact was executed by the Master Builder at the Prophet home planet.
- Because he contains The Didact's memories, Bornstellar is now, more or less, The [new] Didact.
- The Captive, which stole away with Mendicant Bias for 43 years, may or may not be the last Precursor and may or may not be the original Gravemind.
This set things streight for me...
my mind was asploded until i read this.
but one thing i still don't get, if there was 12 halos ( or however many mentioned in the book), why are there only 7 displayed in the ark citadel, and no " turned off" holograms for more?