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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: Gr33n Knight
Posted by: the One Free Man
At first i was against the assumption that the Captive, aka the last Precursor, is related to the Flood, but I just realized something peculiar...
okay, so Mendicant Bias was sent to study the Flood. 43 years after that he comes back to destroy all Forerunners, due to (presumably) the Gravemind being very persuasive. MB had a Halo under his command. He was responsible for the test firing on Charum Hakkor, and therefore responsible for releasing the Captive.
Cryptum, p.307: "..the prodigal Halo has returned. Bearing what madness? The captive itself?"
In the Terminals, when MB talks to the Flood, he is identified as 05-032. When Guilty Spark accesses a Terminal, he is identified as 04-343.
Using all that, it's pretty clear that the Halo that Mendicant Bias controlled was Installation 05. 05 was the Halo he used to free the Captive, the Halo he had with him when he was talking to the Flood, the Halo that Born theorized had the Captive on board.
And in the bowels of what Installation did we find the Gravemind chillin' long after the Halos fired?
(i came when i realized this)
Interesting. Of course, MB could have simply been using Pentient Tangent's identification. MB was a ridiculously powerful AI, and I'm sure he could have hacked into the system to allow it to identify him as Tangent. Tangent was destroyed, so his space was open.
I am very curious as to how the Captive will come into play in the other two novels. Maybe he is actually not a Precursor, maybe he is the Gravemind, who lied about Forerunners destroying the Precursors in order to tear them apart, thus making them easier to take over.
I don't know, it could be anything.
I don't understand why people think a being eons old would lie about what it is, what could possably come out of that? It is a precursor, the only thing we have to sort out is how it and the gravemind are related in any way. becuase the didact did state the flood would Find a new master, so something isn't right.
And what could "it" have said to the humans that made them kill themselves? why hasn't anybody asked that question? what could be that bad?