- Traxus 04
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- Honorable Member
(*spoilers for Cryptum*)
We find out in the cryptum novel that humanity had a spacefaring empire in the Forerunners day, before they were defeated in a war and 'devolved' back to planet Earth. But we're also told that Earth is where they seemingly first evolved. So basically in the first instance, humanity could have created the Marathon colony ship and sent it to colonize Tau Ceti, where they met the Phor Empire, who they eventually defeated in battle with the help of the S'pht'Kr -- all long before they ever met the Forerunners, which as we know was long before the events of the Halo games.
So that is a possibility although you might say it's irrelevant, as no events from that time could have had an effect on the Halo story. Well that's true except for Durandal - Durandal whose goal was to be immortal, and escape the end of the universe. According to the endscreen of Marathon Infinity, he just about managed that. So therefore he would have been around for the events of Halo, though who knows where or doing what. They say Durandal was simply a reanimation/reincarnation of Traxus IV, the original AI that went rampant before being destroyed by his human masters on Mars (but not before he'd infected 'several other AI constructs'). By the same logic, Mendicant Bias and Cortana could have been 'infected' by Durandal's meta-stable rampancy. This would suggest that meta-stable rampancy is a true fluke, a one off, like the evolution of life in a universe of inanimate matter may have been.
There's also the possibility that the Jjaro == the Precursors.