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Posted by: anton1792
Are they mutually exclusive?
No, they're not mutually exclusive, the Terminals are vague as anything, so if Cryptum is a little different it should take authority, especially since it's supposed to be the purest account of the final days of the Forerunners.
Comforting news does not make one wish to end his/her own life. What message would the Prisoner wish to spread that would be comforting? All it said to the Didact was implications about revenge. Additionally, that "message" that the Gravemind is telling sounds sort of like saying "Oh Hey, by the way your not the only life forms in the universe" not "Our answer is at hand".
I mean it is clear that the being MB spoke to there, the one that he was told to destroy, had been around for some time and was directly involved with the war. Virtually all of the text in the terminals spoken by this being allude to prior struggles with the Forerunners before MB got there. The Prisoner was in a cage before MB set out.
Has it not occurred to you that the location of this conversation and the location of the Prisoner may in fact be different?
The Gravemind is a chronic liar, if he can get what he wants through deception then that's the road he'll take. He'd need logic (however much he perverted it) and words such as what was recorded in the Terminals.
Remember the Prisoner has been in that cage for quite a while now, he could be a living relic from the days of the Forerunner/Precursor War, or he could have even assimilated himself with the Flood as soon as he got out of the prison. Either case he would have information/memories of com batting the Forerunners.
Penitent Tangent describes 05 having [1.2?] trillion simulations and one actual. If it were the same ring then it would have 2 actual: One for Charum Hakkor and one for the main event.
Monitors appear to follow the base 7 exponents. 343 is 7^3; 2401 is 7^4. 032 does not fit this sequence.
A localized test firing does not fit the bill of what Tangent was talking about, he was talking about actually firing it to stop the Flood in tandem with the other six rings.
I don't think anyone has said that Bias is a Monitor, merely that he was given custody of Installation 05, and that's why he has 05 in front of his main number, to designate where his authority lies. Tangent is most likely the actual Monitor of 05, and Bias's presence would be much like the presence of a superior officer on another officer's ship in the U.S. Navy. The lower ranking officer is the one who "owns" the ship, but while the superior officer is there he remains in charge, regardless of who normally "owns" and commands the ship.