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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
Posted by: SonicJohn
Wasn't it that Mendicant Bias (or a shard of him) was piloting the keyship?
I assumed that the keyship was piloted away by MB in an effort to escape the wars.
Admittedly this is the biggest issue, something which I never initially considered. The Keyship was probably one of those that he piloted away when he sent some vessels elsewhere, OB guessed to try to gain a foothold inside the Maginot sphere. Opog's theory suggests that he put a piece of himself on one of those ships, which was the Keyship, and it eventually found its way onto the Prophet's home world which seems a likely course of action. Ultimately it depends on "When". If it fled to the Prophet's planet before the reseeding effort then the question as to why it was left there by the Forerunners I think still stands. Surely they would detect it? Although against this is that MB was able to hide successfully through this, and the question of why the Forerunners would even think of leaving a shard of a potentially dangerous and powerful AI there as well which could potentially screw up their plans.
I think a change of perspective is required then. It is probably not the Forerunners intentions then. Too much evidence goes against it. The only thing salvaging this idea is that perhaps it was MB's plan, as a part of his atonement? Back to the "When" question, the ship could have crashed there after the reseeding effort. (And probably did UNLESS MB was able to hide from the Forerunner when they were repopulating the planet) How long was this fragment of Mendicant roaming the galaxy for? In that time he may have come to realize that what he did was wrong, like what we see anyway in Contact Harvest and the Terminals, and put together his own plan to rebuild faith in the Mantle and a galaxy that could one day defeat the Flood. This shard has to have come to some sort of realization at some point, and he could have chosen to set down on the Prophet's home world to start the plan rebuild that alliance.
Posted by: CoolCJ24
It's plausible, but it seems a little...sketchy. It seems like quite a gamble; hoping on the Humans just getting on brilliantly with an alien race (the San Shyuum) that arrive at Earth looking for a portal. Plus, how would they know where the portal was? The Humans certainly wouldn't know.
All in all, it's not impossible, it just seems that the Forerunners would be counting on too many things to go right.
...although it is admittedly not unknown for them to be a little too trusting of their own plans.
I think that it is now improbable to have been the Forerunners, simply because of the existence of MB's shard inside of that ship. However, if it was a part of MB's plan to ensure that the right conditions under which the Flood were defeated are met again (As a part of his atonement) then it is more probable that the issue of finding the portal would be solved by MB eventually intervening when he knew that both Humanity and the Prophets are ready for such a thing. He knew about the Prophets, but not about Humanity, until Contact Harvest where he gets confirmation that Humanity are also at the stage necessary.