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Posted by: Primo84
I'll admit, I'm way behind on this because I started and finished reading two other books in the time between starting and finishing this one.
So, uh....yeah.
Anyway, there's a few things I'm unsure about that I just want to clear up:
1. Does 343 Guilty Spark's existence in this book mean that there was more than one monitor with 343GS' personality/mind/core? Is it possible that Guilty Spark survived the events on Installation 04-2? (Unless the ONI interrogation was meant to have taken place prior to the end of the original trilogy. If that's the case, holy retcon, Batman!)
Chakas, I think, was the base mind for the 7 Monitors, which is why ONI detected him as Spark since he was the only Monitor they knew
2. Chakas seemed pretty important to The Didact, even on a personal level; why Installation 04? If 343GS was to carry the records of ancient humanity, wouldn't you think he'd be given a more relevant role? To me, his final position is as just another monitor on just another Halo. Were the other monitors as significant in their organic lives as he?
As explained above, he's the base intelligence, not the Monitors themselves
3. Does anyone think it would have been better had Chakas been made into Offensive Bias, and that all of the Halo Array monitors were just offshoots of him? (Explaining the above dilemma.)
4. So the Primordial was lying when it told the original Didact that it was the last Precursor? Was he an extremely-advanced Gravemind? Was he a mutated Precursor?
The Precursors are a collection of races; this is hinted at when Primordial says "[I am] the last of this kind."
5. Mendicant Bias was tricked by the Primordial into believing that "unity," aka the destruction of biological diversity on a galactic scale via consumption by the Flood, is the next step in the evolution of life, and that the Forerunners were too arrogant to accept this? Also, he tricked the ghosts/geas of ancient humans were tricked by Mendicant Bias into thinking that they were to be fighting the Forerunner for him in some attempt at vengeance?
Yes, basically, but it makes sense when you think about it. If evolution is survival of the fittest, the Flood is definitely the fittest. Except instead of the Flood simply destroying the lesser species, it collects them into a single macro-consciousness of "wisdom" and "peace." The Forerunners, according to the Precursors, were stagnating the natural evolution of things.
Still, I wonder if the Flood is only horrible and painful on a surface level. They certaintly don't look peaceful, but the Precursors seemed convinced that the Flood is sort of like a paradise. Perhaps when you've been assimilated fully by the Minds, you're "at rest?"
Number two bothers me the most.
I'm going to give my opinion on your question above as to why we've fought the Flood before, but weren't "tested."
I see the Precursors and the Flood as being two factions that are closely tied to the same goal almost to be one in the same. When the Primordial said "we will return in a thousand millenia" I think he meant the actual Precursors themselves.
I've said this a thousand times before: we have never seen a true Flood invasion, only a small, accidental outbreak. When the Precursors use the Flood, that's when -blam!- get's real.
[Edited on 02.21.2012 7:48 AM PST]