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I don't doubt that the Precursors may be antagonists but if they are, like any antagonists, I want them to have a good excuse for being so.
-They want to reclaim the galaxy, humans have failed the test.
I think human's might consider using the ring for localized incidents, that atrocity angers the Precursors for whatever reason or motive.
Why would the Rings be a threat to them? They may be capable of destroying them, but like any weapon it needs a wielder. Who is trying to harm them and why? If the Precursors first threatened whoever is trying to kill them, what reasons did the Precursors have to do that?
-Forerunners want to finish off the Precursors once and for all, the other species are just meddlers who either aren't worth their time or a nuisance. Humanity is key to who they forge their alliances with. The rings, if you recall, are weapons, and they destroy all the Precursor junk. Therefore, by destroying the rings, not only do the Flood have easy meal time for the next 1000000 years, they have no major resistance from anybody.
I don't understand why the Didact would be hostile after admitting, in Cryptum, that he and the others were wrong about the Human-Forerunner war. Of course the story isn't finished and there's still plenty of time for an ass-pull, but as of right now he seemed to regret his actions and in shame avoided the subject as much as he could whenever it was brought up.
And the Forerunners are also a race of people, not robots. Does the everyday family parent like Born's mother and father want to see Human worlds burn and subjugated to Forerunner hegemony? Is their whole society lacking a moral centre? Why do they want to rule the galaxy now? How would someone as corrupt and petty as Faber (Or a genocidal Didact for that matter) gain a following of Forerunner PEOPLE large enough to challenge the galaxy upfront?
-The first Didact might have something to do with this. Or the fact that the Librarian's death leaves him idle, and resentful. He hated the human race because of their expansionist policies and the attack on the Forerunner colonies, that sounds a lot like Post War Humanity. Humanity has been fiddling with his plan to take over the galaxy, although he does share feelings of resentment, those change, because the Forerunners are crushed, while somehow humanity holds the "Mantle". That or destroying 04+Ark ruined his plans for revenge on the Precursors.
Completely 2-dimensional alien race. They may as well just wipe out the Elites if they did that. They can hardly be considered a believable society if that happened.
They are a 2 dimensional race, they have been searching for Forerunner relics even before the HC war inception. If that is your opinion, so be it, but NOT ALL the Elites are 2 dimensional. Frankie said it was a splinter group.
This is another thing 343i need to stop. This demonization of ONI that they are so infatuated with, and the whole alter-ego that they have been giving them that has grown like a cancer on the side of the fiction. ONI is not a conglomerate of super-villian chessmasters, it is an organization of normal 9 till 5 people working at a desk, or working in a lab. I would imagine that only a small percentage actually perform wetwork and other shady tasks. People, 343i included, seem to have this idea that everyone at ONI sits around a big table, draped in shadows, smoking cigars and petting white cats. It's under the oversight of the UNSC. If ONI goes AWOL, then who exactly does that imply, and how does the UNSC not know about it, having full control of ONIs budget?
Agreed, ONI is getting out of hand, but a budget is worthless, if ONI starts to take possession of things, of power, of colonies, of technology. Money is required to pay people, but ONI slowly being revealed as their own personal army.
Ehh, the Spartans were always something that people looked up to, and were/are considered saviours of Humanity. I'm not sure what the point of making the next generation of Spartans enemies would be, nor do I think it would be all that great to Halo's fiction. Spartans fighting to destroy Humanity seems a little ridiculous.
I meant rebel against ONI, their creators.
If Halo's theme is, as you say, uniting, then your plot would actually make a statement against that. In this, no one tolerates anyone else and it's a false unity with people merely seeking to use others as an abrasive against the real threat, which is what would happen when everyone wants to be top dog with a profound hatred of everyone else. This sort of stuff can't be handwaved away, and if you want it so that everyone does unite for everyone's well-being rather than eventual end-game supremacy then you may as well go for a more optimistic setting where everyone isn't trying to exterminate each other.
All it really says is that peace and unity is actually impossible, and that you always need war in order to grant the false illusion of "peace".
I disagree, in the first trilogy, everyone also had their own ambitions, in the second trilogy, that also applies. This time, for real, they will unite and finish the fight, again, maybe setting up a 3rd trilogy where we fight the Grunt Empire with the UNSC Over 9000 on Sigma 7 with Spartan 5's to support.
If the Reclaimer Trilogy is the end of Halo's story via timeline, the last Halo trilogy, then this will apply, otherwise, a third trilogy in 10 years does seem likely; Microsoft will need to get some games.
[Edited on 07.02.2012 12:19 AM PDT]