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Subject: Did Mendicant Bias, in fact, have malicous intent?

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz

[Some Halo 4 spoilers within.]

A brief-ish thread questioning whether MB really was helping John-117, or in fact using him as a tool for his own atonement.

Let's have a look.

Our first thought was that MB wanted to help the Chief; save him in order to make p for all those he had slaughtered. In the final terminal of Halo 3 on Legendary difficulty, MB states that "One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my makers know that I have changed. And you will be my example".

It seems co-incidental that in the vast, empty nature of space, the portal just happens to send Chief to Requiem. We can, therefore, assume that Mendicant made it so.

But why?

Perhaps Mendicant "kept the path stable - kept it safe" to deliver Chief as an example....for a more devious intention. Is it possible that MB is loyal to the Didact and his kind, rather than loyal to simply atoning himself?

Didact himself states, at the end of Halo 4, that humanity stands as the greatest thread in the galaxy to the mantle of responsibility. Is it plausible that Mendicant delivered John to Requiem, in the knowledge that it would awaken the Didact from the Cryptum he was imprisoned in by the Librarian?

EDIT (thought I should summise my point): Did Mendicant Bias use the Chief as a wake-up call for the Didact, so that the Didact would see that humanity is a thread once more?

Any ideas?

[Edited on 11.10.2012 2:34 PM PST]

  • 11.10.2012 2:26 PM PDT

It did it to atone for what he did, but thats before 343i made Didact the villian of the galaxy. I know that Didact didn't like humans but he grew to respect them after the 50 year war on one planet. Also I'm guessing he was locked away before the end of the forerunner-flood war, so I'm not sure how he knows anything about how humans are now. Last time he saw humans was when we were turned back into monkeys by the forerunners.

  • 11.10.2012 3:32 PM PDT

Old School

Or maybe MB is in cahoots with the librarian?

  • 11.11.2012 2:00 PM PDT

The 'former master' he betrays once again is the Didact, I think. Maybe he calculated that Requiem would be found anyway, and so sent John there first to kill the Didact.

  • 11.11.2012 3:30 PM PDT

Wake me when the jews are gone.


Posted by: Wolverfrog
The 'former master' he betrays once again is the Didact, I think. Maybe he calculated that Requiem would be found anyway, and so sent John there first to kill the Didact.
Yes i belive the one he was trying to atone for was the librarian, that he was actualy loyal to her all along.

  • 11.11.2012 3:57 PM PDT