[quote]Thorne and Majestic aren't supposed to be characters in any serious sense, just there so the audience has a narrative anchor in the action on Requiem.[/quote]. How? A narrative could've easily been supplied by Roland and Palmer. They're just poorly written characters, who don't really go beyond the bland goodie, the cocky leader, his annoying sidekick, the black guy, and the scot. Same with Palmer and Lasky, the 'tough' sarge and the guy who has no personality other than the fact he does 'good' things, despite being in morally unstable scenarios. [quote]343 was no doubt going somewhere with the Composed people from New Phoenix on the Requiem artefact, but without a second season, I doubt we'll find out any time soon.[/quote] It was only in ep 5, and never seen or mentioned after that. [quote]Requiem getting tossed into its local star was just damn cool, an awesome way to destroy it. My guess is the system was a failsafe were the Flood to infest one of the few safe havens left in the galaxy after the rings detonated.[/quote] While it probably was a flood fail safe, it was still pretty stupid how this huge, beautiful world filled with god knows what creatures, buildings, the brand new promethean enemies, and the last remnants of the librarian, were just so easily tossed in the sun right at the end to add some urgency. Its been done in four other halo games, and was just kinda stupid in this one. And how the hell would Jul even figure that out, let alone allow it, to happen? He belongs to a cult that worships forerunner technology, and humans are the best ones at accessing it.