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Maybe I'm just a horrible Halo fan but I really haven't "understood" the story of Halo since Halo:CE. Can someone please explain this shit to me.
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13 Replies in this Sub-ThreadSince CE? Have you not played any of the campaigns?
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Yes, yes. 343i openly said they could have done better implementing the canon. This is a really basic timeline. 100 Billion BCE: Earliest known records of Precursors (Note that this is before the big bang happened) ~1 Billion BCE: Precursors seed the Milky Way Galaxy with life, creating both Forerunners and Humans. Humanity moves its space faring empire away form the Forerunners as they aggresively expand. The Flood enter the galaxy coming into contact with humanty's civilization, wrecking havock. This prompts humanity, and their San-Shyuum(Prophet) allies to employ extreme means to combat the Flood. The Flood nearly overtake humanity and begin seeping into Forerunner Space. Humanity develops a "cure" to the Flood and sacrafices 1/3 of it's population to destroy the Flood. At the same time, Humanity is in dire need of resources and new planets, so they begin to aggresively expand into Forerunner space, taking their planets from them. The Flood stops attacking Human space seemingly showing their cure worked. By this time, the Didact had already begun his counter attack, swiftly crushing human resistance for betraying the Mantle. At this point the Forerunners don't know what the Flood is. They assume we are defying Forerunner dominance. The Flood has finally stopped attacking humanity, allowing Human Military to focus their efforts on the Forerunner Warrior-Servants. The Human-Forerunner War is so costly and devastating billions of humans and Forerunner die. The Seige of Charum Hakkor begins, Humanity's final stronhold. Humanity is crushed, our fleets decimated, and our world broken. The Didact's 30 children die during the Seige of Charum Hakkor. ~110,000-100,000 BCE: The Human-Forerunner war required many war machines to be built. This caused the Forerunner Builder rate to aquire extreme wealth and political power. When the war ended, and remnants of the Flood were found, the Forerunner Council discusses the possible return of the Flood. The Didact proposes tactically sound plan, while the Builders propose an extravagent weapon system that is extremely costly, allowing the Builders to keep power. The Halo Array. Humanity was originally sentenced to extinction by the Builder controlled council for defying the Forerunners and the mantle, but with our knowledge of a supposed cure, we are spared, albeit punished harshly. We are devolved into Hunter-Gatherers, and Human Military and Science Authorities are composed and inserted into the minds of the devolved humans, to be passed down if the need for the cure arrises. The Librarian is tasked with finding a cure for the Flood so she overlooks all of Humanity. Meanwhile, the Didact spearheads the political battle against the builders, still lobbying for his Shield Worlds. He fails, and he and his Prometheans are exiled, and executed. This next part is really complex so I'm going to leave out some stuff and simplify it. The Milky Way galaxy was a HUGE repository for Precursor structures. Charum Hakkor was one of the largest. Precursor structures are built upon neural physics, meaning they are indestructble to everything but something that outright destroys neural pathways: The Halo Array. Humanity ended up finding a Dormant Precursor left in the galaxy. The Didact woke it up, and they had a conversation explaining the Precursors are returning to get revenge on the Forerunners. What happened is, is that a couple hundred thousand years in the past, Forerunners found out that the Precursors had chosen humanity to take the Mantle. Forerunners, angered by this, destroyed the Precursors. The Precursors, never encountering a species they had created rising up against them, revelled in this. They allowed themselves to be destroyed. Some of the Precursors went dormant (The one on Charum-Hakkor), others turned into a powder that would be able to regenerate their past forms. Time rendered this powder defective, and the Flood was born. The Didact is awoken from his exile to combat the Flood who is now overtaking Forerunner space. The Master Builder, leader of the builders, locates him and tries to kill him by dropping him in a Flood infested area of the Galaxy. Eventually, he comes accross a Gravemind, who explains to him the relationship between the Precursors and the Flood. After this, he molests his mind, and infects his [i]conciousness[/i] with the Flood. This causes him to go mad, and distort his hate against humanity to large proportions. He is actually released from the Flood, and sent back to Forerunner space so he can wreck havock among the Forerunner empire. He does this by trying to Compose all of Humanity, and composing his Prometheans. The Librarian, seeing her husband has been twisted and distorted, betrays him and locks him up in a combat Cryptum in Requiem. She does this hoping he will meditate on what he has done by accessing the Domain, and make up for what he has done once he is released. Unfortunately, the Domain is actually a Precursor creation, and is destroyed during the firing of the Halo Array, damning the Didact to wait for 100,000 years wallowing in his own anger and sense of betrayal. Woo, what a mouthful.
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Nice work. Just don't forget the Iso-Didact.
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