originally posted in:Halo Archive
Giving it a background listen now, I'm hoping for Mendicant Bias too.
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We started bring up that Idea on Waypoint and it seems likely giving their recent connections. MC would remember MB saying that he wanted to atone. So helping chief with whatever is mission would be could play a part in that.
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MB seems to have a number of loose ends or tie ins, for lack of a better word, so it makes sense in a number of facets e.g. Cortana restore/duplicate, Cortana replacement, Fighting Flood, Fighting Didact, tie in to Janus Key etc
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My main pressing for him is all the knowledge he would have after siding with the flood,absorbing the domain, and aiding the forerunners. He is effectively [i]the[/i] absolute record.
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That is an interesting point, it does make you wonder if the Absolute Record is MB or something else. The Janus Key holds that same wonder for me, it would be nice to have it leveraged to be open world gameplay in place of just a writing loop hole. To that end I see MB not as the Absolute Record, it becomes difficult to write in the future.
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I don't think the Absolute record is MB himself with how the narrative is going. That record is more about the location of forerunner technologies while MB is an actual Archive.