Firing the Halos - Lore and Theory

In this episode: We look at the final hours leading up to the firing of the Halo array, and the minutes afterward, via the only known record of these events. The Log from Offensive Bias found in the Ark Terminals.
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[@ianmastin]

Really loved the way you ended this one, The silence at the end really drives home the finality of the firing of the rings.

[@daddydavo8357]

Hahaha I wish it was that way for me as soon as it got to that part an Etoro ad played and really ruined the mood hahah.

[@JackFogos]

KZbin premium or... adblock in this channel? how dare you But after the ad it was a nice touch

[@tslfrontman]

Mine unfortunately had an advertisement right at the start of the silence 😅 kind of broke the reverence for me 🤦‍♂️

[@thundercockoreilly7098]

sounds like the end of the Gorillaz: fire coming out of the monkeys head.

[@ianmastin]

@@jodyhighroller6436 195 people would disagree, Sure it is just a lore video but the story is only as good as the story teller.

[@ravager2-636]

Offensive Bias: I am outnumbered 436 to 1 Rtas ‘Vadum: Then it’s a even fight.

[@lastweekslasagna1699]

Rtas ‘Vadum. Vadam is Thel

[@rustykid1285]

Chief thats a easy fight

[@tslfrontman]

For a brick, he fought pretty good!

[@alexscott7943]

You saw this on Plasmaposting didn’t you? Lmfaooooo That’s my meme 😂😂😂

[@Epsilvonic]

The odds are even crazier when you do the math to figure out Mendicant’s number of warships: ignoring all of Mendicant’s non-Warships, Offensive was still out-numbered 8-1. Rtas had it easy with 3-1 lol

[@bombomos]

I knew offensive won... But I never knew just how God Tier he was.

[@castlebarron1788]

I believe the discrepancy in skill is based on the engineered purposes for either, mendicant was made not only to combat the flood but also oversee highly complex administrative purposes for the builder and life worker rates of the ecumine. Offensive bias had one singular purpouse in mind with his creation, destroying mendicant. Every thought process every conclusion offensive had was engineered with martial, destructive intent. A bulldozer can be a great tool for construction and destruction but it’s not meant to destroy things. A tank can be used to build or destroy if modified but it’s base purpouse is for war this is the difference between the 2

[@centurymemes1208]

@@castlebarron1788 indeed

[@centurymemes1208]

“@@castlebarron1788”why?

[@novustalks7525]

Crazy

[@tranminh-hm2nk]

Ofensive Bias to Mendicant: Hippity Hoppity Poppity. Your entire fleet is now my property

[@SchneeflockeMonsoon]

“The Galaxy is quiet now. No more reports to file, no more orders to take, and no one left to commune with. All things to study would go unrewarded and unappreciated. Time is no longer a measurement of now to what is next, but an empty void, in which I am left adrift. -I wish I too had been allowed to perish when the rings fired- “

[@ratmaster1490]

Did guilty spark say that?

[@rainerbunn4855]

Not hard to imagine how offensive bias felt once he defeated mendicat bias. I wonder if conscious AI can commit suicide, or maybe some kind of AI rage towards the forerunners for leaving him bear the weight of galactic genocide would be built up in solitude. Sounds like a new antagonist for the halo series?

[@quill3897]

Offensive Bias, the biggest chad in all of Halo. Asides from Johnson, of course.

[@EAC197]

Don't forget Rtas 'Vadum that mans got the grapes.

[@capnkaba]

@@EAC197 NOBODY OUTCHADS JOHNSON NOT EVEN HALF JAW

[@hokutoulrik7345]

@@EAC197 as Wrex would say, "kid has quad."

[@Phoenix-214]

Many people have been critical of the Forerunners and the way they handled everything, but at the core of their culture was a fundamentally selfless devotion to the preservation of life against the whims of a seemingly uncaring universe. They failed in their self-imposed charge, but they unquestionably died heroically at the end, unblinking as a collective whole before oblivion, knowing that they were sacrificing themselves to give life one last chance. In another franchise, another race who had taken it upon themselves to be the stewards of life in the cosmos faced the end times with the words, "Let our last stand burn a memory so bright that we will be known throughout eternity." Despite their best efforts to disappear, the Forerunners haven't been forgotten. What they've done is now known, at least to a select few. It's up to the present-day species of the Milky Way to learn from their mistakes...and to live up to the best examples they set.

[@OrangeSolaire]

Which other franchise are you referring to?

[@Phoenix-214]

@aWraithsSoul That is correct.

[@riaanvr2624]

The forerunners as a species and society is my favored community of advanced beings in all of Halo lore history, but I cannot see them as heroic or selfless or even honorable. Individuals like Bornstellar, The librarian and even the Ur didact before the cryptum, yes, but as a society they forfeited all nobility the moment they decided to eradicate the precursors because of simple vanity in pride of being the chosen holders of the mantle. Had they not attempted to destroy their creators, the flood would not have been spawned, the Halo array would not have been necessary. Truly the blood of all the galaxy and countless wonderous beings washes away any notion of empathy! They deserve none! They are galaxy killers and in the words of one wise monitor "deserve to be forgotten!"

[@OrangeSolaire]

@aWraithsSoul Thanks!

[@riaanvr2624]

@Mr.Tweezy007 I have also pondered this, but the evidence is strongly against this theory as the logic plague that Mendicant bias was grappling with, forced him to do deep research into the most ancient anals of the domain and other histories, what he found was truth, and that truth is that the Forerunners where wrong and deserved assimilation as a punishment. Was assimilation the cause of the rebellion Mendicant most likely would not have developed such a strong hatred for his creators and empathy for the Precursors now exacting judgement through the flood. He sees the flood as just punishment. Also, the nature and actions of Faber, the weak "democracy" of the ecumene being bent to the will of the Builder rate all point to a very flawed, deep routed vanity within Forerunner leadership. Those with power seek one thing, more power and fear one thing, losing that power, and the Forerunners would do anything to keep themselves as the self proclaimed worthy dictators of the galaxy. They were the absolute power in the galaxy.... And you know what they say about absolute power.... P.S: their tech was dope as hell though 😅

[@SergeantKillGore]

[11:H 12:M 09:S] 05-032 was right about one thing: there is only one-way to defeat the enemy, and that is to visit utter annihilation on it. If the galaxy must be [rendered temporarily lifeless]. So be it. As Mendicant stated in its report [58.078:H 48:M 12:S ago]: *half measures will not suffice.* That cold and ruthless efficiency sums up the reason Offensive Bias was the superior combatant.

[@MrHotSalsa]

I still love the entry. "It is best that our crews perished now; because the battle that is about to ensue would have driven them mad." And Offensive bias felt hurt that Mendicant didn't take him seriously.

[@fjnordthedwarf4004]

I love the fact that after his crews are dead, Offensive Bias completely does away with conventional weaponry and falls back on the absolute fundamentals of combat- speed and mass. A true believer in the adage that no spaceship is unarmed, so long as it has its thrusters. The best part is how unexpected it was from Mendicant's perspective- he had doubtlessly assumed that what few Forerunners remained would harbor some illusion that they could still yet survive, and act with some concept of self-preservation. Maybe they did. But Offensive Bias did not.

[@OHaaaiden]

@@MrHotSalsa I’m fond of the description Offensive Bias drives home to that point. Once the biologicals are no longer a concern on either side, he basically paints a picture of what would make Armageddon look like a small firework show if you were unfortunate enough to be a spectator. Even worse when you consider the whole thing is condensed to 106 seconds.

[@MrHotSalsa]

@@OHaaaiden Fucking for real dude.

[@nickrowe7451]

@@fjnordthedwarf4004 you can also argue that given the Forerunners complete understanding of slipspace and time, Offensive tore apart space and time both in and around Mendicants fleet for 100 seconds until all that was left was Mendicant, probably still processing what the hell just happened

[@MrLeftyboy]

I love how Halo's lore has this kind of references to actual historical facts, the Maginot Sphere was a reference to the Maginot's line, the final deffensive french line on the WWI against Germany. Just so fucking awesome.

[@TheVirtualObserver]

There's an in-universe explanation for this too. Basically the translation software modern humans used to convert Forerunner text into English or other Terran languages sought to find relatable approximations for Foreunner terminology that didn't have any clear substitute. Hence terms like the Maginot Sphere, Phaetons, Armigers, etc. were born.

[@jimmyseaver3647]

It was actually World War Two, and France's _first_ line of defense. Most people think it failed, but its purpose was to drive a German attack north where the French and British could use the bulk of their forces to deal with it. Problem was, their response to the attack they knew had come was rather... _lackluster._ And thus rises the legend of the Blitzkrieg.

[@dementor808]

Diego Yael Halos firing is also an in-universe explanation for why the dinosaurs died. So in a way, we’re kinda like the aliens from the movie Arrival, able to view past, present and future simultaneously. All while living in the present.

[@jimmyseaver3647]

DVS Uhh… the dinosaurs died tens of millions of years ago. The Halo Array only fired once, and that was 100,000 years ago. Your timeframe is just _slightly_ off.

[@dementor808]

@@jimmyseaver3647 lol maybe just a litttle bit. I thought Halos lore was supposed to be an extension of the modern day... Unless the in-universe explanation is that our current radio carbon dating is inaccurate. I vaguely remember such a reference somewhere in the extended universe

[@thanqualthehighseer]

Listening to that report make me wonder if Mendicant Bias was quite as rampant as we thought . Could his plan have been to aid the flood to destroy the forerunners but delay long enough to allow the halos to fire. Freeing the galaxy to come from both forerunner imperial rule and flood infection Would that be truly upholding the mantle.

[@kjj26k]

Woah...

[@AceTycho]

Yes

[@centurymemes1208]

hory crap that makes sense since the primordial influenced him which was a pre curser survivor too so that makes total sense too and possibly

[@OHaaaiden]

I think it’s outright stated that Mendicant Bias CHOSE to be infected by the logic plague. Which raises a lot of questions as to what “rampancy” even means to an AI of his weight class. He definitively could have been operating under simultaneous but seemingly contradictory agendas.

[@thanqualthehighseer]

@@OHaaaiden he might have thought he could come up with a solution to the logic plague and create a protection against it. i don't think it took him over completely but broke any shackles the Forerunners placed on him making him realise what ether side winning ment for the galaxy.

[@kristahatton6895]

Wow this battle of incila. Just wow. What a battle description. This should be made a fleet battle animation. Like the trailer of reach. You know the story. You know how this ends. I would so want to see this. Epic even in thought. Anyone want to try? This is great content. Once again installation00 great of you to breakdown of this. In awe of the way you continuesly get facts of Halo lore. This is acdemiclamb171. Standing by 5-5.

[@schwig44]

just imagine the turn after the array fires. The final 3 minutes would be the most intense space battle ever seen on a screen

[@kristahatton6895]

So bad ass fight. Jerry springer would be out of business right out. How would the animation go or do this right? Whom would be great for this? So many questions for this. I'm very excited for this to happen. Yo anyone wanna do this gallatic battle animation? Here's the idea. Let's see whom steps up. Installation00 you know anyone whom would be interested in this?

[@LtCWest]

I love how the transcripts read as if Offensive was constantly schooling Mendicant, giving the impression that he was always 3 parallel dimensions ahead of the rampant AI. ^^

[@JokerFey]

17:29 nice touch loving it. i always thought after firing all sentient would be disintegrated but the truth is after firing of halo only the nervous system is attack and leave a empty shell i guess that is logical

[@ravager2-636]

Yes.. Disintegrating organic matter could have some severe consequences for life bearing planets..

[@tavianarmstrong974]

They did scatter some compound on many planets so that the overwhelming number of corpses or rotting biomass don't destroy the environments of the planets and break down appropriately instead.

[@JoshS1207]

Could one of the reasons that Offensive Bias beat Mendicant Bias so seemingly easily be that besides the logic plague/rampancy, the flood rebuilt Mendicant piece by piece? As in the flood could have not rebuilt Mendicant to the state it was at before being disassembled by the Forerunners. Just seems strange that Offensive outclassed it so badly when Mendicant was also a metarch level ancilla, to the point where Mendicant seems kind of dumb comparitively.

[@darthgamer2014]

Makes sense. But on the other hand it's possible that when the forerunners disassembled mendicant bias, they destroyed a small and seemingly insignificant part of him. Which resulted in the ancilla being dumbed down significantly. It makes sense for them to do mendicant was afterall a significant threat to the forerunners which is why they disassembled him in the first place. But why risk returning the greatest enemy tactician to the enemy?

[@JoshS1207]

@@darthgamer2014 Yeah true, good point. I mean the only reason they didn't discard of Mendicant entirely was the knowledge it had of the flood, so you would think that they would take measures to ensure that it could not be re-captured by the flood. But then again I guess you could say that the Forerunners didn't have much foresight into these kind of matters much alike almost every other scenario in the Forerunner-Flood war.

[@SergeantKillGore]

Mendicant bias was filled with rage against the Forerunners due to its rampancy and them replacing him with an “inferior” AI. He operated in an arrogant way believing he could not lose due to the incredible numerical superiority of his forces. Offensive on the other hand was only fighting a delaying action until the Halo Array activated. After the firing, Mendicant lost a massive portion of his force due to the infection being destroyed and offensive regained remote control of many ships originally in Mendicant’s fleet. After that offensive bias used its superior tactical ability (given with the express purpose of defeating mendicant) to efficiently dismantle what was left of his foes forces.

[@JoshS1207]

@@SergeantKillGore Yeah I get that Mendicant was blinded by rage and was getting outsmarted due to that, but the odds shifting that dramatically, from 436-1 to 6-1 just seems a bit off. Remember that Mendicant Bias was created by both the Didact and The Master Builder, whereas Offensive Bias was created without the Didact's input. How could the ancilla created without the Didact's input outsmart one of his greatest creations that much?

[@SergeantKillGore]

@@JoshS1207 I see your point. There are definitely a few holes in the prequel lore (like how somehow humanity couldn’t warn the forerunners about the flood) but in the case of Offensive Bias, he was designed from the ground up to be a counter against mendicant. He didn’t have nearly the creative thinking capacity or raw processing power, but he was oriented completely around tactical and strategic analysis. He was playing with an Ace in the hole because of the Halo Array. Mendicant didn’t believe the Forerunners would ever commit suicide/genocide because of their vanity and devotion to the Mantle. A mistake that cost him everything.

[@holicekaderliiii6787]

So this is how the Galaxy ends. Not with a bang. Not with a whimper. Just... silence.

[@kaisenmanuel9790]

Imagine being lucky enough to survive the Halo’s fire and looking around you seeing nothing with nobody left. Gives me chills.

[@gamerskater17]

I don't know what was more insane: the activation of the halo array or the battle that ensued afterward

[@jeanmouloude]

Offensive bias tried as much as he could to keep his soldiers alive, but the split second the halos activated he rained hell on the ennemy

[@madness0169]

Fun Fact: When the three Prophets were going to persue "The Great Journey" which was firing the Halo Array, they actually meant that it would be "A War to end All Wars".

[@JIGgameoverSAW]

Feels like The 100 show plot lol

[@madness0169]

@@JIGgameoverSAW lol

[@Spartan2818]

I knew the final fight had to have been insane, but I didn't know it was this crazy.

[@sunkist1309]

I like how honorable offensive bias is

[@IdrinkSoup-phrog-]

“Nothing but an all consuming silence- HUNGRY JACKS REBEL WHOPPER, BRAND NE-“

[@throwingbeef3524]

God, I love that opening piano!

[@Agamembar]

Holy crap man you have a flare for the dramatic there at the end, great work as usual. I am very curious to see where the halo story goes with infinite and beyond both game and surrounding media. Its such a good universe to explore given the story they built up.

[@9-11wasthecoolestthingever9]

I want to see mendicant bias in halo infinite so bad

[@thermalvision203]

Just so you know, "Maginot" is pronounced like "Mah-je-no" as it's a French name, so it must be pronounced with maximum pretension.

[@TheVirtualObserver]

"maximum pretension" 😂😂

[@bostonianluke6544]

Well maybe that's why the French surrendered

[@jb76489]

Bostonian Luke lmao imagine being this openly ignorant

[@bostonianluke6544]

@@jb76489 Bro it's just a joke? It's obvious that the whole French surender trope began after the French government's refusal to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

[@jb76489]

Bostonian Luke “I was only pretending to be retarded” fascinating 👍🏿

[@joshualegroulx9629]

I am so happy to see your sub count go up, your channel is amazing and I thank you for all your hard work.

[@jaimevalencia6271]

I love how far your content has come brother keep it up it’s interesting to see these videos even though I know much of the lore I enjoy your videos very much keep it up and keep em coming

[@CovfefeDotard]

There really needs to be a halo game about the forerunner flood war or ancient human flood war

[@RedDeadSpearhead]

When you realize how much of an absolute unit Offensive was *insert surprised Pikachu face*

[@spaceangelmewtwo9074]

An interesting coincidence. The Halo 3 version of the song "Never Forget" lasts almost exactly as long as the Battle of the Maginot Sphere did post-firing of the Halo array. kzbin.info/www/bejne/roWTgaebatOLd7c If the scene ever gets adapted into a video game cutscene format or the like, it would probably be something really fitting to play during the battle, intermittently with a montage of the galaxy-wide carnage of all the various races that we would come to know in the modern era of the Halo timeline all lying dead on the ground. No sound but the IsoDidact and Spark's dialogue plays for the duration of the scene. At the start of the scene, the Halo's pulse, silently killing all life in the galaxy. We see Forerunners and Flood lying motionless in their ships as the song begins and Offensive Bias charges into action, weapons firing chaotically between the two derelict fleets. At 0:18, we cut to some of the lesser-ranked species of the Covenant; the drones, the lekgolo, the jackals, the grunts. On Flood worlds, Graveminds lie in massive slumps in their holes. Two little grunts are seen holding hands on Balaho. 0:44, we cut briefly back to the battle, as Offensive's captured ships begin to glow as their self-destruct sequences come to an end. At 0:54, we cut back to more of the carnage. The Brutes lay on a battlefield, having been smote as they were busy killing each other. The remaining Prophets lie in positions of reverence before great statues of the IdoDidact, having died praying in vain for their safety. 1:15 Ships exploding everywhere, being torn apart by gravitic waves, energy beams, slipspace ruptures. Bits of metal and biomatter fly in all directions within the chaos. 1:33 Sangheili lie among Flood, having bravely and honorably held their own to the last moment with little more than Medieval-era technology. 1:41: Offensive Bias has won, and Mendicant Bias turns its core ship to flee as Offensive begins pursuit. 1:50 The IsoDidact looks on from the Lesser Ark with Guilty Spark, overwhelmed by the sight of the aftermath of Halo's pulse. He asks Spark to confirm that the Flood has been annihilated. Spark confirms proudly that all sentient life within 3 radii of the galactic center has been annihilated and all remaining Flood forms have been safely quarantined in containment and research facilities. The IsoDidact drops to his knees, then asks Spark "If it was your choice, would you have done it?" 2:25 Mendicant Bias's core ship is surrounded and Mendicant is captured. The war is over. 2:36 On Earth, in a human village. Corpses line the spaces between huts. In the center, the Librarian lies lifeless as the camera slowly zooms in on her. The credits then play in silence as IsoDidact prostrates himself before the Milky Way galaxy, quietly asking the civilizations that will come after him for forgiveness. The camera pans away so that the remainder of the credits play in silence aside from Spark's anti-gravity device with the lifeless Milky Way galaxy as a backdrop, driving home the overwhelming finality of the events that just took place. I suppose then, afterwards, an after-credits scene in the Librarian's voice narrating the automated re-seeding of the galaxy's life and the passage of the Mantle to humanity.

[@Pulsar047]

Best Halo youtuber.

[@grahamcorr7644]

"A massive problem for all sentient life" You are the master of the understatement.

[@krlosmaze1125]

Poetic, dramatic. Just perfect narration of the tragedy and fate of the galaxy.

[@magikmantrece]

Imagine if all of this was real? It’d blow my mind 🤯

[@CaptainAwsome]

maginot is french, its pronounced ma-zhə-ˌnō-

[@wraith2304]

Defensive line from WW2

[@clxwncrxwn]

wraith2304 which the Germans bypassed with gliders at night.

[@thermalvision203]

@@clxwncrxwn No they didn't. What actually happened was that the Wehrmacht's Panzer Corps flanked the combined French, British, and Belgian armies by driving through the Ardennes which caused them to hit a weaker defended part of the Maginot Line that had lower-quality troops. The Ardennes section of the Maginot Line actually succeeded in holding back the Panzers for several days, and it wasn't until another several days worth of sustained Luftwaffe strikes that the Wehrmacht finally broke through. The failure here, however, was that the French Army failed to reinforce the Maginot Line upon being breached as planned. The Maginot Line was never meant to be an invincible line of fortresses but was only intended to slow the Germans enough for the French Army to fully mobilize. The French Army failed because it failed to contain the breach in the Maginot Line as planned.

[@Mizra-dq3lj]

How is one supposed to pronounce those weird words

[@asneakychicken322]

@@clxwncrxwn no clue where you got that from

[@darthrevan5999]

I don't know why but I just love that intro.

[@darthgamer2014]

What is the simplest way to explain the halo array? A series of nuclear bombs linked to a dead man's switch.

[@LtCWest]

More like Neutron bombs but yeah, pretty close ^^

[@SpartanJoe193]

7 Death Stars on steroids.

[@Wernissage]

Man, that ending hit hard. Incredible video.

[@CaptainSovereign]

Offensive Bias is outnumbered 436 to 1 Offensive Bias:I like those odds

[@Sam-um1wr]

The loyalty of this machine... I find it incredible what words are used. It gives me a vivid image of the entity going about its tasks

[@ravager2-636]

17:33-19:00 Finally some peace & Quiet.. 19:02 + 1s Greeting I am 343 guilty spark monitor of installation 04.. (robotic sigh) it was nice while it lasted..

[@niyazshahriar839]

I haven't seen all of your video as I was late to the party . However among all the video I have seen regarding Helo , I believe this one is the best . The narrative style is just awsome 😍.

[@cameronsims4108]

Getting a visual representation of the final moments before the firing would be killer and suspenseful

[@PackHunter117]

“And all who believe shall be saved.”

[@AlpineBishop]

Okay did anyone get a perfectly placed ad when he said "Nothing but silence," at the end? "Nothing, but all-consuming, silence" *PLAYSTATION JINGLE TONE EARRAPES IMMEDIATELY AFTER*

[@Slender_Man_186]

*DOES CHILLY TASTE BETTER COOKED OVER A FIRE?*

[@generalbutterscotch4887]

Now imagine how the Endless must have felt in the immediate aftermath. They likely shared their homeworld with many other species, going about their lives until, everything around them - livestock, predators, even pets - simply dropped dead in an instant, while they themselves simply stood there, looking at each other in utter confusion until the true horror and panic slowly began to set in. No wonder the Harbinger hated the Forerunners so much.

[@ownage11445]

Offensive bias was a scary tactician. Using slip space ruptures as a weapon? Incredible.

[@SupportOpenauraTV]

Wouldn't flood spores and other nonsentiant biomass still be present literally everywhere if the halo effect only targets neural tissue?

[@tavianarmstrong974]

starvation is something the flood does suffer from. they did not immediately re seed life, they waited for an amount of time i do not know, and the flood spores only feeds on the sentients

[@leiferikson850]

^ this + massive fleets of sentinels send out to purge every spore cloud in space and on planets they find.

[@kjj26k]

^Spores can't fight back, especially against drones.

[@nexxus2853]

I really enjoyed this episode, keep up doing the good work that you do, this one really drove home the hopelessness and despair of the situation back then. 👏🏼

[@palladin1337]

Alright, I don't know about anyone else, but if my choices are death by Halo and being consumed by the Flood, I would happily choose the first.

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.” -General William Tecumseh Sherman, on his total war against the Confederacy in Georgia.

[@Angryp0nY]

Urge to March to the Sea intensifies

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

SoldierMedic kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIvZqZp3d76Dd5I

[@anthonyscarlato4271]

I wonder what type of technology that the unsc would have if the flood never existed and the fourrunners never had to set off the halo rings and resetting humanity’s technology.

[@3men219]

The unsc would probably not even exist then, the butterfly effect

[@anthonyscarlato4271]

Yoan Ramos possibility’s are endless I guess

[@alexb5766]

Ya if the halos had not fired and the forerunner where still around they would have kept humanity stupid

[@tjpprojects7192]

@@alexb5766 But if the flood didn't exist, then humanity would have no reason to retreat into forerunner space. Thus no Human Forerunner war, and no "devolution" of humanity.

[@josebisk]

Sensational - you've outdone yourself.

[@Killian749]

Enjoyed this video. Good bit of lore I never knew about. Thankyou

[@riaanvr2624]

Brilliant! What an amazing video! Absolutely love Halo lore and your videos continue to impress! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to the next one.

[@PAYDAYSWAGGER]

The star roads ultimately sped up the end for the Forunners, considering only firing the halo could destroy them

[@illianstrange5556]

Absolutely enjoyed this one.

[@cdro1257]

Intro and Logo look much more sharp! Love the channel keep it up!

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

This is so much more hardcore than the entirety of the forerunner novels.

[@sinofren8406]

I personally didn’t like the forerunner trilogy that much.

[@pelinalwhitestrake4196]

Heresy

[@Liaison_Verequiem]

@@sinofren8406 why? is it because it doesn’t feel sci fi and more fantasy? it makes sense since its futuristic era where we have no knowledge or reference anymore

[@sinofren8406]

@@Liaison_Verequiem the main reason, the forerunners are such a horrible civilization. They’re the reason almost everything went wrong in the halo universe. The second reason is cause of all the awesome and creative ideas that are in that story, like neurophysics, the Mithrileon, the Primordial, the whole trilogy had tons of amazing things. What ruined it was everyone and everything (almost everyone, Bornstellar makes eternal lasting, Chakas technically) dies and is destroyed. Obviously the rings had to be fired, it’s a real shame all those ideas had to be cut short because of it. Basically, it’s like making an entire series and then killing all the characters off and leaving nothing to hope for.

[@Liaison_Verequiem]

@@sinofren8406 thats the entire reason why the precursors rejected the forerunner and even so, the forerunners redeemed themselves by saving the galaxy at the cost of their civilisation, their belief on the mantle at the end perfectly captures their philosophy on protecting all life before themselves. its kinda fascinating how before they are arrogant, xenophobic race that only uses the mantle for excuse but at the end they stayed true despite their flaws before.

[@MarcusWolfWanders]

the unbridled power of slipspace is nuts, as shown in the final battle. and just think, the only thing keeping it from killing you or worse while you count sheep in cryo is the field that's emitted by your Shaw Fujikawa drive. iirc.

[@adambrown3918]

This was fantastic! Thank you. You have a new subscriber. 😊❤

[@bmxdude1337]

Great video, keep’em coming Spartan

[@blindvalkyrie9352]

I just finished Silentium, so I'm watching videos like this

[@thomasgomez6218]

It’s just a beautiful game of chess by. One being the over confident master being beaten by the humble student.

[@sirjjbera8371]

I just love the starting of these videos

[@tylerchristensen1484]

I saw on Halopedia that the orange lettering in these messages in Halo 3 is human software attempting to translate the Forerunner language into something that we would understand. For example: the Maginot Sphere is called that because the Maginot Line was a plan during WW2 to hold the Germans away from France.

[@000-tragicsolitude2]

I love the green infected look the logo at 2:40

[@julonkrutor4649]

Offensive Bias + John ... that would be a dream team!

[@socracle2774]

lol, have u played infinite yet :p

[@julonkrutor4649]

@@socracle2774 nope, why?

[@socracle2774]

@@julonkrutor4649 play it, u will be happy

[@chetmanly4620]

Excellent video, man! Keep up the good work!

[@OHaaaiden]

I always hurt my head trying to picture Mendicant Bias having “mathematical certainty” of victory for 12 hours. Then at the snap of the Iso-Didact’s fingers and the push of a button, the conditions favor Offensive Bias and he calls checkmate in 106 seconds.

[@battle_plays7957]

creepy Fact it's said that when the Halo rings activate. You will hear the sound of the rings firing. moments before they actually fire meaning You will Know when you're about to dia. Dark huh?

[@DrWongburger420]

It would be rad if Mendicant ended up being in Halo Infinite, and the Flood returned and he sought to even the score with them by helping humanity defeat them.

[@overtbias9305]

If rings were to overlap firing pulses could people on the opposite ring die from the pulse?

[@eanna3781]

The rings would need to be overlapping their effective radius simply because they need to cover the entire galaxy, however it would be inefficient to have them close enough to be caught in the radius of another.

[@clxwncrxwn]

Also think of all the species they needed to re seed. if there were some thing that could protect the samples from being destroyed it would probably be on the rings.

[@robert1529]

yes everyone on the ring would die, and even if the ring's pulses didn't overlap the pulse would still hit each other and cause a cascading effect increases the range and power of each

[@alexb5766]

@@robert1529 no the rings time lock right before firing thats why there Are 12? graveminds on installation 7 avaliable for use as content in next game

[@schwig44]

just sayin' 7 rings means you don't have any rings directly across the galaxy from each other, but that doesn't really matter anyway since the neoteric array fires omnidirectionally, rather than conically like the senescent, which needed to be "aimed"

[@therecklesswarlock6439]

Mad respect to offensive bias. taking on a fleet 436 times bigger then his. But he did have the advantage of being on the defense.

[@icanhazsausage723]

Absolutely loved this video! More of this please

[@rsoxboy]

Coming back to this video after replaying Infinite. 343 need to tread carefully with the continuity of Offensive Bias' story now. The timeline of events leading up to the Halo array being fired will now need to be carefully considered with the addition of the Endless into the story. Was Offensive Bias deployed to help Despondent Pyre contain the Endless on Zeta Halo before or after the battle with Mendicant? Also for the next game, they need to plan any inclusion and/or reveal of Offensive Bias within the game incredibly delicately. Offensive is an absolutely vital part of the Halo backstory and lore, and people's imaginations have been fascinating over Offensive Bias' role in the story for well over a decade. While the Infinite and legendary ending for Infinite does have many people excited about the possibility of Chief interacting with Offensive Bias in the next game, any mistep with that reveal can quickly end people's fascination with the character. That's always a danger when taking the mystery out of people's imaginations and creating a physically real version of a character that previously only existed in the background. I think the smartest path for 343 to take is to only show Offensive Bias in one cutscene at the most. Not showing him at all is also perfectly acceptable. There's plenty of action that can result from Atriox finding the storage location of the Endless to provide the majority of content needed for the next game, as well as shedding more light onto the backstory of the Endless and how they were betrayed by the Forerunners. The mechanism 343 used in Infinite of traveling through data clusters that replay past events to fill in story gaps can definitely be used again to tell the story of how the Endless ended up in captivity. Then where the present day story moves forward with the conflict between the Banished and rebuilding UNSC, how the Endless emerge and what their motivation will be after tens of thousands of years in confinement, as well as the Halo ring repairing itself and potentially becoming operational will be intriguing.

[@TR-zx1lc]

Interesting they had their own Maginot Line, just as the French did before and at the start of WWII.

[@tylerchristensen1484]

I read on Halopedia that it’s speculated that the orange text from these messages like the Maginot Sphere was human software attempting to translate something from the Forerunner language into something that we would understand.

[@spencerravsten8170]

If it hasn't already been covered, perhaps a video about Offensive Bias?

[@ekhidna4]

The Five biggest badasses in Halo Lore: 5.- Captain Keyes 4.- Noble Six 3.-Sgt. major Johnson 2.- Master Chief and the Arbiter. 1.- Offensive Bias.

[@Derkiboi]

You forgot chips dubbo and yip yap

[@nexxus2853]

You're forgetting Melissa Mckay, and private Jenkins

[@RhodokTribesman]

The members of that drydock that took the plasma for the ships at reach

[@novustalks7525]

Offensive has some insane tactics

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

the writers really be slamming their heads on the numpad when giving the ship count for forerunners

[@Lunar_OG]

I mean, they were a class 4 civilization, spanning across a galaxy. It's not weird to think they'd have that many ships

[@l0rf]

And to me it's slightly odd how light these ships are comparatively. 37.000 tonnes sound incredible for a dreadnought... but WW2 ship Bismarck could disperse up to 53.500 tonnes. So a 250m long battleship from 75 years ago is heavier than interstellar ships from a civilisation that could move around Planets? I get it's not about weight as the only measurement but either the ships were much lighter or much smaller than ww2 tech.

[@Lunar_OG]

l0rf the dreadnoughts weren’t only 37 tons. Those were the leisure and civilian ships. The large military ones were up in the thousands to ten thousand tons

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

@@Lunar_OG shut up and take the joke

[@Lunar_OG]

Eyeball Papercut I was just explaining. Some people aren’t keen on picking up jokes

[@antoine121]

Tbh almost everything In the halo Universe is scary, but fuck a sight of halo ring would have me terrified. Even the room for a control room for a halo is scary because it’s so massive. I just never seen anything so big before lol.

[@6buscuit]

What was the last full song in the vid? Time stamp: 14:55 - 17:36

[@logicplague]

Must have been peaceful afterword.

[@avroarchitect1793]

Not peaceful. Silent. Dead. Empty.

[@cancerousnut7767]

@@avroarchitect1793 So, peaceful?

[@ringojsp.sanchex6953]

Fin , Beautiful i love ur ending

[@johncampanella622]

Imagine being a Offensive Bias, knowing you're the only living thing in the universe besides Mendicant? So much scope,scale and weight. But just you. And him.

[@zachariousoftroy]

This gave me chills

[@h20-addict71]

Halo infinite theory, chief has to go back to reach to get an early model of the Cortana AI in sword base, and she will Fight bad Cortana like mendacant and offensive bias did in the flood war, More of a prediction than theory tbh

[@AceTycho]

Interesting idea!

[@williamalfonso1373]

if the fight mirrors like Mendicant vs Offensive, perhaps the battle of the A.I might be between Cortana vs Roland or maybe BB but I think the latter is not as a main character.

[@joshuasturgill3234]

Good video as always 00

[@nihilityjoey]

Totally agree with rings effects happening at faster than light speeds, the rings are after all built utilising the understanding of neural physics. Where I diverge (I'm only half way through the last of the forerunner saga books) is on the librarian and her chemical break down solution to get rid of the bodies. I would see no reason for the rings to not have a secondary sub light speed or light speed release of radiation that would do that job much more efficiently. So when the rings fired, all sentient life almost instantly died from the neurophysiological effects of the ring, but the back up waves would then destroy or at least sterilise the dead tissue. Like I said I dont know if that actually was the librarians plan from the lore, but I think it would make much more sense for the rings to handle both jobs. And something else I noticed. A forerunner dreadnought weighs only 38,000 tons according to offensives logs, yet the halopedia has it listed at about 10 billion tons??????? I also like the way they give these figures from warfleet. Yet it states "an unclassed variant in the games comes in at 38,000 tons." To make things worse. Fortress class vessels are being described as dreadnought ships, when they are not, they are battle stations. And I'd be willing to bet that these sojourner class dreadnoughts are just imaginings of the dreadnought ships talked about in this log. Because as far as offensive sounds, these ships are big, considering it states that there are war vessels present, and that the dreadnoughts are less, holding more importance than normal warships, and this is at the end of the war. So I want to now how the forerunners went from haveing these top of the line warships present at the end of the war weighing only 37,000 tons, to hiding away 9km long war ships in shield worlds weighing it at 90 million tons????? More halo fan madness at work I think. I know I keep bringing stuff like this up but I feel this is why there are so many holes in halos lore and no one is addressing it. In the books, the didacts ship, the one he and bornsteller were on, is described as being 800m in length, this is an actual stated size. But which ship? Is it the ship we see in halo 4, the mantles approach? Is the mantles approach named and sized in the last of the trilogy books because it isn't in the first two. Because why is neither this 800m long ship never discussed or in size charts? Or the ship that went to path kethona which was also given a length of 2km? Yet ships that are given neither sizes or weights in these charts? Too be fair, I think I'm going to do my own halo videos pointing all of this out because the ONLY place sojourner ships are shown is the halo wars cutscenes, and NO sizes or weights are given. Halos lore has become a stinking pile of halo fandom madness.

[@ronansmith9148]

I want to see more armory videos about halo cursed edition stuff.

[@v8dagreat824]

Do a complete detail on the story of halo

[@stagger225]

Can you help me understand something... In some videos, game terminals and Halo Origins. It appears the firing of the array comes in a wave, at superluminal speed. If it’s a wave, it will take time to sterilise the entire galaxy and decay over a distance. But it ends all life in an instant. How far can the sterilisation effectiveness reach? The Ark is safe, what about the satellite galaxies? Is the firing a wave or something different?

[@bmxdude1337]

Something I’ve always wondered too

[@killerkitten7534]

According to Guilty Spark the rings have an effective range of 25,000 light years. I’m assuming after that it still could be dangerous but that’s the point where it loses its effectiveness. Beyond that point I assume life would still exist, and probably the flood way far off. Of course it would still take a really long time. Even if the “wave” is a massless entity it would still take 25,000 years before it would take care of everything.

[@stagger225]

@@killerkitten7534 superluminal speed is faster than light, it would quickly sterilise the galaxy. How quickly? If it is an instant sterilisation, it wouldn’t be like a wave, something different. An unknown force. If it is a wave, I could imagine the wave travels through slip space while travelling through real space at slip space speeds

[@killerkitten7534]

Graeme Stace unfortunately I’m not sure how fast superluminal speed is, so I’m not sure how long it would take

[@Hades1100]

Damn Precursors and their logic plague

[@logicplague]

hey now, I'm not so bad :P

[@BigDave88888]

I just have one question. What happened to all the ship's left after the war was over?

[@sadiqahmed4143]

The Galaxy is massive the ships are probably just floating around all over the Galaxy some might be crashed

[@ponchoremerize5508]

In my opinion, what needs to happen is the creation of a UNIVERSE-WIDE complex of rings. Tune the Halo's to destroy ALL life not just sentient. And then reseed the universe. That way the flood cannot escape and are completely destroyed.

[@mocman7020]

Well done sir.

[@trevorday7923]

It's pronounced 'MA-jin-oh' - from the name of the Maginot Line, France's 'impregnable' defensive line in 1939 which the Germans just went around instead

[@sadiqahmed4143]

In simple terms that was it's purpose to Trap the Germans between a Impregnable Barrier and Armies

[@kananisha]

Excellent job 👏