The mystery of the Flood outbreak on Delta Halo

[@Jedi_Spartan]

Simple, 2401 Penitent Tangent was the monitor of shittyness seeing as he allowed the flood to break out after only 218 years

[@HiddenXperia]

Still wanna know how exactly, it's not like the Forerunners would've been careless in picking the right monitor for such an important job lol

[@Jedi_Spartan]

@@HiddenXperia yeah, also are all monitors created from composed beings or is it just Chakas to Guilty Spark and that Forerunner who became 000 Tragic Solitude? If all of them are then the Forerunner who became Tangent could have been one of those who was mentioned by the Librarian in Halo 4 (how they tried to use composers to prevent flood infection but the results were abominations) and could have had his infection go from physical to logic plague

[@spartangoku7610]

000 Tragic Solitude was from a composed Forerunner.

[@Jedi_Spartan]

@@spartangoku7610 that's what I said

[@spartangoku7610]

Jedi Spartan oh right, I didn’t read that reply. Oops.

[@BlackGryph0n]

If cold storage was hosting a gravemind or even a proto-gravemind, isn't it possible that the FLOOD hacked the teleportation grid? We see the gravemind use it in Halo 2, so we know it's possible.

[@pyrovonfire7966]

This comment is far more recent than I expected

[@BlackGryph0n]

@@pyrovonfire7966 Lol! Yep, Just posted it. I’ve been renewing my love for halo in preparation for Infinite!

[@fed927]

I read the comment, liked it, saw who posted it, then had a brainfart. Saw you at a certain concert in 2019 lol

[@dumbstertv2993]

@@pyrovonfire7966 lloo

[@kyleb1958]

Possible spoilers? I think given recent developments in infinite it may be the endless

[@JustinY.]

"Oh look a weird alien looking thing! Let's mess around with it!"

[@juzeku]

Justin Y. oh look ! Justin Y is following me again !

[@rulingmoss5599]

Let's open the locked doors keeping it sealed away!

[@masterchief2338]

I am early to a Justin Y comment!!! That’s a first

[@frvqtal4879]

Oh its You

[@HiddenXperia]

What could go wrong eh?

[@MikeStantonOfficial]

Didn’t Guilty Spark also run into a possible advance life form thousands of years before combat evolved? I remember something about a ship crashing into Alpha Halo and Guilty Spark hailing the ship to see if anyone would respond. It was in those Guilty Spark stories from either the Combat Evolve or Halo 2 remaster. Could they be related to these Meddlers?

[@martinnavarrete5279]

Yeah but Guilty Spark mention there no signal of live but a help beacon that eventually disappear

[@Doralga]

Yeah the one and the same in CE Guilty spark mentioned it was too early for any galactic lifeform to gain spacefaring tech

[@martinnavarrete5279]

@@rogierb5945 yes but the beacon stop the transmition after a couple weeks

[@Anudorini-Talah]

My theory is that on the rings itself, there are those few amounts of flood locked inside those research facilities. Maybe not on all Halo rings, but on these ones particular for now. When the locked flood on Halo 04 at the beginning of Combat Evolved was released and assimilated some humans, it learned how to use weapons, spaceships and how to speak, basically everything that a human knows. Having not enough biomass to control a spaceship, the flood part locked on Delta Halo wasn't able to escape by a portal and could physically not escape because of the tons amount of water that got put artificially above it. When the covenant tried to kill Chief on Delta Halo after he killed one Prophet, they opened the way for the gravemind to be free and spread across the whole Delta ring. Assimilating more and more biomass, then even infected that UNSC frigate above the library, giving it the ability to teleport chief + the frigate itself inside high charity. The flood assimilated the biomass to whenever any flood is contained, it goes fury and assimilated that biomass. So if that form of a gravemind, that is able to know everything the past graveminds know, shares its knowledge with another gravemind (example the one on Delta Halo), then this gravemind works as a connector or transmitter of knowledge so the assimilated biomass and its knowledge can be passed no matter how large the distance. Time doesn't matter, its basically a click effect and a chain reaction. Well, the flood is really dangerous xD

[@OneTapKap]

meddlers = endless they would be the ones who are un affected by the flood and would like to take over the world. may have released it to try and make it uninhabitable or dangerous for non endless species, just a thought

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

Penitent tangent is that coworker at work that doesn't realize the back storage room is on fire and is the first one out of the establishment without telling anyone anything

[@JOSEJOSESITO]

Who would win Forerunners Or Some weird popcorn

[@windexbottle2168]

A big circle

[@FUBBA]

I always thought flood carriers looked like fancy burritos with tentacles 🌯

[@AfterAllWeAreHuman]

Popcorn boi

[@-FreeMiner-]

@@windexbottle2168 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nobleregret5314]

Huh hmmmmmmmmmmmmm POPCORN

[@RottenCabbage]

Watching this back after infinite, it would seem that "The Meddlers" is The Endless.

[@usablebowl4057]

0:03 that's a beautiful elite, he needs to stop killing himself.

[@thearbiter3351]

So interesting man!! Keep up the great work!!

[@thexyayxmaker]

The meddlers, the precursors etc. I love how halo still have some mistery to it since halo 4 made the forerunners more grounded.

[@maxdagesse127]

Coming back to this video post-release of Infinite, one wonders if the Endless were behind that hack of the teleporters on Delta Site.

[@BigJazzHands]

The Meddlers aged well now that we know about the Endless

[@Baptisteog18]

Do not forget on Abject Testament’s ring it was said that things were pretty bad there and that the monitor was no where to be found so penitent tangent is the only monitor that screwed up.

[@ganonslayer10]

You said Halo CE was the first time that Covenant (physically) found a Halo. In "The Fall of Reach" Cortana acquired the coordinates for Installation 04 from the Covenant, which would suggest that they had been to it before. Also I through there was a piece of Halo lore that mentioned one of the Covenant races having a Halo stationed above their home world. I was under the impression that I might have been the Prophets or the Grunts.

[@juzeku]

The lore master is back 🔥 Edit : also here before Justin Y

[@harambememorialpage]

5:36 Those Dam Endless!

[@deathsduplicate748]

Hey, @HiddenXperia (TLDR at the bottom), I must have misunderstood what I was reading, but I remember researching this topic years and years ago accidentally due to prowling through the halo wiki for a couple of hours, and after reading and re-reading everything to try and piece everything together to make sure I had the sequence of events down. What I remember from that time (and again I am probably wrong, which is irritating since I've retained this [possibly incorrect and useless] knowledge vividly for many years now) was that the forerunners had kept flood experiments in a few different places to continue study (which is really stupid considering just how many different areas contained flood that had otherwise been eradicated from the galaxy. I mean these flood that the forerunners protected and kept alive are responsible for every single flood outbreak to occur since the firing of the halo rings. Seriously, I mean if you were gonna fire the halo rings, why not purge your research facilities first? "Oh, let's keep some flood around just in case any of the new species that rise up in a few hundred thousand millennia feel like studying the one thing that could destroy their entire civilization like it did ours." "Don't you think we should just cause them to go extinct while we can since we're all going to die anyway?" "No, that's dumb. Just leave the flood and let's go. OH! And don't put any warnings or explanations of any sort. Don't want to insult their intelligence, I'm sure they can figure it out, what could go wrong?"). Anyway, one of those research stations was the gas mining facility we get to visit in Halo 2 the first time we play the Arbiter. I remember reading that the outbreak began once the elites had released the test subjects, and after the infection spread through the station, it was able to make its way to installation 05. With that in mind, can you or anyone correct me where I'm wrong? I'd love to learn where I had erred all those years ago lol. Thanks TLDR: Hey, @HiddenXperia, I thought the outbreak originated from the gas mining facility where the Rebel leader and Arbiter fought (Mission 4 & 5) after they released the flood that were there for experiments. Could you or someone correct me and/or help me find where I went wrong? Thanks, love the vids, keep it up!

[@nithrongaming5943]

Back to your city about the continent being glassed) Short game idea: The Rampage of Voy (or Roy i couldnt hear): the idea is you play as rookie (just to bring him/her back) and your with buck going through the city making sure its flood free but of course its not than muitiple missions about having to eradicate the grave mind than buck lies and tells oni there was no flood you get mad and continue to try to tell him to tell the truth but before you know your on another mission the death of rookie (no spoilers but it plays out as the book does) you play as rookie for first part and buck for the rest

[@VeritasVortex]

In the video he says there was a flood outbreak and then the teleporters were put into recursive mode to prevent any further flood escaping. Then later the teleporters were hacked into. It could've been from that outbreak rather than outside meddlers

[@Symbob]

Could this have been that new enemy at the end of halo infinite as apparently their worse than the flood? Maybe they wanted this all to happen.

[@Entropy825]

I love the way you spice up your content by randomly inserting "hell" and "shit" and "fuck". It really makes your fucking content a hell of a lot more interesting and shit.

[@djsharky3822]

I was under the impression that Pennant Tangent was supposed to be studying the flood and it's life cycle, making what it was doing within it's mission perramiters,

[@angryyellowduck799]

The meddlers are ancient humanity that's not devolved after the human - foterunner war. They'll now team up with mendicant and chief to fight cortana and the flood in infinite. I swear if this is the plot that 343 goes by this will be one of the best stories ever told in the history of stories.

[@aceofcheems7685]

I believe the rampancy/ crippling loneliness theory since guilty spark kept humming and talking to himself through the library in CE

[@michaelguernsey1206]

I have a theory on this whole thing, I believe that tangent went rampant from loneliness, and then got the mind plague, (maybe on it the other), and HE LET THE FLOOD OUT, disguising himself as an alien entity, but he opened the portals, he caused the breach, and he refused to send aid to allow it to spread

[@ronansmith9148]

I actually heard a theory that the outbreak was more recent, based off the report stating how long since it had been accessed, stating that the outbreak would have occurred in 2048. 28 years after earth encounters covid-19.

[@brookswilson8493]

@5:36 I wonder if its the same species that crashed on halo the 343 guilty spark was talking about. The one where guilty spark on installation 04 crashed and was sending stress calls and no one showed and nothing came out of the ship.

[@ferriusnillan5323]

I don't think that Tangent got red pilled, since he still spouted about containment protocol. I think that the reason for him going awol it because he took himself and the security drones to a nearby place that must have another flood containment breach, one he predicted that will free the spores from the Installation 05 and consolidate into single gravemind. As the result, few forms managed to get into the ring as Tangent began loosing the battle and find a way to break into teleportation system, likely under orders of proto-gravemind or another full fleged gravemind. And considering that Monitors are not strangers to the crippling symptoms of rampancy, that might also contributed to the creationg of Ring's Gravemind in the form of lack of enthusiasm in keep doing he's job.

[@AlexMcMund]

I can't imagine the outbreak on Delta was completely killed off with just glassing. The outbreak was over a massive area (presumably much larger then the outbreak on Earth) & a good chunk of it was hidden underground and in forerunner structures which would probably provide protection

[@Lord-Phantom]

You forgot to mention how the grave mind flew the Dawn into high charity and seized control as seen in halo 3

[@juanmar7in3z40]

"by process of elimination, it has to be some extragalactic species that have yet to be identified." - HiddenExperia, 3 years before release of Halo Infinite Endless goes brrr

[@vincentbedard4267]

Day 343: Today, it's been over a year since the great Halo drought began. A few months ago, moral went up when the Halo Infinite teaser was shown, but this was short lived. We have heard very little news since then, and have been forced to revisit old lore and play the recently re-updated Master Chief collection for survival.

[@jonathanpowell613]

WTF, 2401 Penitent Tangent?! Talk about incompetent; you had one job, dude!

[@llDarkWingll]

So have said what we get for completing the Flooded playlist as part of the containment procedure in the MCC yet?

[@wayfarerzen3393]

The precursors are multigalactic. What if the meddlers are precursors returning to the milky way to quietly guide along their revenge, in the guise of the Flood.

[@acciobeer]

The Meddlers were the Xalanyn. They're Precursors, and they assisted the Flood.

[@chickensquad1865]

Very interesting, I'm a huge halo geek, thank u!

[@damianelswick8828]

X, what do you think about the Endless being the Meddlers?

[@coops3600]

I would have thought the one who hacked the teleporters would have been the gravemind? Wouldn’t that make more sense than some extragalactic species? He does have control of the teleporters in halo 2.

[@johnaiwone6012]

Is there any video on this channel that's not about the Flood nowadays? There's more to Halo lore than the Flood

[@GothicAngeles]

You know after playing Halo Infinite, I'm starting to think there was a certain species that I will not name that could be considered the meddlers.

[@JHarris]

Loved it. Make more like it. Especially without the bad language some of your vids have.

[@PytonPagom]

I would question the glassing of the Halo ring. Or rather, that it alone was enough to clear the infection. Halos were literally space-ships full of floors and machinery. Glassing it would thus only affect the surface of the halo. There must have been some extensive clearing op for the rest that survived. Could they have "help" from the halo´s guard-bots, that were fighting the flood on Installation 04 and the main installation ? Cause, letting organics to attempt it by foot would only result in the contrary. And on a Halo, they had a lot of its inner spaces to cower.

[@denisrama3549]

What if the Endless in halo infinite are the meddlers? I mean the Endless hate the forerunners maybe they wanted to go to Requiem and kill the Didactic and they needed a Halo to kill him and destroy Requiem.

[@molten3450]

Could the portals have been activated by the Endless?

[@Spritzkrieg]

I'd love to hear more about these "meddlers". Are they responsible for that mysterious ship that crashed on Alpha Halo, from the CEA terminals? I guess we wouldn't have any way of knowing, now that I think about it, but could there be any connections to what we do know about the meddlers?

[@HiddenXperia]

Might wanna check back on the channel later today...

[@Spritzkrieg]

@@HiddenXperia I am biG okaY with that

[@mauricebeltcher8764]

You have earned a new subscriber

[@ghett0_tech228]

*When you use a moniter made from china*

[@PledgedRendezvous]

Great work. I loved this video

[@Ghostly-00]

8:14 what if the logic plague from Halo and the logic virus from Nier and the red eyes disease from Drakengard are the same thing? lol I know the logic virus and the red eyes disease are already related but the idea of throwing Halo in there too is funny to me.

[@AlphaNightmareX]

after playing halo infinite this sounds like it could be one of the Endless

[@frenchie1497]

Is it not possible that the mysterious species is just the flood that escaped facility initially - consumed the wildlife on the ring and then formed the gravemind - which as proved by halo 2 was able to access and use the rings teleportation grid (I may have misunderstood the initial reports but I’m pretty sure that’s possible)

[@TheTexasBigIron]

Im here after Halo Infinite. Looks like we have The Endless to blame

[@celsetialarchives5909]

*the endless have entered the chat*

[@hopelessedgelord]

9:04 Doubtful. Its possible a newly restored species accidentally activated a forerunner ship and it was recalled to delta and this went arrie from there and as for the moniter it is possible that it was captured early on by the flood as he doesn't seem rampent or flood positive when he meets the chief

[@joelcotten1065]

Perhaps not all precursors came to the Milky Way and another form of precursor from another galaxy stoped by to cause a containment breach seeing the flood as a form of precursor

[@pepinoawesome7775]

What if in infinite you have to fight against the meddlers or an extra galactic species because the flood has already get there and at the same time you have to get cortana back to the good cortana

[@oversizehitbox9936]

I don't get where the initial time frame for these transmissions is derived. The only timestamps of value I see are hours from containment failure to security failure [286 years] the response to the query of other installations status [99779 years] and the error margin [7 years].

[@Pilot914.]

4:14 anyone else realise these are the names of of the A.I.s in rvb (red vs blue)

[@Malachai99Channel]

It's because they're using the phonetic alphabet.

[@hdslay133]

The monitor just had crippling depression.

[@wudderwater467]

your intro is so good

[@OmniNoobs]

THE ENDLESS

[@spartanajax1831]

What if I were to tell you, an ancient species of San Shyuum survived the activation of Halo?

[@Xxxchris117xxX]

Thanks for this ! Team

[@xCherryChuckerx]

I like these, very enjoying

[@CragynosII]

What are those live action scenes around 10:49 from? Hunt The Truth?

[@dSWISHm]

“Well that’s what the FEW who came back” WTF HAPPENED TO THE OTHERS THAT DIDNT COME BACK

[@Poison_Jam]

Must be connected to Mona Lisa

[@gordonhodgson8403]

Now I finally realize where the rvb AI got their names!!

[@Malachai99Channel]

It's actually just the phonetic alphabet.

[@Baskeva]

Wait, so how did the grave mind survive the first firing of the halo array?

[@pissedoffturtle7333]

Forerunners: A species of such incredible intelligence that even five hundred years of technological advancement weren't enough for humans to close the gap in technology past the point of their most advanced guns being wooden spears by comparison to a Forerunner child's toy gun. And able to cross the galaxy in a fraction of the time it takes a human ship to cross a solar system. Also Forerunners: *BuIlDs FlOoD pRiSoN tO hAvE lIfE wHiCh CaN aCt As HoStS*

[@cronmanstogee8584]

fuckin love your videos brother they get me through the day

[@alexr.2010]

I say we glass the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

[@Sal-Goliath]

Could of been the endless.

[@zenrider_9622]

What if the "meddlers" are actually the endless?

[@goreytij]

343 refers to the covenant as "the meddlers" in H3

[@thesexysanghieli7818]

I doubt it was the logic plague, since PT was very excited to enact containment protocols

[@Penitent_Tangerine]

Sorry boys. This one's on me.

[@bluemcdaniel99]

Penitent Tangerine Lol.

[@llluminatixx7]

Based

[@Nephalem2002]

What the heck did they infect to form a Gravemind?

[@TheAttacker732]

@@Nephalem2002 It isn't a single host, Graveminds are amalgamations of biomass, usually combat forms too damaged to keep fighting, or bodies too mangled to infect.

[@Spartan_Xeno]

You had one job man. One. Job.

[@starsilverinfinity]

It’s all fun and games until an infection form is giving your spine a hug

[@lillyalightbornexo1036]

Or a face hug, or a neck hug or a... you know what never mind

[@purpleemerald5299]

StarSilverInfinity First your spine, then your entire body. *The best kind of hug!*

[@thomasnolastname8734]

The Flood aren't evil They just want to hug your spine until it breaks

[@ainskaaska6057]

Hahaha this comment still makes me laugh

[@tonythegreat4275]

Hey don't be mean to my friend

[@GunStreets-ct1kj]

This is crazy. Just yesterday i was watching a bunch of halo lore videos. At some point i typed in the search ''how did the delta halo outbreak happenen'', and there was NO video on it anywhere on youtube. And boom, here it is, today on your channel, just uploaded. Amazing. Thanks

[@HiddenXperia]

It was fate :P

[@CrabLadd]

Lol

[@Jedisage909]

You had one job 2401 penitent tangent...ONE JOB!!!!!!!

[@crustypaladin]

And yet you failed. Worthless piece of metal shit.

[@plantedcorgo]

Tan(

[@TheCrackedFirebird]

343 wasn't that much better...

[@nobleregret5314]

When will he learn

[@nobleregret5314]

@@TheCrackedFirebird hey a least he tried but then the 4335334355 random space aliens attacked

[@lewatoaofair2522]

"...Glassed into submission, effectively containing the entire outbreak." *sees In Amber Clad crashing into High Charity with flood infection forms* "Contained."

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

And then The Banished enter the wreckage of High Charity on The Ark close to a decade later, leading to another outbreak.

[@W0ngnim]

This line also bothered me. What about halo's honey comb system of underground networks? The only way of containing the flood once it got out is to essentially destroy the ring all the way down to space. And even then, it would've spread throughout the entire ring through these networks making it quite impossible to contain without simply destroying the whole ring. The only way this glassing would've worked is if the flood did not go underground as there isn't food there but rather it stayed on the surface to secure ways out. This doesn't seem like a smart move to do for the gravemind to not have backup plans.

[@UNSCPILOT]

I'm reminded of "He's only *mostly* dead!" Except in this case "they were *mostly* contained...."

[@TomGibson.]

@@W0ngnim I’m assuming, since they glassed it, it would have sealed the entrances to the infected tunnels. The flood isn’t dead, it just couldn’t get out due to a thick wall of melted and solidified matter

[@fishyfow3767]

How did In Amber Clad get into High Charity? I played halo 2 multiple times and still don’t get how or when In Amber Clad got in there, and what Miranda Keyes was doing that whole time

[@Azrael_Equinox]

Delta halo's monitor wasn't paid enough for his job...

[@Sorain1]

Wait, some of them got PAID!? Sorry, couldn't resist.

[@nobleregret5314]

Or he knew that the forunners were fucked and he had no purpose

[@pearslair4035]

Wait you guys are getting paid

[@sharonpower1538]

I want to get paid for sitting around or... I guess floating around all day

[@ItsButterBean1020]

Man went on Strike and look what happened

[@YOLO-tq3el]

Next video topic. The Meddlers.

[@seanderoo37]

Yes, Please

[@jonashemmingsson7301]

Yes!

[@michaelmerritt7406]

I thought Meddlers was just a blanket term for any non-human race that disrupts normal operations?

[@Catman2123]

My theory is that they could be a surviving population of ancient humans who who fled to a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way after the war watching and waiting until the storm had passed. This is the only possible way that I could see an entirely different civilization access a Halo (or any forerunner tech for that matter) so easily and so soon after the firing of the array. I’d bet on the Small Magellanic Cloud being the origin as the Large Magellanic Cloud (also known as Path Kethona in universe) was cleansed after the firing of Omega Halo at the Battle of the Greater Ark.

[@alphacraig2001]

Yeah definitely

[@Xamsims]

"Even the babies are one of the most dangerous animals in the world, so I build this cage to keep him secure so there's no possible... Oh my god..." - Penitent Tangent probably.

[@debbied0wn3r]

Lmao probably

[@Shad0wFL4ME]

My theory is that the other two Monitors had quirks/hobbies, Guilty Spark went to nearby planets, and Exuberant Witness made herself a zoo of species and things, my theory is that Pagent Tangent purposly did an outbreak to try and contain it but got out of hand. Though that doesnt really connect with the Meddlers theory or why Cold Storage wasent aware of the monitors presence there when initiating the outbreak

[@daniellejarvis9131]

Don't forget that spark ejected random stuff into space occasionally

[@Deadput]

@i hate anime Doesn't matter you don't own the franchise nor do you determine what canon is.

[@tausiftaha12]

@@Deadput at the end of the day, the way you put it, is what really matters, it's fiction and entertainment, if you have a head canon, as long as it's just yours, it should be fine. Who cares about what the company says, what you experience matters more.

[@Deadput]

​@@tausiftaha12 Late reply to a comment of mine that probably replied to something that was deleted it seems. I mean good for anybody for a head canon I have those too but that doesn't mean that it tops what the official word is if they say otherwise but again I don't remember the context of something I said 2 years ago.

[@SpartanS3M]

Everybody gangsta until an outbreak happens

[@jw6043]

Yooo Haha!!!

[@thedevil1262]

Spartan S24 𓈝 everyone gangsta til the rectangle nigga start walkin 𓈝

[@Jose_Doe]

@@thedevil1262 rectangle nigga?? Who might that be?

[@StormtrooperTk--mc9yx]

Hi I’m S055

[@TheCrackedFirebird]

See how gangsta you are when a three foot tall bag of gas and death jams itself into your chest.

[@ryaquaza3offical]

*insert obligatory bring flood back in infinite comment here*

[@jacobweatherford4696]

Oh we're probably gonna see them they just won't be a major threat.

[@theirishweasel]

@@jacobweatherford4696 they are always a major threat, their the flood

[@jacobweatherford4696]

@@theirishweasel what I'm saying it most likely what they will do is either have a situation where we got to go into a flood containment facility to get something or that they will treat the flood like they did in halo 1 a big threat but because they are lacking their hive mind they can be dealt with by a containment team later.

[@theirishweasel]

@@jacobweatherford4696 ah, probably. Won't be as dangerous as it was in 2 and 2

[@Shinobi_Fox]

#MakeFloodGreatAgain

[@SchneeflockeMonsoon]

You need to change your opening to a flood infected elite during a special event.

[@slavthesage5661]

He just needs a flood elite PERIOD. He talks about the flood so much, with such enthusiasm, that it's basically his SCHTICK!

[@The_Ragequit_Cannon]

The theory of crippling loneliness causing rampancy does actually have precedence. If you read Hunters of the Dark, a joint Human/Sangheili team return to the Ark to investigate and stop a mysterious countdown that would've reactivated all remaining Halos. During the course of their mission, they encounter a monitor that had hitherto remained unknown, likely due to what happened on the Halos in 1 and 2. It had gone so rampant, it changed its own name and sent miner sentinels and other attack units to Earth via the portal that links the Lesser Ark to the Greater Ark. Its intent was to mine the Sol system for metals required to repair the Greater Ark after it was severely damaged when Chief fired the incomplete Halo. So while I'm not saying that this is definitive proof for the rampancy caused by loneliness theory, it does certainly lend credence to it.

[@wilburforce8046]

Forrunrers: “yo u got this tangent?” Penitent Tangent be like “I HAVE, CRIPPLING DEPRESSION.

[@BigboiiTone]

Forerunners: ok glad to hear it see ya

[@HUMADUCK]

Forerunners: understandable have a nice day

[@BigboiiTone]

Yes and it was a lag induced glitch. Nothing sinister

[@DeadStawker]

To be honest it seems like a fucking stupid decision to only have one monitor per installation

[@johnflanco7464]

*Clears throat Flo- Hiddenxperia: I C O N I C

[@thehalfdutchman-dutch1211]

Blast it! I would like this but you are at 117 likes so I can't ruin that.

[@timmytimtimm9089]

@@thehalfdutchman-dutch1211 159 now you can like it now.

[@thehalfdutchman-dutch1211]

@@timmytimtimm9089 Thanks mate!

[@timmytimtimm9089]

@@thehalfdutchman-dutch1211 your welcome my good man.

[@calebwolf6626]

I wonder if the "meddlers" could be the "endless" shown to us in Halo Infinite, since they supposedly aren't able to be destroyed by the halos.

[@RicardoHernandez-sz2yp]

that is what i think

[@extra4594]

I think so. I mean it's the most logical isn't it.

[@Tylanloves420]

I thought this maybe,but I think the gravemind is the one that infiltrated the cold storage and took penitent tangent hostage

[@zhbvenkhoReload]

The endless were created just for Halo Infinite, they weren't lore at all before that.

[@Tylanloves420]

@@zhbvenkhoReload the name “the endless” was created for halo infinite but they didn’t just throw a whole new thing in the halo verse, so what we’re all wondering is what else do the endless go by? Pre cursors?, Meddlers? Or just the endless

[@EmergencyL0tion]

Me: casually playing halo while listening to this Haloxperia: “but what caused the outbreak Random ad: joe Biden says trump is responsible for COVID-19 outbreak Me: WAIT WHAT 😳

[@colinater237]

New halo lore: trump is a gravemind

[@TheUltraDinoboy]

@@colinater237 this wall is a monument to all of your sins

[@shiny-piplup]

Like water I bend and flow (trump after running for president 2024)

[@yapyap5325]

Here's my theory. 2401 Penitant Tangent developed rampancy soon after the firing of the halo array. This was probably a result from him losing all of his creators in the blink of an eye. At first the symptoms weren't bad but they started to get worse. Eventually he noticed. However. As a result from it he started to neglect his primary duties and focus on curing himself. He let the out break go unchecked for quite sometime until it started to win against his sentinels. When this happened he finally realised his mistake and tried to correct it in a crazy method. He went into battle with his sentinels. However after a while he was damaged by the flood and his beam malfunctioned and he was captured by the gravemind.

[@hydradominatus3661]

What I would give to see a monitor charge into battle with a bunch of sentinels

[@Tonatsi]

@@hydradominatus3661 *_yeet_*

[@gabe3292]

Yeahhh this is my headcanon now

[@REIVAXMEELAS]

@@gabe3292 mine too

[@NotARobot-sc3it]

Forerunner AI do not go rampant as they where much more advanced than UNSC AI such as Cortana. We know this because of the fact that other monitors such as Guilty Spark or Exuberant Witness where absolutely fine after existing for billions of years without the forerunners. On top of this, Cortana uses forerunner technology to cure her rampancy in halo 5. It is much more likely that Penitent Tangent simply ignored the outbreak until it had escaped delta site, then built a flood wall to contain the outbreak and got captured in the process.

[@JoshuaBenitezNewOrleans]

Hey my dude, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the work you and your team do. I’ve been playing Halo since I was a young teen (getting old. Whoops) and while I don’t really have time to play video games as much, your story telling has rekindled the part of me which truly loved the series. I appreciate the enthusiasm you put into the narration a whole lot as well as the content, and you’ve answered a lot of daydreaming curiosities I had when I first played Halo Combat Evolved! And, like any good story teller, you’ve only lead me to wonder more about the rich Halo universe. I was the kind of kid who would reread the players Manuel’s just to get more info about the universe because the lore just didn’t really exist yet! That version of me is thoroughly impressed, and enthusiastic with your teams fantastic work! Thanks very much!! P.s. If you ever need/want theme music I’m a professional musician/studio artist/ composer - Wort wort wort

[@HiddenXperia]

Ayyy thanks man, that comment means a lot, I’m glad I could help expand your love of the franchise! Funnily enough it’s just me haha, I do the research, writing, recording, editing and everything aside from the thumbnail, sometimes 😉 More to come very soon! :D

[@JoshuaBenitezNewOrleans]

HiddenXperia all the cooler! I suppose in my mind, when you give your thanks to people in your videos I think of them as your team. Actually, it’s similar with my band. I book the shows, write the songs, pay for recording ect. but my mates support me and that’s what gives me the Umph to keep on going! Seriously, your work is fantastic in all regards. From pacing to cinematography. I consume a lot of media, and there’s a reason I look forward to all of your content releases. Also, thanks for taking the time to respond to me. I understand what it’s like to get a lot of feedback and dialogue surrounding work. It takes a truly dedicated person to stay active and involved in those dialogues. There’s a reason you’re killing it, and Im happy to communicate my respect, and appreciation for you I look forward to chatting with you in the future! Until next time, cheers

[@TheChadPad]

Hey, cool Flying V! Good to see another V player around ;) Rock on brother \m/

[@JoshuaBenitezNewOrleans]

The Chad Pad I learned From Albert King and Hendrix!!!

[@TheChadPad]

Badass man

[@HiddenXperia]

Are there any Halo mysteries you'd like me to do a video about? LET ME HEAR IT FELLAS! Hope y'all enjoy, don't forget to peep the merch for Christmas! 😊

[@Caboose_1337]

The lore of how HiddenXperia became a Primordial

[@thearbiter3351]

Everything is fine man, all videos from you are interesting.

[@scottb6225]

Speaking of primordial. It would be pretty cool (I may not have seen it yet on your channel if you have it) if you would do a video on just the lore surrounding the primordial.

[@oranneeson2577]

HiddenXperia probably dumb question seeing as how in halo 2 the arbiter can use human weapons in the campaign, similar to humans training with covenant weapons would the covenant train with human weapons just in case

[@SameBasicRiff]

I know videos have been done on this, and we might never hear anything, but that one random crashed ship on 04 you find in a terminal. what the heck? such a mystery.

[@SgtAmerica1775]

Here 3 years later and it’s sounding like that unauthorized access was The Endless. What happened to them, their ship or what their goal was since Zeta Halo is where they were contained remains a mystery. Love your videos dude, when it comes to Halo, you’re my go to for information I can’t find answers to! Keep it up!

[@oliverkleinschmidt688]

Dude I thought the exact same thing

[@Higher-Ground]

I can disprove this not trying to be mean though. The banished had released the Endless Via the weird thing containing the Harbinger and they were imprisoned on Zeta Halo years before the suicide of the forerunners and they were imprisoned there by the forerunners themselves so yeah they did not intend to release the flood at all, in fact, they are worse than the flood quoting this line from Cortana “you and I know there are thing worse than the Flood on this ring!”

[@SgtAmerica1775]

@@Higher-Ground actually, the Legendary ending audio shows that The Endless showed up out of nowhere years after the Forerunners fired the rings

[@Higher-Ground]

@@SgtAmerica1775 oh ok well uhm I have been disproved

[@rubicontugboat5415]

I was thinking the same lol

[@nightshade2000x]

So the meddlers have been retroactively added as The Endless in Infinite maybe?

[@Ash-sc8bl]

The savior continues to feed us during the drought.

[@laserdragonflying966]

Let his name be praised in all eternety and feared by the flood, feed us saviour...m hungry

[@lsadxmthcdphdayum2452]

Negan?

[@SirMaliceCallus]

To me, I had always thought that the events prior to Halo 2 was that 2401 Penitent Tangent was fully caught up in the beginning stages of a Flood outbreak. Since most Forerunner Installations had contained the Flood for research purposes, it seems likely that an mechanical failure would eventually happen, somewhere down the line. And the Flood had spread at an alarming rate due to this accident; but was successfully contained to a Quarantine Zone, to prevent any further contamination of the Installation. Although by this point, the Flood had already gathered enough organic material to form a Gravemind. Which stopped the Monitor from doing any of its routines and keeping it prisoner, until a breach was made in quarantine. Keep in mind that for this outbreak, with no matter how bad it may look, it was still kept pretty well until the events of Halo 2. So I like to think the Monitor wasn't lazy just naive about protocol procedures (maybe due to some form of rampancy?), which in turn almost resulted in a full-scale outbreak. Delta Halo did the best it could, until Human and Covenant forces broke into the Quarantine Zone, and I say that right there is pretty darn good containment! Also it kinda adds up to 2401 Penitent Tangent dialogue too; when the Master Chief is being held by the Gravemind. TL;DR Remember people 2401 Penitent Tangent may have dropped the ball, but at least he ain't no 343 Guilty Spark.

[@kabob0077]

SirMaliceCallus Keep in mind, Tangent didn't have to deal with highly religious idiots opening EVERY single fucking door they come across on his Installation. Tangent meanwhile had a containment breach on his hands since about 200 years after firing the rings, seemingly ignored MULTIPLE requests for maintenance and security responses to said breach, and only had to deal with Covenant forces after several Millennia.