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Some quotes from the Halo Legends developer commentary, specifically in reference to Origins Pt. 1 and Pt. 2:
Now, within that context, may I humbly quote a previous lore rant from a handful of pages ago:
Maybe, just maybe, my bourbon-fueled musings are somewhat near the correct path. Maybe this scene, where Chief is given Cortana's chip by a new Gravemind, is something that has yet to occur after all. And maybe, just maybe, this is part of what puts Chief in the crosshairs.
We didnt just want this to be a recap, we wanted to take the opportunity to really push the story forward than just recall events that had happened, and so theres little bits of that in here. And we want this to be something that people think about and interpret."
"We want people to think, what does this mean for future games? What does this mean for future fiction?"
"Some of it is a lot more than what it appears to be right now.
The story which Cortana is telling, which is humanitys continual need for conflict and war."
"The Flood is sort of the heart of the Halo story and things always tend to come around to that.
Were just making sure that we have it planned out. This doesnt mean that the next Halo games are going to feature any of the things that were hinting at here, definitely these are things that we want to cover in the fiction, and obviously Greg Bear is going to cover some of this in the Forerunner trilogy of novels, but we want to make sure that we understand what the future of the universe is so that we can better understand the past and the present. So, timescale aside, we just want to make sure that everything makes sense in our heads and that weve committed it to a plan so that were not making things up as we go along and I think thats a trap that a lot of franchises can fall into.
"We want people to think, what does this mean for future games? What does this mean for future fiction?"
"Some of it is a lot more than what it appears to be right now.
The story which Cortana is telling, which is humanitys continual need for conflict and war."
"The Flood is sort of the heart of the Halo story and things always tend to come around to that.
Were just making sure that we have it planned out. This doesnt mean that the next Halo games are going to feature any of the things that were hinting at here, definitely these are things that we want to cover in the fiction, and obviously Greg Bear is going to cover some of this in the Forerunner trilogy of novels, but we want to make sure that we understand what the future of the universe is so that we can better understand the past and the present. So, timescale aside, we just want to make sure that everything makes sense in our heads and that weve committed it to a plan so that were not making things up as we go along and I think thats a trap that a lot of franchises can fall into.
Now, within that context, may I humbly quote a previous lore rant from a handful of pages ago:
[All Hail the Conquering Stream]: Shadows and Foreshadows
In the Origins videos, we are given a scene in which Master Chief stands before the Gravemind. This is somewhat similar to the scene we know from Halo 2, but... at the same time... it's entirely different.
He's not ensnared in this scene. He's standing, and free, as if he were conversing on his own volition, and not as a captured audience.
And then...
...Gravemind gives Chief Cortana's chip. This is an entirely new piece of information that certainly was not in Halo 2, nor is it in any other piece of Halo literature to date. Is this Cortana's estimation of how Chief rescued her? Is this just simply a matter of creative license? Or is this a foreshadowing of something that hasn't happened yet?
Chief still holds her chip, as of the current. But...how did he come to have it? The last we see of her chip, it was digitized in the console that Chief had inserted it into. He never had time to remove it, and thus it was presumed to be lost (or am I am misremembering this scene?).
EDIT: Screen grabs:
Here is Chief inserting Cortan's chip into the final console. There is no visible animation of him removing the chip at this point:
And here is Chief about to remove Cortana's chip, but the console is digitized before he can grab it:
So where did this new chip come from? Is it possible that Chief will have a rendezvous with a new Gravemind at some point in Halo 5? Could his quest to resurrect Cortana lead him to align with The Flood to suit his own means? Could this possibly be a piece of what drives a rift between Chief and ONI? Perhaps he goes AWOL because they find out The Flood is back, and that a new Gravemind has appearaed.
During Cortana's time with Gravemind, it is very likely that pieces of her, or a copy of her, was assimilated in The Flood's collective conciousness.Could this be a piece of what Halo 5 will be about?
What I took from both of the new trailers is that Chief does something that will be both good and bad, depending on who is viewing the choices made. It will be of great importance, but it will also be of great destruction.
Let's review the text from each trailer:
Locke's Trailer:
TO THE STATUE: "All hail the conquering hero. Let us remember him as our protector, and not the one that gave us... This. As our savior, and not our betrayer. Let us see him forever as you..."
TO CHIEF: "...And not, as you. All hail the conquering hero. The one who was supposed to save us all. But now I must save us... from you."
Chief's Trailer:
TO THE STATUE: "This... Is this what you wanted? Is this what you were looking for? Was everything you've compromised; everything you've done... Worth it? Was it?"
TO LOCKE: "You've completed your mission, Spartan Locke. Mine... Is just beginning."
Both videos are nearly mirrored in their progression. Both Locke and Chief first speak to the statue of Master Chief (THE IDEAL), and then they speak directly to the figure laying below the statue (THE REALITY).
This raises some questions:
-What would be the dividing line between being a savior and a betrayer? To what extreme would one need extend to cross it?
-What does Chief compromise? And why does he question if it was worth doing thus?
*There's also the other fragment of Cortana that possibly hitchhikes into the Ur-Didact's ancilla repository:
Perhaps he needs both pieces of her?
Maybe, just maybe, my bourbon-fueled musings are somewhat near the correct path. Maybe this scene, where Chief is given Cortana's chip by a new Gravemind, is something that has yet to occur after all. And maybe, just maybe, this is part of what puts Chief in the crosshairs.
