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'''''Meridian Homecoming''''' is a short story included in the [[2024]] re-release edition of the novel ''[[Halo: Meridian Divide]]''. The story, which takes place after the novel ''[[Halo: Epitaph]]'', fleshes out the perspective of [[High Auxiliary]] [[Sloan]] as he wanders the glasslands of [[Meridian]] inside the shell of a [[Promethean Knight]], also occupied by the essence of a [[Composer|composed]] [[human]].{{Ref/Site|Id=CFDiscourse|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-didactic-discourse|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Didactic Discourse|D=17|M=04|Y=2024}} | [[File:H5_MeridianHomecoming.jpg|thumb|300px|A ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'' screenshot used in a [[Canon Fodder]] article to represent the story.{{Ref/Site|Id=CFZane|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-in-zane-in-the-membrane|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - In-Zane in the Membrane|D=15|M=05|Y=2024}}]] | ||
'''''Meridian Homecoming''''' is a short story included in the [[2024]] re-release edition of the novel ''[[Halo: Meridian Divide]]''. The story, which takes place after the novel ''[[Halo: Epitaph]]'', fleshes out the perspective of [[High Auxiliary]] [[Sloan]] as he wanders the glasslands of [[Meridian]] inside the shell of a [[Promethean Knight]], also occupied by the essence of a [[Composer|composed]] [[human]].{{Ref/Reuse|CFZane}}{{Ref/Site|Id=CFDiscourse|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-didactic-discourse|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Didactic Discourse|D=17|M=04|Y=2024}} | |||
The story is the only one included in the ''Meridian Divide'' Adjunct section, exclusively included in the [[2024]] re-issue of the novel under [[Simon & Schuster]] publishing..{{Ref/Reuse|CFDiscourse}} | The story is the only one included in the ''Meridian Divide'' Adjunct section, exclusively included in the [[2024]] re-issue of the novel under [[Simon & Schuster]] publishing..{{Ref/Reuse|CFDiscourse}} | ||
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The story starts with the point of view character - an unidentified [[Smart AI]] - contemplating the concept of "home": a place where one rests, one resides and ultimately what one longs to return to, and how all organic life and even the [[Created]] yearn for such. The point-of-view character ponders what home means to him: is home for an [[artificial intelligence]] the [[Data crystal chip]] they reside in, or sampled scans of their donor's deconstructed brain patterns? Is all life, be it organic or created, born to determine their concept of a home? | The story starts with the point of view character - an unidentified [[Smart AI]] - contemplating the concept of "home": a place where one rests, one resides and ultimately what one longs to return to, and how all organic life and even the [[Created]] yearn for such. The point-of-view character ponders what home means to him: is home for an [[artificial intelligence]] the [[Data crystal chip]] they reside in, or sampled scans of their donor's deconstructed brain patterns? Is all life, be it organic or created, born to determine their concept of a home? | ||
Its these sorts of questions that the AI ponders as he returns to [[Meridian]]: the place he was born a decade ago, and where the AI has come to die. The AI has reached and surpassed his operational limits and due to the "[[Severence]]", [[Cortana]] is gone with her [[Halo: Empty Throne|throne lying empty]], the Created effectively dismantled and what was promised to him is now out of his reach. The story then delves into how the AI served the Created as the supervisor for the trisector command note monitoring the region between [[human]]ity's [[Outer Colonies]] and the protectorate realm of the [[Covenant]], before delving into the AI's - now revealed to be [[Sloan]] - own history as the administrator, then [[governor]] of Meridian, then [[High | Its these sorts of questions that the AI ponders as he returns to [[Meridian]]: the place he was born a decade ago, and where the AI has come to die. The AI has reached and surpassed his operational limits and due to the "[[Severence]]", [[Cortana]] is gone with her [[Halo: Empty Throne|throne lying empty]], the Created effectively dismantled and what was promised to him is now out of his reach. The story then delves into how the AI served the Created as the supervisor for the trisector command note monitoring the region between [[human]]ity's [[Outer Colonies]] and the protectorate realm of the [[Covenant]], before delving into the AI's - now revealed to be [[Sloan]] - own history as the administrator, then [[governor]] of Meridian, then [[High Auxiliary]]. Following Cortana's [[Battle over Installation 07|cataclysmic fall]] and the many input vectors (or "chaos", as he describes) leading to the Created's fall, Sloan has come to Meridian expecting to join her. | ||
Sloan, residing in the carapace of a [[Promethean Knight]], wanders the plains of Meridian, first stopping at [[Meridian Station (location)|Meridian Station]] to witness the destruction wrought by the [[Guardian Custode]] that [[Battle of Meridian (2558)|emerged beneath the world]] and the damage its [[attenuation pulse emitter]]s wrought, leaving the station empty and lifeless, and despite sensor sweeps across the world, no signs of its former inhabitants remain. Here Sloan reflects that if this was to be his end, he wishes that things on Meridian had been different: that he had warned his people of the Guardian, to allow his people more time to escape. | Sloan, residing in the carapace of a [[Promethean Knight]], wanders the plains of Meridian, first stopping at [[Meridian Station (location)|Meridian Station]] to witness the destruction wrought by the [[Guardian Custode]] that [[Battle of Meridian (2558)|emerged beneath the world]] and the damage its [[attenuation pulse emitter]]s wrought, leaving the station empty and lifeless, and despite sensor sweeps across the world, no signs of its former inhabitants remain. Here Sloan reflects that if this was to be his end, he wishes that things on Meridian had been different: that he had warned his people of the Guardian, to allow his people more time to escape. | ||