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|publisher=[[Tor Books]] | |publisher=[[Tor Books]] | ||
|publication=[[2012|January 3, 2012]] | |publication=[[2012|January 3, 2012]] | ||
|media=Print ( | |media=Print (Hardcover), Audiobook | ||
|length=384 pages | |length=384 pages | ||
|ISBN=[[Special:BookSources/0765323974|0765323974]], [[Special:BookSources/978-0765323972|978-0765323972]] | |ISBN=[[Special:BookSources/0765323974|0765323974]], [[Special:BookSources/978-0765323972|978-0765323972]] | ||
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{{Article Quote|What am I, really?<br>A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.<br>Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the [[Intergalactic space|spaces between galaxies]]—a greater reach than any human before me.<br>You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the true [[Reclaimer]]s, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story.<br>Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called [[Earth]], my name was [[Chakas]]...<ref name="tor">[http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/halo-primordium-excerpt '''Tor.com''': ''Halo: Primordium (Excerpt)'']</ref>}} | {{Article Quote|What am I, really?<br>A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.<br>Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the [[Intergalactic space|spaces between galaxies]]—a greater reach than any human before me.<br>You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the true [[Reclaimer]]s, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story.<br>Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called [[Earth]], my name was [[Chakas]]...<ref name="tor">[http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/halo-primordium-excerpt '''Tor.com''': ''Halo: Primordium (Excerpt)'']</ref>}} | ||
'''''Halo: Primordium''''' is the second [[Halo novels|novel]] in ''[[The Forerunner Saga]]'' by [[Greg Bear]] and is the sequel to ''[[Halo: Cryptum]]''. It was released on [[2012|January 3, 2012]], with an audio edition released simultaneously.<ref name="Tor">[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/07/tor-books-reveals-second-halo-novel-by-greg-bear '''Tor.com''' - ''Tor Books Reveals Second Halo Novel by Greg Bear'']</ref><ref name="waypoint">[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/tor-books-reveals-title-cover-art-and-release-date-of-second-halo-novel-by-greg-bear/113219 '''Halo Waypoint''' - Tor Books Reveals Title, Cover Art, and Release Date of Second Halo Novel by Greg Bear]''</ref> | '''''Halo: Primordium''''' is the second [[Halo novels|novel]] in ''[[The Forerunner Saga]]'' by [[Greg Bear]] and is the sequel to ''[[Halo: Cryptum]]''. It was released on [[2012|January 3, 2012]], with an audio edition released simultaneously.<ref name="Tor">[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/07/tor-books-reveals-second-halo-novel-by-greg-bear '''Tor.com''' - ''Tor Books Reveals Second Halo Novel by Greg Bear'']</ref><ref name="waypoint">[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/tor-books-reveals-title-cover-art-and-release-date-of-second-halo-novel-by-greg-bear/113219 '''Halo Waypoint''' - Tor Books Reveals Title, Cover Art, and Release Date of Second Halo Novel by Greg Bear]''</ref> The sequel to the novel, currently under the working title ''Halo: Silentium'', is scheduled for release in January 2013.<ref name="Greg Bear Forum 532012">[http://www.gregbear.com/blog/display.cfm?id=6420 '''Greg Bear - Discussion Board''': ''Book'']</ref> | ||
Similar to ''Halo: Cryptum'', the story is told as a first-person narrative, from the perspective of [[Chakas]], one of the two humans who accompanied [[Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting]] during the events of ''Cryptum''. The novel is set primarily on [[Installation 07]], the "rogue" [[Halo Array|Halo ring]] under control of the [[Rampancy|rampant]] [[05-032 Mendicant Bias|Mendicant Bias]].<ref name="SDCC">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDQN7nwZlw&feature=related '''YouTube''': SDCC 2011: Halo Universe Panel Part 1]</ref> After crash-landing on the ring during Mendicant Bias' [[Battle of the capital|assault on the capital]], Chakas is joined by two local humans, [[Vinnevra]] and [[Gamelpar]], in an odyssey to find his companion [[Morning Riser|Riser]]. As they attempt to survive on the war-torn Halo, they face several obstacles, including the ancient being known as [[the Primordial]], [[the Flood]], and Mendicant Bias.<ref name="amazon">[http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Primordium-Greg-Bear/dp/0765323974/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311822205&sr=1-3 '''Amazon.com''': ''Halo: Primordium product description'']</ref> | Similar to ''Halo: Cryptum'', the story is told as a first-person narrative, from the perspective of [[Chakas]], one of the two humans who accompanied [[Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting]] during the events of ''Cryptum''. The novel is set primarily on [[Installation 07]], the "rogue" [[Halo Array|Halo ring]] under control of the [[Rampancy|rampant]] [[05-032 Mendicant Bias|Mendicant Bias]].<ref name="SDCC">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDQN7nwZlw&feature=related '''YouTube''': SDCC 2011: Halo Universe Panel Part 1]</ref> After crash-landing on the ring during Mendicant Bias' [[Battle of the capital|assault on the capital]], Chakas is joined by two local humans, [[Vinnevra]] and [[Gamelpar]], in an odyssey to find his companion [[Morning Riser|Riser]]. As they attempt to survive on the war-torn Halo, they face several obstacles, including the ancient being known as [[the Primordial]], [[the Flood]], and Mendicant Bias.<ref name="amazon">[http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Primordium-Greg-Bear/dp/0765323974/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311822205&sr=1-3 '''Amazon.com''': ''Halo: Primordium product description'']</ref> | ||
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Vinnevra then takes Chakas to see Gamelpar, who explains that he was originally from Earth and, like Chakas, also holds an "old spirit" within him. The old man also explains the history of the humans on the installation, and reveals that he has once been taken to what the humans call the [[Palace of Pain]]; this is later revealed to be a general term for the [[Flood research facility|Flood research facilities]] on the installation. | Vinnevra then takes Chakas to see Gamelpar, who explains that he was originally from Earth and, like Chakas, also holds an "old spirit" within him. The old man also explains the history of the humans on the installation, and reveals that he has once been taken to what the humans call the [[Palace of Pain]]; this is later revealed to be a general term for the [[Flood research facility|Flood research facilities]] on the installation. | ||
Chakas, Vinnevra, and Gamelpar then proceed to follow Vinnevra's ''geas'', which they assume will lead them to safety. However, it instead takes them near one of the "Palaces of Pain", where the group witness numerous humans following their ''geas'' walking into the structure whilst being observed by [[the Primordial]], the creature which had been released from captivity on Charum Hakkor 43 years earlier. The three then decide to move in the opposite direction. | Chakas, Vinnevra, and Gamelpar then proceed to follow Vinnevra's ''geas'', which they assume will lead them to safety. However, it instead takes them near one of the "Palaces of Pain", where the group witness numerous humans following their ''geas'' walking into the structure whilst being observed by [[the Primordial]], the creature which had been released from captivity on Charum Hakkor 43 years earlier. The three then decide to move in the opposite direction. Coming across the shores of a large lake, the three stumble upon a collapsing human city, in which Gamelpar and Chakas see a [[proto-Gravemind]] locked in a Forerunner cell, with the beings assimilated within pleading for death and freedom. | ||
After | After crossing the lake, the three are found by a Lifeworker named [[Genemender Folder of Fortune]], several [[Denisovan]]s, and a large ape the monitor identifies as a ''[[Wikipedia:Gigantopithecus|Gigantopithecus]]'' based on the modern-day humans' records. Strangely, Genemender and the humans cast off no smell and the insects are not interested in them. After being fed by Genemender and sent to sleep, Chakas awakens to see Riser, who warns him not to trust the Lifeworker and the other humans. Genemender then reveals that he and the other humans are not actually alive, but archived personalities manifesting as life-like [[hard light]] holograms. Genemender, who is actually based within a monitor, is following a command to "archive" the minds of all of the humans from Earth to save the personality imprints they carry from the Flood and the Master Builder. The monitor wants to do this to Gamelpar, who is dying, but Gamelpar rejects him and has Chakas accompany him in his final moments. It is there that Gamelpar tells Chakas Vinnevra's true name and has Chakas promise to watch over her. The systems in the area then power down, leaving Chakas, Riser, Vinnevra, and the ape, whose name is revealed to be [[Mara]] by Riser, who can communicate with her, to continue their journey. | ||
Riser then tells his story to Chakas of how he found them. During the battle over the Forerunner capital, Riser and the Forerunners that were holding him crashed into Installation 07. One of the Forerunners, who was locked up by the others due to him being on the opposing side of the small civil war caused by the Master Builder's use of the Halo on the [[San 'Shyuum]] homeworld, told the others that Riser was valuable due to his ''geas'', and thus the others protected him as they moved out. After a while of traveling over a desert infested with Flood biomass, the group was covered in Flood spores, killing the Forerunners but not Riser, who continued traveling until he stumbled upon Chakas. | Riser then tells his story to Chakas of how he found them. During the battle over the Forerunner capital, Riser and the Forerunners that were holding him crashed into Installation 07. One of the Forerunners, who was locked up by the others due to him being on the opposing side of the small civil war caused by the Master Builder's use of the Halo on the [[San 'Shyuum]] homeworld, told the others that Riser was valuable due to his ''geas'', and thus the others protected him as they moved out. After a while of traveling over a desert infested with Flood biomass, the group was covered in Flood spores, killing the Forerunners but not Riser, who continued traveling until he stumbled upon Chakas. | ||