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A fleet led by the [[Bornstellar-Didact]] then appears, and the Didact uses a failsafe code to disable Mendicant Bias. The Didact then enters the Cartographer and commands that the Halo be saved by moving it to an [[Ark]] installation for repairs. To successfully move through a [[Slipspace portal|portal]], however, the Halo must shed a large portion of its constituent structure, thus reducing its diameter from 30,000 kilometers to 10,000 kilometers. Though heavily damaged, the Halo survives and moves through the portal. | A fleet led by the [[Bornstellar-Didact]] then appears, and the Didact uses a failsafe code to disable Mendicant Bias. The Didact then enters the Cartographer and commands that the Halo be saved by moving it to an [[Ark]] installation for repairs. To successfully move through a [[Slipspace portal|portal]], however, the Halo must shed a large portion of its constituent structure, thus reducing its diameter from 30,000 kilometers to 10,000 kilometers. Though heavily damaged, the Halo survives and moves through the portal. | ||
Shortly afterward, the Didact brings a mortally wounded Chakas – who is already undergoing conversion into a monitor – with him to confront the Primordial, who has been imprisoned. The ensuing conversation reveals that the Primordial is actually a Gravemind, and that more Precursors may have survived [[Forerunner-Precursor war|their war with the Forerunners]]. The Primordial asserts that "there is no difference" between the Flood and the Precursors, although it does not reveal the precise nature of their relationship. It also reveals that no human was ever truly immune to the Flood, but the Flood can choose whether to infect or not infect. The Primordial then states that the Flood is a test to judge a species' worthiness of inheriting the | Shortly afterward, the Didact brings a mortally wounded Chakas – who is already undergoing conversion into a monitor – with him to confront the Primordial, who has been imprisoned. The ensuing conversation reveals that the Primordial is actually a Gravemind, and that more Precursors may have survived [[Forerunner-Precursor war|their war with the Forerunners]]. The Didact claims that war happened because the Precursors resented any who might take up the [[Mantle]], but the Primordial explains that the Forerunners had been deemed unfit to take up the Mantle. The Primordial asserts that "there is no difference" between the Flood and the Precursors, although it does not reveal the precise nature of their relationship. It also reveals that no human was ever truly immune to the Flood, but the Flood can choose whether to infect or not infect. The Primordial then states that the Flood is a test to judge a species' worthiness of inheriting the Mantle, stating that the Forerunners are to be eliminated and that humans will be tested next once they rise again. At the conversation's conclusion, the Didact kills the Primordial by activating a reverse stasis chamber that forces the Primordial to go through a billion years of aging in several seconds, causing it to disintegrate. | ||
Back at present day, the ONI researchers reluctantly accept that the monitor telling the story is actually [[343 Guilty Spark]], the monitor of [[Installation 04]]. In the final segment of the story, Guilty Spark briefly explains what happened after he had become a monitor; he reveals that the [[Ecumene Council]] was reinstated and the debates on new strategies against the Flood renewed under the direction of the Didact. He also notes that Riser and Vinnevra survived and were relocated on an Ark under the Librarian's care, with Riser eventually being returned to Earth. | Back at present day, the ONI researchers reluctantly accept that the monitor telling the story is actually [[343 Guilty Spark]], the monitor of [[Installation 04]]. In the final segment of the story, Guilty Spark briefly explains what happened after he had become a monitor; he reveals that the [[Ecumene Council]] was reinstated and the debates on new strategies against the Flood renewed under the direction of the Didact. He also notes that Riser and Vinnevra survived and were relocated on an Ark under the Librarian's care, with Riser eventually being returned to Earth. | ||