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:I also can't help thinking the attention given to FERO suggests she could be a major figure - not necessarily in Halo 5, but perhaps other future media. I would love a novel set from the Insurrectionist point of view, and with groups like the URF on the rebound, and new groups like the NCA forming, there's a plethora of potential perspectives to see that from - groups who just want to secede and live on their own terms, other who want to go further and tear down the UEG, people who believe their ideology and people in it for money as mercs or informants. There's a diverse potential cast to an Insurrectionist story, one where the Innie protagonists can be likeable and believable but without lauding all of the Insurrection's atrocities - just because the camps in Elysium were disproved doesn't mean the camps across the rest of Eridanus II didn't happen, not does it excuse the bombings of UNSC clubs we saw in Dirt. The Cole Protocol was an interesting look at the Insurrection, but it was overshadowed by the threat of the Covenant. I'd like to know how things go down when humanity isn't facing constant threat of glassing at the same time - both sides have more time and energy to devote to attacking each other. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 07:54, 8 June 2015 (EDT) | :I also can't help thinking the attention given to FERO suggests she could be a major figure - not necessarily in Halo 5, but perhaps other future media. I would love a novel set from the Insurrectionist point of view, and with groups like the URF on the rebound, and new groups like the NCA forming, there's a plethora of potential perspectives to see that from - groups who just want to secede and live on their own terms, other who want to go further and tear down the UEG, people who believe their ideology and people in it for money as mercs or informants. There's a diverse potential cast to an Insurrectionist story, one where the Innie protagonists can be likeable and believable but without lauding all of the Insurrection's atrocities - just because the camps in Elysium were disproved doesn't mean the camps across the rest of Eridanus II didn't happen, not does it excuse the bombings of UNSC clubs we saw in Dirt. The Cole Protocol was an interesting look at the Insurrection, but it was overshadowed by the threat of the Covenant. I'd like to know how things go down when humanity isn't facing constant threat of glassing at the same time - both sides have more time and energy to devote to attacking each other. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 07:54, 8 June 2015 (EDT) | ||
I, for one, am leaning toward AI intervention in Ben's hunt for the Truth. I'm also tentatively leaning toward some shard of Cortana being involved and here's why: | |||
*He was led halfway across the galaxy, based on a tip from Petra, to a glassed planet which ''just happened'' to have a working ONI subspace relay. | |||
*This subspace relay ''just happened'' to hold information pertinent to his story. | |||
*This subspace relay ''just happened'' to begin dumping corrupted files into his compad after he ran a query on the Chief... Not the SPARTAN II program, mind you, but the ''Chief'' specifically. | |||
Granted, the existence of that relay could have been what Mshak was trying to tell Ben, but it ended up going to Petra in the event of Mshak's death or after he went dark (indeed, her dialogue strongly hints at that in Episode 10)... However, Mshak had no incentive, or even a reason, to allow Ben to pull up all manner of info to clear the Chief's name, expose the truth about the SPARTAN II program & the ONI cover-up, but then prevent Ben from digging too deeply into the Chief's past by flooding his compad with corrupted files that somehow miraculously didn't spread to the data he just downloaded... That strongly suggests the work of someone close to the Chief, and the description of the brightly glowing light on the relay indicates to me that it was under ''HEAVY'' load at the time, as if it were being occupied by, say, a certain Smart AI... Then again, maybe I'm just talkin' outta my a$$ here. Hell, for all I know, this relay thing could still turn out to be Sully, working on the DL to return the favor to the Chief for saving his bacon 32 years earlier. | |||
As for whether or not Ben is still alive at the end of the series, my money's on "Yes", but that he's had to go way underground as well. The bottom line here is that, after all of this, it's either him or ONI; both of them simply cannot publically exist at the same time now, and my money's on ONI coming out on top of that particular contest... So if Ben '''''is''''' still alive, he's gone silent & deep now...[[User:DJenser|DJenser]] ([[User talk:DJenser|talk]]) 10:30, 8 June 2015 (EDT) | |||