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{{Quote|Thus I have chosen to commit my sizable resources to what is, for all intents and purposes, [the proverbial irresistible force]. All that I have is now yours to do with as you see fit.|Mendicant Bias to the Gravemind}} | {{Quote|Thus I have chosen to commit my sizable resources to what is, for all intents and purposes, [the proverbial irresistible force]. All that I have is now yours to do with as you see fit.|Mendicant Bias to the Gravemind}} | ||
[[File:Mythos Primordial.JPG|200px|thumb|left|Mendicant Bias and the Primordial on the surface of Installation 07.]] | [[File:Mythos Primordial.JPG|200px|thumb|left|Mendicant Bias and the Primordial on the surface of Installation 07.]] | ||
Bias continued communicating with the Primordial in an effort to find any possible weakness; logs of this conversation were recorded in [[Terminal (Halo 3)|terminals]] found on [[Installation 00]]. After conversing with Mendicant Bias for forty-three years, the Primordial persuaded the ancilla to abandon the Forerunners and join the Flood's cause, convincing it that the Forerunners were so arrogant and prideful as to deny the next step of evolution: the Flood.<ref name="ENC">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia | Bias continued communicating with the Primordial in an effort to find any possible weakness; logs of this conversation were recorded in [[Terminal (Halo 3)|terminals]] found on [[Installation 00]]. After conversing with Mendicant Bias for forty-three years, the Primordial persuaded the ancilla to abandon the Forerunners and join the Flood's cause, convincing it that the Forerunners were so arrogant and prideful as to deny the next step of evolution: the Flood.<ref name="ENC">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''pages 188-189''</ref> The Primordial insinuated that by clinging to the legend of the [[Mantle]], the Forerunners had doomed the [[Milky Way|galaxy]] to eternal stagnation; the only way for the galaxy to progress was for superior beings to "restart" it. These superior beings, unsurprisingly, took the form of compound minds such as the Primordial and Mendicant Bias itself. The Primordial also convinced Mendicant that it spoke with the authority of the Precursors; Mendicant searched through the [[Domain]] for validation, and found that the Primordial was telling the truth in that the Forerunners were working against the Precursors' will.<ref name="p337">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 337-338''</ref> | ||
Although the forty-three year-long conversation logs between Mendicant Bias and the Primordial were sent back to the Forerunners, they believed that Mendicant would automatically fulfill its objective and destroy the Primordial, so they did not intervene.{{Ref/Reuse|ENC}} Convinced by the Primordial's arguments and its apparent authority as a Precursor, Mendicant Bias became the first major AI to succumb to the Flood's later widespread [[logic plague]], developed a hatred for its creators, and actively worked toward their destruction.<ref name="Terminal">'''Halo 3''', [[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal]]s</ref><ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', "Human Weakness"</ref> | Although the forty-three year-long conversation logs between Mendicant Bias and the Primordial were sent back to the Forerunners, they believed that Mendicant would automatically fulfill its objective and destroy the Primordial, so they did not intervene.{{Ref/Reuse|ENC}} Convinced by the Primordial's arguments and its apparent authority as a Precursor, Mendicant Bias became the first major AI to succumb to the Flood's later widespread [[logic plague]], developed a hatred for its creators, and actively worked toward their destruction.<ref name="Terminal">'''Halo 3''', [[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal]]s</ref><ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', "Human Weakness"</ref> | ||