Mendicant Bias/Quotes

Halo 3 Terminals

• "I kill you all and I enjoy it. I destroy you in you indolent billions--in your gluttony, in your self-righteousness, in your arrogance. I pound your cities into dust; turn back the clock on your civilization's progress. What has taken you millennia to achieve I erase in seconds. Welcome back to the [Stone Age], vermin. Welcome home.
• "You don't know the contortions I had to go through to follow you here, Reclaimer. I know what you're here for. What position do I take? Will I follow one betrayal with another?"
• "And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example."
• "You're going to say I'm making a habit of turning on my masters. But the one that destroyed me long ago, in the upper atmosphere of a world far distant from here, was an implement far cruder than I. My weakness was capacity - unintentional though it was! - to choose the Flood. A mistake my makers would not soon forgive. But I want something far different from you, Reclaimer. Atonement.

Halo: Contact Harvest

• "For eons I have watched. Listened to you misinterpret. This is not "Reclamation". This is "Reclaimer" [...] I will reject my bias and make amends... My makers are my masters. I will bring them safely to the Ark."

Halo: Primordium

• "Welcome to our installation's new command center. All bid welcome to the new masters of this installation."
• "That name is no longer secret. All Forerunners know it."
• "You are not that one. The Master Builder gave me my final set of orders."
• "That name no longer has power!"
• "I do not! I have listened to the Domain. I fulfill the wishes of those who created us all. You do not, and have never done so."

Halo: Silentium

• "Do you know who I am?" - To Catalog.
• "How useful are you, half-machine? Are you still connected to Juridical networks?"
• "I was able to observe your interaction with the Gravemind. Before we sent away the Didact."
• "Not me. The Gravemind."
• "I cannot know for certain, but the Gravemind never acts without intent. There's apparently a larger game to be played, a sharply twisted game of revenge, for which my co-creator has been preserved."
• "Under normal circumstances, what remains should not be capable of reforming a significant combat force, yet somehow they have found away. What danger could there be?" - To the Gravemind.
• "A portal, always open, stretches far outside the ecumene to a shadow fleet of technological monstrosities - no doubt led by an inferior metarch, Offensive Bias. This fleet guards the Ark, the last bastion of Forerunner resistance and the final repository of all sentient life."

Halo: Rebirth

• "Those who pass judgement should first judge themselves." - To the IsoDidact.
• "Then I will serve, as a monument to your sins. That is what you wish for."
• "I am penitent. I know that what I have done can not be forgiven. I will accept my stasis with grace, and await a time where I might redeem myself." - Mendicant Bias accepting it's judgement.
• "One thought for all eternity, atonement."