Precursors went from life giving Bug men to the Brethren Moons with their markers real quick

I always found the Mantle of Responsibility rather suss and extremely problematic

dude. you didn’t have to put that spoiler in the thumbnail, I’m going to get the book in like two hours.

so a even more twisted version of Reapers from Mass Effect

What a mind f**k. The question of "how many times have we done this?" took me waaay back to The Matrix, and remembering that feeling of hopelessness when you discover that mankind has done that dance countless times before, and will do it countless times after.

Oh fuck. So Forerunners were right all along with their destruction of precursors.

Holy shit. To actually think the lore would advance to such a monumental length at this point is truly astonishing. And to think some people were asking for a reboot...

Offensive bias is hopefully going to be more active from now on

So basically the primordials are like the bretheren moons and markers from the dead space franchise they just cultivate intelligent life to absorb it once more

You said that 2589 may be the end of Halo because it looks like all the galaxy’s major problems will have been solved by then, except now we know that as humanity flourishes, the Flood will just return again to feed…

For me, Halo Epitaph kinda saved Halo 5 Guardians for me, and actually gave context to Warden Eternal, that felt like a Didact pitch replacement following that... cursed comic. And the ending was so emotional such a great sendoff to Didact as a character, and how the whole Domain chapter got closed.

I see why ancient humans who heard this killed themselves, their worldview and sense of importance was crushed in the wake of these horrifying revelations

So basically The Flood is just a good ol' farmer growing their food

“the flood will feast once more”

"Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret creating you, and we most certainly regret that you managed to supersede our precursor level of existence" -sgt Johnsons decendent about to defeat the precursors in the year 25530000000

Halo: Point of Light say that the last precursor/gravemind was just a sadistic precursor and it was the only one that could revive itself in a gravemind. That the flood was dangerous to living time.

My personal theory has always been that the Logic Plague is simply this:

“I am the darkness where all life dies, all life exists simply to sacrifice.” - Darth Nihilus

I always wanted a Greg Bear Ancient Humanity trilogy that mirrored his Forerunner trilogy and when we lost Greg I thought the ancient human and forerunner stories would become lost, but Kelly Gay has truly kept his work alive while creating her own very compelling continuations of the stories as well as connecting them to current events. Well done Kelly Gay! Greg would be proud!

The Gravemimd is reminding me more and more of Sovereign from Mass Effect.