And it seemed that whenever I fired a Blue Portal on the opposite side of the map I fell through the floor. Not entirely sure what happened here. It is placed in charge of Halo 07 and tasked with hunting the Flood Gravemind. This has also been said of the Precursors. - - - - - Masterchief heard the AI's words in his Comm channels, only him though, now he knew what Mendicant Bias had meant by helping him in an unseen way. Curb-Stomp Battle: The battle with Mendicant Bias after the Halo Array fired. 100,043 BC: MENDICANT BIAS. The Forerunner artificial intelligence Mendicant Bias awakens and reveals to three Covenant politicians that the "relics" are in fact the humans themselves—Bias identifies them as descendants of his makers. Halo 07 is test-fired, freeing the last surviving Precursor sealed away millennia earlier by Humanity. It has been said that the remaining Forerunners made an exodus out of the Milky Way Galaxy to which no one knows their current fate. I was in the 19th test chamber, I paused the game to go do something, came back and fired off a Blue Portal. Mendicant Bias was the beating heart of the Didact’s strategy to combat the Flood, the one who would coordinate the entire defence system from Shield World-to-Shield World, across fleet-to-fleet. The Didact, born Shadow-of-Sundered-Star, (voiced by Keith Szarabajka) is a Forerunner military leader and the Halo 4's main antagonist. He is recaptured and imprisoned on Halo … Didact. All of a sudden I am falling through the map. Unfortunately, a Flood Gravemind was able to corrupt Mendicant Bias, turning him against his creators. That is a lot of stock to throw into this one particular ancilla, however powerful it was. Mendicant Bias is kept alive by the “Iso” Didact due to his knowledge of the Flood. It's over in seconds. Humans, Mendicant Bias said, were to be the "Reclaimers" of the Forerunners' legacy. A.I. I reloaded my save, because I never died...just kept falling. According to 343 Guilty Spark, The Librarian is alive, and he knows where to find her. Is a Crapshoot: Unlike Mendicant Bias, Offensive Bias is loyal to the Forerunners. It is partially due to Bias' betrayal that the Forerunners lost and had to activate the … Foil: To Mendicant Bias. Forerunners create the Mendicant Bias AI to combat the Flood. This revelation would have destroyed the religion that was the foundation of the Covenant. The Forerunner Saga is a trilogy of science fiction novels by Greg Bear, based on the Halo series of video games.The books in the series are Halo: Cryptum (2011), Primordium (2012), and Silentium (2013). Looking back at the terminals, relistening to Halo: Rebirth (a audio log you can unlock by using the code that comes with Halo Silentium) I came upon the nugget of information that tells of trial of Mendicant Bias after his defeat by Offensive Bias. The Prophets decided to unplug Mendicant Bias and propagate the idea that humans were all blasphemers and heretics and that it was the Covenant's duty to wipe them out. Having Cortana and Mendicant Bias be the foil through which the Ur-Didact realises that he can reject the madness thrust upon him and become the noble teacher once again would be an excellent way to tie up his arc. This might sound confusing, but there were two Didacts alive at one point. He pulled the trigger and watched the power gauge fill up. Badass Boast: The quote above is not a boast, it's an actual fact! Mendicant Bias smiled sadly, 'And now we die.' He hefted the Spartan Laser and smiled as the Monitor's body fit the reticle perfectly. The Didact created Mendicant Bias after all, and he too defected to the Flood and later sought atonement for his betrayal. The books were released in hardcover, e-book, paperback, and audiobook. However, as the Ark survived the firing, albeit badly damaged, Mendicant Bias may have survived as well.