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[Fsabran]

So, seeing the lack of a Halo lore thread ( as in discussion of general lore) I made this one so that we can discuss the lore introduced in Halo 4 and Spartan Ops.
For example I will be compelling all the information gained from chapter seven until the Season finale starting with:
-The UNSC Infinity has an aft MAC.
-It's CIWS include some kind of hight velocity KEW ( most likely a heavy gauss cannon or a Railgun)
-Dr. Halsey somehow has access to the factory reset code of UNSC AI's.
-Jul M'dama still hasn't figured out how to use the Artifact that may or may not contain the librarian AI.
-The Infinity has 2 energy projectors in her arsenal.

Is there anything more of revelance to add that we learned during this episode?

[Unikraken]

The weapon that fires at Mantle's Approach is an energy projector.

[Fsabran]

The weapon that fires at Mantle's Approach is an energy projector.

Adding that, but the weapon that destroyed the CAS light cruiser in the 4 chapter of episode 7 was a MAC.

[Defender0]

Dr. Halsey somehow has access to the factory reset code of UNSC AI's.

Dr. Halsey helped develop the next generation of AIs, read her diary that came with halo reach limited edition

[Fsabran]

Dr. Halsey helped develop the next generation of AIs, read her diary that came with halo reach limited edition

I know, but still, there should have been some kind of back up or human supervisor or you know taking out her autority because she is considered a prisioner, it's kind of stupid to have no fail safes in case an asset ( in this case Roland) which has control over your entire ship falls to to the enemy, that's how the Cylons managed to nuke the colonies without getting a** r**** by the colonial fleet.

[Zero]

Because even though Dr. Halsey is a prisoner, she was at one point the top of her field and had developed ways to skirt around security clearance more than once.

[Fsabran]

My problem is not with her ( she is a super duper mega genious after all), my problem is with the fact that the only thing she needed to say was iridium something, I mean a two word code without any kind of clearance indentification, and she's not some kind of evil vilain so I believe that the UNSC knows about the code, but that's conjecture so I might as well be saying she's a space monkey from the year 3000.

[spartan-G257]

if i remember correctly it was undead iridium. which makes bugger all sense so i am most likely incorrect

[sloosecannon]

without any kind of clearance indentification,

Is it too much of a stretch to assume there's some kind of voice recognition/ID?

[Zero]

Also what's up with the Harvester? I personally thought the design was pretty dumb. I mean it looked straight up like a beetle and had a spine and everything. To me it looked more Flood than anything else.

[thefallenlords]

Also what's up with the Harvester? I personally thought the design was pretty dumb. I mean it looked straight up like a beetle and had a spine and everything. To me it looked more Flood than anything else.

I dunno, my line of thought was beetle-oversized drone-drone hive? The Flood is usually is comprised of decomposing-looking biomass and since this thing was still fresh and natural looking, I thought Covenant.

[thefallenlords]

I dunno, my line of thought was beetle>oversized drone>drone hive? The Flood is usually is comprised of decomposing-looking biomass and since this thing was still fresh and natural looking, I thought Covenant.

Hmm, turns out Halopedia says that its made up of Lekgolo a la Scarab. Guess that would kind of make sense.

[Defender0]

Hmm, turns out Halopedia says that its made up of Lekgolo a la Scarab. Guess that would kind of make sense.

which explains why i thought "is that a giant scarab?" when i first saw the thing

[Zero]

Yeah but the Scarab was cool and mechanical looking - this is just too organic for me personally.

[MasterOfShips]

The trailer for episode 8 is out. I've posted it below.

Spoiler

[HTRK74JR]

Yeah but the Scarab was cool and mechanical looking - this is just too organic for me personally.

im guessing that the legkolo had a major influence in the design, so that they could control it better. the scarab was originally a mining platform (halo 2) but went for battle like in halo 3/reach. legkolo were needed to have better reflexes and such. (im guessing)