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* WhatOtherGalaxies: [[spoiler: The Precursors]] claim to be [[TimeAbyss hundreds of billions of years old]], far older than the universe. Why they remained in the same galaxy to be wiped by the Forerunner is anyone's guess.
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** The whole Flood War, essentially. The strings that make up much of the novel's midpoint paint a picture of what is less a war, more the methodical dissection of the Forerunner Ecumene.
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** Heck some Precursor artefacts invoke this trope such as "anchors" they left behind. These were large, anomalous masses which released no radiation and were regarded as unstable and dangerous with the Forerunners had recorded strange phenomena near the masses, including ships vanishing and surviving crews suffering severe mental trauma, requiring extensive proto-geometric therapy to restore their minds' neural topology to its normal state. They and the place they lead to sound like something straight out of H.P. Lovecraft.
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** Some Precursor artefacts can result in this trope as Forerunners found out over the years with them finding and investigating Precursor "anchors" — large, anomalous masses in space which led to ships vanishing and surviving crews suffering severe mental trauma, requiring extensive proto-geometric therapy to restore their minds' neural topology to its normal state.planes.
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** [[spoiler: It's somewhat implied that this is just the nature of being exposed to the Gravemind directly-- It's utter malice and desire to corrupt is absolute. the Logic plague is transmitted through memes and complex information encoded in everything it says, and it's likewise implied that the same goes for any communcation it has with organic life, too.]]
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** [[spoiler: It's somewhat implied that this is just the nature of being exposed to the Gravemind directly-- It's utter malice and desire to corrupt is absolute. the Logic plague is transmitted through memes and complex information encoded in everything it says, and it's likewise implied that the same goes for any communcation communication it has with organic life, too.]]]]
** When the Ur-Didact outright refuses to describe the specifics of his MindRape to the Catalog deposing him, the Catalog administers TruthSerum and compels him to continue speaking... effectively [[MindRape Mind Raping]] him again.
** When the Ur-Didact outright refuses to describe the specifics of his MindRape to the Catalog deposing him, the Catalog administers TruthSerum and compels him to continue speaking... effectively [[MindRape Mind Raping]] him again.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The Domain appears to be coming alive... and it is not happy. [[spoiler:Subverted. All this time it was actually a Precursor construct.]]
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** The Domain appears to be coming alive... and it is not happy. [[spoiler:Subverted. All this time it was actually a Precursor construct.]]
** The Domain appears to be coming alive... and it is not happy. [[spoiler:Subverted. All this time it was actually a Precursor construct.]]
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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Catalog is awed by the Librarian's beauty, but notes that physically her face does have flaws and she is not perfect in appearance. Rather it's more of a spiritual beauty emanating from her.
* XMeetsY: [[spoiler:Because it turned ''Halo'' into a dark CosmicHorrorStory, some have taken to calling it "Creator/HPLovecraft meets ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''".]]her.
* XMeetsY: [[spoiler:Because it turned ''Halo'' into a dark CosmicHorrorStory, some have taken to calling it "Creator/HPLovecraft meets ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''".]]
