Halo 4 (SPOILERS)

Can someone start editing her character sheet, please? Or has the comic not been released yet?

I made a few additions to it but not many.

The comic's out I believe. There's a review thread for it on Spacebattles.

The Halo 4 visual guide also has some info on Team Majestic, like that Thorne fought on Mars with Ackerson during the battle of Earth and saved his entire platoon during another battle.

One of the other Majestic member was captured by the Covenant during the war but escaped and rescued a couple of decently high ranked officers.

Honestly, I get the feeling they're just deciding to make her a bitch so that when she gets herself killed in Halo 5 and the obviously better choice gets her job, no one will give a damn.

Okay so it was less her being a Leeroy and more abandoning her team in the middle of a firefight, also her team sucked to begin with. That's a bit better.

edited 16th Sep '13 2:28:45 PM by Spirit

That...was fucking amazing to read.

I had thought that all the Palmer hate was kind of overblown, but after seeing that I understand it all now.

Holy Glob, the Halo 4 Visual Guide tells us the Didact and Librarian's names.

Shadow-of-Sundered-Star and First-Light-Weaves-Living-Song, respectively.

I'm usually right about these characters that I hate with so much violence, but people are always surprised.

Do you mean the Didact that was in 4, or the Didact before Bornstellar?

edited 16th Sep '13 7:53:12 PM by theLibrarian

The... wait, the Didact in Halo 4 was the one before Bornstellar...

The Ur-Didact

I thought the Didact before Bornstellar had been executed by the Master Builder...then again that would have caused a Continuity Snarl with the Halo 4 Terminals, because the Didact was imprisoned by the Librarian for trying to Compose humanity to make Prometheans to fight the Flood. So I guess he was just imprisoned on Requiem instead.

It's revealed in Silentium the Master Builder sent him deep into Flood controlled territoy, only for the Gravemind to send him back to taunt Faber and sow discord among the Forerunners. He started Composing his Prometheans afterward then during the battle of the Greater Ark he composed the humans on Halo and got imprisoned by the Librarian.

She also gets called out as a Glory Hound on it by a Spartan II afterward.

edited 16th Sep '13 8:43:30 PM by doineedaname

To add to what doineedaname said, Silentium clarifies that the Bornstellar-Didact (referred to as IsoDidact) was the one who activates the Halos in the Halo 3 terminals, while Ur-Didact is the one who goes insane.

Also by a III. Hell, if A.J. Johnson was still alive, we might have gotten three Spartan generations' worth of disapproval.

edited 16th Sep '13 9:36:12 PM by umbrellasareawesome

Oh gosh, I thought they'd never reveal their names. I wondered a bit why the two would address each other by title as well, despite being married.

Perhaps high standing members in their society see names as informal or just less important than titles?

Forerunner names, unlike our naming conventions, seem to be more based on deep meaning within the named-ones' lives (like the Lifeworker who changed her name after her family died and she changed rates). "Didact", "Librarian", etc. likely ring so true to who they are, there's little reason to call them anything else.

Goodness, this means in casual conversation, his abbreviated name would be "Shadow". Sweet.

Hm, does this◊ look like a brain to anyone else?

edited 17th Sep '13 8:58:42 PM by OrKuunArQenByundis

I thought it looked like a brain too when I first saw it. Halsey and Roland also say it resembles an human AI matrix, which makes me wonder if we'll ever see one of those.

edited 17th Sep '13 9:15:48 PM by Tuckerscreator

Some Marathon lets players recently completed their playthrough of the first game in the Trilogy, and made a Halo related video as sort of post-scriptum:

Seven Things in Halo (that are better in Marathon)

edited 19th Sep '13 1:11:17 PM by Shinr

Having played all the Marathon games, some things I agree with on the list, others I don't. Sure Master Chief could recharge his shields with just a few seconds of hiding, but they neglect to mention that the Security Officer can acquire shields three times stronger than Master Chief's, so he's hardly so weak. And at least Master Chief has a sense of right and wrong. The Security Officer merely obeys orders, which gets deconstructed in the third game.

Why would they consider having only one colony (Mars, which has become a hellhole of poverty), no FTL travel, and limited teleportation a fair exchange for 800 colonies and FTL ships?

And Durandal may be more powerful than Cortana, but he's always in it only for himself, so you can't trust him. Cortana actually cares about you, and is just as clever.

edited 19th Sep '13 2:07:32 PM by Tuckerscreator

Durandal cares, in the twisted, possessive pseudo-pet ownership kind of way, and he sometimes acts like you are an only "friend" he has.

As for Transportation, I think they meant that in local, short distance travel Marathon has common non-Jjaro human-made teleporters while Halo only has conventional transports, while the teleporters are rare high tech Precursor/Forerunner tech. As for colonies, I think their point is that Marathon didn't need FTL to start colonizing beyond the Solar System, even if it is very inefficient compared to Halo's colonization, though I admit that they forgot various asteroid mini-states in Marathon, I am pretty sure that by off-world colony they meant Tau Ceti, even if forgetting Mars is stupid.

edited 19th Sep '13 2:29:31 PM by Shinr

So apparently the Visual Guide claims Spartan-IVs don't have ranks, although some are designated as leaders. I'm not sure what to make of this. I suppose it's to allow them to circumvent the red tape of obstinate commissioned officers, kinda like why NOBLE Team had such high ranks, but if the Spartans are their own branch there needs to be a way to see who's best and who's unexperienced...

Exactly the way you tell in multiplayer: higher-rating armor.

SPARTAN officers are meant to have specialised armour. Palmer is just special because she chose to use Scout armour instead.

Yeah, she really needs to die so Chief can have an army of Spartans at his back.

^ He's gonna have them anyways. So cut it out with the "she needs to die" shit.