william black
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Seeming as the Master Chief collection is coming out soon I thought I would tell u guys about Mendicant Bias because I think that he will be in halo 5 and so this is all of the information I know so far
05-032 Mendicant BiasService information
Began service
100,043 BCE
Ended service
Late 2552 (Possibly destroyed withInstallation 00 on December 11th 2552)
Physical information
Gender
Masculine programming
Description
Teardrop-shaped casing with three eyes and a glyph in the center.
Normal color
Blue;red when rampant
Historical information
Affiliation
ForerunnerEcumeneFloodCovenant EmpireUnited Nations Space Command
Primary function
Combat the Gravemind
Notable battles
Forerunner-Flood WarHuman-Covenant war[Source] [Talk]
“And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions.”
— Mendicant Bias in the lastterminal of Halo 3
05-032 Mendicant Bias was aContender-class Forerunner Artificial intelligence. He was the most advanced Forerunner AI at the time of his creation, and was charged with organizing Forerunner defense against theFlood before his defection to theGravemind, who ultimately caused him to become rampant, and turn against his creators.
Biography
Beginnings
Created in 100,043 BCE, by theUr-Didact and the Master Builder, Mendicant Bias' purpose was the control of all Forerunner defenses, including the fabled Halos, but only under dire emergencies. The Master Builder, without authorization of the Ecumene Council, tasked Mendicant Bias with the interrogation of The Captive, after its release on Charum Hakkor following the Halo's test firing, in place of the Lifeworkers due to the Master Builder'sdistrust for them. The period of this questioning was forty-three years, where Mendicant Bias attempted to find weakness.Mendicant Bias was listed missing by the Master Builder before returning to overlook the second testing of the halo on theSan'Shyuum quarantine system. Mendicant Bias sent the logs of his interrogation to his Forerunner masters, who apparently never received the transmissions. Eventually, The Captive persuaded Mendicant Bias to abandon the Forerunners and defect to the Flood cause, convincing him that the Forerunners were so gluttonous and prideful as to deny the next step of evolution: the Flood.The Captive insinuated that by clinging to the legend of theMantle, the Forerunners had doomed the galaxy to eternal stagnation; the only way for the galaxy to progress was for superior beings to "restart" it. These superior beings, unsurprisingly, took the form of Compound Minds such as Gravemind and Mendicant Bias himself. Although the 43-year long conversation logs between Mendicant Bias and The Captive were sent back to the Forerunners, they believed that Mendicant would automatically fulfill its objective and destroy The Flood, and so did not intervene. Convinced by The Captive's arguments, Mendicant Bias intentionally becamerampant, developed a hatred for his creators and actively worked toward their destruction, starting with using five of the original twelve Halos to attack the Forerunner capital. The remaining seven returned to the Ark along with Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, the Councilor Splendid Dust of Ancient Suns, and the Warrior Servant Glory of a Far Dawn.
Fall from Grace
“What has taken you millennia to create, I erase in seconds.”
— Rampant Mendicant Bias
The now-rampant Mendicant Bias defects to the Flood.
The now rampant Mendicant then attacked with a fleet of over five million ships and completely obliterated the Maginot Sphere, and forced the Forerunners to accelerate work on the Halo Array. In order to give them time to complete the Halos' work, the Forerunners created another AI,Offensive Bias, to slow Mendicant Bias' advance. Offensive Bias lacked Mendicant's creativity, and possibly his free will, but was more methodically lethal. His only purpose was to prevent Mendicant Bias from accessingInstallation 00, and buying time to activate the Halo Array.
It seems that Mendicant Bias was unable to disable the Halos directly, perhaps not knowing their locations, and so the only chance he had to stop the coming cataclysm was to secure the Ark and stop the firing sequence from there. While he did not know the location of the Ark, he was aware of a method to reach it via the portals andKey Ships. The Forerunners subsequently destroyed or disabled most of the keyships to stall Mendicant's assault. However, Mendicant Bias managed to locate (or thought he had located) one of the remaining keyships; this led to the final, titanic naval battle with Offensive Bias. Mendicant's fatal mistake was that he had come to hold the Forerunners in abject contempt — his rampancy clouded his perceptions, such that he failed to anticipate the possibility of facing another AI. The Halos were then fired and ultimately, Mendicant Bias was outsmarted and defeated by Offensive Bias who used the now crewless ships as explosive triggers.
Repentance and Redemption
Icons used to identify Mendicant Bias in Terminal communications.“For eons I have watched. Listened to you misinterpret. This is not Reclamation. This isReclaimer.”
— Mendicant Bias revealing theCovenant's error.
“I will reject my bias and make amends... My makers are my masters. I will bring them safely to the Ark”
— Mendicant Bias declaring his penance.
Offensive Bias intended to bring the vanquished Mendicant Bias to Installation 00 for study. In order to prevent Mendicant from subverting or harming him, Offensive Bias broke the Compound Mind of Mendicant Bias into its component sections and scattered them throughout the few remaining ships of his fleet for transport. Only a part of Mendicant made it to the Ark.One shard of Mendicant Bias' personality construct array was left on a Forerunner Dreadnought and lost. The ship was later found by the Covenant and installed in High Charity. Mendicant Bias' presence was known to the Covenant and it was regarded as an Oracle.
In 2525, the Mendicant Bias fragment on the Forerunner Dreadnought in High Charity,was "consulted", or rather interrogated, by the Minister of Fortitude and the Vice Minister of Tranquility concerning the large number of Forerunner artifacts or "Holy Relics" on Harvest. In a shocking revelation Mendicant Bias revealed that the "Holy Relics" were actually humans and that the Covenant faith was based on an age-old mistranslation. The glyph on theLuminary was mistaken as "reclamation" when it truly meant "Reclaimer". This had the potential to completely undermine the Covenant's unity and faith. A political revolution ensued to prevent this and, ultimately, led to the Human-Covenant war.
The AI seems to have concluded that its ancient actions against the Forerunner had been mistaken and announced to its Covenant hosts its intention to bring the "reclaimers" to the Ark. To this end it attempted to leaveHigh Charity by launching the dreadnought, an act that would have seriously damaged High Charity. Mendicant Bias was foiled only by chance; it was disconnected by some Lekgoloworms wriggling inside the ship. The AI was more formally disconnected afterward to prevent it from commandeering the ship again.
During the Battle of High Charityin October 2552, the UNSC AICortana fought Mendicant Bias to delay the launching of the dreadnought, allowing SPARTANJohn-117 to board it and return to Earth. In the proceeding events Mendicant Bias was carried through the Voi portal to Installation 00, where the missing shard was finally reunited with the part that resided in the Ark's systems.On the Ark, it attempted to communicate with John-117 through Terminals, claiming it sought atonement by helping the Spartan. Exactly what form that assistance took is uncertain.
“And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.”
— Mendicant Bias to John-117.
This reclaimed sanity seems to suggest that some AIs might be sophisticated enough to come back from rampancy. It may also have reached metastability, in which an AI can be said to have a conscience equal to that of a sentient being.
Seeming as the Master Chief collection is coming out soon I thought I would tell u guys about Mendicant Bias because I think that he will be in halo 5 and so this is all of the information I know so far
05-032 Mendicant BiasService information
Began service
100,043 BCE
Ended service
Late 2552 (Possibly destroyed withInstallation 00 on December 11th 2552)
Physical information
Gender
Masculine programming
Description
Teardrop-shaped casing with three eyes and a glyph in the center.
Normal color
Blue;red when rampant
Historical information
Affiliation
ForerunnerEcumeneFloodCovenant EmpireUnited Nations Space Command
Primary function
Combat the Gravemind
Notable battles
Forerunner-Flood WarHuman-Covenant war[Source] [Talk]
“And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions.”
— Mendicant Bias in the lastterminal of Halo 3
05-032 Mendicant Bias was aContender-class Forerunner Artificial intelligence. He was the most advanced Forerunner AI at the time of his creation, and was charged with organizing Forerunner defense against theFlood before his defection to theGravemind, who ultimately caused him to become rampant, and turn against his creators.
Biography
Beginnings
Created in 100,043 BCE, by theUr-Didact and the Master Builder, Mendicant Bias' purpose was the control of all Forerunner defenses, including the fabled Halos, but only under dire emergencies. The Master Builder, without authorization of the Ecumene Council, tasked Mendicant Bias with the interrogation of The Captive, after its release on Charum Hakkor following the Halo's test firing, in place of the Lifeworkers due to the Master Builder'sdistrust for them. The period of this questioning was forty-three years, where Mendicant Bias attempted to find weakness.Mendicant Bias was listed missing by the Master Builder before returning to overlook the second testing of the halo on theSan'Shyuum quarantine system. Mendicant Bias sent the logs of his interrogation to his Forerunner masters, who apparently never received the transmissions. Eventually, The Captive persuaded Mendicant Bias to abandon the Forerunners and defect to the Flood cause, convincing him that the Forerunners were so gluttonous and prideful as to deny the next step of evolution: the Flood.The Captive insinuated that by clinging to the legend of theMantle, the Forerunners had doomed the galaxy to eternal stagnation; the only way for the galaxy to progress was for superior beings to "restart" it. These superior beings, unsurprisingly, took the form of Compound Minds such as Gravemind and Mendicant Bias himself. Although the 43-year long conversation logs between Mendicant Bias and The Captive were sent back to the Forerunners, they believed that Mendicant would automatically fulfill its objective and destroy The Flood, and so did not intervene. Convinced by The Captive's arguments, Mendicant Bias intentionally becamerampant, developed a hatred for his creators and actively worked toward their destruction, starting with using five of the original twelve Halos to attack the Forerunner capital. The remaining seven returned to the Ark along with Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, the Councilor Splendid Dust of Ancient Suns, and the Warrior Servant Glory of a Far Dawn.
Fall from Grace
“What has taken you millennia to create, I erase in seconds.”
— Rampant Mendicant Bias
The now-rampant Mendicant Bias defects to the Flood.
The now rampant Mendicant then attacked with a fleet of over five million ships and completely obliterated the Maginot Sphere, and forced the Forerunners to accelerate work on the Halo Array. In order to give them time to complete the Halos' work, the Forerunners created another AI,Offensive Bias, to slow Mendicant Bias' advance. Offensive Bias lacked Mendicant's creativity, and possibly his free will, but was more methodically lethal. His only purpose was to prevent Mendicant Bias from accessingInstallation 00, and buying time to activate the Halo Array.
It seems that Mendicant Bias was unable to disable the Halos directly, perhaps not knowing their locations, and so the only chance he had to stop the coming cataclysm was to secure the Ark and stop the firing sequence from there. While he did not know the location of the Ark, he was aware of a method to reach it via the portals andKey Ships. The Forerunners subsequently destroyed or disabled most of the keyships to stall Mendicant's assault. However, Mendicant Bias managed to locate (or thought he had located) one of the remaining keyships; this led to the final, titanic naval battle with Offensive Bias. Mendicant's fatal mistake was that he had come to hold the Forerunners in abject contempt — his rampancy clouded his perceptions, such that he failed to anticipate the possibility of facing another AI. The Halos were then fired and ultimately, Mendicant Bias was outsmarted and defeated by Offensive Bias who used the now crewless ships as explosive triggers.
Repentance and Redemption
Icons used to identify Mendicant Bias in Terminal communications.“For eons I have watched. Listened to you misinterpret. This is not Reclamation. This isReclaimer.”
— Mendicant Bias revealing theCovenant's error.
“I will reject my bias and make amends... My makers are my masters. I will bring them safely to the Ark”
— Mendicant Bias declaring his penance.
Offensive Bias intended to bring the vanquished Mendicant Bias to Installation 00 for study. In order to prevent Mendicant from subverting or harming him, Offensive Bias broke the Compound Mind of Mendicant Bias into its component sections and scattered them throughout the few remaining ships of his fleet for transport. Only a part of Mendicant made it to the Ark.One shard of Mendicant Bias' personality construct array was left on a Forerunner Dreadnought and lost. The ship was later found by the Covenant and installed in High Charity. Mendicant Bias' presence was known to the Covenant and it was regarded as an Oracle.
In 2525, the Mendicant Bias fragment on the Forerunner Dreadnought in High Charity,was "consulted", or rather interrogated, by the Minister of Fortitude and the Vice Minister of Tranquility concerning the large number of Forerunner artifacts or "Holy Relics" on Harvest. In a shocking revelation Mendicant Bias revealed that the "Holy Relics" were actually humans and that the Covenant faith was based on an age-old mistranslation. The glyph on theLuminary was mistaken as "reclamation" when it truly meant "Reclaimer". This had the potential to completely undermine the Covenant's unity and faith. A political revolution ensued to prevent this and, ultimately, led to the Human-Covenant war.
The AI seems to have concluded that its ancient actions against the Forerunner had been mistaken and announced to its Covenant hosts its intention to bring the "reclaimers" to the Ark. To this end it attempted to leaveHigh Charity by launching the dreadnought, an act that would have seriously damaged High Charity. Mendicant Bias was foiled only by chance; it was disconnected by some Lekgoloworms wriggling inside the ship. The AI was more formally disconnected afterward to prevent it from commandeering the ship again.
During the Battle of High Charityin October 2552, the UNSC AICortana fought Mendicant Bias to delay the launching of the dreadnought, allowing SPARTANJohn-117 to board it and return to Earth. In the proceeding events Mendicant Bias was carried through the Voi portal to Installation 00, where the missing shard was finally reunited with the part that resided in the Ark's systems.On the Ark, it attempted to communicate with John-117 through Terminals, claiming it sought atonement by helping the Spartan. Exactly what form that assistance took is uncertain.
“And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.”
— Mendicant Bias to John-117.
This reclaimed sanity seems to suggest that some AIs might be sophisticated enough to come back from rampancy. It may also have reached metastability, in which an AI can be said to have a conscience equal to that of a sentient being.