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{{Status|RealWorld}} | {{Status|RealWorld}} | ||
{{Novel infobox | {{Novel infobox | ||
|name= | |name=Halo: Primordium | ||
|image=[[File:HPrimordium - Cover.jpeg|300px]] | |image=[[File:HPrimordium - Cover.jpeg|300px]] | ||
|author=[[Greg Bear]] | |author=[[Greg Bear]] | ||
|publisher=[[Tor Books]] (2012)<br>[[Simon & Schuster]] (2019) | |publisher=[[Tor Books]] (2012)<br>[[Simon & Schuster]] (2019) | ||
|publication=[[2012|January 3, 2012]] (original)<br>March 26, 2019 (2019 edition) | |publication=[[2012|January 3, 2012]] (original)<br>March 26, 2019 (2019 edition) | ||
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|length=384 pages (original)<br>400 pages (2019 edition) | |length=384 pages (original)<br>400 pages (2019 edition) | ||
|ISBN=[[Special:BookSources/0765323974|0765323974]], [[Special:BookSources/978-0765323972|978-0765323972]], [[Special:BookSources/978-1982111779|978-1982111779]] | |ISBN=[[Special:BookSources/0765323974|0765323974]], [[Special:BookSources/978-0765323972|978-0765323972]], [[Special:BookSources/978-1982111779|978-1982111779]] | ||
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==Official summary== | ==Official summary== | ||
{{Article | {{Article Quote|What am I, really? A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends. Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies — a greater reach than any human before me. You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the true Reclaimers, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story. Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas…<ref name="tor">[http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/halo-primordium-excerpt '''Tor.com''': ''Halo: Primordium (Excerpt)'']</ref>}} | ||
==Plot synopsis== | ==Plot synopsis== | ||
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A fleet led by the [[IsoDidact|Bornstellar Didact]] then appears, and the Didact uses a failsafe code to disable Mendicant Bias. The Didact then enters the Cartographer and commands that the Halo be saved by moving it to an [[Ark]] installation for repairs. To successfully move through a [[Slipspace portal|portal]], however, the Halo must shed a large portion of its constituent structure, thus reducing its diameter from 30,000 kilometers to 10,000 kilometers. Though heavily damaged, the Halo survives and moves through the portal. | A fleet led by the [[IsoDidact|Bornstellar Didact]] then appears, and the Didact uses a failsafe code to disable Mendicant Bias. The Didact then enters the Cartographer and commands that the Halo be saved by moving it to an [[Ark]] installation for repairs. To successfully move through a [[Slipspace portal|portal]], however, the Halo must shed a large portion of its constituent structure, thus reducing its diameter from 30,000 kilometers to 10,000 kilometers. Though heavily damaged, the Halo survives and moves through the portal. | ||
Shortly afterward, the Didact brings a mortally wounded Chakas | Shortly afterward, the Didact brings a mortally wounded Chakas — who is already undergoing conversion into a monitor — with him to confront the Primordial, who has been imprisoned. The ensuing conversation reveals that the Primordial is actually a Gravemind, and that more Precursors may have survived [[Forerunner-Precursor war|their war with the Forerunners]]. The Didact claims that war happened because the Precursors resented any who might take up the [[Mantle]], but the Primordial explains that the Forerunners had been deemed unfit for the Mantle. The Primordial asserts that "there is no difference" between the Flood and the Precursors, although it does not reveal the precise nature of their relationship. It also reveals that no human was ever truly immune to the Flood, but the Flood can choose whether to infect or not infect. The Primordial states that the Flood is a test to judge a species' worthiness of inheriting the Mantle, stating that the Forerunners are to be eliminated and that humans will be tested next once they rise again. At the conversation's conclusion, the Didact kills the Primordial by activating a [[Slipspace bubble|reverse stasis chamber]] that forces the Primordial to go through a billion years of aging in several seconds, causing it to disintegrate. | ||
Back at present day, the ONI researchers reluctantly accept that the monitor telling the story is actually [[343 Guilty Spark]], the monitor of [[Installation 04]]. In the final segment of the story, Guilty Spark briefly explains what happened after he had become a monitor; he reveals that the [[Ecumene Council]] was reinstated and the debates on new strategies against the Flood renewed under the direction of the Didact. He also notes that Riser and Vinnevra survived and were relocated on an Ark under the Librarian's care, with Riser eventually being returned to Earth. | Back at present day, the ONI researchers reluctantly accept that the monitor telling the story is actually [[343 Guilty Spark]], the monitor of [[Installation 04]]. In the final segment of the story, Guilty Spark briefly explains what happened after he had become a monitor; he reveals that the [[Ecumene Council]] was reinstated and the debates on new strategies against the Flood renewed under the direction of the Didact. He also notes that Riser and Vinnevra survived and were relocated on an Ark under the Librarian's care, with Riser eventually being returned to Earth. | ||
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*[[Forerunner-Flood war]] | *[[Forerunner-Flood war]] | ||
**[[Fate of Maethrillian]] | **[[Fate of Maethrillian]] | ||
*[[Forerunner-Precursor war]] {{Mo}} | *[[Forerunner-Precursor war]] {{Mo}} | ||
*[[Human-Forerunner wars]] {{Mo}} | *[[Human-Forerunner wars]] {{Mo}} | ||
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**[[Battle of Janjur Qom]] {{Mo}} | **[[Battle of Janjur Qom]] {{Mo}} | ||
|title-6=Vehicles| | |title-6=Vehicles| | ||
*{{Class|Fortress|vessel}} | *{{Class|Fortress|vessel}} | ||
*[[Prime cruiser]] {{Fm}} | *[[Prime cruiser]] {{Fm}} | ||
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*[[Lifeworker beacon]] | *[[Lifeworker beacon]] | ||
*[[Logic plague]] | *[[Logic plague]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Metarch]] | ||
*[[Mind transfer]] | *[[Mind transfer]] | ||
*[[Monitor]] | *[[Monitor]] | ||
*[[Sentinel]] | *[[Sentinel]] | ||
**[[Aggressor Sentinel]] | **[[Aggressor Sentinel]] | ||
*[[Slipspace bubble]] | *[[Slipspace bubble]] | ||
*[[Slipspace portal]] | *[[Slipspace portal]] | ||
