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===Early history=== | ===Early history=== | ||
{{Quote|Mendicant Bias... Beggar after knowledge. That is the name I gave you after we last met.|[[IsoDidact|Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting]], spoken through by [[Ur-Didact|the Didact]]'s memories.}} | {{Quote|Mendicant Bias... Beggar after knowledge. That is the name I gave you after we last met.|[[IsoDidact|Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting]], spoken through by [[Ur-Didact|the Didact]]'s memories.}} | ||
Mendicant Bias was created by [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]] and the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] following the [[human-Forerunner wars]], after the initial Flood attack on the [[Milky Way]] had been pushed back by [[Prehistoric human civilization|early humanity]]. After the Flood returned and the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] began, Mendicant Bias was placed in charge of all Forerunner defenses, and tasked with resisting the Flood by studying and exploiting the weaknesses of the Flood compound intelligence. Primary extensions of the AI were placed on all of the original twelve [[Halo Array|Halo installations]].<ref name="p190">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 190-192''</ref> | Mendicant Bias was created by [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]] and the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] following the [[human-Forerunner wars]], after the initial Flood attack on the [[Milky Way]] had been pushed back by [[Prehistoric human civilization|early humanity]]. After the Flood returned and the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] began, Mendicant Bias was placed in charge of all Forerunner defenses, and tasked with resisting the Flood by studying and exploiting the weaknesses of the Flood compound intelligence. Primary extensions of the AI were placed on all of the original twelve [[Halo Array|Halo installations]].<ref name="p190">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 190-192''</ref>{{Ref/Note|The ''Halo 3'' terminals present a decidedly different version of the origins of Mendicant Bias: in the terminals, Mendicant is created in the later stages of the Flood war to assault the Gravemind directly (as opposed to over a thousand years beforehand), and its defection immediately precedes its final battle with Offensive Bias. As with many other details in the terminals, the differences to ''The Forerunner Saga'' are explained as manipulation of the terminal transmissions by Mendicant Bias itself.}} | ||
As part of its assignment, in approximately [[97,495 BCE]], the AI was tasked to conduct the very first test-firing of a Halo ring at [[Charum Hakkor]] with the [[Ecumene Council|Old Council]]'s authority. [[Installation 07]], fired on a system-wide power setting, leveled Charum Hakkor's plentiful [[Precursor]] structures and eradicated all neurologically complex life across the system. An unexpected development of this test was the emancipation of an ancient being known as the [[Primordial]], seemingly an archaic form of [[Gravemind]] claiming to be the last Precursor. When the Primordial was brought to Installation 07 for study, at the Master Builder's orders, it entered into an extended conversation with the AI.<ref name="p190"/> | As part of its assignment, in approximately [[97,495 BCE]], the AI was tasked to conduct the very first test-firing of a Halo ring at [[Charum Hakkor]] with the [[Ecumene Council|Old Council]]'s authority. [[Installation 07]], fired on a system-wide power setting, leveled Charum Hakkor's plentiful [[Precursor]] structures and eradicated all neurologically complex life across the system. An unexpected development of this test was the emancipation of an ancient being known as the [[Primordial]], seemingly an archaic form of [[Gravemind]] claiming to be the last Precursor. When the Primordial was brought to Installation 07 for study, at the Master Builder's orders, it entered into an extended conversation with the AI.<ref name="p190"/> | ||
