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[[Frank O'Connor]] has mentioned that the story will have "resonant connections" to ''[[Halo 4]]''.<ref name="SDCC"/>

{{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>}}

The book begins with an ONI science team interrogating a damaged Forerunner [[monitor]], believed to be a duplicate of a previously encountered device, questioning it about the [[Didact]] and the ancient relations between Forerunners and humans. The monitor, revealing that it was once a human named [[Chakas]], then proceeds to tell the story of its origins through a series of flashbacks. Over the course of the story, the monitor breaches [[UNSC Rubicon|the ship]]'s firewall several times, much to the team's dismay. None of the human characters in the present-day segments are identified by name and are only referred to by their titles.