Forum:Catalog
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Thought a forum topic on thoughts and speculation regarding Halo Waypoint's Catalog character might be appropriate.
On the whole this is something I've wanted to see for a long time and the best thing 343i has come up with in a while. Not only in providing answers for us fans but also as a two-way process, potentially alerting the 343 Industries writing team to issues they might need to look into or subjects the fans may want to hear about. I hope this thing is going to last as long as possible, though the queries have already piled up so much that Catalog is going to be processing them for months if it doesn't speed up its processing.
I'm not too sold on the gratuitous Latin ("cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelom" = "of which it is only by his even unto the Heavens - what is that supposed to mean?), the avoidance of questions that could realistically be answered (the exact nature of the "sublimation device" at X-50 or the Reverence/Covenant cruiser classification), or the sometimes obtrusive ambiguity.
Moving on, I wonder if Catalog is actually the Halo universe technical writer recently hired by 343i. It could also be many people posting under one alias, mirroring the nature of the in-universe Catalog (though given the consistency of the posts' presentation I'd wager it's one person who consults the rest of the writing team when necessary). --Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 17:13, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
Johnson's Flood immunity
"Catalog, can the augmentation process that made Sergeant Major Avery Junior Johnson "immune" to Flood infection be replicated?"
"Query Answer: No known biological [scaffolding] augmentation impedes efficacy of parasite conversion process."
- I suppose we finally get a confirmation on the ambiguity of whether Johnson survived because a quirk in his ORION augmentations somehow made him immune or just because of his combat skill alone (I thought the latter was already made clear by Breaking Quarantine). Either that, or it's because the Flood chose to ignore him.--Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 17:13, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
Reclaimers
"Query Answer: "Reclaimer" is not a legitimate client species status. Edom [control] reference New Council emergency directives [leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant] given on authority of [Librarian] and [Didact]. Master Juridical concurrence not recorded [ius nullum?]. Status conferred by analysis of geas [symphonia]."
"Alert! Substantial alteration of [canonical] implemention of Human [supplicium] detected in [symphonia] scope."
- The Ur-Didact is apparently not the only Forerunner who has a problem with the Reclaimer thing. Then again, Catalog has been left out of the loop on some matters for a very long time so its information is probably outdated. I'm thinking the last part is referring to the Librarian's own, unsanctioned modifications to humanity's geas which were, originally, supposed to be punitive in nature as mandated by the Old Council.--Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 17:13, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
Installation 07's quarantine?
"What is the status of Installation 07's quarantine?"
"Query Answer: Records provided to Human naval authorities by allied [macto cognatus] indicate implementation of adequate containment and sterilization protocols within infected zone. Edom [control] unable to contact installation monitor for [ERR,REGRES] cycles. Requesting [site] status from ecumene [control]."
- I wonder if this was supposed to be referring to Installation 05? Installation 07 has no quarantine that we know of. And wasn't the Flood on Installation 07 fully contained before it was sent to its final location - as in, it wouldn't have an "infected zone"? --Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 17:13, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
Didact's Epilogue speech
"Query Answer: Selected quote is part of [evidential] proceedings recorded in local [cache] prior to loss of Domain contact."
- When this happened is anyone's guess, since we know it couldn't have happened in Silentium.--Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 17:13, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
Technical briefing
"Query Answer: A technical architecture briefing of client species is currently under construction by [scriba]."
- 343i is working on a proper Halo universe technical manual which actually goes into detail about tech like FTL comms? Would be a dream come true.--Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 17:13, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
Palmer's rank
"Query Answer: Human records indicate that [exploratore] Palmer was [rated] E-4 and placed for acceleration consideration for E-5 at time of transfer."
- Oh, come on. That wasn't the right answer. I get that they want to tell us how great of a combatant she is (no doubt in reaction to some backlash to Spartan Ops that she never gets her hands dirty) but they could've done that while still maintaining the rank that made sense. But it would certainly explain why she seems to be so out of her depth in her current job. A good foot soldier does not automatically a good leader make.--Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 17:13, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
Forerunner Dreadnought
"Query Answer: No [conservation lifeboats] were to be left on indexed planets. Human administrative records indicate archived [Covenant] records are currently being researched by Human and [macto cognatus] [librarian] team at [CE-80-9012 d]."