It is partially due to Bias' betrayal that the Forerunners lost and had to activate the … He is recaptured and imprisoned on Halo … Humans, Mendicant Bias said, were to be the "Reclaimers" of the Forerunners' legacy. This revelation would have destroyed the religion that was the foundation of the Covenant. However, as the Ark survived the firing, albeit badly damaged, Mendicant Bias may have survived as well. Halo 07 is test-fired, freeing the last surviving Precursor sealed away millennia earlier by Humanity. This might sound confusing, but there were two Didacts alive at one point. A.I. Didact. Not entirely sure what happened here. It's over in seconds. The books were released in hardcover, e-book, paperback, and audiobook. 100,043 BC: MENDICANT BIAS. That is a lot of stock to throw into this one particular ancilla, however powerful it was. I was in the 19th test chamber, I paused the game to go do something, came back and fired off a Blue Portal. Curb-Stomp Battle: The battle with Mendicant Bias after the Halo Array fired. - - - - - Masterchief heard the AI's words in his Comm channels, only him though, now he knew what Mendicant Bias had meant by helping him in an unseen way. According to 343 Guilty Spark, The Librarian is alive, and he knows where to find her. Mendicant Bias smiled sadly, 'And now we die.' And it seemed that whenever I fired a Blue Portal on the opposite side of the map I fell through the floor. Mendicant Bias was the beating heart of the Didact’s strategy to combat the Flood, the one who would coordinate the entire defence system from Shield World-to-Shield World, across fleet-to-fleet. Foil: To Mendicant Bias. I reloaded my save, because I never died...just kept falling. The Didact created Mendicant Bias after all, and he too defected to the Flood and later sought atonement for his betrayal. He hefted the Spartan Laser and smiled as the Monitor's body fit the reticle perfectly. Mendicant Bias is kept alive by the “Iso” Didact due to his knowledge of the Flood. All of a sudden I am falling through the map. It is placed in charge of Halo 07 and tasked with hunting the Flood Gravemind. Is a Crapshoot: Unlike Mendicant Bias, Offensive Bias is loyal to the Forerunners. Unfortunately, a Flood Gravemind was able to corrupt Mendicant Bias, turning him against his creators. The Forerunner artificial intelligence Mendicant Bias awakens and reveals to three Covenant politicians that the "relics" are in fact the humans themselves—Bias identifies them as descendants of his makers. Looking back at the terminals, relistening to Halo: Rebirth (a audio log you can unlock by using the code that comes with Halo Silentium) I came upon the nugget of information that tells of trial of Mendicant Bias after his defeat by Offensive Bias. He pulled the trigger and watched the power gauge fill up. This has also been said of the Precursors. Badass Boast: The quote above is not a boast, it's an actual fact! Having Cortana and Mendicant Bias be the foil through which the Ur-Didact realises that he can reject the madness thrust upon him and become the noble teacher once again would be an excellent way to tie up his arc. The Prophets decided to unplug Mendicant Bias and propagate the idea that humans were all blasphemers and heretics and that it was the Covenant's duty to wipe them out. It has been said that the remaining Forerunners made an exodus out of the Milky Way Galaxy to which no one knows their current fate. Forerunners create the Mendicant Bias AI to combat the Flood. The Didact, born Shadow-of-Sundered-Star, (voiced by Keith Szarabajka) is a Forerunner military leader and the Halo 4's main antagonist. The Forerunner Saga is a trilogy of science fiction novels by Greg Bear, based on the Halo series of video games.The books in the series are Halo: Cryptum (2011), Primordium (2012), and Silentium (2013).