In Response To: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs... (Eindrachen)
: "I have witnessed countless empires break before me."
: This seems a bit fuzzy. I might be one or more of any number of things. The
: infighting among humanity before the Covenant. The rebellion within the
: Covenant when the Elites (and, not long after, the Hunters) finally rise
: up against the Brutes. Her knowledge (and/or maybe even recordings) of the
: fall of the Forerunners to the Flood. And, if we assume this is the most
: "future" transmission (after the events of Halo 3), perhaps a
: reference to the destruction of the Flood... or of every other species
: other than the Flood.
Or, as she herself mentions in the conversations booklet, maybe she's just watching human empires (Greeks, Romans, British, etc) break and fall apart and crumble to dust through a replay function. Just a thought.
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