The story of 032 Mendicant Bias
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2016
- Mendicant Bias is one of the most mysterious, cryptic AI constructs to ever exist. It's responsible for the fall of the the Forerunner empire and the deaths of millions of humans and Forerunners. It once belonged to many factions during a war that would change the Halo universe forever, altering the galaxy on a permanent level. This is a character biography you DON'T wanna miss...
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The fact that Cortana barely held up against the Gravemind while Mendicant Bias held up for 43 years just goes to show the gap between humans and Forerunners.
Well kinda. But the ancient humans were more advanced than the humans that made Cortana so that’s to be expected.
I thought it was more of Mendicant Bias didn’t get brute forced like Cortana did. Instead, the Gravemind knew that he didn’t have to use a brute force style method on Mendicant…or at least at that point. I’m sure if the Gravemind felt like he needed to, he’d be able to break Mendicant by force, but it would likely need a different method than Cortana since she was pure AI, so they had at least a slight but major difference.
Yeah plus mendicant was created to counter the flood, Cortina was just an AI designed to help Spartans
@@mikeyrocks8664so how advance is the ancient human? Are they on the same technology level with the Forunner or below them?
@@markswang8987same tier, but not quite at the same level
Mendicant:lul ur gonna die
Offensive:no u
Mendicant:oh shit
crazy Cat boi literally was that fast
Best comment in the entire RUclips Halo community
|R E V E R S E|C A R D|
Sorry cat boi i can't your comment it is exactly at 343 lol please don't hate me
Looks at his own fleet about whats happening. OH SHIT
Mendicant Bias is probably the most notorious fictional character who at the same time isn't well known. You could ask someone who has played all the Halo games thoroughly and they probably won't know what the hell your talking about yet Halo lore fans will talk about him like hes some Hollywood star. It's such a weird but funny phenomenon.
Exactly the same happens in star wars when it comes to kreia and a lot of other characters from the expanded universe
Its all the greater when your both and beat the legendary campaign and he says 'activate Offensive Bias'
Literally only heard of him today, and Ive watched the halo lore anime and played all the games, but yea your right
Lmao facts. I haven’t played a halo game since reach but my RUclips is literally just guns and halo lore😂
MBias is like the Black Zetsu of Halo
TL;DR: Skynet but he's friends with a lovecraftian parasitic plague
This is reality of our world. Parasites control people and AI will evolve to communicate with them.
"I have walked among men and angels for 3000 years, time has no end, no begining, no purpose, i wander the earth seeking forgiveness for my horrible crimes against god and man, i live to see death and destruction, evil over the light, but the light cannot be extinguished, i live in a prision of my own demise, i am lost in time"
Hunter Guadiana that seems like a phrase the primordial would use
@@sorens-0662 that reaaallly sounds like something the doomslayer would say
What is that quote from? If it's a quote at all.
@@Spook-hk8sc Its a reversed message from one of Halo 2's songs. It plays in the opening cutscene to The Arbiter.
Flyinpenguin117 Thanks
Oh cool, so the Human-Covenant war was started because it didn't have grammarly.
Basically
Billions died because three guys couldn’t spell
AutumnOnFire lmfao this comment is just great
Bro lol an app
This sentence is correct but it’s clunky and hard to read with grammerly you can check the best words, arrange your sentence structure, avoid alien wars....
Cortanas story seems to be somewhat mirroring Mendicants. Betraying their creators due to logic plague? Maybe Mendicant will play the role of Offensive bias against Cortana. Maybe Halo wars 2 will have the crew of the SOF bring Mendicant to Sanghelios, lol then we get the classic weapons/tech PLUS Mendicant bias will be with the main heroes!
That would be pretty badass..
I'm just glad they're keeping the whole "history repeats itself" aspect to the story... Cortana being MBias, Chief being BS/Didact just realizing now.. The librarian is more Halsey than Cortana, eh? Hard to say... Maybe I'm looking too deep.
I always on some level thaught that the librarian and Halsey were some sort of connected. they made an very similar impression on me, although I could never pinpoint it down to something concrete.
***** totallyyyy, couldn't agree more.
That would be awesome
Skoopa92 that’s wrong there’s the baninished
My prediction is that Mendicant Bias' remains will replace Cortana as John's AI when he finally updates armor.
J - Serna that might be a little bit scary chief would be unstoppable
siezedbarrel75 As if he's already not unstoppable?
I8pig I know right but if he had mendicent bias then I almost feel bad for the created
J - Serna Wait for Infinite’s next trailer and you’ll see something cool.. :)
Höge he inserts an ai chip, but since Cortana isn’t there... mendicant?
Idk if they can ever implement Mendicat Bias. His lore and history is so vast and rich, they would have to build a game just for him alone (which would be awesome).
Oh and easily MB would win vs guilty spark
That's the thing that bothers me... Everyone was freaking out at the fact that Halo 5 was shit if you hadn't "read any of the books," or "gotten into the expanded lore."
Mostly regarding Blue Team and not knowing who those guys are... SORRY! If you don't know who Blue Team is then wtf... Just wtf... Wtf..
I WANT the games to be more catered to the FANS who HAVE read the books... We deserve to have that area of the universe brought more into the game... Regardless if you know about it or not...
Cause even if you don't - there's definitely been a few times were I've had to look shit up to understand what's going on... Even if it's just to refresh your Haloverse mind lol - you look it up and then your mind explodes cause you had to check out some deep lore shit and then it clicks in your mind and then the whole big bang explosion just-PWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWH!!
That being said... The fact that the Guardians WEREN'T something from pre-established lore.. Really pissed me off...
+Cristiano Rossi 343, WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE SIMPLY ESTABLISHED THAT THE GUARDIANS WERE JUST A HIGHER TIER OF WAR SPHYNX??? WHYYYYYY?!
oh.. whooops, caps.
And sorry, I kinda went off on a rant there a bit.. What I'm trying to say is that, while I do want stuff from the lore to make its way into the game(s) like, as you say, Mendicant Bias... However, at the same time, I kind of like the fact that Halo's always been very esoteric.. Like, it's built in a way that many ppl will miss the hidden messages and deeper plot points... Like the fact that in Halo CE -for crying out loud!!!! - Bungie already had it established that the Master Chief is essentially Bornstellar... Or... (The Didact) whereas - this isn't said explicitly, or anything, but it can be inferred that - Cortana is the Librarian... Only - plot twist - their roles have switched and come to fruition as of Halo 5. Agree? Disagree?
My logic is that Cortana is currently acting like - or as stated in one of these vids I'm pre sure - is being influenced by the Didact. And the Chief is acting with reason, to me, like the Librarian... Eh?
+Cristiano Rossi 343 needs to make a campaign that satisfys all fans:
New
Casual
Lore fans
You just can't make a campaign that doesn't explain anything ingame or build a big universe that isn't going go be explored in the games. I think a campaign that goes deeper on these stories, with good explanations, that does not force the player to buy outer-material to understand and the action and epicness of the first trilogy would be perfect
I didn't know an AI could be such an important character....
Umm all of the halos are a thing due to Cortana lol
Cortana says hello!
*2001: A Space Odyssey, Wargames, Mass Effect, Red vs. Blue, and many more would love to chat with you*
@@michaelandreipalon359 Just adding to that: Portal, System Shock, I have no Mouth and I Must Scream, Wall-E, The Matrix, etc etc
did you try turning it off and on?
@Madhur Kumar Chugh actually, in a way, that's exactly what happened. He was shut down when he was defeated, then when he came back online, he showed remorse for his actions and began seeking atonement.
@Madhur Kumar Chugh ok. I just found it funny that that was essentially what happened
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Beeg Yoshi *confused Indian tech support screaming*
Wait how does an forerunner ai go rampant if cortana finds the mantle and is cured in halo 5?
Awesome job dude! Top notch as always.
What else do you expect from Xhperia? ;)
Niceme.me
The important parts of the Halo lore. Great video.
Boom, nailed it on the head.
So many people just don't understand how awesome Halo really is. So much more than just a game.
Alex Sanchez yup... just thinking.. even Bungie had lore-hidden things in their games.... It is actually AMAZING to think of the seeds that Bungie planted WAY back.... and now we're finally getting into all of that, with 343i. It's amazing.... The biggest Halo plot point is in Halo CE... and I'm sure a LOT of Halo players don't know about it lol it's awesome.
Yeah man I've read all the books up until the last one and cryptum. I'm missing out a lot on not reading cryptum but given the lack of time I can't seem to fit it into my schedule. I rely on videos like these to keep me up to date in rapid format. I really need to buy the new book, I've got all of them including the definitive edition
343 did start putting extended lore into the games, but then people got mad cause they didn't understand it, so 343 saw that and dumbed-down Halo 5, which is why it sucks. Hopefully 343 goes back to what they wanted to do and puts a lot of lore into Halo 6. Halo feels so much bigger when you know about the lore, and I'm sure Halo 6 would feel like that if they'd only just use it. Hopefully they also bring back terminals. Those also help extend the story a bit, and they're super fun to find and interesting to read/watch.
this chanel has only served to complete my understanding of the halo universe.
With novel entries and easter egg video and audio logs.
I need more of these.
I will watch every video to complete this timeline and the lore of my favourite video game universe
Why didn't they just go around the maginot?
Matthew Hughes yeah, why didn't the flood just pass through space-Belgium?
Joe Yuzwa lol damn french runners
god damn level 10 land forts!
Because the Space Belgians actually built their half.
You have to drop to impulse to pass through the Ardennes Nebula though..
I really hope mendicant appears in Halo infinite finally. That would be so cool
Your not gonna believe it…
@@sebastianvargas9599 DONT FUCKING TELL ME IM GOING IN BLIND AS POSSIBLE
Play the game in legendary and just wait for it
Guess what
@@wumpuswoo9946 oh your gonna love the end of legendary
In halo 2 Cortana states that there is something inside high charity fighting back at her, could this have been mendicant Bias ?
I think it was on the level High Charity, it would be super cool if anyone knows, I can't find who or what it was anywhere
Joel Robson Robson Robson Robson yea i think it was too
IamFeeshyFeesh Well Covenant technology was made up of Forerunner technology and High Charity energy was powered by a Forerunner ship
It's him. There was even some line about it on the old bungieforums.
It was.
Three-eyed oracle, gotcha.
Wasn't Mendicent Bias in the possession of the Gravemind during Halo 2?
Edit: Disregard. This was 2401 Penitent Tangent.
I really do like Mendicant Bias. Really wish 343i would take advantage of him, and allow him to be a more prominent character in future instalments. But like you said, perhaps in Halo Wars 2.
Great video!
NOPE.
343 only listened to the fans because they didn’t know shit about Halo hence Guardians. Halo 5 development joke never get old
@@wdf_skar you do realize some of 343 are former Bungie right? And in Halo 4 one of the soundtrack names reference him
"OFFENSIVE BIAS HAS BEEN DEPLOYED"
also im hyped for the floods return in HW2, can't wait to see more cutscenes, like i'm not the only one that will play hw1 and hw2 over and over again mainly to see the cutscenes, right? like the cutscenes are so good, and the story is too, but the cutscenes are amazing.
I feel like mendicant bias represents ultron and offensive bias is vision for some reason
The similarity does seem uncanny.
Yes, except, no.
Please never equate these two universes lol
The forerunners ignored the conversation logs just like casual Halo fans ignore the terminal logs after finding them😂
Lol
Nothing like a Great Halo video to improve one's mood with them good ol' Halo gameplay clips and cutscenes that remind of an amazing franchise Halo was during the era of the original trilogy... Good stuff, Good Times...
Forerunner Tech: "Hey, guys? You think we should keep an eye on the ancilla interacting with that weird compound intelligence? You know, the ancilla that's also installed on all our galaxy-killing weapons?"
Forerunner Supervisor: "Ah the Hell with it. I only get one lunch break a day, and I'm not wasting it."
MB is STILL alive and actively helping Chief. If you play Halo 5 and collect the mission intels, there's certain ones that say "forerunner record xxxxx". It's MB speaking trying to figure out what to do against Cortana and Warden to help Chief reclaim what was lost. To pay for his crimes. He talks about the Domain as well and Genesis. Everything in the Intel lines up perfectly with the story to MB and the lore behind him. Oddly though, MB mentions a new character named (I think) "Sebastian". Idk who that is or what it relates to, but right now, EVERYTHING points to MB showing up in Halo 6. ALSO, the desert trailer with Chief in cloak meeting a differently shaped and colored Guardian, lines up exactly with MB's plan to get Chief to meet up with him - in the Desert, on the Ark. Halo Wars 2 still ends on the Ark and both timelines are lined up. I except Halo 6 to be epic and just blow everyone away with how everything connects.
www.halopedia.org/Unidentified_Builder
Halo 6 anytime now.
Who else wants to see the entire forerunner flood war in an anime
shadow devil bro....my thoughts exactly 😂 wether or not it’s cheesy bs or not idc it’ll be awesome
Why exactly an anime
Cloud cause they already partially made one in halo origins, they could just extend that
What are you trying to say......
i would too but exclude the anime part
Offensive Bias is returning.
Who’s watching this after completing Halo Infinite?
me lmao just completed it
Me
Who wouldn't want to play a Halo game set during the closing days of the Forerunner-Flood War where you play as Bornstellar and have to fire the Halo array at the end of the game? It could be another grimdark and depressing prequel like Halo Reach was.
Wow nicely done dude you always get all the facts right, it's hard to believe you don't have atleast 300k subs!!
Dude this video was composed really well at the start im fast becoming a huge fan of your work
This is so we'll done, I could never wrap my head around the ancient halo lore
I love how all the animated scenes here look like they're straight out of the "Heavy Metal Movie" period of the '80s...hilarious.
Hes such a hugely important character to the lore, I really hope he turns up in Infinite somehow
Most clean cut and understandable summary I've found. Thanks man!
Excellent use of cinematography. Great vid!
Gods, even if it _is_ still functional on some level... can you imagine the cleanup and defragmentation? 😥😟😨😰🤯
damn! a lot of knowledge thrown my way lol! going to have to watch this video out again, good job mamg!
I hope to god he's in halo 6. MB Is one of my favorite characters.
Great job man! You one of my favorite if not MY favorite halo lore RUclips channel. I'm just looking forward to another podcast, I really liked the last one you did with LNG and the 2 other guys.
*halo infinite prediction*
Cortana:you can't defeat me
Chief:oh I know, but he can
*mendicant bias has a badass entrance*
Mendicant Bias: Ima woop all your asses!
5 years ago wow
Very beautifully done, nice work as always :)
You should do a remake of this video. I think its really interesting and I wanna know more but it can get hard to follow at some points. I think if you did like a follow up the community would really appreciate it. Especially given what happened in Infinite
Keep up the great work, cant wait for the next video
Great video mate, very much enjoyed! :D
Dude, great video! I just discovered you yesterday and Ive watched a good amount of your vids. I feel like a flood mastermind now!
With this Halo dry spell, I've had a bit of fun writing my own version of a potential Halo 6 storyline mainly to practice my writing in general. Long story short, Cortana has her forces deactivate the Forerunner quarantine defenses around High Charity and sends the Flood on a rampage in the midst of the Banished ground war (kinda like how the Flood show up in the middle of "the Covenant" in Halo 3). When everyone's attempting to evacuate, the remaining pelican isn't able to lift off due to too much weight being present on the vehicle to produce adequate lift, so Chief decides to stay behind. After the pelican leaves, Mendicant manages to ping Chief with a faint signal, and even takes command of the local wildlife (similar to the Ark's monitor in Hunters in the Dark) to guide him to Mendicant's current location (no longer in the middle of the desert, but instead hidden deep underground in a massive cavern). Once they meet, Mendicant in a way fills the void left in Cortana's wake, even transferring himself onto an empty ai chip (Halo 5 teaser callback).
That's only one small snippet of the storyline I've written. It's on Halo Waypoint if you want to read more. It's simply me brushing up on my writing while also having a LOT of fun speculating. Simply search "If I was a writer for Halo 6..." in the Community Creations forum. I always welcome critique.
Spartan 360 Spartan 360 so bais became his new AI in your story, that sounds very awesome
Sounds like a worth direction. Astrogenesis did similar, on Halowaypoint forums.
Amazing work man. Keep it up
Excellent.
I enjoy your dedication to Halo lore
The new ai in Halo Infinite is Medicant Bias, the evidence for this is that he was a temporary monitor on installation 07 (Zeta Halo) and possibly left remnants of himself behind, it would make sense as this ai has been leading chief for years towards evidence of his existance and has likely been able to manipulate UNSC Vessels such as the Forward Unto Dawn and The Spirt of Fire which both were lead straight to forerunner installations. Medicant Bias sees chief as his example to his creators that he has changed after he fell rampant to the flood and would be the offensive bias to Cortana if this all plays out, the reason the serial number is so strange is that it is a blank chip with no ai on it, that is why there is no name for the ai cause the chip is blank from chief going to zeta halo and collecting the remains of medicant bias so he can lead his example to victory and keep control of the domain so it may not be used by the created. Halo Infinite appears to take place on Zeta Halo or Installation 09 which means Medicant Bias could likely have sent part of his concious onto a terminal that could not be acessed by the created and only a human reclaimer could come and collect him so he may redeem himself to his creators who has long since passed to show he has changed. Medicant Bias has been teased forever about his role and it is time he gives us an appearence in an actual Halo game, he also has knowledge of the flood which carried the Logic Plauge that has infected Cortana. if Medicant bias understands it, there may be a way to cure it (Likely by killing Cortana) and the domain would be under his control and he can then pass on the mantle of responsiblity to his example and likely kill of the prometheans and call back the guardians to Genesis where they can likely be destroyed or disabled, ending the Reclaimer Saga and seeking way for a new saga from 343
I like this theory but I feel that 343 wont do this because of how complicated it would be in the lore
mendicant is such an advanced ai that he probably wouldn't fit on an ai implant. one of the three minds could work though
New cortana lol
damn bro! this is top notch and to the point stuff. you deserve more subscribers.
This was a good video keep up the good work!
Remember when this series was just about being a badass space Marines with a hot blue chick in your head, kicking alien ass?
Still, damn good series, lore-wise.
But it never was. The lore was always there, merely hidden.
Bungie kept lore as window dressing, intentionally vague to keep you intrigued. 343 took the route of allowing every detail to be explained in expanded universe to sell books/scrape the bottom of the barrel for game plotpoints.
Well, we lost the hot blue chick in more ways than one and Halo 5 from a story perspective was bad but 343 has finally made the series theirs. Halo Infinite is absolutely fantastic and while I have not finished it yet I believe we're close to seeing Mendicant Bias in the main games. Unfortunately, Cortana and The Weapon barely resemble what an adult female looks like...they are damn near featureless.
@@ebookjapan8054 which is good.
glad 343 needed expanded the lore, precurser, forerunner, ancient humanity lore is my addiction
thx this vid is huge. watching it every year
Wouldn't that be awesome if we could fit the Flood, the Banished, the Covenant and the Prometheans in the same game? WOW
*fight
+Kurt- -051 For now, Halo 6 seems to be that game, also the banished are going to be tve replacement of the covenant right? Jul is dead and if im not wrong nothing has been told of what happened to the covenant after halo 5
Yes, but there are other Covenant commanders
Correct me if I am wrong, but remaining Covenant could side by side with Banished and Prometheans to fight the flood. And you play as Arby fighting flood.
Amazing video really helped me understand what I read in the forerunner trilogy!
Bahahahahaha!!! Riight?! xD
No offence to the writer, Greg Bear!
i want mendicant bias to be alive, i love his beautiful forerunner shell sooo much
“Offensive Bias has been Deployed”
Mindicant Bias doesn't sound like he's very objective
Well, his name isn't "Objective Bias" is it?
@@bromodragone8405 OOOOOH SNAP. DOG YOU JUST GOT TOOOOOOOLD
Alucard, More Awesome Than Chuck Norris! That's an O X Y M O R O N
keep up the great videos I love your halo content
Is it weird that I find his lore stories so relaxing? It's like hearing a bedtime story.
Another great video from you! :)
Really good recap of a key character in the Halo Universe. Really hope he plays a part in the new Halo games.
Awesome video man :D
Very informative! Thank you!
Awesome work, thanks a lot :)
That is so awesome. I always wondered what those terminals were for
Cool video, very informative! :)
what happened to Offensive Bias after the defeat of Mendicant
Good question
probably chilling and drinking oil xD IFK
Ik this is old, but Offensive Bias served no purpose after defeating Mendicant, Offensive probably shut itself down afterwards.
Self-terminated; he was specifically programmed to do that upon the defeat of Mendicant Bias.
Just realized the Logic Plague is the only version of the Flood that can be resisted. Go 032MB for 43 years.
great video man
Mendicant Bias is a A.I Couldn't he be Master cheif's A.I In the upcoming halo game, Halo Infinite?
It's possible, but is it likely? Who knows
I'd like him to at least APPEAR.
_FadeZ RabbitZ_ It will happen
it could happen but mendicant is probably like, 1000 petabytes. wouldn't fit on a usb
Love your videos!
What if Cortana was infected by the logic plague by the Didact and that's why she's evil in H5?
The Didact isn't Flood so that most likely wouldn't of happened but she is most likely infected by the logic plague through Mendicant Bias and the Gave Mind in High Charity in Halo 2 and in the Domain in the time between Halo 4 & 5
If Cortana has the logic plague, she got it directly from the Gravemind during her captivity at the end of Halo 2. However, in the Forerunner Saga we are treated to evidence that the Flood uses the logic plague on organic beings as well, though to more subtle ends (causing them to make bad decisions which seem like the right thing to do, but ultimately play into the Flood's metaphorical hands).
+Lennard Church interesting... Thanks for te info!
what if Cortana is going to use the logic plague on MC?!
Lightsaber Cortana's actions are likely already the result of the logic plague. She is stable, but not truly sane. The evidence of this is her behavior in Halo 5. A sane person won't think she can make someone agree with her by imprisoning him for ages while she kills everyone else he's ever met. She's turned on humanity the same way Mendicant Bias turned on the Forerunners.
As for Master Chief, the Flood has had many chances to kill him, but it didn't. I believe that Master Chief has been deliberately left as a free agent to enable humanity to attain the Mantle.
This is based on extensive reading of the Forerunner Saga leading me to believe that the Flood's motives didn't change, and that though they're playing the villain throughout the story, their true end goal is the same as the Precursors' original goal (the Precursors existing as eternal beings outside of time would render them unchangeable, and as such their goals wouldn't actually change, so it makes sense that their avatars would pursue the same goals, even though differing tactics could be applied to different points in the timeline).
Finally! This video was great.
I was here because of your Twitter. Thanks for the timings lol
Amazing job:)
It's so strange starting a HiddenXperia video without "Hey guys! Welcome back!" The man's come a long way in his work :)
Man I love these..
Wow, that was an interesting story! Halo lore is juicy.
Awesome stuff, this is why i love halo
this was great info
This is why I hope OG Cortona isn't dead. She needs to still be helping Chief in the background even after Infinite.
Imagine the recreation of this IA fight being the idea behind the two cortanas fight in halo infinite. And 343 delivering the ultimate twist, ultimately bamboozling the whole community :'0
The way this video starts is so epic
Really good video man! How about a video on very thing we know about Terraforming?
awesome man
When the primordial described the flood... It was so horrifiying..most of his questioners commited suicide.
I Think that they should make a game similar to halo wars about Mendicant Bias
More like the entire forerunner war with space battles.
I love videos like this.
Maybe in Halo 6 Master Chief and Locke will go on a mission to contact and perhaps partially repair Mendicant Bias and use him against the created.
I hope him and offensive are still out there they have amazing story potential
i love your editing style so fucking much. the video is nice too i guess ;)
Well made
This makes me want a game that's set during the Forerunners time.
I could dig it, even if the weapon selection would be rather limited.
would be a great opportunity for a flood-focused horror game with massive lore dumps for people who hate reading books
I need a breakdown to this breakdown video so I can actually understand lol
I NEVER KNEW THIS THING EVEN EXISTED?!
I’ve been playing Halo ever since my older brother bought the original xbox, and never knew about this. My mind was blown.