Return To The Lesser Ark.

Id like to see a return of Phantom Dust. A lesser known original xbox title, fantastic mp, single player was soley to beef up your inventory for mp games.

I haven't played Ark since Extinction came out but this new map is seriously tempting me to return.

I'm not sure how much demand is for Ark or an Ark bundle. I would say a game pass bundle that says something about Ark would be better or what I would want.

I think that would be a solid solution with respect to profits. Introduce a new or returning xbox gamer to game pass and get them hooked!

No doubt in my mind halo 5 will take place on the Lesser ark and will be about awakening Mendicant Bias. With the trial of Mendicant Bias with the Iso Didact burying him underneath the sands of the ark. Saying he will be needed should the flood return. Now
the Absolute Record. If we remember the third terminal in Halo 3 343 has a conversation with the ark's subroutine AI and 343 asks who he is. He answers with all our makers once held dear Alexandria before the fire. You know the largest Library in the world
the one in Egypt that was burned to the ground sounds like an absolute record to me. The same terminal also mentions they found the last shard which is Bias he was broken up into fragments. Now Bias has a huge amount of knowledge from the domain as well as
the flood so he would know how to beat them as well. Now i shall leave you with some quotes from the IRIS Campaign and Silentium.

MB05032

You asked me once, what happened to those who vanished?

You asked me, why did we survive where our fathers fell?

You wished to know how we ever let it happen

A scourge that consumed the galaxy

And the cure that was worse than the cancer

You asked me once about my intent

And the spot that would not wash out

I promise you the answers lie in the Ark

Find me there in the dark

For that is where I abide

I Promise you answers lie in the ark find me there in the dark for that is where i abide. Sounds a lot like a reference to Mendicant Bias being buried under the sands of the ark in his tomb by the Iso Didact.

The Halo 3 terminal i mentioned.

Explanation: This facility is host to the [Librarians'] final –

04-343 (errant): The archive is intact?! Then our makers’ plan –

But also maintains [bellows, crucible, castings]

04-343 (errant): A what?

[bellows, crucible]–

04-343 (errant): Vexation! I am the Monitor of –

Judgement: Your authority means nothing here.

04-343 (errant): Impatience!

04-343 (errant): I have told you who I am. Who are you?

All our makers once held dear.

[Alexandria before the Fire].

“04-343 (errant): Sincere apology. But how –

Explanation: This facility is host to the [Librarians'] final –

04-343 (errant): The archive is intact?! Then our makers’ plan –

But also maintains [bellows, crucible, castings]

04-343 (errant): A what?

[bellows, crucible]–

04-343 (errant): A Foundry?

04-343 (errant): For what purpose?!

Warning: Your intrusion has been logged.

Advice: Any further attempt to access will result–

04-343 (errant): Indignant!

Last but not least the Librarians last thoughts while she is on Earth before the activation of the Halo's. “I can only hope that they will survive and upon returning, that they will find this portal and use it to travel to the Ark – in order that they might
discover their rightful place in this galaxy and the great responsibility they have finally inherited.”

Again mentioning the ark to discover their great responsibility this is an obvious reference to the Mantle and the Librarian saying the humans have earned it. Which is Echoed in halo 4 twice by the Librarian's archived personality. Once to John and once
to Halsey. In order to gain the Mantle humanity would need more tech so the ark in my opinion is the record.

Also in Silentium the flood have 90% of the galaxy the only unknown location is the Lesser ark. Only Master Builder Faber and later the Iso Didact the only ones knowing its location. The Absolute Record is something you would want to hide from the flood
and whats the only location hidden the Lesser Ark.

So I assume as the running theme seems to be once great beings falling into madness that over the loss of the Librarian, destruction of one of the Halo rings and damage of the Ark this Didact is probably on a witch hunt for the one responsible.

All spectuation but if I were the Didact, upon finding all this out I would return to the Ark and search the surounding area for MC. (Probably what happend.)

I'm guessing Requiem is the Didacts safe haven.