: Metalingus627, I feel we are on the same page.

: When I read the part where the Libraian realizes she left the Ur-Didact, her
: great love, to an untold amount of time without the Domain, it really tore
: me up. The Oranagon (sp), the Star Roads, the blood memory....what the
: Forerunners did to the Precursors was awful, but all it was was survival.

: I see the entire Halo story as both a simple evolutionary struggle, and a
: great and terrible seires of wars and tragedies.

That's one of the great things I love about the story. It's interesting that we seem to have the source of it all now too, every thread of the universe can be traced back to one event: The Forerunners rebellion against the Precursors.

: I loved loved loved that Silentium was prensented in the context of ONI
: research/discoveries, and that it mentioned the ONI being aware of the
: (other? reanimated? huh? what?) 343 Guilty Spark taking over the ship that
: found him. ARGH, could the Librarian survived the Array? Where does Spark
: think she is?

I think it was concluded somewhere that he was retrieved from the Ark, but I have no idea how that would have taken place.

I think if she was still alive she'd be in stasis on Earth somewhere, perhaps near the Portal?

: Lastly, this symbol:
: http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/9/9d/Tiers_Glyph.png ,
: one I have long loved, is explored. I also forget exactly where the Librarian
: saw it and thought about it; likely on the Forerunner colony in Path
: Kethona. She mentions how it is ubiquitous in Forerunner architecture and
: symbology, so much so that it is almost unseen. A symbol of the Mantle. I
: noticed it a number of places in Halo 4. The Eld. The Tree Mark.

I forgot about that! That was quite excellent to see explained as well. I think it's fitting that, as prevalent as that symbol is, it represents something so vital to the Halo back story.