: From the new Mendicant Bias article: "Subsequently, Mendicant was
: sentenced and locked away on the Ark installation. This would not be
: permanent, however, and sometime after the activation of Halo, the AI
: would escape into a Forerunner dreadnought, attempting to make amends for
: its crimes against its makers by aiding humanity. The ancilla’s efforts
: were cut short, however, with the dreadnought crashed onto Janjur Qom, the
: nascent homeworld of the San’Shyuum."

: From MB's own statements in the Halo 3 terminals I was always under the
: impression that the MB fragment on the dreadnought and the one on the Ark
: were separate offshoots of Mendicant Bias and the AI was made whole again
: when the "missing shard" on the dreadnought reconnected with the
: one imprisoned on the Ark. Was this information taken into consideration
: in that article?

: Other than that, in this version, it's hard to imagine how MB could've
: escaped from his tomb on the Ark, or how/why he would end up on the
: San'Shyuum homeworld after escaping - wouldn't the portal from the Ark
: lead him straight to Earth?

This is a giant 'what if' but I've said before given the vista we see in High Charity with the Dreadnought at the center of the Covenant city, what if High Charity (or a portion that perhaps came with the Dreadnought when it left the Prophets' homeworld was actually an identical portal system like at Voi, except the Covenant didn't know it? What if they could have activated the Dreadnought where it stood at the center of High Charity and we would have seen 7 giant arms lift up, wrecking the holy city and then producing a portal to the Ark? That would have been something to see.