: 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?

Yeah I remember that being relatively explicit. I'd guess at this point they're tossing out everything from the Halo 3 terminals. It really is a shame.
: 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?