: No. Look at the practical effect of the Librarian's tampering. Somehow, she
: can claim credit for the precise design of the UNSC's artificial
: intelligences, our power armor, and our augmentations. But how long did it
: take us to get here? A hundred thousand years? Just what were we doing for
: the ninety thousand years between the firing of the Halo array and our
: first civilizations? Can't have been anything too productive, because we
: didn't develop anything so basic as a written record.

: Goes to all the trouble of telling us how to build power armor, and yet she
: didn't include the basics like "This is how you build a fire, this is
: how you cultivate a crop, this is how you write a language". For a
: master planner, she evidently doesn't know how to set her priorities.

She didn't literally leave a note in our genes. Why everyone acts so obtuse and is stuck up on this plot point years afterwards, I just don't get.