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Halo: Cryptum
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Written by award-winning author Greg Bear in 2011, Halo: Cryptum is the first book in The Forerunner Saga, a series of science-fiction novels set in the universe of the Halo video game franchise.The book takes place during the time of the Forerunners, the ancient race that built the Halo rings encountered in the games. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The modern War Sphinxes against the Didact's. The latter put up no resistance and are smashed, sliced, and obliterated. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Bornstellar escapes the Capitol, Glory and Dust both live, and Bornstellar becomes the Didact and spends a stretch of time with his wife; however, the original Didact has been apparently executed, the Forerunner Capitol found itself on the business end of a Halo, and the Flood is now in full assault. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Mendicant Bias turns rampant, sides with the Flood, and declares war on his creators. | |
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Recursive Precursors | |
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Recursive Precursors: The Forerunners are preceded by an older, even more highly advanced race called - you guessed it - the Precursors. The Forerunners themselves are viewed the same way by other alien civilizations in the modern day. Fun fact: the name "Forerunner" is not, as you might expect, a Translation Convention based on the name humans and Covenant use for them; it's actually a close translation of the species' name for themselves, and Bornstellar even notes that it implies that they are merely a stepping stone towards something else, and perhaps better. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: The Timeless One. Also, the backstory for the Flood seems to involve ancient ships containing canisters full of dust-like proteins which seemed benign and even useful at first. | |
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Rebellious Spirit | |
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Rebellious Spirit: Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting in the beginning. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: Heavily implied with the Confirmer. Halo really loves this trope. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Forerunners toward... well, everybody who isn't a Forerunner. Bornstellar mentions that his teachers told him humans were not much more than animals (which he disagrees with upon meeting some). The Master Builder calls a San'Shyuum a "dirt beast", the "most obscene slur for someone not of [their] race". Heck, their racism extends even within their own race. Nobody likes or respects the Warrior-Servants because the Mantle stresses pacifism (ironically, Warriors are shown to be the most devout and honorable followers of the doctrine). The Master Builder especially; he probably considers his rate of Forerunner the only really worthy one. | |
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Sealed Badass in a Can | |
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Sealed Badass in a Can: The Didact is found by Bornstellar inside of a Cryptum, or sarcophagus, where he has been hibernating for thousands of years. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: The very nature and setting of the story makes these commonplace. Though some big ones are dropped near the beginning rather casually with little drama surrounding them, there are many universe-changing ones. First among them seems to be the revelation about the ancient human empire that existed contemporary to the late Forerunners. A particularly big one is in the very end: | |
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Final Battle | |
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Final Battle: Also the largest-scale battle scene in the series. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: The Flood, although they're only briefly mentioned. Also, the Timeless One. When a group of humans attempted to communicate with it, it told them things so horrifying that they promptly lost their minds and committed suicide. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Faber, the Master Builder. He not only commissioned the Halo Array in the first place, but he's also an all-around jerk, and whenever he shows up in a star system it's generally bad news bears. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: The Flood, who are not mentioned until halfway through the book, and whose actions are only seen through their ally Mendicant Bias. | |
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Cool Ship | |
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Cool Ship: The Didact's Planet-Breaker. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The millennial seal on the Didact's Cryptum was sealed by two forces known as the "wisdom of Harbou" and "strength of Lang". This is a shout out to the German actress and author Thea von Harbou and her director husband Fritz Lang, who were married and made several films together. | |
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I Know Your True Name | |
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I Know Your True Name: The Didact's consciousness within Bornstellar tries this with Mendicant Bias, to the letter. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: The Librarian's plan to reunite with her husband involved millennial genetic commands given to humans, a self-constructing ship hidden under a mountain, and calling favors from multiple Forerunner officials over a thousand years. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Glory of a Far Dawn. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: This is actually explained in the beginning of the book, where all terms and idioms are said to have been translated to understandable words. | |
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet | |
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet: "This station was located on the system's third planet, known as Erde-Tyrene: a forsaken place, obscure, sequestered, and both the origin and final repository of the last of a degraded species called human." | |
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