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Halo: Broken Circle CHAPTER 1
Dreadnought Keyship

Conference Deck

The Age of Reconciliation

Despite his current status as Minister of Relic Safety, High Lord Mken ‘Scre’ah’ben—the Prophet of Inner Conviction—was always a bit intimidated by the Chamber of Decision. Those he was expected to worship had presumably sat here, at this long, sweeping translucent table within the Dreadnought. The San’Shyuum used their own chairs, but the rest of the room remained just as the Forerunners had left it. The table itself seemed imbued with fractals, animated nesting scrolls that moved into and out of larger forms: three-dimensional, then two-dimensional, then three again. The area faced not a window so much as simply a transparent wall. The hub of the spiral galaxy itself glowed effulgently blue, in places streamed with scarlet and purple nebulae, wheeling with unspeakable immensity, ever transforming...


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Halo: Broken Canon Excerpt
FTFY
I thought I misspelled excerpt so I was going back and forth confused as hell.

Then I saw it. Kek.


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This might just end up being the last piece of genuinely good Covenant lore released for several years.

Savor it.


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Also, lol at Anton telling me the Kig-Yar were exaggerating when they said the Sangheili were indoctrinated in Mortal Dictata.


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Also, lol at Anton telling me the Kig-Yar were exaggerating when they said the Sangheili were indoctrinated in Mortal Dictata.

When did this happen? The conversation, I mean.


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You know Anton, his idea of modern Sangheili was that they were the equivalent of the Broken Circle Sangheili. So when Mortal Dictata came out, I noticed the Kig-Yar (on multiple occasions) noted that the Elites were indoctrinated by the Prophets.

Anton refuted that by saying they were exaggerating because they despised them.

But you know, it made sense to me. Because if you have a self sustaining civilization capable of great feats that in 3,000 years has trouble making barns, some really serious shit went down.

"The Elites are blind, Arbiter! But I will make them see."


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You know Anton, his idea of modern Sangheili was that they were the equivalent of the Broken Circle Sangheili. So when Mortal Dictata came out, I noticed the Kig-Yar (on multiple occasions) noted that the Elites were indoctrinated by the Prophets.

Anton refuted that by saying they were exaggerating because they despised them.

But you know, it made sense to me. Because if you have a self sustaining civilization capable of great feats that in 3,000 years has trouble making barns, some really serious shit went down.

"The Elites are blind, Arbiter! But I will make them see."

I haven't actually been in a debate with Anton given how much I keep forgetting to give a sh1t about Nu-Covie lore, but I always assumed that he was complaining about the very design choice of having them indoctrinated and not the logistics behind it. I mean, it makes a... sh1tton of sense?


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Well, evidently the Writ of Union wasn't as glamorous as the Prophets made it out to be. Which is funny considering Frankie says that the Prophets warp everything they touch. Either way, however it should have been in Anton's eyes, the Elites are indoctrinated and Broken Circle is showing how and why.

First impression I got from the first chapter is it being a xeno-dystopian novel.