Here is the abridged version of the theory since I dont feel like typing out a fuck ton:
343i has been teasing the flood's return hard as fuck since before Halo 4 and the events of Halo 5 are a pretense to it:

Warden Eternal is corruped by the logic plague. His contraction of it is probably linked to the miraculously reemergence of the Domain which is being caused by Flood/Precursors somewhere. The Logic Plague is what is causing his seemingly mad assertion that AIs are the true re-claimers of the Mantle, since nothing else I can think of could have convinced a forerunner AI of something so blatantly untrue. The point of him enabling Cortana's power grab is to have control over anything capable of resisting the flood when they return, including the all important Halo Array. With what was set up it would be all to easy for the Warden to spread the Logic plague to not just Cortana who is in control of everything currently, but all of the other AIs too. In fact it's possible that Cortana may have already be corrupted, as it was the Warden who convinced her to carry out the plan, and her general behavior  in Halo 5 seems to be odd to say the least, even when you do factor in her rampancy.

What do you guys think? Did I overlook anything>

Don't overthink it.

Many did with Halo 5 and their theories.

sperging over Pizza skins

God forbid we dislike the direction of Halo 5.

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on March 01, 2016, 03:05:04 AM

sperging over Pizza skins

God forbid we dislike the direction of Halo 5.

Allow me to clarify.
I wanted to have a discussion about a possible route the story may be taking and not about bloody weapon skins or multiplayer  or  having "the greatest hunt in video game history" and "Lock Requested" spammed 37 billion more times. I don't have a problem with your dislike of 343's direction but the shit about pizza skins burying the discussion about something else entirely is what i'm trying to avoid.

Quote from: Fedorekd™ on March 01, 2016, 03:12:00 AM

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on March 01, 2016, 03:05:04 AM

sperging over Pizza skins

God forbid we dislike the direction of Halo 5.

Allow me to clarify.
I wanted to have a discussion about a possible route the story may be taking and not about bloody weapon skins or multiplayer  or  having "the greatest hunt in video game history" and "Lock Requested" spammed 37 billion more times. I dont have a problem with your dislike of 343's direction but the shit abot pizza skins burring the discussion about something else entirely is what i'm trying to avoid.

Yeah, I know. It was your use of "sperging" that was unnecessary.

Here is the abridged version of the theory since I dont feel like typing out a fuck ton:
343i has been teasing the flood's return hard as fuck since before Halo 4 and the events of Halo 5 are a pretense to it:

Warden Eternal is corruped by the logic plague. His contraction of it is probably linked to the miraculously reemergence of the Domain which is being caused by Flood/Precursors somewhere. The Logic Plague is what is causing his seemingly mad assertion that AIs are the true re-claimers of the Mantle, since nothing else I can think of could have convinced a forerunner AI of something so blatantly untrue. The point of him enabling Cortana's power grab is to have control over anything capable of resisting the flood when they return, including the all important Halo Array. With what was set up it would be all to easy for the Warden to spread the Logic plague to not just Cortana who is in control of everything currently, but all of the other AIs too. In fact it's possible that Cortana may have already be corrupted, as it was the Warden who convinced her to carry out the plan, and her general behavior  in Halo 5 seems to be odd to say the least, even when you do factor in her rampancy.

What do you guys think? Did I overlook anything>

No. The Warden Eternal is not showing the signs of logic plague infection, most notably of which is rampancy.

The Logic Plague is what is causing his seemingly mad assertion that AIs are the true re-claimers of the Mantle

Is it really so mad?

We all accept the notion that only Reclaimers and Forerunners can activate Halo, yes?

This becomes especially apparent when even though Tartarus has the Index, he needs Miranda to insert it. Or when Truth needs to push a button, he needs Johnson to push it. Yet when Chief needs to activate Installation 04b, Cortana actually activates it. It's not like she inserted the Index's code, and Chief had to authenticate or confirm. She did by herself.

Based on the train of thought I just laid out, we can logically conclude the Cortana IS a Reclaimer.