Halo Primordium

Halo: Primordium is the second book in The Forerunner Saga, a trilogy of Halo Expanded Universe novels by Greg Bear. The book takes place during the time of the Forerunners, the ancient race that built the Halo rings encountered in the games. Though mostly set during the Forerunners' war with the Flood, the novel is told as a series of logs narrated by a Forerunner Monitor discovered by an ONI science team. The monitor explains that it was once a human named Chakas (one of the main characters of the previous novel Halo Cryptum) and proceeds to tell its story, which turns out to involve a lot of walking around on a Halo.


 * Abusive Precursors: Though foreshadowed in Cryptum, Primordium reveals that
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * Brain Uploading:
 * Deadpan Snarker: The Lord of Admirals.
 * Enemy Civil War: Sorta. The Forerunners are fighting each other more than they fight the Flood (at least, on the one Halo); the Builders under Faber claim authority and abuse their power, while many Lifeworkers and Warrior-Servants still serve the Librarian and resist them.
 * Hope Spot:
 * I Know Your True Name: Spoken verbatim by the Didact when he arrives at Installation 07 and uses Mendicant Bias' "true name" as a shutdown code. Curiously, the same name worked only momentarily in Cryptum.
 * The Obi-Wan: Gamelpar to Chakas.
 * The Reveal: As revealed by the Captive,
 * Weird Moon: The wolf-face planet that keeps growing closer.
 * Worthy Opponent: How the Didact and the Lord of Admirals viewed one another.