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A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.
Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies--a greater reach than any human before me.
You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story.
Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas...
In the wake of apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans--Chakas and Riser--are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed.
Captured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. For they have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no end--a game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of duty to all living things.
In the company of a young girl and an old man, Chakas begins an epic journey across a lost and damaged Halo in search of a way home, an explanation for the warrior spirits rising up within, and for the Librarian’s tampering with human destiny.
This journey will take them into the Palace of Pain, the domain of a powerful and monstrous intelligence who claims to be the Last Precursor, and who now has control of both this Halo and the fate of Forerunners and Humans alike.
Called the Captive by Forerunners, and the Primordial by ancient human warriors, this intelligence has taken charge of, and retasked, the Master Builder’s cruel researches into the Flood--which it may have itself unleashed on the galaxy more than ten thousand years before.
Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga (The Forerunner Saga, Book 2) Reviews
Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga (The Forerunner Saga, Book 2) Reviews
| 4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:  A fitting sequel to a great series..., Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga (The Forerunner Saga, Book 2) (Hardcover) Continuing on in the style of the first book, Halo: Primordium is written as a final testament of a dying Forerunner AI construct created from the memory and personality imprints of Chakas from Cryptum. The parallels between the first and second installments are copious as, once again, the narrator is both plagued and guided by memories and thoughts that are not his own, in the form of an ancient ancestor called the Lord of Admirals.The story begins with Chakas awakening on what to be a Halo installation after the events of the last book. Having crash-landed, he is badly injured and is nursed back to health by a young human woman known as Vinnevra. It is here where the latent memories of the Lord of Admirals begin to assert themselves and guide Chakas in his thoughts much like those of the Didact did for Bornstellar in Cryptum. It is soon revealed that Chakas' arrival unlocked Vinnevra's geas, and along with Vinnevra's grandfather, Gamelpar, the threesome set out to... Read more 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Greg Bear is one cool dude., This review is from: Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga (The Forerunner Saga, Book 2) (Hardcover) If you want to know where the story of Halo 4 is most likely headed, then read this book. Altogether it is a good read. Suspenseful, eloquent... It continues the forerunner saga nicely. The only con is that there is way too much walking going on. Halos are big, humans are small. We get it, Bear. Also, certain parts seem hallucinatory... Not necessarily bad though.  very nice addition to the cannon, This review is from: Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga (The Forerunner Saga, Book 2) (Kindle Edition) I really love the Halo universe. I have loved it since the first game came out while I was in high school where itbecame the regular weekend passtime for my friends and I. I have read most of the Halo books. I have mixed feelings about them. Mome are bland summaries of the games. Some are new stories but rather unoriginal. Amongst my favorites is Contact Harvest, an original tale, well written, revealing, and written as a story-not a verbal account of a first person shooter level. I was excited for the Forerunner Saga. for two reasons. the first is that there are no games from this era of the backstory, so the writer was free to craft the story in a way best suited for print and not a game controller, and, two, because the Forerunners are one of my favorite-and among the least develped-parts of the Halo story. This book, like its predecessor, Cryptum, does not dissapoint. I must admit I found this book a bit slow to begin with. The main character is in much the same... Read more |
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