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				At the end of H3 chief and Arby escape the ark on the FuD but the portal collapses leaving chief stranded
Shouldn't he be non-existent as he would have been floating in space next to Installation 04b?
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	Mendicant Bias redirected the portal to Requiem, which is why the ship split in half.
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	Never heard that
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	Didn't he defect to the flood?
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	Edited by Haruspis: 6/13/2015 9:15:46 PMYes, but when the Halos were fired Mendicant was fragmented and had one part of him imprisoned on the Ark. He had his processes locked to achieve one purpose: atonement. I'd recommend reading Halo 3's Terminals.
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	Chief's locked himself in cryo
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	Yes but he would have been killed by the 'beam, from installation 04b
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	And there was a (Slipspace event)? That took him near requiem.
 
										 
					 
					 
					 
		    