Hello all, strange title huh? Well I have good reason yesterday while rooting around the Halo Waypoint forums I discovered somthing that has been going on since June that I completely missed, any lore nut out there, stay here, this is big.
On the Waypoint forums a strange entity known as Catalog has started posting (It is a member of the 343 writing team in reality and anything it states is considered cannon) Forum goers immediately started to figure out who this was, it is a surviving member of the Forerunner Catalog, who, at present seems to be on Mars ( this is taking place in 2558) Forum goers, taking the role of ONI researchers have started to question it, and oh my have we received answers. Everything Catalog says is Role Played and this seems to be the new version of “I love bees” from Halo 2 or the rogue AI on B-Net from Halo 3. Catalog has gained us much knowlage, and has revealed surprising revelations about the lore, such as the deaths of the surviving Spartan III’s apart from Tom and Lucy.
Catalog seems to have access to many ONI and UNSC files, and Forerunner knowlage, but his Covenant knowlage seems to be limited to what reciords the UNSC has. I’ll leave a link where you can read all his posts, and join in with the game. I love stuff like this, its a cool way for 343 to answer questions about the lore, without having to spent money printing media, it also allows us to directly ask questions [Designated Query’s]. Here is the link scroll down to the secound post with all the links:
https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst248249_Catalog-Discussion.aspx
HALO CATALOG 