User blog comment:Michael.Dreams/The Created and what they could be for Halo./@comment-1009967-20170413011932

I've gotta resist saying "gross misuse" is 343i's motto--there, quip's out of the way. Anyway, these seem to be questions on everybody's minds at the moment. Your theory of bonding through resistance reminds me a bit of AAO's old Interspecies Union, among others--universes made post-3 that envisioned a more Star Trek-y Halo-verse where the races band together. . . which was shot down pretty hard when Glasslands came out with its cold war espionage vision of the universe. We'll definitely see humans and Sangheili resist together, of course, but given the Covenant species have been Halo's primary enemies all its life, I think it's hard to see them going away as the games' primary threat, and that'll effect the lore, so it's a good bet the Grunts, Jackals, Hunters, and probably some Elites will be among the Created's enforcers of Cortana's galactic peace.

Which brings us to the other big question of Cortana's motives. . . it seems she wants to take up the Forerunner mantle exactly the way the Forerunners did it--enforce a galactic peace. It's a complex issue; I mean, the Covenant and UNSC haven't exactly succeeded in being benevolent peacekeepers, ergo UNSC totalitarianism, the Insurrection, "ONI bullshit", and the Covenant's religious zealotry based on lies. There's a pretty good argument that could be made for the Created as the good guys, bringing peace to a galaxy constantly at war. Of course, Chief and the 'verse's other heroes need a compelling reason to resist it, but that'd probably take the form of a philosophical answer like 'peace can't be forced'--such a peace would be meaningless when the galaxy hasn't all agreed and chosen it, and we'd see everyone constantly revolting against it. . . but to be honest, I don't give 343i's writing team enough credit to pull it off well. What I'm expecting is mustachio'd villainy by Cortana and the Created for a "greater good" which is poorly elaborated on. Hoping for better, but. . . the track record doesn't inspire much hope.