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Back_Stabbath posted...

someone wanna confirm I have this sorta right? (Legendary ending spoilers) The teleporter at the end is some kind of time device that threw chief and co. 3 days into the future, and Atriox 100,000 years into the past? Doesn't that mean the Endless returning was set in stone when Cortana exploded the Halo while Chief was asleep? Since he would've been sent back then >_> What was the point of stopping the Harbinger from repairing that facility if it was already done. idgi.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who interpreted it that way. But I looked up some info about it later and found that no, Atriox didn't actually travel into the past. The reveal is simply that he was alive and found the Endless in the present. Apparently the 97,000 BC timestamp was specifically for the dialogue.