User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-24027096-20140708112540/@comment-5746209-20140709023413

Wes has a point. Maybe Control is a third unknown party that has been manipulating both sides to continue the civil war. It's been stated that both the NR and FAC have attempted to form a truce, yet their leaders have been assassinated over time. Maybe Locus and the Spec Ops we saw in Self Assessment were the people who assassinated the leaders and bombed several cities to continue the war. For what reason, however, is still unknown.

I was thinking they might be highered guns from the UNSC. Before you say that's stupid, just hear me out: in the Halo franchise, we've seen the UNSC do a lot of dark and questionable shit. Maybe they rediscovered Chorus after the Great War, but thought if the public found out they left an entire planet to fend for themselves, the UNSC would lose favor of the public or worse, suffer another rebellion.

So, how do you fix this? By not revealing the planet until the inhabitants erase themselves from ever being on the planet. They could be using the Chorus Civil War as a means to eliminate most if not all the population and then reveal the planet with all the alien technology it has to the public as a way to gain public favor. To have such a gag order and ambition, we only know one character in the series to be capable of this: the Chairman. The Director has stated he has torn others down to gain more power and he has quite a lot of questionable methods.

However, this is only my crack pot theory and it still has quite a few plot holes in it. Hopefully, we get some more answers in the next episode or at the least, at the end of the season.