User blog comment:IceFireWarden0/Speculations for Season 11/@comment-173.25.193.130-20130728022726/@comment-5259531-20130728121907

Like it's been said before, it seems like they were researching alien tech, explaining the vault filled with Covenant gear in The Sarcophagus, and why their leader was so interested in the monitor in Recreation. There are still major plot holes in my opinion, like we never found out why the Insurrectionists wanted the monitor (it seems like they were still looking for it back in S10 as it appeared on a screen in the bunker where CT died if I remember correctly.)

I don't think the Insurrection/Charon Industries were affiliated with the UNSC. I remember a conversation in S10 Episode 10 going something like:

Leader: We'll what, Connie?

CT: I don't know, make a deal with them, keep us out of prison!

If the Insurrection were working with the UNSC then why would they need to worry about going to prison? Also, the way they referred to the UNSC as them seems to suggest they regard them as a seperate entity.

One thing I don't get, is why Tucker was in the desert in Recreation. If Project Freelancer had apparently been disbanded, then why were they sending sim troopers in there? It does appear that they had the aim of sending in sim troopers of a higher skill, mind you. But don't tell me it was just for a training exercise, I believe whoever was left in charge of Freelancer and the remnants of Charon Industries were still battling it out for this monitor, and it still annoys me that we never found out why the monitor was so important.