In Halo 4, Captain Del Rio doesn't want to risk damaging the Infinity because it's a ginormous phallic substitute for his fragile masculinity. Chief and Cortana have actually been spending their time exploring and studying the lore, and they go rogue and save the world. The lesson here is that you should stop and think instead of uncrtically participating in the cycle of phallic symbols

What can I say, the bungie era had better writing