Was there anything of any fictional significance in this thing?

Spartan Davis dies and a Forerunner device holds him in limbo as it tries to build something from his body. He finds a way to transmit to Palmer "Help me." She turns off the device to allow him to die before we can see why the Forerunner tech was trying to build something out of a living thing.
I think I just gave you more context than Spartan Assault did. The quote below is literally all the explanation we got:
"The transmission was Davis's call for help, just before he died. That planet was made to build things out of galactic material. And it tried to build something out of what was left of Davis. I shut it down."
Pointless, stupid... yet I still find that somewhat interesting. Why would a Forerunner device try to build something out of a living Spartan?
Oh also the moon orbiting this planet was a Forerunner construct that's basically a Death Star. So the Forerunners may have installed multiple Death Stars around Flood-infected or Flood-vulnerable planets or something. But yeah... no more story than that.
I still really liked the game, especially because it and Escalation are the only productions that have featured vehicles and enemies from different games all together. Which is awesome.