- Wolverfrog
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Lord Snake-y makes theories?
;)
Anyway, here's an adaptation so it would fit in with my own theory. I originally posted it at another site which had never seen this, so it may seem like I'm repeating what you wrote a bit (I gave credit to you though). I just feel like posting it here.
The Precursors were at Tier 0; Extra Galactic, omniscient, each and every one a god in their own right. However, one problem still faced them. No matter how intelligent they were, they eventually withered and died.
They set their minds to creating a solution to what they saw as a problem, and created it. The Gravemind. An organic computer, capable of storing the minds of Precursors after death. The Gravemind would then be able to use reserves of pure calcium to create new bodies for the deceased, which, whilst they may look grotesque in appearance, still possessed the same personality and memories of the Precursor who had died. These beings, known as 'Pure forms', would intergrate back into Precursor society, becoming politicians, military leaders, you name it, and they were all linked to the mind, which was very much under Precursor control.
Then, one day, something no one had predicted happened. The Gravemind became self aware, sentient. Perhaps it was the Universe's way of righting the wrong the Precursors had committed by achieving immortality, truly making the Gravemind a monument to 'All your sins'. Perhaps it was just bad luck.
Regardless, the Mind became sentient, and looked at the existence of the Precursors. So unruly, so tempermental. Would it not be easier if all was under his control, at peace, unified?
And so the Gravemind took control of all the deceased Precursors already linked to him, and had them destroy their society from within. Fathers turning on daughters, leaders murdering councils, and all of them assimilated by the Gravemind.
Eventually, but a few Precursors survived, who fled to their homeworld, Earth, and devolved into what we know as humanity, but not before passing the mantle back down to their chosen Reclaimers; the Forerunners, who were at a safe site.
Eventually, every Precursor was now one of the Flood, save the ones on Earth, and the Gravemind turned it's dark gaze upon the rest of the Universe, thinking our Galaxy to be devoid of life. It systematically destroyed every Galaxy for the next however many years, until ours was the last one. The Forerunners, in that time, had come to discover the mantle, and yet knew not of the danger the Flood possessed.
Soon, the Gravemind felt compelled to journey back to where it's life had begun, in the Milky Way, upon the planet the Forerunners knew as G 617g. It was there the Forerunners discovered the Flood, and sought a way to combat it. Halo was built, and eventually activated. Before then, the Forerunners had discovered us, humanity, upon Earth, and realised that we were Precursor. Examination of relics hidden revealed the truth, that the Gravemind and his spawn were also Precursors. The Forerunners strived to save us, to send us to the Ark, which they did. And so they activated Halo, but could not bring themselves to totally wipe out the Flood. They were, after all, their Forefathers, the Precursors. Perhaps, they mused, a cure could be found in the future. They imprisoned the Gravemind deep in the bowles of Installation 05. Yes, the Gravemind we see in Halo 2 and 3 is the same one the Precursors created all those years ago.
And so, humanity evolves, very quickly, strange when you consider that it took the Covenant races thousands and thousands of years to get from an industrial age to a space age, in what only took us 500. Humanity were natural scientists, a trait from their Precursor ancestors.
[Edited on 10.28.2009 2:38 PM PDT]