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Posted by: shaun_150
I know, what I'm tryign to say is that if they had wiped out the precursors, they would have been found on more than one planet, as once their bodies decayed (one of the ways carriers are formed) they wouldn't have been able to withdraw to a single world.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the terminal states that that particular planet was the only planet that the Forerunner encountered that had a Flood presence before they knew of its existence, not the only planet the Flood ever existed on before they found it. Hundreds... thousands... of other planets could have existed as Flood colonies that the Forerunner never found.
On top of that, it's possible that the Flood collective split after conquering the Precursor, and only one "colony" was sent to the Milky Way, resulting in that particular Flood "hive".
Posted by: napster851
My only, not really complaint, but observation i guess, is that if the precursor were so smart they could create a "living AI" wouldn't they have seen an uprising coming? In Mass Effect the Quarians were able to see that the geth were growing rebellious and launched a preemtive strike and were more advanced, but still lost the war and were outcast.
Very good observation, and correlation! Yes, that's very true. But look at the Geth compared to the Gravemind. The Geth were synthetic life; they begun with programming, but their programming adapted and evolved until pure logic and parameters exploded into the capacity for illogical thought and wide possibilities; synthetic mind and body to organic mind and synthetic body. The Gravemind began with an organic body and an organically composed mind, with only genetic restrictions holding it back. It was a much different scenario than the Geth: the Gravemind would have had the capacity to hide what it was feeling and its changes, because it only needed to learn capacity, not gain it.