- ROBERTO jh
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Also, is it also not a possibility that the Precursors ascended?
Here me out: The Mantle of Life is a very important piece of Forerunner ideologies. It was supposedly passed down to the Forerunners by the Precursors just before the latter vanished.
Now, it would seem that whoever holds the Mantle is "special" in some way shape or form, and they ALWAYS seem to disappear seemingly without a trace as to where they went.
Covenant religion states that firing the Halo Rings opens the Path to Godhood, the Great Journey. And as a matter of fact, they were close to getting it right, but they missed one very important detail: the Forerunners left the galaxy AFTER they fired the Rings, not BECAUSE they fired the Rings, but they did leave, and to where, no one knows.
The Great Journey is real, it was a real Forerunner undertaking; they wanted to "Follow in their footsteps" as has been stated countless times throughout these forums. Their meaning Precursor, and the Covenant ideology of ascending to Godhood most likely came from a similar ideology from the Forerunners, of partaking in this Great Journey to ascendance (because that ideology didn't come from no where).
It would appear all holders of the Mantle of Life undertake this Great Journey once they're time with it is finished and they pass it down to the next Reclaimer Race, and the Cycle of Life repeats until it is their time, and so on and so on forever.
In keeping with how the Gravemind symbolizes the Devil, it could be said he is trying to break into this Godhood that the Precursors could have denied him (I'm under the possibly insane impression the Mind is a Precursor trapped forever in this world as punishment for whatever he may have done to piss the Precursors off, like Lucifer being banished to Hell).
Notice how the Mind seems to always have a personal vendetta against the Mantle Holders? Maybe he feels like he can continue to defy the Precursors if he destroys the Mantle Races. For whatever reason, out of the galaxies he must have consumed over his time, the Milky Way seems to be the one he has the most trouble with and the one he REALLY wants most.
In my eyes, I think at the end of it all, we'll pass the Mantle down to the Elites, as they were the ONLY race in the galaxy willing to put aside old differences and do what was obviously right for the galaxy, but that's just a blind assumption.
Anyway, don't know if this ammounts to anything, but from what I've seen, it does make sense. Perhaps the Legendary Planet holds all the answers...