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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Now you see, it is talking about Earth, and the 'unique denizens' are humanity. It leaves you with the questions, why must we be researched? What answers can we give to the Forerunners? Surely simply being chosen by the Forerunners to carry on their work in the event that they perish does not grant us this amount of awe?
However, what if the Precursors had not been wiped out, but in fact, merely faded away, realising that omniscience was a terrible burden. A likely scenario is that the Precursors encountered the Flood, which would make the Flood much like the Reapers in Mass Effect; they wipe out cultures once they are advanced enough. The Flood could have forced the Precursors back into hiding, where they lost all their technology. Eventually, perhaps only one world, Earth, remained, and so eventually the Precursors had lost all of their knowledge and power, and became what we know today as humanity.
I know you think a species 'devolving' seems unlikely, but I will direct you here to the case of the Brutes. At one point in their history, they were as advanced as the Covenant, until a civil war threw them back into the industrial age. Something similar of this sort could have happened to the Precursors.
In the sixth terminal, the Librarian states this to the Didact.
We knew this was a special place because of them, but unless you've been here, you can't know.
Now that seems to be good proof. She is calling Earth a special place because of them. Just who are 'them?' Humanity springs to mind, but what if she was talking about the Precursors?
Update 1.2
Now let's jump to First Strike. Halsey and the Spartans discover a network of what they believe to be 'Forerunner caverns' underneath the ONI CASTLE facility. Inside these ruins, they discover a crystal, which can bend space and time. It seems awfully advanced, even for the Forerunners.
Now, what if the Forerunners hadn't built the caverns and crystal, but the Precursors had?
Overall it's a decent though unlikely theory, personally we don't know enough about the connection between the forerunners and precursors enough for any theory to have any sort of weight. the most we know is that the ruins in babysitter were not forerunner, which doesn't mean much because it was implied in "conversations of the universe" that another race might have let the flood out on delta halo. Honestly, for anybody doing any precursor theory, just wait for more info because we know nothing.
Now on to your theory.
1. The forerunners probably though we were special for our genetics or because of us in general. scientist find new animals daily and the "weird" ones fascinate them the most because they wonder what they can learn from them.
2.we honestly don't know anything on why the flood does what the flood do, hell the flood don't even know why other than it's natural to them. and comparing the flood to the reapers is unlikely because the forerunners found the flood, if that research team never went down on the moon they would still have their large empire today.
3. the Brutes didn't natively have technology advanced as the covenant, that was humanity and the Lekgolo. Brutes only started to developed space travel until they started to fight again, after that they were stuck on their homeworld.
4.the Librarian was talking about the humans, IRIS was an ARG based around humanity's relation to the forerunners and the forerunners fight with the flood. The precursors are a legend, noting more at this point.
5. The crystal is forerunner tech, it's much like the crystal from Sigma Octanus IV only with time bending ability's. The forerunner had a mastery of slipspace and this crystal is just another example of it, just because it was pretty far out doesn't mean it wasn't forerunner. Hell the ark wasn't even in our galaxy but we all know who made it. And for any constellation it was blue, the forerunners signature color. :)
and remember the forerunner did do things prior to meeting the flood, we don't know the date of when they made that complex but im sure it was made long before they met the flood.