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Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Posted by: SPARTAN MURRAY 1
superbeings...Precursors


sold.

DO WANT NAO!!!


Yeah...I was sold when I heard that there was going to be a Forerunner trilogy of books. The book cover and summary just made it better and it also makes it a lot harder to wait until January 2011 because it is sooo awesome!

This is my mind being blown when I read Precursor!!!!!!

[Edited on 11.02.2010 10:32 AM PDT]

  • 11.02.2010 10:32 AM PDT

CrimsonPandaStudios

I`m getting that book on realese.

  • 11.02.2010 10:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: hotshot revan II
ZOMG the precursors are mentioned in teh book

Holy -blam!- i jizzed my pants a hundred of times


Yeah! I find it fascinating that the forerunners hunt down Precursor tech just like the covenant hunt down forerunner tech.

  • 11.02.2010 10:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 2104
I`m getting that book on realese.


You and me both! What do you hope to find out about the Forerunners and Precursors throughout the book?

  • 11.02.2010 10:35 AM PDT
Subject: Halo Cryptum Finalized Cover and Dust Jacket

Yes, I'm a furry. And yes, I like men. So what?


Posted by: privet caboose
I want to read this so badly.

  • 11.02.2010 10:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: dr spartan32
Looks good, but I want to see the reviews of some of the hardcore fans here first before I buy it.


Common what could possibly be wrong with the book that you would want to read a review?! No seriously...if you are going to read some reviews by the hardcore fans before buying it, its fine!

  • 11.02.2010 10:52 AM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.
Does not sound very benevolent. Is that against threats, or just someone who has an equally comparable society and technological level? (intent aside)

It is likely that the Precursors will adopt the old role that the Forerunner had in previous media, being the highly mysterious, powerful race long since vanished, now that the Forerunner are being fleshed out.

  • 11.02.2010 11:10 AM PDT

**It's a shame stupidity can't be converted into a usable energy source.
**I don't know about the world ending, but common sense ended a long time ago.
**Advantages are taken, not handed out.
**I reject your reality & substitute my own.

The WorkPLace
Ninjas With Attitude

On a Lifeworker's experimental planet, Bornstellar's rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans
experimental planet????!!!!

So...does it sound to anyone else that it may be safe to assume that the Forerunner are experimenting with their own DNA to create humans (reclaimers/inheritors)? OR are the Forerunner experimenting with Precursor genetic material......
It'll be interesting to see if my crazy idea about the Precursors being our ancestors has any substance.
^^^could be...could be.

  • 11.02.2010 11:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: anton1792
They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.
Does not sound very benevolent. Is that against threats, or just someone who has an equally comparable society and technological level? (intent aside)

It is likely that the Precursors will adopt the old role that the Forerunner had in previous media, being the highly mysterious, powerful race long since vanished, now that the Forerunner are being fleshed out.


I would like to think that it is against threats and not just a race with comparable technology. Also, I agree that since the Forerunners are being fleshed out, the Precursors will become the dominant mysterious race!

  • 11.02.2010 11:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: xxVIPERMANxx
On a Lifeworker's experimental planet, Bornstellar's rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans
experimental planet????!!!!

So...does it sound to anyone else that it may be safe to assume that the Forerunner are experimenting with their own DNA to create humans (reclaimers/inheritors)? OR are the Forerunner experimenting with Precursor genetic material......
It'll be interesting to see if my crazy idea about the Precursors being our ancestors has any substance.
^^^could be...could be.


To me it sounds like the experimental world is just what it sounds like. An experimental planet that is under construction!

  • 11.02.2010 11:16 AM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Posted by: xxVIPERMANxx
On a Lifeworker's experimental planet, Bornstellar's rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans
experimental planet????!!!!

So...does it sound to anyone else that it may be safe to assume that the Forerunner are experimenting with their own DNA to create humans (reclaimers/inheritors)? OR are the Forerunner experimenting with Precursor genetic material......
It'll be interesting to see if my crazy idea about the Precursors being our ancestors has any substance.
^^^could be...could be.

The Flood re-release suggests that Humanity (and Earth) had been experimented upon before. The Librarian takes note of it being crafty and expertly hidden (artifice), almost like a deception. I do not think it could have been Forerunners tampering with Humanity, because the Librarian, and Forerunner society in general, regard Earth as an enigma. It could have been done in secret mind you.

This is the very, very last chapter of the new Flood.

As predicted, the oceanic life is taking longer to catalogue than the terrestrial and mammalian populations. What's hampering this collection isn't pressure or friction or depth but rather simplifying categorization. It is rare that we find so many disparate flavours of intelligence in a single habitat, but to find mammalian [standard] intelligence along with Schyzophoa and Cephalopoda in oceans further enhances the theory that this planet has seen interference or experiment in its past. This kind of distributed intelligence symmetry tends to hint at artifice.
The facility here is impressive. I'm almost embarrassed to have this much access to technology. It's frustrating however, to be this close to "civilisation" and the people I love, yet hermetically sealed away from them by security protocols. In better days, this facility would simply be an open doorway, through which we could all travel and enjoy this world for what it is - the core of a deeper enigma.

But one I feel confident we'll solve one day. I'm the eternal optimist, after all?

  • 11.02.2010 11:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: xxVIPERMANxx
On a Lifeworker's experimental planet, Bornstellar's rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans
experimental planet????!!!!

So...does it sound to anyone else that it may be safe to assume that the Forerunner are experimenting with their own DNA to create humans (reclaimers/inheritors)? OR are the Forerunner experimenting with Precursor genetic material......
It'll be interesting to see if my crazy idea about the Precursors being our ancestors has any substance.
^^^could be...could be.

The Flood re-release suggests that Humanity (and Earth) had been experimented upon before. The Librarian takes note of it being crafty and expertly hidden (artifice), almost like a deception. I do not think it could have been Forerunners tampering with Humanity, because the Librarian, and Forerunner society in general, regard Earth as an enigma. It could have been done in secret mind you.

This is the very, very last chapter of the new Flood.

As predicted, the oceanic life is taking longer to catalogue than the terrestrial and mammalian populations. What's hampering this collection isn't pressure or friction or depth but rather simplifying categorization. It is rare that we find so many disparate flavours of intelligence in a single habitat, but to find mammalian [standard] intelligence along with Schyzophoa and Cephalopoda in oceans further enhances the theory that this planet has seen interference or experiment in its past. This kind of distributed intelligence symmetry tends to hint at artifice.
The facility here is impressive. I'm almost embarrassed to have this much access to technology. It's frustrating however, to be this close to "civilisation" and the people I love, yet hermetically sealed away from them by security protocols. In better days, this facility would simply be an open doorway, through which we could all travel and enjoy this world for what it is - the core of a deeper enigma.

But one I feel confident we'll solve one day. I'm the eternal optimist, after all?


Very Fascinating! Could Be!

  • 11.02.2010 11:39 AM PDT

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It's going to be an interesting read. Cannot wait!

  • 11.02.2010 12:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: King Nis085
It's going to be an interesting read. Cannot wait!


An extremely interesting read indeed! What are you looking forward to most?

  • 11.02.2010 12:32 PM PDT

Plekpedia - The most epic site in the history of ever.

January can't come soon enough.

  • 11.02.2010 12:49 PM PDT

I am Field Master Avu Med 'Telcam, Servant of the Abiding Truth, and I have many brothers.

A god who creates tools is still a god. It is not for us to impose qualifications upon the divine or presume to guess its intentions.

Forerunners.
Precursors.
Humanity.
The Flood.


This was made for the hardcore Bungie Universe Fourm users.

  • 11.02.2010 1:58 PM PDT
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Hmmm, fantastic caste system, funny names, yep, this is a mythical precursor civilization, alright.

Are the Flood confirmed? 'Cause that'd be nice.

  • 11.02.2010 2:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: matman25402
Forerunners.
Precursors.
Humanity.
The Flood.


This was made for the hardcore Bungie Universe Fourm users.


Heck yeah!! but I don't think the flood have been confirmed yet for this book...but you never know !

  • 11.02.2010 2:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: Pokezilla Linked
January can't come soon enough.


Amen to that!!

  • 11.02.2010 2:30 PM PDT

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I can't tell...

To me, that just seemed ripped out of an early star wars draft.

That said, were used to forerunners being mentioned in a mysterious conspercy like context, so maybe I'm just not used to everyday words and human terms being thrown around with them.

Anyways, does anyone know if there will be a soft-cover version? I want all of my halo books to match :)


[Edited on 11.02.2010 2:52 PM PDT]

  • 11.02.2010 2:42 PM PDT


Maybe the Precursors are still out there in a way meddling in our affairs to this day (halo timeline)?

Disclamer: Yes i pulled this out of my ***.

[Edited on 11.02.2010 3:14 PM PDT]

  • 11.02.2010 2:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: SPARTAN MURRAY 1
An extremely interesting read indeed! What are you looking forward to most?


Just the story most of all. Bornstellar's story. More knowledge of the Forerunners and Precursors in general.

  • 11.02.2010 3:22 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

The Bungie Universe forums NOT prematurely attacking a 343 Industries product? Did I miss the rapture?

  • 11.02.2010 3:32 PM PDT

Posted by: DecepticonCobra
The Bungie Universe forums NOT prematurely attacking a 343 Industries product? Did I miss the rapture?


It's Greg Bear. A man who is, I'm sorry to say, an infinitesimally better writer than Nylund or anyone who's written for Halo in the past.

Not even 343 can mess this one up.

  • 11.02.2010 4:02 PM PDT