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Subject: So technically, haven't we fought Forerunners?

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I was just thinking about this: in the level 343 Guilty Spark, there are already hundreds of combat forms ready to fight whent he Flood is first introduced. If memory serves, the UNSC only sent Johnson's squad--of six marines or so--to investigate. That accounts for a few fully infected, but what about the rest? Were they really all infected Elites? I find this hard to believe that the Covenant sent so many Elites to die there.

So who does that leave? Long-infected Forerunners, maybe?

Or maybe I'm completely wrong, and they were a mixture of humans and Elites. Just speculating.

  • 11.28.2010 6:23 AM PDT

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That sounds like a plausible theory
but didn't the halos knock out everything?
i just think they would destroy any of their own that got infected

  • 11.28.2010 6:43 AM PDT

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But if you are on a halo you don't die right, its just like a shield world

  • 11.28.2010 6:47 AM PDT
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Correct. Halos were holding pens for Flood, and their purpose was to eliminate the possibility of the Flood exponentially growing again.

If the Forerunner took the time to eliminate all the other hosts from the galaxy, then why would they be so careless as to let their guard down? They should have left for a Shield World or wherever the rest of the Forerunner went. The Sentinels were there to control outbreaks, but they obviously failed.

I think that some of them could be Forerunner Flood, but I think most of the extra Sangheili and Human forms were added in because it was needed in the game.

  • 11.28.2010 6:55 AM PDT

they were all Elites. Don't forget, its a game, with floods (lol) of enemies being there for gameplay reasons

  • 11.28.2010 9:05 AM PDT

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But if you are on a halo you don't die right, its just like a shield world


No. The Shield Worlds preserve life because they have a Micro Dyson Sphere encased in a slipspace bubble. When Halo fires it only affects normal space, not slipspace.

  • 11.28.2010 9:13 AM PDT

The Covenant held the area, so it's not that incredible that there were a lot of infected elites. As for the marines, there were definitely at least several squads according to the game ("Mendoza, get your *** back up to second squad's position..." plus the marines at the end), and possibly more. The game certainly implies that a reasonably large group was sent there.

[Edited on 11.28.2010 9:15 AM PST]

  • 11.28.2010 9:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: Just Great1
But if you are on a halo you don't die right, its just like a shield world


No. The Shield Worlds preserve life because they have a Micro Dyson Sphere encased in a slipspace bubble. When Halo fires it only affects normal space, not slipspace.

  • 11.28.2010 9:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: Just Great1
But if you are on a halo you don't die right, its just like a shield world


No. The Shield Worlds preserve life because they have a Micro Dyson Sphere encased in a slipspace bubble. When Halo fires it only affects normal space, not slipspace.


I think he's thinking of the Ark. I'm positive I read somewhere that The Ark was also a safe-haven despite being the key to activating all seven rings.

Truth probably wouldn't have known this, which means even if he did fire the rings from the Ark, he wouldn't have become part of the 'Great Journey' anyway.

  • 11.28.2010 9:25 AM PDT
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Since the Great Journey is composed of fighting endlessly, then being wiped out in a blast from the Halo Array, I think that Truth could have just wanted to cleanse the galaxy of anything but San'Shyuum. If the Ark was safe, invite the entire race and let everything else die because they are unholy. I don't know if they really thought that the Halo Array would transport them to heaven or wherever the Covenant thought they would go.

  • 11.28.2010 9:30 AM PDT

There's also the mystery of large amounts of human flood being on Installation 05.

However, Forerunner Flood would have been destroyed by the Halos. A far more plausible solution is that some humans already visited the rings. See: ackerson theory. Ask opogjijijp.

  • 11.28.2010 9:31 AM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

It's not a stretch to say that at least the Flood forms on Delta Halo were Forerunner corpses. What else could Gravemind have made himself from? Unless there was a previous conflict where another species had found the Ring.

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There's also the mystery of large amounts of human flood being on Installation 05.

However, Forerunner Flood would have been destroyed by the Halos. A far more plausible solution is that some humans already visited the rings. See: ackerson theory. Ask opogjijijp.


If you are implying that the human forms are ancient humans that were taken to the Halo Rings to save the species from annihilation, it's plausible.

But if I remember correctly, they were all wearing the same remains of a UNSC Marine's uniform.


EDIT: Now I see what you are saying. That makes a lot of sense now

[Edited on 11.28.2010 10:00 AM PST]

  • 11.28.2010 9:41 AM PDT