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Posted by: Wolverfrog
Well I imagine a 900 year war with the Flood in which everything is ravaged would change people drastically, and make them realise that all life is precious.
But yes, at the moment they seem like they just destroy, devolve and exile anything they deem as a threat to their Empire. Maybe they were even the ones to cast the first stone at the Flood.
nah, it was 300 years. But still, they do kind of seem like a**holes, don't they?
But it does seem like Born and the Libraryian bpth believe we are special in some way.
I wonder where the Didact fits into all this.
"Also by "God" could that be another word for precursor or something else, eg Bornstellar activates device, the precursors/something else judge the Forerunners and send the flood etc?"
very strong possibility. Notice how the Gravemind seems to judge the Arbiter and the Chief when they first meet him? Essentially running down a list of who and what they are before initiating conversation?
Some possibilities I thought of, in no order:
1) The Mind and his Flood act as a judge and prosecutor for the Precursors, that way they can keep the universe in balance when one side (be it predator or prey; controllers and the innocent; evil and good) starts to get too powerful or too destructive. At that point, the Mind is sent in to bring down the Superpower, keeping the balance of the universe in check.
2) the Mind is the opposite of the Precursors, coming from a similar "realm" of existance as them, but not directly created or related to the Precursors (who always seem to symbolize God in Halo, it'd make sense for the Mind--symbollically Lucifer, Satan, the Devil, whatever--to be their mortal enemies)
and 3) the Mind IS a Precursor who's consciousness is trapped in this "realm" of reality as punishment for whatever he may have done that went against the Precursors, while the Precursors went on the Great Journey to ascendants (in keeping with God banishing Lucifer to Hell. Notice how the Mind seems incapable of ACTUALLY dying? His body can be killed, but his conscious state of being never "dies." The current Mind shares the same memories as the last one).
Of course, this is just assumptions, but my intuition WAS right about their being some sort of a genetic relationship between the Spartans and the Forerunners (or at least, there is more evidence to back it up now)...so, I guess we'll just have to see.
[Edited on 12.22.2010 5:29 PM PST]