- Grimm19
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- Honorable Member
So basically the Forerunners were ignorant and hypocritical...as advanced as they were they didn't stop and ask the humans,
(Forerunner: "Hey! What the blam are doin on our property?!")
(Human: "Chill homies, we just trying to run from this parasite, and keep the demon in our basement from talking us into killing ourselves!")
Would've saved them a lot of grief and precious time that could have been used fighting the Flood.
Now this is just speculation but I don't think all Precursors were Flood. The Precursor in the prison was obviously there for a reason, perhaps because he was a rouge Precursor who didn't believe in the Mantle. Evil knows all forms, so it may be safe to say that this particular Precursor was imprisoned for creating the Flood therefore defying the Mantle.
I don't think they're over-complicating the canon, because this Bungie's version of Chaucer's: Canterbury Tales or Stephen Kings: The Dark Tower series. Not explaining the Forerunners or Precursors would leave an astronomical gap in the entire canon. Bungie is taking what could have been left as just a good game, and given it some great story. Some things still need some fine tuning but hey, nobody's perfect.
Interesting book, can't wait for the rest of the saga.