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Subject: Cryptum Synopsis? (SPOLIERS) Tell me if I'm correct in this...

So apparently, Precursor shape Forerunner. Forerunner overthrow Precursor and keep one alive (gravemind). The Precursor or some unknown group sent automated ships out to eventually reseed the Precursors aka Flood back into the galaxy.

They landed in human space. The human empire had currently allied with the Prophets to take down the Forerunner, and the humans were the most powerful faction outside of the Forerunner. The Didact believed that humanity would crush the Prophets once they were through with them.

However, the Precursors/Flood began fighting the humans as the human/prophet alliance was fighting the Forerunner. The humans sacrifice a third of their populace/territory to literally choke the Precursors to death on gene seeds designed to kill them in human carriers. But this drains so much resources that, when the Prophets drop out of the war, the Forerunner are able to overrun them.

No one believes the humans, who are devolved, nor the prophets who are stripped and quarentined.

Flood comes back, way way later. The Forerunner are fighting them, secretely. Mendicant joins up, Halos vs Forerunner capital.

So now we have the Forerunner vs the Flood/Precursor, and only 7 Halo's left. (Amazing that there were 18 of them.....12 in the galaxy, and 6 more at the Ark).

I follow this novel correctly?

[Edited on 01.05.2011 10:45 PM PST]

  • 01.05.2011 10:41 PM PDT

The Forerunner, the Great Journey, and Heaven Theory

[Announcement Trailer] Halo: Forerunner

Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

Posted by: forthnback
I follow this novel correctly?
Everything except the first paragraph So apparently, Precursor shape Forerunner. Forerunner overthrow Precursor and keep one alive (gravemind). The Precursor or some unknown group sent automated ships out to eventually reseed the Precursors aka Flood back into the galaxy. can be taken as factual.

There is no evidence to show that the Precursor are the Flood. Since we really don't know what the captive really is (although he states he is the last of the Precursor and hints that the Precursor created the powder) the validity of his statements should still be called into question until more information (supposedly in the next two books) is revealed about him.

As for the number of Halos, we can assume that all of Mendicants (5 of them) were eventually destroyed as well as 6 of the 7 not under his control. Thus there are only 7 total Halos (6 newly created ones and the single one to escape the capitol) left which explains why the Ark only monitors seven instillations during the course of Halo 3.

  • 01.05.2011 10:51 PM PDT

I know they don't outright state that the Flood = Precursor, but it seems like they imply it....

As for the Halo's, yea. There were 18, but they said only one of the twelve at the capital made it back to the Ark....which had 6 of its own. Still, imagine if they all survived.

  • 01.05.2011 10:54 PM PDT

The Forerunner, the Great Journey, and Heaven Theory

[Announcement Trailer] Halo: Forerunner

Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

Posted by: forthnback
I know they don't outright state that the Flood = Precursor, but it seems like they imply it....

As for the Halo's, yea. There were 18, but they said only one of the twelve at the capital made it back to the Ark....which had 6 of its own. Still, imagine if they all survived.
The don't ever imply that the Precursors are the Flood, they do imply that the Precursors had a hand in creating the powder. That implication, however, comes from the last lines in the book from a source (the captive) we know little to nothing about.

It seems only seven halos were needed to affect the entire Galaxy. Why would you need more than seven; to affect it more?

  • 01.05.2011 11:01 PM PDT

"Living in the past is a luxury none of us can afford. We must learn from it, but we cannot live there. It is impossible to plan for the now - the present is ever fleeting. The future is what we must plan for." --Excerpt from 24 terabyte data image extracted from Forerunner Terminal Network

One question that comes to mind is why the master builder wanted to know the location of the shield worlds? Did he know what was coming?

  • 01.05.2011 11:03 PM PDT

My impression is that the Flood was the Precursor's weapon of last resort against the Forerunners, just as the Halos where the Forerunner's weapon of last resort against the Flood.

  • 01.06.2011 3:46 AM PDT