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Posted by: DARKSTORM99A
We meet again, young one. I am the last of those who gave you breath and shape and form, millions of years ago.
I am the last of those your kind rose up against and ruthlessly destroyed.
I am the last Precursor
And our answer is at hand.
Before the Precursors were defeated they set this plan in motion- the ships containing the powder, the eventual manifestation of the flood, the eventual outbreak. I wouldn't necessarily say the Timeless one is the Gravemind as there can always be more than one in any location that has sufficient biomass and flood forms but the dialogue dose seem similar, Perhaps the Domain is still active so that at any time if a Gravemind does form it always has access to the forerunners collective knowledge and memories.
The Forerunners clearly look more like humans than they do Sangheili, their is no evidence to suggest they are related to either race.
Also up until now the Halo rings were described as around 10,000 km in diameter yet in Cryptum they're 3,000km, did they shrink?
This is very close to what I'm thinking. The flood are the ultimate dead-man's switch, which unfortunatly hit humanity instead of the forerunners first.
I also think the domain, or something like it, is how the flood has a hive mind. In the book the forerunners are loosing connection with the domain. I think it may already be over run and under the control of the flood by the time Mendicant Bias attacks.
As for what the forerunners turn out to be; Born's description of his father made me think of Tartarus. But really, we don't know what they became, or if any chose to devolve and stay behind in this galaxy.
I also remember he rings always being described with a size like that of the earth at it's equator. But my big beef is that they call them Halo's and not fortress worlds, which seem to be something else now. The master builder was demanding Didact tell him where the warrior's had hidden the sheild worlds and fortress worlds, which confused me.