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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted By: grey101
Peacefully? You mean by not allowing any races to fully devolop, scolding the ones that have for being "inferior", and de-evolving a race they disliked at the first chance they got and not even fixing the problem once they knew they were wrong? And that's effin "peaceful" to you?
If the forerunners were this cocky and arrogant millennia later I could only imagine how bad it was when they were first created. I compare it to the Older and younger brother in naruto, in which the sage of the six paths (precursors)picked the younger brother (humanity) to take his place ("mantle") the older brother (forerunners) were jealous and hated the younger brother for that which resulted in the descends of the two always fighting for a birth right.
Not exactly the same but it's a pretty good analogy for the events. And its is explicitly stated by the prisoner that "our answer is at hand" which was said to didact during the human-flood war so he has to be talking about the flood. So the fan theory is pretty well supported until the next book comes out.
Wait what? I'm completely confused by your first paragraph now, where did that come from? Was it supposed to addressed to someone else? It doesn't really seem to fit with what I said :/
I didn't say anything about peace in my post. All I said was I though the Precursors creating the Flood for revenge was a little absurd, them possibly bearing a grudge against the Forerunners, sure somewhat plausible, but the Flood as their revenge, not that plausible to me. I'm sure the idea the Mantle was used by the Precursors, or thought up in part by them, and the Flood are the complete opposite of the Mantle. Why would the Precursors, even if they wanted revenge, create something that is the complete opposite to what they believed? Why would they create an all consuming parasite that could easily, and did, run rampant and destroy everything fore revenge on one species?
I just don't agree with this particular fan theory, there are way too many variables to take into account that can vastly change the equation. I will wait for the next book and then we'll see, until then, I will not outright reject the idea of the Flood being Precursor revenge, but I will view it with a great deal of skepticism.
I miss read your post as saying the forerunners were peaceful, my mistake.
I like you said there are other variables to take into account. Maybe precursors created more life than the forerunners and the forerunners turned the entire galaxy against the precursors which prompted the flood. And the Mantle should be taken lightly seeing how we really don't know what it is at all, and how knows how bad the forerunners might have twisted its original meaning.
Ah ok, honest misunderstand then :) It's k, no worries, bro.
My personal view of the Forerunners is pretty much how I view Humanity, as a whole neutral, IE they can swing either good or bad. I know they're certainly not perfect, actually, you could probably say they're exactly the same as humans morally, you'll find your heroes, and you'll find your villains, but the average j\Joe is probably neither hero or villain. Though I agree that they do seem to be a very arrogant race, which only makes sense, considering they're the most powerful force in the galaxy at that time.
Of course, the current idea of the Mantle is probably not what the Precursors held as their view, if the idea originated with them at all (I'm inclined to believe it had its origins with them). To me the root belief of the Mantle seems to be one of life being sacred, so to speak, and I'd imagine that would have probably come from the Precursors, and then corrupted by the Forerunners or gradually skewed it in some way to justify their war against their makers.
The only idea I find iffy about the Precursors creating the Flood is for revenge, they may have created the powder that started it all, and who knows what its purpose really or originally was. I'm sure it was not meant to make pets more docile and eventually turn them into the ancestors of the Flood, but who knows, the Flood Powder could have been meant for anything.