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Subject: Forerunner-Precursor War *SPOILERS*

If you havn't read the book, do so before reading, its good.

This is just a theory :)
I will just outline the key events in my hypothesis to make it easy to follow.

The Precursors made the Forerunners at some point millions of years ago.

The Precursors, being as they are, experiment on creating an ecosystem on a galactic scale in the Megellanic Clouds.
(Maybe even building the Megellanic Clouds themselfs?)

The Precursors fall victim to their own experiments, acidentily creating the Flood virus, which consumes all sentient life in the Megellanic Clouds, including the Precursor colonies outposted their.

After finding this out, the Precursors in the Milky Way go to war with the infected in the Megellanic clouds.

As the Precursors decided to controle the flood in an atempt not to damage their own colonies and starships, they were quickly divowered by the flood.

The Forerunners find out about the flood, and think that the best solution is to destroy everything in the Megellanic clouds, including the uninfected and the colonies (just in case), as a way to stop the spreding once and for all.

This is when the Forerunners create the Mantle, to protect all remaining life in the galaxy.

The remaining Precursors in the Milky Way are outraged by their decision and start a war with the Forerunners. However, the Forerunners now greatly out number their creators and beat them, inprisioning their leader.

The Forerunners decide to seal him on one of his own planets in one of their own prisions so he could not escape.
(Humans build prisions which they know will keep Humens inside, Same pricipal)

However, the Forerunners only located and destroyed ships and planets with living life on them as the flood would not survive with out life.

As a result the automated ships, that carry the powder which mutated in to the flood, are not taken notice of and are left, unknowingly to drift in to the Milky Way galaxy thousands of years later.

This is when the events outlined in Chapter 34 accure , and well, you all know the rest of the story.

p.s. if there is anything which dosn't add up, please post and i will try to adapt my theory :)
Thanks

[Edited on 01.20.2011 10:08 AM PST]

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cool, nice theory :)

I like how they might have created the megellanic clouds

  • 01.20.2011 10:47 AM PDT

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Posted by: Astrogenesis 1
If you havn't read the book, do so before reading, its good.

This is just a theory :)
I will just outline the key events in my hypothesis to make it easy to follow.

The Precursors made the Forerunners at some point millions of years ago.

The Precursors, being as they are, experiment on creating an ecosystem on a galactic scale in the Megellanic Clouds.
(Maybe even building the Megellanic Clouds themselfs?)

The Precursors fall victim to their own experiments, acidentily creating the Flood virus, which consumes all sentient life in the Megellanic Clouds, including the Precursor colonies outposted their.

After finding this out, the Precursors in the Milky Way go to war with the infected in the Megellanic clouds.

As the Precursors decided to controle the flood in an atempt not to damage their own colonies and starships, they were quickly divowered by the flood.

The Forerunners find out about the flood, and think that the best solution is to destroy everything in the Megellanic clouds, including the uninfected and the colonies (just in case), as a way to stop the spreding once and for all.

This is when the Forerunners create the Mantle, to protect all remaining life in the galaxy.

The remaining Precursors in the Milky Way are outraged by their decision and start a war with the Forerunners. However, the Forerunners now greatly out number their creators and beat them, inprisioning their leader.

The Forerunners decide to seal him on one of his own planets in one of their own prisions so he could not escape.
(Humans build prisions which they know will keep Humens inside, Same pricipal)

However, the Forerunners only located and destroyed ships and planets with living life on them as the flood would not survive with out life.

As a result the automated ships, that carry the powder which mutated in to the flood, are not taken notice of and are left, unknowingly to drift in to the Milky Way galaxy thousands of years later.

This is when the events outlined in Chapter 34 accure , and well, you all know the rest of the story.

p.s. if there is anything which dosn't add up, please post and i will try to adapt my theory :)
Thanks

Ye nice theory but (correct me if im wrong) didnt the precursors intetionally create the flood as a "parting gift" to the forerunner?

  • 01.20.2011 10:51 AM PDT


Posted by: WEE MAN MJJC
Ye nice theory but (correct me if im wrong) didnt the precursors intetionally create the flood as a "parting gift" to the forerunner?

I've heard people say this, but i am not sure weather it is true or not?

I will have a dig to see if i find anything.

  • 01.20.2011 10:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: Astrogenesis 1
Posted by: WEE MAN MJJC
Ye nice theory but (correct me if im wrong) didnt the precursors intetionally create the flood as a "parting gift" to the forerunner?

I've heard people say this, but i am not sure weather it is true or not?

I will have a dig to see if i find anything.


The Forerunners destroyed the Precursors, when the Didact speaks to the Captive on Charum Hakkor and it reveals itself to be the last Precursor, it says that the Flood is their "answer".

  • 01.20.2011 11:02 AM PDT


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Posted by: Astrogenesis 1
Posted by: WEE MAN MJJC
Ye nice theory but (correct me if im wrong) didnt the precursors intetionally create the flood as a "parting gift" to the forerunner?

I've heard people say this, but i am not sure weather it is true or not?

I will have a dig to see if i find anything.


The Forerunners destroyed the Precursors, when the Didact speaks to the Captive on Charum Hakkor and it reveals itself to be the last Precursor, it says that the Flood is their "answer".

I'm not sure that 'Our answer is at hand' nesseserily means the flood?

However, I am willing to go with it.
I'm not sure why they wouldn't trust the Forerunners enough for them to make a deadly virus.
Also you have to concider the way it was distibuted. On ancient starships that crash landed on planets and discovered by humans.
And who were they to know that the humans would use the powder on animals to cause the mutations?
It could have been disovered by the Forerunners who may have done tests on the powder and discovered it was bad and discarded it.

The idea of the flood being a weapon of the Precursors my sound good, but if I had created such a weapon to be used in the event of my distruction, being Teir 0, i would have built halos that fired when the FR's turned agaist us, wiping them out.

  • 01.20.2011 11:18 AM PDT

I have not read anything on this forum since there are spoilers. But OP why would you write forerunner-precursor war and then write spoiler...you already spoiled it. you shouldn't write anything that's a spoiler in the title even if it says spoiler. Even if there isn't a forerunner-precursor war I can't know that because I won't read the forum post because I don't want to read further spoilers.

bottom line: please be more careful what you write in the title in terms of spoilers. thanks

  • 01.20.2011 11:41 AM PDT

One issue is that the Mantle, as far as I know, is not a tangible object but an idea or knowledge passed down from the precursors to the forerunners, or perhaps it was stolen or simply adopted, either way the forerunners take it as their religion. The Mantle is supposedly the honor or responsibility of the most powerful species to promote and protect life.

Also I find it hard to understand how so long ago the forerunners where capable of destroying their creators and not have record of it. And how did they do so without something like the Halo's?

[Edited on 01.20.2011 2:52 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2011 2:44 PM PDT

I want to know what happened to the captive. We know that Mendicant tested a Halo on Charum Hakkor, which destroyed all Precursor technology, so how did the Precursor survive the blast?

Unless, of course, Mendicant helped him, but I'm not sure, because (correct me if I'm wrong) Forerunner can't work Precursor tech.

[Edited on 01.20.2011 3:01 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2011 2:59 PM PDT

I don't know. it will remain a plot hole untill the release of the next book.

  • 01.20.2011 11:14 PM PDT