- Astrogenesis 1
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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]