By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: floodrunetito19
Posted by: Halo biggest fan
I swear they where Tier 0, I'll have to read Cryptum to understand more about the flood.
Posted by: Terminus
The Forerunners were Tier 1
The Precursors were Tier 0
can someone explain these tiers to me?
They're technological achievement tiers, it's just a way of showing who was more advanced and who wasn't. Tier 0 is the highest, being capable of creating life and accelerating evolution; Tier 7 is the lowest.
The Precursors were Tier 0, the Forerunners were Tier 1.
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The Flood were created by the Precursors as a weapon against the Forerunners, created for revenge for destroying them. The Prisoner says to the Didact:
"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."
That quote reveals that the Precursors created the Forerunners and their "answer" is the Flood, as we know the Forerunners are thrown into a war with them not long after.
[Edited on 01.27.2011 11:07 AM PST]