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Posted by: cameo_cream
After reading halo cryptum i was very confused but interested about what the precursors were. I had originally thought they were highly advanced humans, then i believed from reading the books they were a species that looked much like us and the forerunners. Now i dont know what to believe.
The final words of the book have the prisoner telling the didact that he was forerunner, (somebody quote me on that). He told him that the forerunners had omce risen up and defeated them, which doesnt make sense because thier technology is practically indestructable. Is what the prisoner said true? Or is it lies used to be released or somethinh like that.
If he were precursor, then they looked like hidiously ugly beasts, they may even be flood, by what was found in those canisters but that maybe a bit rediculous.
Remember: Precursor technology is susceptible only to one thing: Neural Weapons (such as Halo). Assuming the Precursors used weapons of their own, I suppose it can be said the ancient Forerunners cracked the secret of their weapons and started using Neural Weapons on them.
But there is a lot of evidence stating the Captive was lying.
1) Why would the Precursors lock him up? He must've been dangerous and deceiving to warrent such a fate
2) There is vast evidence pointing to the fact the Captive is the Gravemind. Never trust the Gravemind in any situation. He's probably lying to mind -blam!- the Forerunners.
3) If the only race that can evidently use Precursor technology is the Precursors (as no other race has ever asctivated Precursor tech save only for one time with the humans), it would make any war with the Precursors impossible to win, no matter what kind of technology the Forerunners had. This begs the question: if the Captive was being truthful, HOW did the Forerunners defeat them?
4) The terminals state that the Didact wanted to "follow in their footsteps." This indicates the Forerunners discovered something about the final destination for the Precursors (the true Great Journey?). Most likely, if the Covenant's understanding of the Journey has any value at all, the Precursors ascended to legitimate god-hood and the Forerunners wished to follow them.
This would mean the Precursors were not wiped out (they were at the very least an intergalactic empire, possibly even inter-dimensional, when you compare Forerunner ability to cross universes, why would the Precursors not settle other realms? Thus, how could a single galxy race ever have a hope in hell in defeating a race of near god-like beings with technology that couldn't be damaged?)