- ROBERTO jh
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Its kind of obvious humanity was the intended inheritors of the Mantle. The Forerunners, being the egomaniacle pricks they are, took out the Precursors (or at least drove them from the galaxy), and ruled the galaxy with an iron fist.
That is to say, they'd completely destroy all who opposed them, not exactly following the Mantle then, huh? War should be the Mantle Holders' last option, not first.
It seems humanity was wronged, and the Precursors send the Flood to prove just how wrong the Forerunners were, that they were not ready.
The Precursors still had a physical form that resembled the appearance of a eurypterid, they were not invincible.
It is more a matter of fact their technology was. And then consider the Captive was several million years old. They're there to represent a perfect benovolent civilization, pure and eternally pristine (and then screwed over for a lust for power (Forerunners)). Whether Precursors themselves, without technology, is invincible is debatable. But with their technology, they are.
[Edited on 02.03.2011 7:55 AM PST]