- Traxus 04
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- Honorable Member
We know that the forerunnners could access higher dimensions through their consciousness and use it to share information
We know that the flood is a group consciousness which must be connected through some higher dimension
We know that the Forerunner would have died when the Halo array destroyed their brains, but since they spoke of something called The Great Journey it sems they had somewhere to escape to
Basically they figured out how to transfer their neural consciousness into a completely new domain in a higher dimension. They were no longer in the galaxy, per se, because they had left physical space completely. They had become, in essence, angels.
This ties up a few things.
Firstly gives the title of the series, Halo, a lot more significance.
Secondly, brings the ideas of heaven and hell into the fold, which had been mysteriously absent in a fictional universe otherwise rich in Christian analogies.
Thirdly, it explains why the MasterChief was so 'lucky' - because the Forerunner are literally watching over him like angels. Christians believe angels are all around us giving invisible protection.
Fourthly, we can now explain the Captive/Gravemind. He is Satan/Lucifer. He was expelled from Heaven by the Precursors (who would have been transdimensional beings all along) for trying to take over, and sentenced to a nether realm. But he created hell/The Flood, and began to harvest souls for all eternity. Cf. "I am a ,monument to all your sins" "A sentence I never deserved"
Being part of the flood would be hell - you would have no freedom to do anything, except canibalize other people, and it would go on forever.