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Posted by: TallestSpark
Think about it. Precursors created the Flood. Precursors can travel between galaxies.
When the Forerunners defeated the Precursors, it would make sense that the Precursors had some sort of back-up plan. Since Andromeda is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, they would go reside in that galaxy.
The Forerunner-Precursor war took place 150,000 years before the Human-Covenant war. Now, the Forerunners met the Flood about 100,000 years before the Human-Covenant war.
This would mean that it took the Precursors 50,000 years to develop the Flood and send them to the Milky Way.
With not that many survivors, I think it would make sense that it would take this many years for the Precursors to rebuild, reproduce, etc.
Why don't the Precursors just go back and attack the Forerunners? Perhaps they were afraid that the Forerunners had achieved Tier 0. They didn't want to reveal their position, or lose anymore of their kind. They took the tactical approach and sent the Flood in.
When the Precursor prisoner says he is the last one of his kind, maybe he is just saying that to delude the Forerunners, or maybe he doesn't know that any of his kind had survived?
The Flood appeared as powder trapped inside jugs on ancient ships. Why would they be ancient if Precursors are Tier 0? Either the design was on purpose, or the ships degraded from long travel.
The Precursors had to start all over again. Instead of waiting to get back into Tier 0, maybe they sent the Flood after 20,000 years. It then took the ship 30,000 years to reach the Milky Way.
Thoughts?
This is a good thought; I never really beleived the infinitely powerful Precursors were destroyed completely, just driven fom this galaxy.
Though, I will point out that the Forerunner-Precursor war happened several million years ago, not 150,000