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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

In First Strike the Spartans and Halsey found a Forerunner crystal under the surface.We did not knew why the Forerunners used it ,but it was quite powerful with space-time powers.

Remember when Locklear blew it up a few fragments were blown into space and were later recovered by the covies.

Tartarus handed it over to Truth and the prophet stated that it might be enough for something..but what?

In Halo Cryptum it's finally revealed what this crystal might be,a Forerunner slipspace drive,unless the crystal from Reach and the ones in Cryptum weren't the same.

But if they are then the weird space ascedant justice entered in might be those other realities explored by The Forerunners.

And maybe the Forerunner Keyship had no intact slipspace drive when it was recovered by the prophets(unless contact harvest says otherwise) ,so truth would have needed the Crystal fragments to travel to Earth.

Bungie gave us a timeline and we see it took weeks for the Keyship to arrive at Earth while in cryptum a Forerunner ship could travel at tenthousands of light years in a matter of hours.

The reason why the Keyship was that slow is probably because the crystal wasn't at full power because it were just fragment remnants.

There is no true evidence for my assumptions but it's possible.

What do you think?



[Edited on 02.26.2011 4:06 AM PST]

  • 02.26.2011 4:06 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

The Crystal wasn't confirmed to be Forerunner, I'd speculate it would be a Precursor artefact because it just seems to be too advanced for it to be something the Forerunners made.

But I might argue against that by looking at Cryptum where Faber creates several crystals by chiipping them away from the Core Crystal. So whilst it's possible the Forerunners manufactured it, it's not proven that they created the crystals.

The Keyship should have had an intact slipspace drive, the ship itself wasn't damaged once during the battle against the Sangheili and since the formation of the Covenant and High Charity it hasn't moved. In Contact Harvest, Mendicant Bias attempted to pilot the Dreadnaught and go to Earth to take humanity to the Ark, how could he do that without a slipspace drive?

I see what you're saying and it makes perfect sense, but I also see a fair bit of evidence to the contrary.

  • 02.26.2011 4:15 AM PDT