- ROBERTO jh
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- Fabled Heroic Member
Anyone else get the impression that Forerunner Mutation is essentially the same thing as Spartan augmentation? It would seem so in description: you get stronger, larger and you fit your role much better. The Didact is described as looking like a tank, unnaturally strong and tall.
Being a warrior, this would fit him.
Do you think its safe to say that mutation(s) in Forerunners are like augmentations?
Something else I noticed while rereading the Ghosts of Onyx, Ackerson says that his plans for the SPARTAN III program included, if it went smoothly and once the technology got there, extending the bio-enchancements of the SPARTAN programs to the general populace. Or at least, create the entire human military to be just as efficient as the SPARTANS.
When he spoke of a hundred thousand spartans in 30 years, I got the impression, now that I'd read Cryptum, this could be said to be like the humans taking their first sub-conscious steps as inheritors of the Mantle.
The Librarian imposed a geas on humanity, that's clear, but what if she also ordered the humans to uptake the Mantle eventually? It seems likely.
It would also be like humanity returning to their ancient selves. We obviously had SPARTAN like traits to contend with the Forerunners for so long in war. Were it not for the Flood, we might have actually defeated the Forerunners.
So what do you think? Could we be slowly uptaking the Mantle of Life our brothers the Forerunners did so long ago and not even realizing it?