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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Spartan999
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"And our answer is at hand." "Our" as in ownership in the plural. We covered this. The "answer" is his revenge, not 'our engineered biological super weapon.' It's just not there bro.
Yes it is, you are just stubborn enough to refuse to see it.
The Flood is the way the Precursors get their revenge for being destroyed by the Forerunners. Ever noticed how it was the Flood that decimated the Forerunners in a 300 year war? Given the very plausible connection between the Prisoner and Gravemind, it all fits together.
I am reserving judgment on whether or not the Precursors created the Flood or not. However I do not think it is likely at all. I would assume the idea of the Mantel is either a Precursor theology that the Forerunners took on themselves after they rebelled and killed/drove the Precursors from the galaxy, or, it was based on a Precursor idea and the Forerunners adopted it and shaped it into the Mantel. Either way, I doubt the Flood are creations of the Precursor, if the Mantel did indeed originate with them, they would not have made the Flood. The Mantel is about preserving life and guarding it as best as one can, and the Flood are pretty much the Anti-Mantel, all they do is destroy life and devour it, there can be no coexistence between the Flood and the Mantel.
As for the Prisoner's line, as far as we know, he is the last of his kind, and has been imprisoned for God knows how long. I think he's probably off his nut a bit, and often in fiction crazy people refer to themselves in the plural. Also though, being the last of his species, the Prisoner can essentially be said to speaking for them, even if what he says is contrary to what the rest of the Precursors thought and believed. His line struck me more as "we didn't make this, but now we're getting our revenge on you."