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Subject: why dident the forerunners catalog themselfs

and then i said take out that punkass jackel

so if they cataloged alot of species for after the use of the halos why not themselfs?

  • 03.18.2011 1:25 AM PDT

Because they, after learning that they were responsible for the extermination of their creators (the precursors), realized they were unworthy of carrying on the mantle so the decided to make humans the inheritors o the mantle and commit mass suicide as a punishment for violating the mantle they held so dear...

Plus, the flood was their punishment for destroying the precursors, so they probably realized the rest of the life in the galaxy did not have to pay for their sins...

  • 03.18.2011 1:47 AM PDT

They didn't all die. They went on the great journey.

  • 03.18.2011 1:59 AM PDT

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They didn't all die. They went on the great journey.


Yeah, to the great beyond...

  • 03.18.2011 2:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

well the encyclopedia states they left the orion arm so they are still alive somewhere. we still got shield worlds, stasis pods, cryptums, durance, etc

  • 03.18.2011 5:24 AM PDT


Posted by: grey101
well the encyclopedia states they left the orion arm so they are still alive somewhere. we still got shield worlds, stasis pods, cryptums, durance, etc


There's a contradiction there. The Encyclopedia later says that they left the galaxy. Seeing as Cryptum states they controlled over 3million worlds, and that they were fully capable of traveling beyond the Orion arm, I'm going with they left the galaxy.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


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Posted by: grey101
well the encyclopedia states they left the orion arm so they are still alive somewhere. we still got shield worlds, stasis pods, cryptums, durance, etc


There's a contradiction there. The Encyclopedia later says that they left the galaxy. Seeing as Cryptum states they controlled over 3million worlds, and that they were fully capable of traveling beyond the Orion arm, I'm going with they left the galaxy.


Ehh, i dislike that seeing how i don't think they had ships at the ready to leave at that time. Born said it himself that they never needed to expanded past the galaxy, so i doubt they could do so at whim.

  • 03.18.2011 6:13 AM PDT

Posted by: Musashi 360 2
Because they, after learning that they were responsible for the extermination of their creators (the precursors), realized they were unworthy of carrying on the mantle so the decided to make humans the inheritors o the mantle and commit mass suicide as a punishment for violating the mantle they held so dear...

Plus, the flood was their punishment for destroying the precursors, so they probably realized the rest of the life in the galaxy did not have to pay for their sins...

Wait, if the Forerunners made humans the inheritors because they considered themselves unworthy, why did they create Shield Worlds? To save themselves? I mean. You pointed out that they wanted to take themselves with the Flood as punishment.

  • 03.18.2011 8:39 AM PDT

Oh hey there

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It's a metaphor for the 07s' lack of identity. too old to be newfa­g, yet too new to be oldfa­g, we wander b.net in search of a home, forever trying to be something we are not.

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Posted by: grey101
well the encyclopedia states they left the orion arm so they are still alive somewhere. we still got shield worlds, stasis pods, cryptums, durance, etc


There's a contradiction there. The Encyclopedia later says that they left the galaxy. Seeing as Cryptum states they controlled over 3million worlds, and that they were fully capable of traveling beyond the Orion arm, I'm going with they left the galaxy.


Ehh, i dislike that seeing how i don't think they had ships at the ready to leave at that time. Born said it himself that they never needed to expanded past the galaxy, so i doubt they could do so at whim.

Especially after the devastating affect the Forerunner Flood war must have had on their fleets.

  • 03.18.2011 8:53 AM PDT


Posted by: BlackKnightKanos
Posted by: Musashi 360 2
Because they, after learning that they were responsible for the extermination of their creators (the precursors), realized they were unworthy of carrying on the mantle so the decided to make humans the inheritors o the mantle and commit mass suicide as a punishment for violating the mantle they held so dear...

Plus, the flood was their punishment for destroying the precursors, so they probably realized the rest of the life in the galaxy did not have to pay for their sins...


Wait, if the Forerunners made humans the inheritors because they considered themselves unworthy, why did they create Shield Worlds? To save themselves? I mean. You pointed out that they wanted to take themselves with the Flood as punishment.


The shield worlds were created before the flood had the help of mendicant bias, which took forerunners by surprise, so they could not flee, or evacuate to the shield worlds... They, for a moment, thought they would have time to escape...

That was before they thought they were unworthy of the mantle.

  • 03.18.2011 7:29 PM PDT

I put the laughter in manslaughter

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Posted by: grey101
well the encyclopedia states they left the orion arm so they are still alive somewhere. we still got shield worlds, stasis pods, cryptums, durance, etc


There's a contradiction there. The Encyclopedia later says that they left the galaxy. Seeing as Cryptum states they controlled over 3million worlds, and that they were fully capable of traveling beyond the Orion arm, I'm going with they left the galaxy.

boy are they in for a shock when they get back..

  • 03.18.2011 7:41 PM PDT