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Ive just read through cryptum and it turns out the forerunner were not a universally enlightened and peaceful people. They were not transcendent beings with perfect judgement and morals. They were not all benevolent. They were not whiter than white.
They had just as much internal strife and political conflict and corruption as any other sentient species the galaxy had seen. Perhaps even more. They could be astoundingly brutal bordering on sadistic to any 'lower' species who dared defy them.
A large chunk of them were full of hypocrisy, they had a strange some might say backward social caste system reminiscent of feudal britain, where the most devout followers of the sacred mantle are at the very bottom, and in the end failed to stop the flood because of their indecisiveness and dithering, political sloth and internal conflicts. Apart from the technological prowess they were as far from godlike being as you could get.
Its been interesting to see the forerunners finally characterized properly, but it has been quite strange reading about who they truly were seeing as weve had 10 years of building them up to mythological status as trancendental beings of pure love and the friends and protectors of all life. Now we see........they were like us in so many ways. Capable of such beauty and such horrors.
Actually i think thats the point.