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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: switch 104 sv
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Posted by: Skulblaka
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Posted by: ajw34307
Switch has pretty much hit the nail on the head, Cryptum implies that the death of a Forerunner is a rarity amongst their species.
Yet for some reason the librarian is said to be the oldest living forerunner and she is 16,000 years old ( i think).
So it can be suggested that forerunner technology really didn't had just hit it's peak or else she wouldn't be the oldest.
I'm sure it said there were a few Forerunners as old as the Librarian. Even with extreem technology, something will get you. I'm sure there was some sort of diesese, flu of some sort, that was killing off the Forerunners.
If no Forerunners die, the population'd build up into trillions within 1000 years.
I don't think there was but you can correct me if you can, i just clearly remember a lifesharper saying she was the oldest forerunner.
The thing is the armor cures any illness they would get, which is why they never take it off. And with over 3 million planets i am sure they have more than a trillion pop, which is why they consider themselves to be the super power of the galaxy.
Also, it seems like Forerunner population increase is somewhat controlled, or at least not in proportion to the potential increase due to their life-span. For example Born Stellar's parents were over 10,000 years old(?) and only had two children. It seems that although they have the potential to squeeze hundreds of kiddies out over their lieftime they are intelligent enough not to.
I think they had more since Bornstellar said " of all my fathers children i am the most rebellious" or something along those lines. And with saying his mother had just entered a certain stage in which she wouldn't have children for X amount of years.
But you are right for the most part growth seems to be controlled.