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Posted by: orphan
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Precursors and their structures only vulnerable to neural impulses? Any traditional weaponry (i.e. lasers, plasma, projectiles) simply wouldn't effect them, while a neural impulse would shatter or obliterate them.
Neural weaponry is most likely incredibly advanced, and the Precursor would've tried to hold it a secret as it was their only true weakness, but a Forerunner probably figured it out, and used it in rebellion against the Precursor.
The reason there aren't any Precursor structures lying around is because they were destroyed by the activation of the Halo Array, which is a neural weapon.
I'm not exactly sure how the neural weaponry would work, let alone structures that are only susceptible to that sort of attack. The Halo Array was said to target the brain and eliminate it somehow, correct?
It works...well, it works how you'd expect Gods to work. Neural Physics was a science that life and the universe is linked, that they are the same; "the universe lives, but not as we do". Precursors tapped into that and became Transsentient, or one with the universe.
Trying to destroy a Precursor structure with anything but a neural impulse would be like trying to bring down the Empire State building and the International Space Station at the same time with just one toss of a tennis ball. As in: it cannot be done. You'd essentially, in the case of the Precursors, be trying to destroy the fabric of consciousness and the universe (an intangible, likely transdimensional thing) with a bullet.
This explains the term "transsentient."
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
I fail to see how a 'neural' weapon (What the hell does that mena anyway?) would even work on structures...
Last I checked buildings didn't think.
Though, amusingly enough people bring up precusors as unbeatable, yet the forerunners did so.
You think under the assumption you can understand the Precursors' science. Hint: you can't. Neural Physics is a generic term that was best easily translated into English by an AI translator (read the front of Cryptum), it is likely not the best term to describe it.
[Edited on 04.07.2011 3:10 PM PDT]