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Posted by: Vermachtnis117
Something that goes against human nature, and something we could never achieve.
*sigh*
And why is this?
As for the second bit:The Forerunners broke out in civil war over the Halo Array. Faber and his ilk were not representative of the majority of the Forerunners either... They were certainly not undivided.
Posted by: Vermachtnis117
But nevertheless they had a very respectable nature,
They still succumbed to pettiness. Bornstellar has obviously been moulded by his peers and the society he lives in, which indicates that the Forerunner too were subject to pettiness. Pettiness in the way that they viewed all less advanced than them, particularly Humanity, to be scum.
Posted by: Vermachtnis117
they believed all life should be able to evolve naturally
To paraphrase the terminals, they "Stripped their protectorates of all capacity to defend themselves". Which means demilitarising them. In cases where the species refused to bow down, we could probably expect to see full blown genocide like what happened to Humanity and the Prophets.
That is not allowing natural advancement. That is impeding it.
Posted by: Vermachtnis117
and used thier technology and wisdom to protect those evolving species.
See above. ^
Also, despite knowing fine well that Humanity was pushed to the edge by the Flood, they finished the job. Then, they proceeded to keep them in that state indefinitely, despite knowing what actually happened. To say that this is pettiness would be an understatement. They obviously had an ulterior motive. At the first opportunity they had, they pummelled their only competition upon dubious reasoning. Then after finding out about the truth, they concluded that they would continue with their abhorrent plan rather than stop it.
I get the impression that Humanity was the only kid in the class that the Forerunner could not bully outright, but when chance came they did not hesitate to backstab. The fact that Humanity upheld the Mantle through sacrifice (And not through Bornstellar's philosophy of "Abandon the Mantle for our very way of life is under threat") suggests that Humanity's claim to the Mantle was not, as the Forerunners liked to delude themselves into believing, errant. The Forerunner's whole devotion to the Mantle was through a religious type myth that the Precursors had passed it onto them, and therefore probably could not be verified. (They could not even remember wiping out the Precursor) Half of the war was based upon blind faith then, with the other half, I suspect, based on an ulterior motive to be the supreme power in the galaxy.
[Edited on 04.21.2011 10:06 AM PDT]