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Subject: Post Halo 3 technological development.

It is often said in the books that the Covenant are imitative and not creative in their development of technology and I was just wondering whether or not it would be likely that Humanity would fall into this trap post Halo 3, with the war being over and the UNSC being aware of a huge stash of Forerunner materials ready to be snatched up and used to boost humanity centuries ahead in their understanding of the universe.

So would what I was thinking about be a genuine risk to the development of Humanity or would they be smart enough to learn from the mistakes of the Covenant?

  • 04.22.2011 10:35 PM PDT

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I imagine that after the war humanity would try to reverse engineer the artifacts of the Forerunners, but will still manage to make its own advances.

Think of it as what happened after the Apollo space program. All of the technology that went into making those rockets was repurposed to make a huge amount of consumer products. This advanced many industries greatly, but innovation continued. Forerunner artifacts will help humanity develop faster, but we will still innovate and improve.

The Covenant's problem was that they thought the Forerunners to be gods, so the artifacts were holy and not meant to be touched.

  • 04.22.2011 10:43 PM PDT

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I imagine that after the war humanity would try to reverse engineer the artifacts of the Forerunners, but will still manage to make its own advances.

Think of it as what happened after the Apollo space program. All of the technology that went into making those rockets was repurposed to make a huge amount of consumer products. This advanced many industries greatly, but innovation continued. Forerunner artifacts will help humanity develop faster, but we will still innovate and improve.

The Covenant's problem was that they thought the Forerunners to be gods, so the artifacts were holy and not meant to be touched.


Thanks for the great answer.

  • 04.22.2011 10:48 PM PDT