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Subject: Who's the most powerful "ancient" alien race?
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Posted by: grey101
Don't bring the xeelee into this, we aren't talking about gods yet.


The Xeelee are not gods. In the end, they did lose the war, despite all of their advantages.


I suppose Precursors vs Photino Birds would be the ultimate battle of extreme power and vagueness.

  • 05.05.2011 8:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: grey101
Don't bring the xeelee into this, we aren't talking about gods yet.


The Xeelee are not gods. In the end, they did lose the war, despite all of their advantages.


I suppose Precursors vs Photino Birds would be the ultimate battle of extreme power and vagueness.


How would define "lost" though?

They "lost" because they weren't able to stop the birds but they were able to flee to another realm. So that might have lost their main objective but thats about it.


I had the last book but it got wet so i can't look back on it. But were the looks of the birds ever described? i only had 1 of the books.

  • 05.06.2011 11:51 AM PDT


Posted by: grey101

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Posted by: grey101
Don't bring the xeelee into this, we aren't talking about gods yet.


The Xeelee are not gods. In the end, they did lose the war, despite all of their advantages.


I suppose Precursors vs Photino Birds would be the ultimate battle of extreme power and vagueness.


How would define "lost" though?

They "lost" because they weren't able to stop the birds but they were able to flee to another realm. So that might have lost their main objective but thats about it.


I had the last book but it got wet so i can't look back on it. But were the looks of the birds ever described? i only had 1 of the books.


I don't even think the look of the Xeelee was ever described really. It was part of their mystery (I haven't read the series, but plan too). We just only ever saw their ships and fought with them.

But the Xeelee aren't gods; just hyper-advanced.

  • 05.06.2011 2:35 PM PDT
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The Forerunners had suits that could wipe out continents, they were thousands of times more powerful than the UNSC or Covenant. The UNSC had a bomb that could shatter a planet, imagine what the Forerunners had.

  • 06.08.2011 9:37 AM PDT

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Posted by: hungarian toast
The Forerunners had suits that could wipe out continents, they were thousands of times more powerful than the UNSC or Covenant. The UNSC had a bomb that could shatter a planet, imagine what the Forerunners had.

This the forerunners would -blam!- over the reapers, reapers are tier 2 tech, they don't make planets, they can be destroyed by alliance ships (in halo 3, 3 mac rounds did nothing against an unsheilded forerunner ship) Me1 that reaper gets taken down by the normandy- who's gun is no where near as powerful as a frigate mac round...

  • 06.08.2011 9:50 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

Lol wtf is this old thread doing here??

  • 06.08.2011 9:51 AM PDT

Tread lightly mortals, you have resurrerected something better left dead.

  • 06.08.2011 11:56 AM PDT

when you ask something in the halo forums, your gonna get a halo answer.

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Posted by: Omanisat
Tread lightly mortals, you have resurrerected something better left dead.

Forerunners are deadly.
Ancients (Old Lanteans) are defensive.
Reapers get pwned by both before they even realize what happened.
Xel'Naga look like a watered down version of the Forerunners, they have genetic tampering (Zerg and Protoss) which the Forerunners and Ancients had too, they had the temple weapon-the one that wrecked all organic life on a planet, which the Dakara superweapon and the Halo superweapons can do as well... I don't know.

  • 06.08.2011 2:48 PM PDT

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the Phfor.

  • 06.08.2011 3:18 PM PDT
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We should know better, because we are better.


Posted by: hungarian toast
Why did you Necrobump this thread? I thought this discussion was settled.

  • 06.08.2011 3:21 PM PDT


Posted by: ferrrari
Wtf, the reapers would get raped by the covies. WHY THE HELL ARE THEY EVEN ON THERE???

From what ive heard stargate ancients are tough, but the forerunners would just use halo...
Uh...did you even see what it took to kill one Reaper at the end of mE?

I'd vote the Reapers. The Halo Array would do nothing to them, and their numbers and size are Biblical. Also, their main weapons fire a supercompressed stream of molten tungsten at the speed of light...I think that's decent enough to wreck some ass.

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  • 06.08.2011 4:16 PM PDT

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Precursors could probably destroy any of those,but the Forerunners obviously destroyed them...

  • 06.08.2011 4:28 PM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.


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Posted by: ferrrari
Wtf, the reapers would get raped by the covies. WHY THE HELL ARE THEY EVEN ON THERE???

From what ive heard stargate ancients are tough, but the forerunners would just use halo...
Uh...did you even see what it took to kill one Reaper at the end of mE?

I'd vote the Reapers. The Halo Array would do nothing to them, and their numbers and size are Biblical. Also, their main weapons fire a supercompressed stream of molten tungsten at the speed of light...I think that's decent enough to wreck some ass.
I also thought we agreed that Reapers would lose, badly, a few pages ago. They are massively overestimated by many.

A single Forerunner ship could probably solo most of the fleet before being damaged.

  • 06.08.2011 5:00 PM PDT


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Posted by: ferrrari
Wtf, the reapers would get raped by the covies. WHY THE HELL ARE THEY EVEN ON THERE???

From what ive heard stargate ancients are tough, but the forerunners would just use halo...
Uh...did you even see what it took to kill one Reaper at the end of mE?

I'd vote the Reapers. The Halo Array would do nothing to them, and their numbers and size are Biblical. Also, their main weapons fire a supercompressed stream of molten tungsten at the speed of light...I think that's decent enough to wreck some ass.
I also thought we agreed that Reapers would lose, badly, a few pages ago. They are massively overestimated by many.

A single Forerunner ship could probably solo most of the fleet before being damaged.
Why?

Also, are we talking about the Forerunners of Halo fiction, or the Forerunners of Greg Bear's fiction? Because as far as I'm concerned, he never wrote that book, and the Forerunner's real capabilities are still ambiguous.

  • 06.08.2011 5:07 PM PDT

My comment was in reference to the fact that this thread was pretty much finished a month ago, I wasn't weighing in on the debate.

  • 06.08.2011 5:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: Slamtastic50mg
the Phfor.

No, the Jjaro. The Pfhor aren't ancient and they're not as technologically advanced.

  • 06.08.2011 5:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: ferrrari
Wtf, the reapers would get raped by the covies. WHY THE HELL ARE THEY EVEN ON THERE???

From what ive heard stargate ancients are tough, but the forerunners would just use halo...
Uh...did you even see what it took to kill one Reaper at the end of mE?

I'd vote the Reapers. The Halo Array would do nothing to them, and their numbers and size are Biblical. Also, their main weapons fire a supercompressed stream of molten tungsten at the speed of light...I think that's decent enough to wreck some ass.
I also thought we agreed that Reapers would lose, badly, a few pages ago. They are massively overestimated by many.

A single Forerunner ship could probably solo most of the fleet before being damaged.
Why?

Also, are we talking about the Forerunners of Halo fiction, or the Forerunners of Greg Bear's fiction? Because as far as I'm concerned, he never wrote that book, and the Forerunner's real capabilities are still ambiguous.

I meet you again.
Your "opinion" is invalid.
Facts are facts, deal with it, get over it, suck it up.

  • 06.08.2011 6:19 PM PDT