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Yes I'm fairly young. No, that doesn't mean I'm automatically dumber than you or have less life experience, thats just generally the case. I am not your general case.
Posted by: George 257
Posted by: hotshot revan II
-So i guess you had a secret look at the inside of their civilisation huh?Seriously,the only time we had a real look at them before Cryptum and Origins were the Halo 3 terminals.
And.......according to the terminals the 4runners stripped all other species of their tech and power(can't find the quote).
-???HAHAHAH!!
Listen kid some very advanced species like the 4runners become too arrogant and start act like douchbags,thinknig they are the best,it wouldn't surprise me if the Precursors were like that as well.
Nothing in Halo fiction agrees with your ponit,it's all personal opinion on your part,in others words invalid,can't be used.
I'll ignore the rest of your post as it involves Marathon,you think 343 industries will look at marathon??It's not their game.
If you want to see some marathon elements in a story then wait for Bungies new IP or ignore 343 industries Halo products.
- Before-Cryptum information points out that "The Forerunners were a wise, highly intelligent, noble people and with a belief in justice, in peace, they bravely faced the adversary. They sought to sterilize it."
"Their civilization was based around the Mantle, a belief that it was their role to protect all life in the galaxy. They presumably monitored the evolution of other sentient species throughout the galaxy, intervening in ways that ensured their civilizations would follow paths of peace, free of conflict."
Also, they are gone from the universe, sacrificed themselves for other/"lesser" races because they couldn't defeat the Flood, but wanted the other races to live (that was their idea, wasn't it?)
Now these are just points. What Greg Bear has written didn't break canon nor is it impossible. But his "details" have changed the inbeing of Forerunners.
Greg's Forerunners are arrogant cut-throats.
Before-Cryptum Forerunners are mysterious kind people that gave their lives for humans and other races.
Why would I want to believe Greg Bear's story? Just because he gave me "details"? I would rather be kept in dark!
- "The Forerunners show some similarities (their highly advanced technology and the fact that they mysteriously vanished) to the Jjaro, a race of aliens from a previous Bungie game, Marathon. The concept of a highly advanced extinct race leaving technological relics behind is not a new concept..."
If you are going to ignore Marathon, then I won't bother arguing with you about wheter Marathon elements are good or not. Because you just will not see the amounts of awesome they produce. Also, where do you think "We'll see you starside" is from?
Greg Bears Forerunners were exactly what I predicted the Forerunners to be like. They exhibit an aura peacefulness and kindness but as with all sentient life, that is always a facade for what is really going on. I always suspected there was more to the Forerunners than the terminals told us, that they weren't a bunch of space hippies. Greg Bears Forerunners are more human, more realistic, than the vague terminal descriptions ever were and as the opening to the book states, the history of the Forerunners has been converted over the years to something unrecognizable to him, an obvious reference to how previous Halo media has shown them as loving peace keepers, while Cryptum shows them as a more realistic species with faults and weaknesses. All in all, Cryptum's depiction of the Forerunners was easily the best and it never broke cannon, not once and the only problem with it that I can find cannon wise is that people like you are butthurt the sudden realization that the Forerunners were not at all like the fans had theorized.