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Subject: *Spoiler* What do you think a Precursor looks like?

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

"All that is known about the Precursors' appearance is based upon the prisoner at Charum Hakkor, the last known Precursor. Precursors were massive in size; the mold encapsulating the Prisoner of Charum Hakkor outlined a being approximately fifteen meters tall and eleven meters wide. They were vaguely humanoid, with four arms, two legs and an insectoid head. A long, segmented "tail" was attached to the base of the skull, tipped with a meter-long barb. Each hand had three fingers and a central opposable thumb.

The face of a Precursor has been likened to that of a eurypterid, or "sea scorpion." Their heads were flattened, with oval compound eyes and (presumably) mandibles or similar mouth parts." -Halopedia article on the Precursor taken from Halo: Cryptum


So, do what do you guys think the precursor's appearance is like?
I did this quick sketch
Also after watching Super 8, I kept on thinking the alien looked like a Precursor (except for the face.)

  • 06.17.2011 9:10 PM PDT

"What they don't knw Can't hurt Them

hahaha, wow thats actually pretty damn good. I would picture them without the fur though. I'm thinking they would be covered my some metallic armor like the forerunners. Still looks badass though

  • 06.17.2011 10:05 PM PDT

"Where ere thou hast been, here or in yon world manifest? Canst thou tell what is, or what was, or what is to come? No thing shall last. Yet there are some things that will never change. History is written in blood, yet are battles really lost on the battlefield? Canst thou tell me where thou comest, and where thou goest, and what is, or what was, or what will be? For everything remains, AS IT NEVER WAS."

I imagine something akin to the Cloverfield monster

  • 06.17.2011 10:07 PM PDT

"Living in the past is a luxury none of us can afford..."
"I know what the ladies like..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid
The description in the book had a quite disgusting connotation. It made the precursor seem monsterous, in my opinion.
Nice drawing btw.

  • 06.17.2011 10:16 PM PDT

"What they don't knw Can't hurt Them

Posted by: spartanz_8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid


:( now i'm thinking the precursors are some sort of advanced lobster

  • 06.17.2011 11:01 PM PDT

"Living in the past is a luxury none of us can afford..."
"I know what the ladies like..."

Or a flood form?

  • 06.17.2011 11:06 PM PDT

"What they don't knw Can't hurt Them

haha, ummmmm nah. maybe a giant cockaroach though

  • 06.17.2011 11:14 PM PDT

To comment on the drawing - I (personally) imagined the arms to be all of equal size/strength, though I admit the arthropod-like description lends itself a little more toward your interpretation. as for the barb on the head, I myself imagined it coming off the back and not the front; almost like the entire head reflects the eurypterid form.

Still, great art job (better than anything I could do). Would be interesting to see a community collaboration on what Precursors look like (from that limited description), or better yet some sort of official artwork depicting them.

  • 06.17.2011 11:24 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg

I don't want to turn this into a art thread, that's for the gallery.
I'm just curious as to what you think the Precursor looks like.

OFF TOPIC: EVERYBODY GO SEE SUPER 8

  • 06.18.2011 12:40 PM PDT
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We are all going to get banned aren't we?


Posted by: ImmortalJoshua
I don't want to turn this into a art thread, that's for the gallery.


We do need visuals for something like this along with the forerunners, so you and others doing stuff like this and everybody talking about it does belong in here.

To be honest this is the most productive thing you have ever done.

  • 06.18.2011 4:25 PM PDT

"What they don't knw Can't hurt Them

Posted by: grey101

Posted by: ImmortalJoshua
I don't want to turn this into a art thread, that's for the gallery.


We do need visuals for something like this along with the forerunners, so you and others doing stuff like this and everybody talking about it does belong in here.

To be honest this is the most productive thing you have ever done.

  • 06.18.2011 5:57 PM PDT

"Moooooooo"
-Ghost cow

Nice drawing, and I'm pretty sure the Precursor is a mutated gorilla

  • 06.19.2011 12:35 AM PDT

"Defiant Reclaimer, he who will shatter the land and break the sky apart..."

Not bad for a quick sketch, I've seen you post this before somewhere...

  • 06.19.2011 1:36 AM PDT

"Bacon-There is no cure."

Looks like an Elite had sex with a Bugger that had sex with a Brute then for the -blam!- of it put on some power armor...thank you, thank you for drawing a new form of hell to haunt and torment my dreams.

  • 06.21.2011 11:11 AM PDT

That looks like what I expected, I think you posted the sketch in a different thread awhile ago

  • 06.21.2011 1:08 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

A Sea Scorpion.

  • 06.21.2011 1:10 PM PDT


Posted by: spartanz_8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid


That reminds me of ME's Reaper.

[Edited on 06.21.2011 1:24 PM PDT]

  • 06.21.2011 1:24 PM PDT