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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: II Cipher
And I also think that IF this is true. And Iris is introduced more, then Iris may be way older than Forerunner and precursor times.
It may be passed down secretive Knowledge of races, and might be the Mantle.
IRIS is during the war, we have references to both the didact and librarian.
And good job OP this is something nobody has touched on. I think like cobra suggested that this might be "halos version of the force" and that it might tie into "living time".
Precursor technology certainly has some sort of intelligence or something similar since they could only be destroyed by the firing of a Halo, so they obviously had a vast understanding of sentience and the like, I would hazard a guess for it to be the best understanding of life and universe of any of the races the Halo story has encountered so far. It definitely sounds like from Cryptum that there could be a concept similar to the Force from Star Wars going on. Could be what all those voices Born was hearing from the Domain...my original thoughts for the voices were the voices of the Precursors speaking to him and giving vaguely prophetic warnings of the Forerunner's impending doom.
I don't want to satyr something like this off topic but.
you do not need to be sapient for the flood to infect you it is more of a bonus factor. As long as you have the following
A)enough calcium
b)enough biomass
C) a central nervous system
D) a spinal cord
you can be infected, the flood will not pass up if if you are not sapient, hence the librarian moving all life to the ark pre galactic halo plan
the rings that were used in cryptum did not have the same purpose the second batch did. they were super weapons against the flood used in solar systems.
while the precursor structures are and are not sapient they were only destroyed due to the negation of neural physics. in which people inferred that their tech is based off neutrinos or something of the like.
Yeah, I know that sentience is not required for the Flood to infect someone, I glanced through Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor while at a friend's house one time and all those creatures wouldn't have been sentients before infection so yeah.
I guess I didn't word what I was trying to say properly :/
Why do you say the Halo's are different? I've only read the book once, rereading it now, but I didn't really get the impression the Halos we saw in Cryptum were any different from the 7 Halos of the games, I'll keep a lookout for something that would indicate that in my current read-through, but I would like to hear what led you to that conclusion, knowing you and what you dig up it will probably be an interesting point.