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Subject: A quick question about Forerunners
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Posted by: evilcam
Bobcast is paid in MILF blind dates.

Is there any mention in any literature that Forerunners have the capacity to time travel?

I know Forerunners have explored slipspace, denial of locale, shunspace, trick geometrics, natal void and the glow. However, I can't find any information that they could time travel.

I'm working on a semi-large thread and this is one of my points.

Thanks in advance

  • 06.29.2011 11:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

The forerunner can/ have the technology to do alot of things but don't do so because of there philosophy.

  • 06.29.2011 11:16 AM PDT

Obviously I know what slipspace is, but what are the other things? I'd imagine they could slow their own relative timeline so they could "go into the future" so to speak, but whether they could travel backwards in time, I have no idea.

  • 06.29.2011 11:20 AM PDT
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paradox theory enough said.
not worth it

  • 06.29.2011 11:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: evilcam
Bobcast is paid in MILF blind dates.

Posted by: grey101
The forerunner can/ have the technology to do alot of things but don't do so because of there philosophy.


Good point. Damn, it was going to be a good thread too.

Posted by: yasir_117
paradox theory enough said.
not worth it


It was actually something completely different, but I needed to know if Forerunners had the technology to time travel as evidence.

[Edited on 06.29.2011 11:38 AM PDT]

  • 06.29.2011 11:28 AM PDT

Didn't the crystal retrieved on reach have anything to do with time travel? i recall it being mentioned somewere..could be wrong to.

  • 06.29.2011 11:41 AM PDT

http://www.halo-forum.com

I'm pretty sure that time travel (Back to the Future style) is as much of an impossibility in the Haloverse as it is in our own, and I sincerely hope it stays that way.

  • 06.29.2011 11:45 AM PDT
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Don't scream, it will only make me laugh.

Time is simply a tool that human minds use to measure and discern Event A from Even B.

Time travel is like saying Philosophy travel.

Doesn't make sense does it?

  • 06.29.2011 4:56 PM PDT
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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.

De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).

Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship

If the Forerunners would have time travel capabilities... well, that would be a plethora of more sci-fi civilizations left in the dust...

  • 06.29.2011 4:59 PM PDT
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Probably not the Forerunners, however the Precursors likely are beyond even time travel technology.

  • 06.29.2011 5:56 PM PDT


Posted by: CmdrScott1701
Probably not the Forerunners, however the Precursors likely are beyond even time travel technology.


If the Precursors had time travel they wouldn't be just one left would there?

  • 06.29.2011 6:01 PM PDT
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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.

De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).

Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship


Posted by: Ric0chetSniper

Posted by: CmdrScott1701
Probably not the Forerunners, however the Precursors likely are beyond even time travel technology.


If the Precursors had time travel they wouldn't be just one left would there?


Maybe the Precursors just left the galaxy, just not even caring about anything involving the Milky Way.

  • 06.29.2011 6:18 PM PDT
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If they were time travelers, there may be more to it than they would have the universe know. Perhaps something like a secret society? Or maybe even an ascended one? I was and am merely speculating.

  • 06.29.2011 6:19 PM PDT


Posted by: Ric0chetSniper

Posted by: CmdrScott1701
Probably not the Forerunners, however the Precursors likely are beyond even time travel technology.


If the Precursors had time travel they wouldn't be just one left would there?


Greg implied that the Prisoner was lying. He said "Now let's see what the Forerunners and Precursors were really up too".

So odds are something else happened.

  • 06.29.2011 6:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: fatalred alarm
Didn't the crystal retrieved on reach have anything to do with time travel? i recall it being mentioned somewere..could be wrong to.
Maybe it could slow time down or speed it up, maybe, but I doubt actual time-travel would be possible with it.

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Posted by: fatalred alarm
Didn't the crystal retrieved on reach have anything to do with time travel? i recall it being mentioned somewere..could be wrong to.


Off memory...the crystal created a time anomaly when it entered slipspace. It essentially stopped time and allowed them to slip without a huge time waste, but it also deposited them in an erratic slipspace distortion.

  • 06.29.2011 6:39 PM PDT
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Semper Fictor

I thought that the precursors were at about the same level as forerunners but were just raised to a "godly" status because the forerunners had little actual knowledge on the precursors level of tech, just the few rare ruins that they couldnt understand

  • 06.29.2011 6:45 PM PDT

Reverse time travel is impossible. Nuff said.

  • 06.29.2011 6:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: evilcam
Bobcast is paid in MILF blind dates.

Posted by: CmdrScott1701
Probably not the Forerunners, however the Precursors likely are beyond even time travel technology.


That's what I was thinking. Since the Precursors are theoretically tier 0 it could be possible.

The thread that I was going to make suggested that besides Forerunner ruins on Reach there was also Precursor ruins. Like the crystal.

[Edited on 06.29.2011 8:11 PM PDT]

  • 06.29.2011 8:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

Forerunners could manipulate time by using the crystals, but i don't see what purpose they would have for doing ao.

  • 06.29.2011 8:39 PM PDT