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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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

Greg posted that on his board awhile ago and it got me thinking, i have alot of theories on cryptum and halo 4 but i normally don't post them well ahead before they can be taken into account.


Based off what he says he pretty much states that the prisoner was lying about somethings i am assuming he is talking about the forerunner-precursor war. not here is where i get radical.

What if the precursors we a race bent on domination and created the forerunners/humans as a slave race or to clear out this galaxy for them to move in. The precursors have dominated several large galaxys and plan to control the universe in time.

The Forerunners did the bidding for a time period but for one reason or another decided to rise up against the precursors and push them out of the galaxy if not destroy them. The forerunners waged a long battle with the precursors and using there own technology against them started to push them back destroying planets in the process.

At one point the capture a precursor of importance; maybe he was the one that created one or the leader, who knows. but they captured him and put him in stasis while wiping out the rest of the race from the milky way and having some means of keeping them out/ from returning (some super weapon?)


The significance of keeping the prisoner alive is this is where the forerunners created the mantle, they wished to preserve all life and protect it from others like the precursors. They felt that it was their job to protect this galaxy and they made gudielines for doing so; thus when thier time is over they could pass it down to another race.


After the war the forerunners were low in number and decide to start their own empire on a planet in the orion complex, on Ghibalb. Because of the war they also lost alot of technology dut to the outright destruction of precursor planets and had to start from scratch in a sense.

Whether it was due to an actual steller experiment or some other cause, Ghibalb was highly altered in which many of the original forerunners died off.
While the forerunners were able to travel to a few other planets in the system (this being the homeworld) they lost alot of their knowledge and technology due to this incident. in which they grew to forget their past history and became the forerunners today.
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This is something i literally just came up with while dicking around on the forums. Remember that we have no viable evidence on what the precursors really are so don't pull a 8 year old kid and say "but the precursor wanted to protect life!". I think this (or something like it) could also explain mutations seeing how they seemed to have gotten that after the steller accident.


Anyways tell me what you think.

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Posted by: grey101
Greg posted that on his board awhile ago and it got me thinking, i have alot of theories on cryptum and halo 4 but i normally don't post them well ahead before they can be taken into account.


Based off what he says he pretty much states that the prisoner was lying about somethings i am assuming he is talking about the forerunner-precursor war. not here is where i get radical.

What if the precursors we a race bent on domination and created the forerunners/humans as a slave race or to clear out this galaxy for them to move in. The precursors have dominated several large galaxys and plan to control the universe in time.

The Forerunners did the bidding for a time period but for one reason or another decided to rise up against the precursors and push them out of the galaxy if not destroy them. The forerunners waged a long battle with the precursors and using there own technology against them started to push them back destroying planets in the process.

At one point the capture a precursor of importance; maybe he was the one that created one or the leader, who knows. but they captured him and put him in stasis while wiping out the rest of the race from the milky way and having some means of keeping them out/ from returning (some super weapon?)


The significance of keeping the prisoner alive is this is where the forerunners created the mantle, they wished to preserve all life and protect it from others like the precursors. They felt that it was their job to protect this galaxy and they made gudielines for doing so; thus when thier time is over they could pass it down to another race.


After the war the forerunners were low in number and decide to start their own empire on a planet in the orion complex, on Ghibalb. Because of the war they also lost alot of technology dut to the outright destruction of precursor planets and had to start from scratch in a sense.

Whether it was due to an actual steller experiment or some other cause, Ghibalb was highly altered in which many of the original forerunners died off.
While the forerunners were able to travel to a few other planets in the system (this being the homeworld) they lost alot of their knowledge and technology due to this incident. in which they grew to forget their past history and became the forerunners today.
--------------------------------------------------------------

This is something i literally just came up with while dicking around on the forums. Remember that we have no viable evidence on what the precursors really are so don't pull a 8 year old kid and say "but the precursor wanted to protect life!". I think this (or something like it) could also explain mutations seeing how they seemed to have gotten that after the steller accident.


Anyways tell me what you think.
I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out true.

  • 07.02.2011 7:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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

Well thank you. I have alot of material i just don't post with the universe going black and all

  • 07.02.2011 7:41 PM PDT

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank god that such men lived. ----------- No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (both by George S. Patton jr.)

Mind is Blown!!
About how I thought almost the same thing.

  • 07.02.2011 8:07 PM PDT

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

Sounds very possible.
Just got me thinking the Precursors might have created 3 races. Flood, Human and Forerunner. U know for different purposes. Flood are like really beast AI constructs and humans and forerunners are slavelike. Just another theory though.

  • 07.02.2011 8:49 PM PDT

Posted by: grey101

Based off what he says he pretty much states that the prisoner was lying about somethings i am assuming he is talking about the forerunner-precursor war. not here is where i get radical.

What if the precursors we a race bent on domination and created the forerunners/humans as a slave race or to clear out this galaxy for them to move in. The precursors have dominated several large galaxys and plan to control the universe in time.

The Forerunners did the bidding for a time period but for one reason or another decided to rise up against the precursors and push them out of the galaxy if not destroy them. The forerunners waged a long battle with the precursors and using there own technology against them started to push them back destroying planets in the process.

Anyways tell me what you think.


Radical? I think not. Now, I haven't read the book so a lot of the stuff in here is over my head at this point but your theory isn't really radical at all and frankly if it was true I'd feel kind of cheated because I already have this story in another one of my video games.

According to you, the Precursors are Reapers, the Forerunner are Prothean and Humanity is the Galactic Universe at the time of the Mass Effect games. Your theory, minus some minute differences is a replica of the story in Mass Effect.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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

You should read the book.

Um i haven't even seen the word "mass effect" on this forum in over 3 weeks and i haven't played the game in over 2 months. this has nothing to do with it.

Precursors are completely different and far more advance than the reapers.

Huh? forerunners have no relation to the protheans whatsoever, especially in this thread. are you trolling?

This is nothing like mass effect, please read the damn books

  • 07.02.2011 9:34 PM PDT

The Forerunner, the Great Journey, and Heaven Theory

[Announcement Trailer] Halo: Forerunner

Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

Posted by: CowPieSky32
According to you, the Precursors are Reapers, the Forerunner are Prothean and Humanity is the Galactic Universe at the time of the Mass Effect games. Your theory, minus some minute differences is a replica of the story in Mass Effect.
That means very little considering Star Craft did the exact same thing (Precursors=Xel'Naga, Humans=Humans, Forerunner=Protoss, Zerg=Flood). I'd be somewhat perplexed if three separate studios (all of which have had a large amount of success) developed the same general storyline all within a few years of each other (talk about "same -blam!-; different wrapper").

Grey, I won't say this isn't possible but because this sort of storyline would be so blatantly obvious, it would be an insult if they did follow through with it. I like to make fun of 343 as much as the next guy, but they would deserve all of my criticism and much more if they decided that this was the path they were going to take.

  • 07.02.2011 10:59 PM PDT

Posted by: grey101
You should read the book.

Um i haven't even seen the word "mass effect" on this forum in over 3 weeks and i haven't played the game in over 2 months. this has nothing to do with it.

Precursors are completely different and far more advance than the reapers.

Huh? forerunners have no relation to the protheans whatsoever, especially in this thread. are you trolling?

This is nothing like mass effect, please read the damn books



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Posted by: CowPieSky32
According to you, the Precursors are Reapers, the Forerunner are Prothean and Humanity is the Galactic Universe at the time of the Mass Effect games. Your theory, minus some minute differences is a replica of the story in Mass Effect.
That means very little considering Star Craft did the exact same thing (Precursors=Xel'Naga, Humans=Humans, Forerunner=Protoss, Zerg=Flood). I'd be somewhat perplexed if three separate studios (all of which have had a large amount of success) developed the same general storyline all within a few years of each other (talk about "same -blam!-; different wrapper").

Grey, I won't say this isn't possible but because this sort of storyline would be so blatantly obvious, it would be an insult if they did follow through with it. I like to make fun of 343 as much as the next guy, but they would deserve all of my criticism and much more if they decided that this was the path they were going to take.


Yea that's what I'm getting at we get the same story too much. While I see too what you're saying about Starcraft I think the Mass Effect analogy is slightly better because Forerunner willed their knowledge to humanity just like the Prothean did to the succeeding galactic community. I'm not trolling but I've seen what the OP is proposing already. I guess it's kinda hard to come up with something completely original but I'd like to see something fresher.

  • 07.05.2011 10:33 PM 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

Could be true :)

  • 07.06.2011 1:52 AM PDT

personally i actually think the precursors were the "good guys" and created the humans and the forerunners to enforce their "mantle" Unfortunately, the Forerunners, arrogant as they were(we see some of this is Cryptum), rose up against them. During the war, the Precursors started developing what we now know as The Flood. Unfortunately, the Forerunners pushed them out of the Galaxy(or killed them all) and they had to send out the ships containing the flood spore randomly, hoping that it would end up on a forerunner planet. The Forerunners captured a Precursor, probably a great leader) just to tease him, and to show him how "superior the Forerunners really were. The rest we all know.

  • 07.07.2011 12:15 AM PDT