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Subject: What would the Forerunners' weapons be like??

I have seen only two kinds of Forerunner Weaponry(not counting the Halos), the Sentinel Beam from Halo 2 and the Energy Sword-like gun in Halo: Legends... Both of them use some form of light energy...
But what I am wondering is if the Forerunners were forced to build weaponry for a war (like the Human/Covenant war)... What would their weaponry look like?? Would it just be some handle thing like the energy sword, or would it be something like the covenant weapons; small, rounded, battery powered and shoots pure plasma or some spike/needle-like technology??
I am also wondering about grenades... would they alter Gravity itself (by warping gravity around it then exploding expunging gravity around it with a very destructive force), or would it just explode into light and plasma matter??

If anyone has ANY ideas on this... please share with everyone and show your unique opinions!

[Edited on 07.06.2011 10:38 PM PDT]

  • 07.06.2011 10:13 PM PDT

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The possibilities are vast. It is said that the Didact's ship arried thousands of different hand weapons.

  • 07.06.2011 10:44 PM PDT

I've thought about that too. Imagine being able to play as a Forerunner! The thought alone gives me chills.

I imagine not all, but, some oi not most, would be like the "energy-sword gun". Possibly all light-energy weapons?

Maybe I'm thinking this too far, but maybe some sort of release (movie/short or game chapter) could be a huge step for the franchise and if done correctly, can expand into a whole new story!

  • 07.06.2011 11:05 PM PDT

I was just thinking that exact same thing!! I was literally thinking, after I posted, that in Halo 4, they should make a game chapter explaining the Forerunner technology the way they made the energy gun from Halo: Legends... and how the hell they even mad the HALOS!!!!
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Another thing I'm wanting them to show... is how the Forerunners collected a sample of all life in the galaxy... but cannot recreate themselves... :/
That seems like a huge disadvantage from my point of view with the technology they had...
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Finally, they should make a special Halo: Legends chapter telling the Forerunner's backstory rather than what everyone already knows... -_- But keep those parts still in there to hook everything together!! :)

  • 07.06.2011 11:22 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

Forerunner small arms turn cities to rubble.

Expand from there.

  • 07.07.2011 1:08 AM PDT

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Similar to Covenant, they got a lot of their weapons from recycled Forerunner tech.

  • 07.07.2011 2:39 AM PDT

put it this way, their pistols would make our rail guns look like throwing a rock in comparason

  • 07.07.2011 3:00 AM PDT


Posted by: CorrosiveAce
I was just thinking that exact same thing!! I was literally thinking, after I posted, that in Halo 4, they should make a game chapter explaining the Forerunner technology the way they made the energy gun from Halo: Legends... and how the hell they even mad the HALOS!!!!
~~~
Another thing I'm wanting them to show... is how the Forerunners collected a sample of all life in the galaxy... but cannot recreate themselves... :/
That seems like a huge disadvantage from my point of view with the technology they had...
~~~
Finally, they should make a special Halo: Legends chapter telling the Forerunner's backstory rather than what everyone already knows... -_- But keep those parts still in there to hook everything together!! :)


you should read the books more, it hits at why mabie the forrunners did not need to preserve their DNA like the rest of the galaxy. also a new book about the fornunners by Greg Bear is out that should explain a lot about them.

  • 07.07.2011 3:09 AM PDT

I'd Imagine like sentinel beams.

  • 07.07.2011 4:40 AM 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

Even Standard Forerunner body armor have offensive capabilities.Didact considered vaporizing Chakas with his hands.

  • 07.07.2011 5:18 AM PDT
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Just try to remember the Sentinel Beam.

  • 07.07.2011 5:24 AM PDT

It'd be like Chuch Norris with a BB gun?

  • 07.07.2011 6:12 AM PDT

Sentinel Beams with mags and rounds. Imagine epic blue bullets.

[Edited on 07.07.2011 8:41 AM PDT]

  • 07.07.2011 8:41 AM PDT

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Gravity gun: Basically a gravity hammer as a gun.

  • 07.07.2011 2:00 PM PDT

That would be kinda... OP... Don't you think? Cause if it's a gravity hammer as a gun, where would all of the energy go that caused the gravity to shoot/warp?
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See where I'm coming from? If you have a gravity hammer as a gun... you have tons of problems right there...
Where would the kickback energy go(cause you will break your arm/shoulder when you fire it)? How would it fire (cause you have to have some focusing system, but you are just shooting pure gravity)? And, how in the heck would you hake a gun out of a gravity warping device (cause you would need some way to have a sturdy, yet flexible way to keep the power from injuring you!)?!

  • 07.08.2011 6:38 AM PDT


Posted by: CorrosiveAce
That would be kinda... OP... Don't you think? Cause if it's a gravity hammer as a gun, where would all of the energy go that caused the gravity to shoot/warp?
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See where I'm coming from? If you have a gravity hammer as a gun... you have tons of problems right there...
Where would the kickback energy go(cause you will break your arm/shoulder when you fire it)? How would it fire (cause you have to have some focusing system, but you are just shooting pure gravity)? And, how in the heck would you hake a gun out of a gravity warping device (cause you would need some way to have a sturdy, yet flexible way to keep the power from injuring you!)?!


Overpowered and the Forerunners go hand in hand.

Their militarized combat suits, called Seekers, were built to destroy cities. Combat Suits

  • 07.08.2011 6:45 AM PDT
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what if they don't need hand held weapons? what if they are weapons. like they can shoot stuff outa there hands. i think that would be cool

  • 07.08.2011 6:47 AM PDT

I really hope the forerunners feature heavily in halo 4, I love their technology

Thinking about forerunner vehicles is going to be fun :D

  • 07.08.2011 10:11 AM PDT