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Madara, Tobi....call me whatever you want. I'M NO ONE. I DON'T WANT TO BE ANYONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT IS COMPLETING THE MOON'S EYE PLAN."
they didn't exactly state that the humans reverse engineered it, but in the novel, the didact stated that the humans figured out how to slip through precursor technology and communicate with the timeless one, the didact was amazed as he said that they did something the forerunner were not able to do.
And they combined their technology with their understanding of precursor technology, like the unbending filaments and augmented their own technology. This is what happened at the battle of charum hakkor, and how the humans held of the entire forerunner fleet for 50 years.
Although greg bear was very vague when describing their technology, he did say that the humans had some sort of super-advanced orbital defense platforms back then, similar to the ODP's in 2552, just much more advanced and virtually indestructible.
But what really got me thinking is the fact that the didact said some of the new weapons the humans developed were deadly against the mighty forerunner, as they "had very little defense against" them. What could those weapons possibly be that the forerunner could barely defend against?
I doubt they were conventional directed energy weapons, as the forerunner pretty much had that sort of tech figured out, ( its a given when you realize that both humanity and the forerunner were tier 1 level)
My own hunch is that the humans using their massive concentration of precursor technology and crude understanding of neural physics made some sort of neural physical weaponry, and used it on the forerunner. Their platforms probably used this sort of technology too, how else could the humans, fend of the didacts entire fleet for 50 years on one planet, with 1/3 of their population gone b/c of the flood, and their supply routes cut off.