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Expressing my strong liberal views without shame. Favorite quotes below:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"One starts to live when he can live outside himself."
- Albert Einstein
I've just finished reading Cryptum, and needless to say, I have some questions. The book was certainly a different way of writing the Halo canon. I felt like Greg Bear was teaching me about the Halo Universe, rather than telling me a story about it. But moving on...
1) It is mentioned that there was a divide in the Forerunners about how to deal with the Flood. The Prometheans wanted to created Fortress (Shield Worlds), whereas an extreme faction of the Builders built the Halo arrays.
Question: Were the Halo arrays designed to directly kill Flood? Or, as the games say, was their purpose to kill all sentient life to starve the Flood. Also, do the rings cause physical damage? For example, it said that structures on Charum Hakkor were destroyed (as a result of Halo ring?)
2) The Forerunners "devolved" humans? How? Wasn't evolutionary manipulation a power the Precursors had?
3) The number of Halo arrays got convoluted in my mind. So there wer 12 initially, one disappeared, there were 11 around the capital, and Medicant Bias had control of five. The other 7 tried to escape, but one was destroyed, so only six of the 11 Halo arrays made it to the Ark? Was the 12th one found yet?
4) Seeing as the captive was a Precursor, is it reasonable to assume the Flood was a result of Precursor technology? That the Precursors sent those containers in starships from distant galaxies to take revenge on the Forerunners (and if yes, revenge for what?)
I intend on re-reading the novel before Primordium, but nontheless, some clarification would be appreciated.