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Subject: So, what DID happen to the Forerunners after the Forerunner-Flood war?

Jake

My friend and I were having a discussion about whether or not the Forerunners were killed after the Forerunner-Flood war. I said that they went into hiding/disappered, but my friend was extremely sure that they were killed activating the Halo Array.

What I want to know, is do we know what happened to the Forerunners after the war?

  • 07.21.2011 1:44 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Your friend is wrong, the Forerunners left the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

  • 07.21.2011 1:46 PM PDT

Some may have survived outside of the Milky Way. We'll know for sure after Greg Bear finished his trilogy.

  • 07.21.2011 1:46 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Not "may have", but did.

  • 07.21.2011 1:48 PM PDT

Jake


Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Your friend is wrong, the Forerunners left the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.


So they basically just ran away and went into hiding, like I said?

Posted by: Colichemarde
Some may have survived outside of the Milky Way. We'll know for sure after Greg Bear finished his trilogy.


I really should read those. Are they good?

  • 07.21.2011 1:50 PM PDT

Never underestimate the cringe-inducing retcon. Not that I doubt they'll reapear, or did survive. Hell I hope they're still around, but you never know what can get changed.

Yes, do read the books. Opens up a great sci-fi universe.

[Edited on 07.21.2011 1:51 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 1:50 PM PDT

"Defiant Reclaimer, he who will shatter the land and break the sky apart..."


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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Your friend is wrong, the Forerunners left the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.


So they basically just ran away and went into hiding, like I said?

Posted by: Colichemarde
Some may have survived outside of the Milky Way. We'll know for sure after Greg Bear finished his trilogy.


I really should read those. Are they good?


We know some survived from the Iris campaign, no need to wait for Greg Bear's trilogy to finish... although it will be AWSOME!

  • 07.21.2011 1:51 PM PDT

Are you sure that is's not ancilla, or some other construct that survived...too

  • 07.21.2011 1:53 PM PDT

Jake

Will do. I'll look into that.

  • 07.21.2011 1:53 PM PDT

"Defiant Reclaimer, he who will shatter the land and break the sky apart..."

No it is definetly Forerunner beings, the Forerunner specifically talks about their firing of the Halo array, and its aftermath.
Here you go, credit to Grey101 though.

  • 07.21.2011 2:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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

Yes we are sure if you looked it up it would be obvious with the "well we are here to witness the aftermath" and the whole " a fate we once escaped, a fate we may relive" and " we are doomed, we are all doomed."

[Edited on 07.21.2011 2:06 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 2:06 PM PDT

Understand, I'm playing devils advocate. I want there to still be Forerunner left hidden in the dark reaches.

I also think the AI they had could have that same sense of mortality and emotion.

  • 07.21.2011 2:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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


Posted by: Colichemarde
Understand, I'm playing devils advocate. I want there to still be Forerunner left hidden in the dark reaches.

I also think the AI they had could have that same sense of mortality and emotion.


No need, somebody played this game roughly 5-6 years ago and apparently they lost.

The first two is indeed mendicant bias, the others are not.

[Edited on 07.21.2011 2:13 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 2:11 PM PDT

"Defiant Reclaimer, he who will shatter the land and break the sky apart..."

Also note how the first two are labeled as 'AI' voice, the following are not.

  • 07.21.2011 2:14 PM PDT