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Posted by: AlkkaPWN
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Well that's the mystery. But I think the point was they no longer felt they could trust themselves with any cosmic responsibility so completely exiled themselves. Its also said in the Terminals (well, at least implied heavily) the Forerunners went on the Great Journey to follow the Precursors, wherever they are.
But do note that the Encyclopedia specifically makes a point that nobody knows the Forerunners final destination.
"The shattered remnants of Forerunner the civilization left the galaxy. There current status and whereabouts remain unknown" leading people to speculate, even those who haven't read the terminals, that any sequel to Halo 3 would involve discovering the location of the Forerunners.
I, personally, want to know what this Great Journey truly is, because it clearly is more then the machinations of some mad theist sitting on a seat of power that they do not deserve.
That does seem to explain at least why they didn't return, but I'm still interested in where they went exactly. I honestly thought the Great Journey was created by the Prophets to make their subordinates more loyal to their cause, but if it is something more, that makes things much more interesting.
Posted by: Ageless Durandal
Well, they make it very, very clear in Cryptum that the Forerunners have become a vex on the Galaxy. They uproot and move civilizations they don't want near them or devolve them if they challenge their rule and their "Mantle."
I assume Didact believed his species had broken and sinned so much by just making the Halos that they shouldn't be allowed to be reseeded. They also stated that the Forerunners believe themselves to be "just a stage" in the "living time" of the universe. That's why they named themselves Forerunner, because they knew they'd eventually be extinct and they'd pass on the Mantle to the Reclaimers.
Those do seem characteristic of the Forerunners but I'd love to know more about their "Mantle".
I guess we'll have to wait for more concrete evidence and explanations of what happened to the Forerunners.
Posted by: Dustin 6047
So, we wait for:
Forerunner Saga books 2 and 3
Halo 4
Halo 5
Halo 6
Halo Glasslands
Halo Movie
Halo Visual Guide
@my post's response
Well thats what everyone else thougt until IRIS and the Terminals. Didact says something along the lines of "I begin this Great Journey without you" referring to the Librarian, right before Halo fires. I believe he said it in the IRIS campaign.
The Covenant were right in the sense the Journey is an undertaking the Forerunners partook in at the end, but misinterpretted the information. They thought Halo started the Journey when really the Forerunners went upon it immedietely after . Halo and the Journey are related only in the sense that Halo's existance lead to the Forerunners' self imposed exile, not the actual firing.
But how correct the Covenant were in other aspects of the Journey--such as ascension to godhood--is unknown.