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Subject: abandoned forerunner tech???

i was wondering why would the forerunners, after the firing of the halos, decide to place not 1 but 2 different species on planets where they had left tech. they must have know that would turn out to be a disaster?

also why didn't humans find any forerunner tech, because the forerunners would probably have left some tech over from building the portal to the ark?

  • 09.09.2011 12:27 PM PDT


Posted by: trickytricktric
i was wondering why would the forerunners, after the firing of the halos, decide to place not 1 but 2 different species on planets where they had left tech. they must have know that would turn out to be a disaster?

also why didn't humans find any forerunner tech, because the forerunners would probably have left some tech over from building the portal to the ark?

Because prehistoric human/cave man vas too stupid to know what the shiny thing was... and other relics were buried by time...

  • 09.09.2011 12:38 PM PDT

but surely so would the elites and Prophets would be just as stupid

  • 09.09.2011 12:51 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Posted by: trickytricktric
but surely so would the elites and Prophets would be just as stupid

It is not that. It is the fact that when they became smart enough to properly comprehend what they were, there were plenty of artifacts lying around on their homeworlds. However when Humanity got to the level where they could find Forerunner technology useful, they found none.

It is nonsensical really. The Forerunners make it difficult for the civilization that they wanted to give responsibility of the Mantle to by hiding everything from them, yet made it blatantly easy for pugnacious species like the Elites and the Prophets to rise quickly and abuse the galaxy by cluttering their homeworlds with powerful technology, such as a Keyship -no less- on the San-Shyuum world.

I wonder what could possibly go wrong...

So your answer is probably that the Forerunners were a very irresponsible race that were extremely short sighted.

[Edited on 09.09.2011 1:15 PM PDT]

  • 09.09.2011 1:13 PM PDT