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Posted by: MickelPickel
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Just to let you know, the Forerunners have been confirmed alive for years now. Actually it was in the Encyclopedia, believe it or not, where it was said the Forerunners left the galaxy forever.
Will continue reading now.
Edit: just finished reading. Simply put, while well thought out, I do not agree with the enemy being the Forerunners for a few reasons.
Firstly, the fact they're no longer in this galaxy, they wouldn't be a threat to the humans in the Milky Way. As you haven't read the Encyclopedia, I can't blame you for not knowing that of course.
Second, the Great Journey is a real thing, Didact directly alludes to it in the Terminals saying "we will follow in their footsteps" referring, obviously, to the Precursors. Being the holders of the Mantle, the Great Journey seemed open to them but as the Covenant war suggested, not others. Wherever the Forerunners are, the Precursors are likely to be as well.
This leads into point 3, the Forerunners left the galaxy in shame, not in triumph. They left because they in part realized they were not worthy of upholding the Precursor's legacy, and they chose the humans as their inheritors. They were completely humbled by the experience of the Flood, they're not likely to retain much hatred, after getting destroyed utterly, towards humanity. Especially with the Precursors nearby.
4th, the thought the Master Chief can fight the Forerunners is ludicrous; their technology is waaay too powerful for the UNSC to have a hope in hell.
5th, and most importantly, the description of the game calls the Ancient Evil a threat to the entire universe. Forerunners are no threat to the universe itself, only the Precursors could be, which is why the prevailing theory is that the Primordial is the main antagonist, with an army of True Flood (that is to say, Flood in their most dangerous form).
And Forerunners are not evil, just misguided.
The rest seemed good, though a lot of what you called speculation I thought was common knowledge (like Medicant Bias sending the Chief to the Forerunners).
I have a question. . . what is the "true flood"? Do you mean pure forms? Why do people keeping on bringing this "army of true flood" up?
I don't understand.
Other than that, great read, very well thought out. As Roberto said though, I think threatening the universe is too big of a job for the forerunner, only the tier-0 precursors fit the description. The last image must be some sort of new species, which i believe you will encounter right off the bat in Halo 4, and the timeless one will be in the shadows for the first game.
I can't truly offer a rebuttal to the first 3 points you make Roberto. I simply do not have the knowledge or enough information to extrapolate on your points.
The fourth one, however, I can see as a possibility. Sentinel weaponry is, essentially, forerunner weaponry attached to machines. Master Chief was able to dispatch them with relative ease. The point could be made that the forerunner equipment encountered in fighting the forerunners would annihilate human weaponry by comparison. Which is true. But, in the similar situation of the H-C War, Humanity was outmatched, outgunned, and outnumbered. But they still managed to defeat Truth and the belligerents of the Covenant. Who is to say that a similar situation would not arise in a Human-Forerunner War?
I do agree that the Last Precursor/Primordial has a huge part in the series, but at least for the first game, he is lurking in the shadows. He doesn't need to be in the action to have a big impact on things: take Cryptum. It is implied that the Primordial is the true manipulator of Mendicant Bias. Being able to manipulate the most powerful AI the forerunners had created up until that point... does that seem like an easy task? It took 43 years for Mendicant to be swayed, but it still was done.
The Primordial, assuming he either an extreme power of suggestion or just the willpower to warp the minds of others, could, in some form, bring about a conflict between the Forerunners and Humans. I don't have much of a solid hypothesis as to how he did that; some details Primordium will elaborate on. But I do agree you Roberto.
The forerunners aren't evil. The Elites are not evil either. But that didn't stop them from almost wiping humanity from the face of the universe.
Just think though for someone that lives thousands of years (the timeless one) (the last precursor) 43 years isnt that long at all. especially to take controll of one of the most vital forerunner ais.
[Edited on 11.23.2011 5:28 AM PST]