By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: FTW 1997
First of all:
WTF ?!?!? earth had 300 freaking MACS and a fleet of eighteen ships got thru ? IS THIS A JOKE ?
Reach had 20 only and destroyed a fleet of 300 ....seriously what in the world is that ?
It seems that they deliberately let the Covenant through to attempt RED FLAG.
Secondly:
Where did the other 5 0-32 medicant biases rings go ?
If they wouldve been destroyed they would be rebuild by ark so where are they ?
The plan (as in the plan) to destroy all life in the galaxy hadn't been sanctioned at the time. They had built the Halos as research stations firstly, designed to contain living specimins for indexing. Thus, it wouldn't have been prudent to rebuild the Ring at the time.
Secondly, it's likely they had no idea whether to rebuild it or not. The construction of the 12 Rings was initiated when the Builders took power and cast down the Warrior-Servants (the ones who proposed the Shield Worlds); you'll remember that Faber, the Master Builder, was removed from power by the Council for firing a Halo at Janjur Qom to quell the San'Shyuum revolt. That was the tipping point where the Builders lost power, so the new Council may have changed the rules.
Page 329 of Cryptum says:
"The Falco slowly rotated and a complicated silhouette moved across the spiral cloud. It took several long moments before I could make out slender shapes attached to that silhouette, like a wide rosette. Slowly it dawned on me that I was looking upon another array of installations: six rings, each rising from one of the petals of an enormous flower.
We know that 1 Ring survived, and here Born is telling us that there are 6 being constructed on the Ark. So it's evident that these are the Rings used in the final plan, it's a logical conclusion that (since we know little of what happened at the Capital after Born, Glory and the Councillor left) the other Rings were destroyed or went missing. Also, it says during that battle that only 7 were being recalled into slipspace where only 1 survived - so it's clear that only 7 either needed to be used or were planned to be used.
Thirdly:
Its hard for me to belive that The forerunners rose up against precursor
Precursors had their mantle and so did forerunners ...Precursers where stronger than forerunners.....in tech how did that happen ?
We know nothing about the Forerunner-Precursor war, these are details that will be elaborated upon.
Do you think the precursors survived ?
We know that at least 1 survived (conjecture).
Do you think the forerunners survived ?
We know they survived.