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Madara, Tobi....call me whatever you want. I'M NO ONE. I DON'T WANT TO BE ANYONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT IS COMPLETING THE MOON'S EYE PLAN."
Posted by: grey101
Your under playing that ship. They would be tier 0 if they had another 60,000 years to advance at the rate they were going.
conversations of the universe has 343 stating that he has seen races touched down on 04 and leave. Which is why i am saying that this isn't anything too major if major at all.
As somebody said before this terminal was more about 343 and him following orders rather than making contact with other races.
Yea i was being a bit modest in my estimates, i firmly beleive such an advanced species would be tier-1 by now, but i doubt tier-0, the gap between tier-0 (precursor) and tier-1 (forerunner) is apparently much larger than the gap between tier-2 and tier-3. By the way, did 343 gs say that the species came onto the ring 60,000 years after the halos fired, or 40,000? I have been a bit confused about this, although i think it is 60,000 as 343gs stated right after the tombs construction that it had been 60,000 years since he last talked to the forerunner. So assuming they came 40,000 years ago. . .
The way precursor technology was described in cryptum: how they attained the ability to make "invincible" objects hundreds of millions of years ago(the objects found inside plates), and how the forerunner were almost clueless even in the present day (100,000 years ago), and especially how born described their technology as being beyond comprehension, all implies that the precursor, were millions of years beyond the foreunner.
Remember, the forerunner were tier 1 for a very long time, and yet they still showed no tell-tale signs of transitioning into tier-0.
And an advanced species like that would be a big deal, if they have reached the level of sophistication as the forerunner, the moniters would have definitely noticed and attempted to contact them. The species he had seen come and go were probably around tier-3, and did not really matter that much. However, a tier-1 would be a big deal, a true galactic power.
"Next Time things will be different" I admit, that comment does sound rather weird, they may or not be that big of a deal. I hope they are, that would be more interesting than reading about the elites' superiority complex.
[Edited on 12.02.2011 6:08 AM PST]