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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?
Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.
Posted by: TerroristMan151
How did they work, what did they do? What ranked above what?
The Forerunner had a caste system, and multiple rankings within each caste.
The Builder caste was the highest caste, they were responsible for all the Forerunner's steller/intersteller engineering awesomness.
The Master Builder, known as Faber, was their leader. He was a trecherous power-hungry individual.
It's not entirely clear how many castes there were, but there were also Lifeworker caste, (Biologists, concerned with the Mantle as it applies to living things) The Librarian was the formost Lifeworker, holding the title of "Lifeshaper".
A mining caste, little is known about them, but they provide the materials to the Builder caste.
And the millitary caste the Caste of Warrior-Servants.
This caste was reduced in standing by the Master Builder after The Didact (leader of the Warrior-Servants) opposed his plans to build the Halo array. The Didact preffered a more lengthy and costly, but ultimately less destructive, containment plan for the Flood.
The Master Builder's mistakes ensured he could not use that strategy however.
Within castes the Forerunner are of different forms, based on how many (ritualised) mutations their bodies have gone through, each mutation/transformation increases a Forerunner's abilities in a certain area, in general, intelligence/information handling capacity goes up with each transformation as well.
All high rate Forerunner have vastly augmented mental capabilities compared to those of lower rate.
For example The Didact is a Promethian, highest form of a Warrior Servant, he is capable of seeing a battle through thousands of different viewpoints and making sense of it all, as well as maintaining multiple streams of consciousness, and has a crazy ability to multitask.
Forerunner children (of the Builder Caste at least) are known as Manipulars, and somewhat resemble tall humans. They are about as smart as a human as well, with no particularly esoteric capabilities.