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Subject: Just finished Halo: Primordium.. Obvious spoilers. Derp.
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Whooosh. It's gone over my head. I think I need to read it a few more times...

Can someone tell me if I'm interpreting this correctly?

1) Basically, the Precursors created the Forerunner and the Humans. After "long study", the Precursors deemed the Forerunner unfit to uphold the Mantle. When the Forerunner learnt of this resentment, they waged war on the Precursors and won.

2) A few Precursors retreat to another galaxy and create the Flood/infect themselves? Then a gravemind is sent to the galaxy where the Humans discover it. The Gravemind/flood either decides not to infect the Humans or they find a cure.

3) Gravemind is captured or something? Claims to be the last Precursor... yadda yadda yadda.

4) After the Human - Forerunner war, the Flood returns with the sole purpose of eradicating the Forerunner or uniting the Galaxy. Because the Forerunners aren't deemed worthy of carrying the mantle, the Humans were chosen to be tested next and that's why they weren't infected on installation 07?

5) 343 GS made copies of himself. Took over a Human ship and is taking them to the Librarian? Oh, and he was Human.

6) Precursors/Flood/Graveminds more likely to return in Halo 4 to see if the Humans are worthy to uphold the Mantle..?

I literally only finished the book like ten minutes ago. If some of that is really wrong, it's probably because I was reading a few threads on Halo Waypoint.

[Edited on 01.31.2012 8:25 AM PST]

  • 01.31.2012 8:08 AM PDT
Subject: Just finished Halo: Primordium..

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Sounds silly. I think this franchise is risking becoming convuluted.

  • 01.31.2012 8:14 AM PDT

"At the end of this day one shall stand, one shall fall"

So, Death or Bungie?

Nice spoiler alert

  • 01.31.2012 8:15 AM PDT
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:)

Posted by: Septagon7th
Nice spoiler alert

You came into a thread titled "Just finished Halo: Primodium", in which the first couple of sentences asked to make sure the information I gleaned from the book was accurate.

If you didn't want to read on, you didn't have to. Regardless, I'll add a spoiler tag to the title.

[Edited on 01.31.2012 8:24 AM PST]

  • 01.31.2012 8:23 AM PDT

Wow i may not read the books but this is seriously pretty cool thanks. :) I been wanting to know more and more about the halo universe.

  • 01.31.2012 8:25 AM PDT
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I think you've got a decent summary of the book there.

  • 01.31.2012 8:36 AM PDT

We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.


Posted by: FunkyHum24n
Sounds silly. I think this franchise is risking becoming convuluted.

*Sighs*
Please don't judge the series by this.

  • 01.31.2012 8:49 AM PDT
Subject: Just finished Halo: Primordium.. Obvious spoilers. Derp.
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

Sounds mostly the same as what I thought.

1&2. The way I interpreted it was that the Flood was made before the Forerunner/Precursor war. The Forerunners found out that they were next to be killed (because Precursors were known to create and destroy life on a whim) and waged war. The Precursors sent the Flood to see if humanity was fit for the mantle and when they saw humanity's will they decided to halt their attack until later.

3. My interpretation is that the Precursors were all Graveminds. They were some sort of higher Gravemind, I think.

  • 01.31.2012 8:49 AM PDT
Subject: Just finished Halo: Primordium..

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Posted by: FunkyHum24n
Sounds silly. I think this franchise is risking becoming convuluted.


Actually I think it's tying together really well. Finally starting to get close to answer to question which arose from Halo: CE.

  • 01.31.2012 10:44 AM PDT
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Pretty decent summary, that's along the lines of what I was thinking when I finished it too.

  • 01.31.2012 11:13 AM PDT