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Subject: Forerunner survival.

I was just thinking other day about this topic.
My theory is that forerunners being ofcurse very smart initiated halo plan(how i refer to it).
But i think they would have a back up plan in case it would go wrong(it actualy did) and their race wouldn't survive.
Yes they had shield world but it failed, shield worlds i think was plan a, but i think that there was a plan b:Getting a small forerunner average civilian/scientist/military personel mixture and putting them in cryo/statis sleep, and sending them out of galaxy in average scale ship with ''dumb AI'' therefore preventing AI going rampart, setting ships course a:to another galaxy. b:going outside halos range and then returning back to their home world when halos effect wears off and galaxy is reseeded.

Me and my mates discussed this theory and we all agree that it could be quit realistic and forerunners would have thought of it.
So what do you think.

Pardon my bad english and grammar skills(haven't spoken english for few weeks).

  • 04.19.2012 9:30 AM PDT

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in case it would go wrong(it actualy did)

No it didn't, the plan worked perfectly. The Flood became dormant, the Forerunners survived and hid away in Requiem and humanity became the new protectors of the galaxy. At the time, it was a victory - albeit a pyrrhic one.

plan b:Getting a small forerunner average civilian/scientist/military personel mixture and putting them in cryo/statis sleep, and sending them out of galaxy in average scale ship with ''dumb AI'' therefore preventing AI going rampart, setting ships course a:to another galaxy. b:going outside halos range and then returning back to their home world when halos effect wears off and galaxy is reseeded.

1) Why would they send them out of the galaxy? For what purpose when they had Shield Worlds?

2) Forerunner AIs aren't the same as human ones, they're not categorised as 'smart' and 'dumb' the way human ones are. The denominations are much more specific according to role (for example, ancilla or contender-class).

3) If they were going to go out of range of the Halo array, why go to another galaxy when they could have just stayed on the Ark then?

4) The Forerunner homeworld, Ghibalb, was irradiated beyond habitation thousands and thousands of years before the Flood even entered the picture...

[Edited on 04.19.2012 10:20 AM PDT]

  • 04.19.2012 10:16 AM PDT

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But i think they would have a back up plan in case it would go wrong(it actualy did) and their race wouldn't survive.

It didn't go wrong. They knew they were about to become extinct so they activated Halo.

Yes they had shield world but it failed,

The shield worlds didn't fail, the Forerunners couldn't get to them in time.

shield worlds i think was plan a, but i think that there was a plan b:Getting a small forerunner average civilian/scientist/military personel mixture and putting them in cryo/statis sleep, and sending them out of galaxy in average scale ship with ''dumb AI'' therefore preventing AI going rampart, setting ships course a:to another galaxy. b:going outside halos range and then returning back to their home world when halos effect wears off and galaxy is reseeded..When they activated Halo there were literally almost no Forerunners left. They couldn't get on a ship and leave even if they wanted too. With the very few forerunners left they activated Halo, because they knew they lost the war. If they had more supplies, ships, and forerunners then yes they could of done that plan, but Halo is a last resort weapon. After all of their ships, supplies, and everything was destroyed they were forced to activate Halo.

[Edited on 04.19.2012 11:12 AM PDT]

  • 04.19.2012 11:08 AM PDT

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Posted by: Avatar Korra

The Forerunners survived, given what Halo 3's final Terminal tells us, they exiled themselves to Requiem. At the very least, we know the Librarian is alive in some form.

  • 04.19.2012 11:35 AM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Avatar Korra

The Forerunners survived, given what Halo 3's final Terminal tells us, they exiled themselves to Requiem. At the very least, we know the Librarian is alive in some form.


Source? An entire remnant population on a single Shield?


The new GI names the Legendary Planet as Requiem. Don't know about any Forerunner holdouts, tho.

  • 04.19.2012 12:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Avatar Korra

The Forerunners survived, given what Halo 3's final Terminal tells us, they exiled themselves to Requiem. At the very least, we know the Librarian is alive in some form.


Source? An entire remnant population on a single Shield?


The GI article, Halo 3 Terminals and Primordium.

We don't know how many Forerunners are left, but the fact that Requiem encompasses an entire planet instead of a star means that the interior of the Dyson Sphere must be pretty damn big.

[Edited on 04.19.2012 1:42 PM PDT]

  • 04.19.2012 1:42 PM PDT

Hanger one I just shredded with the SMGs until ammo was out and I just threw 'nades like a boss while BRing.

My experience playing Cairo Station on Legendary

If you ask me, if they Ark was built outside the Milky Way, then there is still a huge amount of space to explore. Forerunners may be out there, watching.

  • 04.19.2012 2:17 PM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307
in case it would go wrong(it actualy did)

No it didn't, the plan worked perfectly. The Flood became dormant, the Forerunners survived and hid away in Requiem and humanity became the new protectors of the galaxy. At the time, it was a victory - albeit a pyrrhic one.

plan b:Getting a small forerunner average civilian/scientist/military personel mixture and putting them in cryo/statis sleep, and sending them out of galaxy in average scale ship with ''dumb AI'' therefore preventing AI going rampart, setting ships course a:to another galaxy. b:going outside halos range and then returning back to their home world when halos effect wears off and galaxy is reseeded.

1) Why would they send them out of the galaxy? For what purpose when they had Shield Worlds?

2) Forerunner AIs aren't the same as human ones, they're not categorised as 'smart' and 'dumb' the way human ones are. The denominations are much more specific according to role (for example, ancilla or contender-class).

3) If they were going to go out of range of the Halo array, why go to another galaxy when they could have just stayed on the Ark then?

4) The Forerunner homeworld, Ghibalb, was irradiated beyond habitation thousands and thousands of years before the Flood even entered the picture...

1.Yes they had shield worlds as plan A but maybe they did prepare plan B incase they get cornered and sent out forerunner ship before activation of halo.
But yeah, now that you mentioned it, it would be a -blam!- plan in the long run.

  • 04.19.2012 2:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Avatar Korra

The Forerunners survived, given what Halo 3's final Terminal tells us, they exiled themselves to Requiem. At the very least, we know the Librarian is alive in some form.


Source? An entire remnant population on a single Shield?


The new GI names the Legendary Planet as Requiem. Don't know about any Forerunner holdouts, tho.


Well if the last Halo 3 terminal is anything to go on, yes. Forerunners will be there waiting for John.

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The librarian is alive,im pretty sure the didact is to along with MB as for others i don't know.

  • 04.19.2012 3:48 PM PDT

Didact vs. Master Chief. That'd be a fight to watch. But oh wait, the Didact was killed by the builders! Anyway, I would think one little contingent of the forerunner population would have sought for shelter from the array. I don't think they would have fired the halos without storing some DNA sample of themselves, or one of themselves.

  • 04.19.2012 5:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dounut520
Didact vs. Master Chief. That'd be a fight to watch. But oh wait, the Didact was killed by the builders! Anyway, I would think one little contingent of the forerunner population would have sought for shelter from the array. I don't think they would have fired the halos without storing some DNA sample of themselves, or one of themselves.


Bornsteller is the Didact now.

  • 04.19.2012 5:39 PM PDT


Posted by: DecepticonCobra

Bornsteller is the Didact now.


Now I remember, that was stated in Cryptum was it not?

  • 04.19.2012 5:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

Bornsteller is the Didact now.


Now I remember, that was stated in Cryptum was it not?


Yes.

  • 04.19.2012 5:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: AnubissWarior
1.Yes they had shield worlds as plan A but maybe they did prepare plan B incase they get cornered and sent out forerunner ship before activation of halo.
But yeah, now that you mentioned it, it would be a -blam!- plan in the long run.
Lets say it takes a forerunner ship 4 weeks to get outside the galaxy. Now if they sent out the ship right before they activated Halo then the ship wouldn't make it in time. Now lets say they sent out a ship 4 weeks before they activated Halo. Do you really think that ship can travel to another galaxy, search multiple solar systems, search multiple planets, and still create a civilization before their supplies run out? Even if they sent out a ship they didn't stand a chance.

  • 04.19.2012 6:08 PM PDT
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If I find out that the Forerunner are truly gone with no back up plan, my opinion of the Halo universe will go down.

We are talking about a civilization that spread across over 3 million different star systems.

Built intergalactic weapons, and even structures far outside the Milky Way. I will be incredibly surprised to find out that none of them ever though of leaving the galaxy, or hiding in a Shield World.

I believe that one Terminal stated that one planet contained a couple trillion Forerunner, there must be Quadrillions of Forerunners in total.

One must have at least escaped.

[Edited on 04.19.2012 6:34 PM PDT]

  • 04.19.2012 6:32 PM PDT

Oh god, we have a bunch of fan boys over here.

  • 04.19.2012 7:03 PM PDT

play halo get kills

there are suppose to be an more evloved than forunners called precuresers

  • 04.20.2012 7:46 PM PDT