- RoboChocobo
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- Exalted Mythic Member
If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.
I have an issue with this theory. It's just too much pure speculation.
Going off of what I learned in the Marathon games, and what we learn from 343, I always was given the vibe that the Forerunners were seekers of balance.
In all their designs they seek symmetry, uniform order. The giant Halos, the Buildings on the surface of them. Perhaps the Forerunners were not a force of uniform good, but I doubt they were a force of uniform evil. Their actions ones echoing balance than a result. Why build weapons to destroy everything capable of sustaining the flood in the universe, then letting the flood starve to death, while leaving a small population alive. They clearly were able to gather large populations of flood onto the Halos, yet they seem to have only survived there.
Perhaps they seek balance. Perhaps that is why they didn't destroy the flood.
But to play devil's advocate (lol pun 06/06/06), 343 specifically states that (to paraphrase) "After all other available strategic options had been exausted, they activated the ring, and died. Would you like to see the relevant data?"
So it is clear that the forerunners had made a mistake somewhere along the line, And the flood were spreading. Yet instead they made a weapon as well as a system that would allow the flood to survive, while life in the universe recovered. Strange, no?
[Edited on 6/6/2006]