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Posted by: haaz69
The precursors are flood. The prisoner that escaped(helped be the master builder) Later tells Chakkas and the Didact(bornsteller) that he is a grave-mind and that the flood chooses who to infect and is used to test the species ability to hold the mantle. However the prisoner say the flood can't be beat and the forerunner will loose the mantle and eventually the humans will be tested(he doesn't know the outcome tho).
Also 343 guilty spark is the spirit of chakkas and takes control of a unsc ship as its AI, he then goes to travel to the greater Ark, were the librarian supposedly hides, to find the secret to beat the flood, so the humans are prepared.
Well that's how I interpreted the end Primordium.*SPOILERS*
The Primordial is found out to not actually be a Precursor by the Didact but an extremely old Gravemind, so while he might look like a Precursor (which if he does then he is REALLY old seeing as how the Precursors were supposedly wiped out) he really is a Gravemind. A Gravemind WOULD have the capability to pull such a facade so it's very likely this is what happened. The Gravemind could also have been telling lies to the humans it was held captive by.
Let's also remember that before the Forerunner trilogy we thought the Forerunners were some all enlightened race that was all good before we found out they are pretty much just like humans in most regards, faulty, corrupt individuals seeking power, so on and so forth. The Precursors might be a very evil or harsh race and perhaps only created Humans and Forerunners for a nefarious purpose. I doubt it would be slavery though seeing as how the Forerunners seem to have had their own civilization alongside the Precursors before they found out their the plot to kill the Forerunners off.