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Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Posted by: Shadowsniper246
Wait dont forget about ancient Humanity they had war with the forerunners AND fought the flood at the same time the forerunners werent the most advanced they were practically the same with ancient humanity and remember this ancient humanity actually FOUND some sort of cure ....... untill the forerunners destroyed everything hooray for forerunners :)
Eh no, the Forerunner Empire was still miles ahead of both Ancient Humanity and the San 'Shyuum empire. Humanity did not discover a cure, the Primordial pretty much confirms it, they were just deemed worthy cause they sacrificed 1/3 of their population to test said cure.
"They were little less advanced than [Forerunners]" - Cryptum. Forerunners had mastery of slipspace, but aside from that Ancient Humanity wasn't far off the Forerunners at all.
Have they demonstrated any significant feat of technological advancement? have they made a shell that is 300 million kilometers in diameter and then turned it into the size of a football?
Regardless of anything above, the Forerunners beat them in any possible aspect, compare the 20,000 worlds humanity had with the 3,000,000 words the Forerunner empire had, even if they were "equals" the Forerunners would still win, even with the help of the San 'Shyuum (the ones responsible for actually doing something against the Forerunners by making weapons that actually worked) they still would lose.
I'm bringing in hard evidence, a quote that states concretely humans were 'little less advanced' than the Forerunners. You're blabbering conjecture.
It's implied Ancient Humanity was fairly new on the scene compared to the Forerunners - we first surfaced 200,000 years ago. Going by how long it took from our reseeding to the Ark to the point of an industrial revolution, I'd say it probably took Ancient Humanity roughly the same time to reach the level of a space faring race - just shy of 100,000 years.
At most, Ancient Humanity was spacefaring for a few thousand years before our war with the Flood and Forerunners. The Forerunners have been spacefaring for more than 25,000 - that's how long ago they built the Capitol. There are probably more accurate statistics if someone wants to look.
Thus, it makes sense that the Forerunners have more worlds. They were at it for longer than humanity. We haven't seen anything from Ancient Humanity on the level of the dyson sphere, but we haven't seen much of Ancient Humanity's peak might at all, save for a few visions of Charum Hakkor.
[Edited on 10.25.2012 3:12 PM PDT]