- Wolverfrog
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Warriors were always the lowest caste in Forerunner society. They were viewed with shame, a necessary violation of the Mantle they all pretended to hold so dear to their hearts - it seems to me like the Forerunners' technological mastery was over the various realms of slipspace and cosmic manipulation. I doubt outside the warrior-servants, technology for war was given much attention; just look at the Deep Reverence, and the state of disrepair a once-mighty ship was in.
As opposed to us, where our most advanced technology is almost always designed by the military and a country's technological might isn't measured by how good they are at sub-atomic engineering but how many weapons of mass destruction they own.
I'd imagine Ancient Humanity had better weapons of war than the Forerunners did, but the latter's dominion over the dimensions and probably greater numbers due to our having lost over 1/3 of the population to the Flood assured them of victory.
[Edited on 11.14.2012 3:35 AM PST]