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Subject: Help me out? I need Halo 4 / Forerunner background.

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Okay, so I never read the Forerunner Saga and I never delved too deeply into the terminals. I now know that the Forerunners had a war with Humanity... I think? So here are my basic questions:

1. Did the Forerunners create Humanity?
2. Why did these two races go to war?
3. Didact and Librarian are Forerunner, correct?
4. Why was the Didact imprisoned? (for wanting to digitize humanity?)
5. What was the deal with the Didact? He hates humanity because...?
6. The Promethean Knights were once human, so why after being converted to a digital race do they choose to fight against 117, a Reclaimer?
7. Are all Humans considered Reclaimers?
8. WTF is a Precursor and where did the Flood originate?

BASICALLY: Outline the significant histories between Forerunners/Precursors/Humans/Reclaimers/TheFlood/Prometheans

BONUS: If Promethean Knights were once human, were the dog-like AI's once dogs? I hope they never digitized elephants!

  • 11.23.2012 1:06 AM PDT

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1. No.
2. Humans were fighting the Flood, and started attacking and taking systems from the Forerunners as their own worlds fell to the Flood. The Forerunners were unaware of the Flood at this time.
3. Yes.
4. Essentially.
5. He fought them and thought of them as a warlike and unruly species. Ish.
6. They lose morals from being composed, and the digital elements make them loyal to the Didact. I think.
7. Yes.
8. The Precursors were an ancient race that disappeared (mostly) before the Forerunners' time. Not much is known about them, minus the "Timeless One" (an ugly bastard who became a gravemind or something). Their technology was extremely advanced, and they (I'm very certain) created the Flood.

BONUS: They're probably just contortions of composed humans. Anything's possible though idk.

[Edited on 11.23.2012 1:59 AM PST]

  • 11.23.2012 1:59 AM PDT