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Subject: So hold on... [Halo series lore question]
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I do not want to stop asking. I do not ask to stop wanting.

I've read every book. Played every game. Watched all the anime etc.

But one question that I just thought of, is why the Forerunners didn't just seed themselves throughout the Halo rings. Is it because they see it as an insult to the Mantle? Because they're afraid of the humans outpacing their re-evolution?

I'm not sure. It seems like I'm ignorant of a massively obvious answer, but I don't know if I truly am. If not... isn't this one massive, gaping plothole throughout the entire series?

Actually, I completely forgot the Forerunners made references to their own "Great Journey" in the Halo 3 terminals. They most probably have their own agenda.

Actually, there seem to be a multitude of reasons for it.

Problem solved I guess.

[Edited on 12.03.2012 5:19 PM PST]

  • 12.03.2012 4:54 PM PDT
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Because the forerunners were technological geniuses and utter idiots at everything else.

  • 12.03.2012 4:55 PM PDT
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Maybe we'll find out in the future.

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Did it ever occur to you that maybe sitting in a galactic supercannon that obliterates everything in it's wake is probably not a very good idea

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Posted by: Murcielago00
Maybe we'll find out in the future.

Or as 343 likes to call it, CHA-CHING.

  • 12.03.2012 4:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Jet Lockheed
Did it ever occur to you that maybe sitting in a galactic supercannon that obliterates everything in it's wake is probably not a very good idea



They were able to preserve and reseed life by keeping them on the Ark and other installations.

  • 12.03.2012 4:56 PM PDT


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Posted by: Jet Lockheed
Did it ever occur to you that maybe sitting in a galactic supercannon that obliterates everything in it's wake is probably not a very good idea



They were able to preserve and reseed life by keeping them on the Ark and other installations.


Forerunners like to watch things burn

Specifically

Flora and Fauna

  • 12.03.2012 4:58 PM PDT
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Also, when Mendicant Bias fired the Halo Array at the Forerunner capital (one of the Forerunner books) didn't like that decimate a huge chunk of the Forerunner population?

That was their capital and where, it seemed, a good portion of the lived.

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Posted by: Murcielago00
Also, when Mendicant Bias fired the Halo Array at the Forerunner capital (one of the Forerunner books) didn't like that decimate a huge chunk of the Forerunner population?

That was their capital and where, it seemed, a good portion of the lived.


Yes, it did.

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Posted by: Murcielago00
Also, when Mendicant Bias fired the Halo Array at the Forerunner capital (one of the Forerunner books) didn't like that decimate a huge chunk of the Forerunner population?

That was their capital and where, it seemed, a good portion of the lived.


Yes, but I highly doubt they still wouldn't be able to sustain a population on the Rings (especially considering how they brought back humanity, who was simultaneously sh1t-blam!-ed by both the Forerunners and the Flood).

  • 12.03.2012 5:01 PM PDT

The point is, forerunners are ugly

  • 12.03.2012 5:02 PM PDT

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The apathetic force us to persevere, with their backwards priorities.

They thought they'd be safe in the Shield World.


They were a very arrogant race.

  • 12.03.2012 5:05 PM PDT

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They hid in shield worlds, so they wouldn't need to have the records of themselves. Then the gravemind and Adjucant Bias invaded nearly every shield world.

  • 12.03.2012 5:06 PM PDT

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Lots of forerunners were dead, stranded, or infected. The ones who were left with forerunner space magic were basically life workers (they followed the Librarian who wanted the humans to have the mantle now, not the forerunners) who had to run the rings and ensure they fired, instead of saving themselves. The Didact survived because he was imprisoned in the Shield World. Shield worlds were also where most of them tried survivng, but the corrupt AIs and such hunted them down and they died. Basically in their arrogance to keep their power (and not to to go through evolution again like the humans, etc) they killed themselves.

And forerunners are pretty stupid when you think about it. Humans FTW.




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  • 12.03.2012 5:06 PM PDT

One does not simply trolololol into Mordor.

Well I think it's because the Lifeworker Forerunners wanted Humanity to take over the Mantle from them, because of how they failed to beat the flood and all that, so they set Humanity up for that and didn't seed themselves on any of the rings.

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Posted by: Demon potatoe
Well I think it's because the Lifeworker Forerunners wanted Humanity to take over the Mantle from them, because of how they failed to beat the flood and all that, so they set Humanity up for that and didn't seed themselves on any of the rings.


This as well.

Actually, there seem to be a multitude of reasons for it.

Problem solved I guess.

  • 12.03.2012 5:10 PM PDT
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They basically had a huge ego.

  • 12.03.2012 5:12 PM PDT

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Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: Demon potatoe
Well I think it's because the Lifeworker Forerunners wanted Humanity to take over the Mantle from them, because of how they failed to beat the flood and all that, so they set Humanity up for that and didn't seed themselves on any of the rings.
If they can't protect the galaxy against the most powerful enemy to life, then hopefully the humans could.

  • 12.03.2012 5:17 PM PDT