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| Re: History of the Ark/Forerunner/Covies/Man (long | |
| Posted By: mrbananas <dgreenwood@lacademy.edu> | Date: 11/4/05 3:12 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: History of the Ark/Forerunner/Covies/Man (long (Grantix) : I have a series question which you didn't ask you self, or explain. Were the
I would go with that the flood were found or encountered. most evidence supports this but one piece that people over look is the fact that the flood were keep for study. This shows that the forerunner didn't have a very good understanding of the flood. And so they desired better knowledge of the creature to find better methods of combating the flood. But why keep flood in the first place. The answer is because above not knowing any ways of defeating the flood, the forerunner also didn't know the origin of the flood or where they came from. This would be the best reason why to study the flood, because they knew the somewhere out there the flood could return. Here is how i think the first encouter happened. The forerunner control all reaches of the galaxy, they have explored and charted every part, and mastered there understanding of almost every thing that could be found in this galaxy. Till one day... The infection of the flood struck faster than diseuse, Unprepared and confused, the forerunner lose control of the first planet in mere hours. Before the other planets can figure out what has happened, flood filled ships from the first planet arrive at several planets and the still confused forerunner loss once again. By the time the forerunner as a whole figure out that they are under attack by something, a total of 20 solar systems have been taken over. More ships full of flood depart from every planet and land on a new. The flood even start sending out new ships before even fully conquoring a planet. The forerunner try to fight back, but they don't know what they are fighting and they keep making mistakes based upon the fact that they don't even know they are fighting a parasite. For the forerunner, they had to learn about the flood, while being attacked by it. they did learn on thing quickly though, once an outbreak occurs on a planet, it is too late to save it. not even glassing there own planets while they were under attack was working. In only 5 years the flood had taken over 1/20 of the galaxy (the galaxy is huge, 1/20 is a ton of solar systems) to the fact that they still had the element of surprise and chaos, the forerunner tryied to change there tactics and islote them selves for the flood and block of there own planets. but the flood then when after non forerunner life forms that could be used to host them, they didn't need the forerunner now that they already had the forerunners technology (at this point, the infection in the galaxy is perminante and impossible to ever be removed). The forerunner then found a new way to bring back the offense against the flood. Using the Sentials, they indirectly fought the flood, But the flood multiple too fast and spread too easily, the sentials were able to signficantly slow the flood down to the point where it took a year to get to the planet and another 5 years to capture it. (the numbers are just for visual, there is no way to caculate them, so i just say what sounds good)but even still, the sentials could not stop the flood, only slow them down. so the forerunner began to create there last resort, halo. Because the attack on the forerunner was so sudden, and so quick, they have no clue where the flood came from. The first planet to fall had been colonized for centurys, The flood just appeared in one day and took everyone by surprise. Because the forerunner didn't know where the flood came from or how they got here, they were worried that even after halo, the flood could return and everything would crumble once again. Since killing all life in the galaxy was not something they wanted repeated, they made sure to have some of the sentials collect flood and preserve them on halo for study so that a more pratical method could be found for If and When the flood ever returned. thinking all the flood would be elimated was too much of a risk and the forerunner wouldn't take it, even if it meant keeping samples that could escape and wreck as much havoc (a.k.a, the flood saved by the forerunner are possibly not the only flood left in existance) However, the sential did study and record everything they know learned about the flood, however, even if they found a solution, they could not apply it because that was out side there programming, the forerunner couldn't trust an AI to know what was an exceptable solution and what wasn't, or even to think creatively enough as to know how to apply something they learned. So instead, everything the sentials study is just waiting on records for someone to read it and shout "by god, its the answer." Howver, do to the error in the reseeding processes, the forerunners would not find halo for a long time, so long that another speices could possibly find it first and bring about the flood by accident, and since the orignal plan was for the forerunner to know and reclaim everything quickly, they had left it so that only the forerunner could activate halo, since they never expected the error that would end up making this choice on of there worse. (the forerunner didn;t think they could trust another alien with the power of halo, so they didn't want them using it, but then that error happened and there plan quickly died) does this answer your question and then some | |
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