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Posted By: scarab | Date: 11/14/07 2:23 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: You missed his point, I think (Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)) : That was one reason I was a big proponent of the idea that any species could : be a Reclaimer if they demonstrated selected characteristics. (One leg of : my now-discredited "neural interface" theory.) It put all the : Forerunners' eggs in one basket, which was entirely ignored for 100,000 : years... who knows what might have happened in the intervening time to : render us unsuitable or maybe even extinct, without some sort of : supervision? It makes sense if Humans are Forerunners. (Told you, you wouldn't like it) The Shield World / Array plan was a last ditch plan. It wasn't hastily implemented, they had ~300 years to do it, but the Forerunners hoped that they could avoid using it. Obviously the AIs on the Shield Worlds and the Array installations knew the plan. It was: Forerunners shelter on Shield Worlds, Array activates, Forerunners return when it is safe to reclaim their stuff/position. The AIs were told to watch out for the Reclaimers. The Forerunners did not know of Earth. They did not know that it was their home world. They did not know their true origins. This is the mystery that the discovery of Earth could begin to answer. From the fith server: The anomalous world is in a perilous location beyond the line. Plans within plans within plans: Its a secret and separate plan to preserve these Forerunners. Think of it as belts and braces. It is definitely not widely known so nobody knows about us and we are not taught. Note: the Forerunners did not put is there, we were discovered ONLY AT THE END OF THINGS. From Terminal Four: L: I've remotely destroyed our Keyships. A security measure. Without them I cannot reach the Ark. But neither then can the thing. Humans have been discovered late and their discovery has been kept secret to preserve them should the Forerunners fall. Didact come up with his cunning plan (MB) and is forced to fire the Array too soon. No forerunners make it to the Shield worlds, or they fail to open once closed. AIs on worlds and installations within the Maginot sphere know to expect Reclaimers from the Shield Worlds. They never arrive. But the AIs know what a Reclaimer looks like. They look like Forerunners :-) So when Sparky sees a Forerunner he assumes that he has seen a Reclaimer come to reclaim his Forerunner heritage. : There's something seriously wrong with the Reclaimer scheme as we understand
: -- Steve could see our intended "cybernannies" getting dragooned
The cybernannies are in the Shield world bubbles, teaching Forerunners or waiting to teach Forerunners. We were deliberately left alone, our world was in an isolated location, far from known worlds, unknown by Flood and the majority of Forerunners and their AIs. Earth was not the sole basket, we weren't the only eggs. The Shield worlds were supposed to work. MB was supposed to work. Maybe the Maginot line was supposed to hold. It was only fate that left us as the sole surviving remnant of the Forerunners.
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