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Re: The Forerunners shouldn't have lost the war.
Posted By: Honestly <Hadjorim@yahoo.com>	Date: 5/3/08 9:39 p.m.
: The Forerunner demonstratd the ability to build enormous armies of Sentinels : over a hundred thousand year period when their resources weren't also : being strapped in massive wartime effort that was costing them just as : much to match and they weren't constructing planet-sized superweapons at : the same time. I'd like to point out that the Sentinel Factories on Onyx continued producing Sentinels long after the Halos were fired, evidence they did not require manual operation or manual transference of resources. You just gotta built a sentinel factory on some barren planet in space and let it rip. : For all we know, the Forerunner were trying to construct enough sentinels to : counter the Flood, but the Flood were spreading too quickly to contain. In : fact, that's exactly what is indicated by the logs in the Terminals. If they were the Flood wouldn't have spread so quickly. Large numbers, billions of sentinels present on a planet's surface would provide an almost instant counter-attack to any Flood infestation. Sentinels could even be stationed in orbit and provide a fearsome barrier for the Flood to penetrate. : Th Flood don't send individual infection forms to a planet, they launch : orbital assaults with enormous numbers of transports that overrun the : civilian opulation centers and create massive waves of warrior forms from : the local population. Not billions of ships though. As you yourself stated, major military presence on planets had been discontinued. That would mean those who did infected would be lacking weapons, a target that would take a sentinel a few seconds to dispatch. With massive numbers of sentinels present on each planet, an invasion could be repulsed before the Flood would gain such a numerical advantage.

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