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Re: How does everyone feel about...
Posted By: Metalingus627 <mtracy627@yahoo.com>Date: 3/1/10 5:05 p.m.

In Response To: Re: How does everyone feel about... (Means of Eternal Life)


: That's largely true, but the idea that they did not have time to clean up
: their ruins, colonies, etc. doesn't really make sense. The as-yet
: undetermined number of surviving Forerunners (some did survive, enough to
: enact an "exodus" out of the Milky Way; just check the Halo
: Encyclopedia) and their machines had the time, energy, and resources to
: reseed the galaxy and make sure that the reseeded species survived, but
: they did nothing about all of the material that remained behind.

: Even with Mendicant Bias's betrayal, the activation of the array, etc., they
: were still able to reseed the galaxy with their Key Ships and other means,
: designate a successor species, and take themselves out of the galaxy to
: parts unknown. If they could do all that, how hard could it have been to
: hold off on the reseeding, and destroy as many remnants of their culture
: in galaxy as they could before they sent the galaxy's sentients back home?

: Their plans, efforts, and execution for making the galaxy fit for life in the
: wake of the war with the Flood and the firing of the Halos is simply
: pathetic.

: They only did a quarter of the job at best, and doomed the galaxy to further
: death and bloodshed at worst.

: It seems to me, after all of that had happened, they were still blinded by
: the 'Mantle' and refused to let go of their old ways. That would help
: explain their incredible failure at accomplishing what should've been a
: noble and benevolent act.

We don't know how many were left after the Array fired. For all we know, there could have been just a couple dozen on the Ark when the rings were fired. Not exactly a galactic clean-up crew.

And another thing to note: A lot of their planet-side installations were buried. Earth, Reach, Coral, Harvest, ect: All of the Forerunner relics had been buried in the ground. More than likely they were buried by Sentinels. For all we know, any and all Forerunner installations on Sanghelios and the Prophets home world had been buried as well, but at some point in their history they found the relics and thus began the road to the Covenant. Knowing what to look for (and even discovering tools that found it for them) led them to find installations in other systems, and eventually Harvest.

The Forerunners didn't mean to leave their technology out of Humanities hands, they wanted us to find it when the time was right by burying it so that they would only find it after developing the kind of technology that could locate and dig it up. What they didn't count on was other species finding it first and using it for nefarious purposes. You have to keep in mind that the Prophets and the Elites had reached modern-level technology long before we did. They developed (and stagnated) a long time before Humans began reaching out into the stars. The Forerunners probably thought that Humanity would develop the quickest because it was directly related to them. What they didn't realize was that we were (arguably) unworthy inheritors, because we didn't develop quickly. Instead we bathed ourselves in bloodshed for thousands of years until it was too late to keep up with the developing Covenant.

What the Forerunners had wrong was not their view of how to hand the galaxy to the Humans. They were wrong that we were worthy to inherit it at all. Origins II plays up this fact.

Did that make any sense? I'm a little bit worn out and probably not making cohesive thoughts.


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