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Woah...
Posted By: Postmortem <postmortem@forwarduntodawn.com>	Date: 11/8/11 4:39 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Makes me wonder... (Mid7night) : No worries, you did. ;) I was really just wanting some input from someone a : little more immersed in the Haloverse than myself. I understand your : struggle with the word "engineered"; to me it encompasses the : meanings of great attention to detail in design and creation, but it's : shorter to say. :P : I agree it's hard to know what the Flood was "really" made for in : the first place, but if the Forerunners really rose up, defied, and : ultimately destroyed their creators, I can certainly see the Precursors : getting pissed enough to leave this innocuous-looking powder that would : eventually wreak their revenge eons later. In the Bible, God was pissed : enough at humanity to destroy the world and start over (with a flood... I : know the parallel has been drawn before...), and it was only because of : Him finding Noah and wanting to spare him and a chosen few that everything : wasn't entirely obliterated (the analogy kinda breaks down there). : On the other hand, what do we ACTUALLY know about the Precursors anyway? They : created the Forerunners, and probably all the other living species, so : they were ridiculously powerful, but where does it say that they were ALL : nice and gracious (or good looking)? In Cryptum, the Forerunners talk : about how the Mantle was passed down to them from the Precursors, but what : evidence do they (we) have of this and where it really came from? What if : the Precursors were just as varied as humankind, in every way? : Actually... : ...You postulated in "Rock, Metal & Time" that the Precursor : might have "evolved" into the Flood. What if it were the : opposite? : Imagine that the Precursors were actually a more advanced, : "balanced" version of the Flood all along, and the Flood (as we : know it) is really just the basest form of Precursor possible. They would : wield all the power the Flood has to assimilate organisms and machines : alike, telepathic communication, etc; but the one-minded, homogeneous : steamroller would be balanced by a higher individualistic reasoning, and : enhanced by an even greater power to create anything, not just : soldier-organisms to perpetuate the cycle. : And the Mantle.... Instead of just being a galactic form of : species-husbandry, the preservation of the Mantle would actually be the : daily act of balancing oneself as a Precursor; wielding and balancing the : power to both create and destroy life itself. : I can imagine then, that if the Precursors created a species as powerful as : the Forerunner, one that they could pass the Mantle on to, that that : creation might be powerful enough to give them a run for their money. What : if the Forerunner-Precursor War didn't "kill" the Precursors, : but beat the them down into their basest form, removing the balanced : Mantle from them and reducing them to the Flood? : Whew...this stuff is mind-tiring. :P : I'm sure there's a few broken threads in there, but I hope I made a little : sense. ;) : ~ M7 That thought never even crossed my mind. Very interesting... Yeah. My idea is still that the Prisoner of Charum Hakkor is a prisoner because of the creation of the Flood, but... damn that's some good thinkin. :)

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Floodgate	scarab	11/8/11 6:33 a.m.
Re: Floodgate	GrimBrother One	11/8/11 9:00 a.m.
Re: Floodgate	davidfuchs	11/8/11 9:16 a.m.
Re: Floodgate	Revenant1988	11/8/11 9:41 a.m.
Makes me wonder...	Mid7night	11/8/11 10:17 a.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	scarab	11/8/11 10:57 a.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	yakaman	11/8/11 1:08 p.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	Quirel	11/8/11 11:40 p.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	Postmortem	11/8/11 2:22 p.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	Mid7night	11/8/11 4:32 p.m.
Woah...	Postmortem	11/8/11 4:39 p.m.
Re: Woah...	Mid7night	11/8/11 5:01 p.m.
Re: Woah...	Postmortem	11/8/11 6:35 p.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	General Vagueness	11/13/11 4:12 p.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	Archilen	11/13/11 11:06 p.m.
Re: Makes me wonder...	General Vagueness	11/14/11 6:23 p.m.