Posts on Current Forum | Archived Posts
|
|
|
||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
| Frequently Asked Forum Questions | |
|||
|
||||
|
|
|||
| ||||
| ||||
| ||||
| Search Older Posts on This Forum: Posts on Current Forum | Archived Posts | ||||
| ||||
| ||||
| ||||
| Re: I see it as... | |
| Posted By: scarab | Date: 1/8/13 1:00 p.m. |
In Response To: I see it as... (thebruce0) : a sort of Prime Directive. But the Halo universe, to me, seems a little more : hostile. I don't know how much the FR "tampered" with natural : growth of life in the galaxy, but I got more of an impression that it was : the Forerunner way of protecting life from the hostile influences that : they've become aware exist perhaps from outside the galaxy, and as a sort : of reluctant mission with the fact that they are/were super-powerful if : not the most powerful, civilization in the galaxy. Would anyone else be : able to handle "the mantle" successfully? (presuming arrogantly : that they were able to, of course) : If the mantle was passed to them from the previous super-civilization, then : it could be something they felt would need to be passed down to what they : felt would be the next great civilization after they fell. But is the mantle really that similar to the prime directive? Prime Directive is strict non-interference except when it's inconvenient to the story tellers or Janeway. ;-) The mantle is, at best, benign interference. : And if the only "intelligent" life in the galaxy (which it seems is
I wonder how many other species were around at the time of the array activation. Were there many others? If so where are they? Did they fail to reseed? Are they in a preindustrial state? AFAIK the Precursors meddled. They did something to Forerunner and Human DNA. We are the only two known races to have the special sauce. What is the nature of this special sauce? Do we have something that other races don't have? Or are we just better at something that they also do to a lesser extent? Did this DNA manipulation make us morally better in some way? : tl;dr: I dunno. I don't see it simply as "cultivating", like
Like the galaxy's police men?
| |
|
| Replies: |
The HBO Forum Archive is maintained with WebBBS 4.33. |