The Forerunner Saga was an incredible trilogy, and 343 chose an amazing writer to translate their story. The saga did an interesting of bringing in the god-like species and the little bits of background we get of them. In the best few years, we haven’t gotten a trilogy, but individual novels. If you guess, do you think that a Precursor saga trilogy of novels written by Greg Bear. I think they’re coming into the games after the Reclaimer Saga ends, and would be interesting if we see their history and society. Like the Forerunner Saga, it pulled back the mystery surrounding this advanced race and did it in an amazing way. If 343 hired Greg Bear on again to transcribe their story, would you want to see a Precursor Saga?
Nah. Precursor history goes so far back that they claim to pre-date the known universe. That covers several billion years and it would be way too difficult to detail in a series of novels. Especially since the Precursors came in different forms, levels of technology and so on. I’d rather see a series of books based on the Ancient Humans. Fill us in on their culture, their alliance with the San’Shyuum, the various wars they had with the Forerunner and finally their contact with the Flood, as well as their discovery of the Primordial. Those would be great.
Precursors, from explanations that exist, would be incredibly complex to write about in a small trilogy. Realistically? They could develop an entire EU around the Precursors that would dwarf the history of the Forerunners, humanity, and all Covenant client races combined.
Precursors are best left to be digested in small pieces that are most relevant to the modern timeline and perhaps the Forerunner era.
Not a trilogy, I firmly believe that the Precursors ought to remain the incomprehensible enigma that the Forerunner Saga made them out to be. But an abstract, Soma the Painter-length short story about one of the many forms the Precursors have taken (be it world-locked or space-faring) would be an interesting way to give us a few nuggets of lore.
How about some de-evolved ancient human religious or folks tales that incorporate truths of the Precursors but in highly altered forms?
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> How about some de-evolved ancient human religious or folks tales that incorporate truths of the Precursors but in highly altered forms?
It seems like that would be better-suited to Forerunners, whose facilities they were housed on or who placed them on specific planets for monitoring. Which, tbh, that would be awesome! I’d love to see how Forerunner society informed some old human cultures (both pre-array and post-array firing); it also seems like it’d make humanity’s peculiarity of not growing up in the presence of Forerunner ruins unlike most Covenatn client species a little less out-of-place.
I just don’t see it meshing well with Precursor presences, especially because much of the Precursor information/rumors were even lost in mainstream Forerunner society beneath the web of deceit and lies resulting from the Forerunner ascendency to dominance.
A series about the forerunner-era humans would be epic. Give us some info on how they were beating the flood. If I remember, the forerunner series mentioned some kind of virus they infected the flood with. Maybe they could tie it into the rest of canon with a specially outfitted AI accessing the Domain
I wish this could come true
Before Halo 4, the Forerunners were the mysterious enigmatic race that we knew little about, and thats what made them interesting. Now that we have started to unravel them, they are loosing that unknown essence.
This is why 343 gave us the Precursors, to give us another mysterious race to replace the Forerunners. I don’t want them explaining for at least another 10-15 years, if at all.
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> Before Halo 4, the Forerunners were the mysterious enigmatic race that we knew little about, and thats what made them interesting. Now that we have started to unravel them, they are loosing that unknown essence.
> This is why 343 gave us the Precursors, to give us another mysterious race to replace the Forerunners. I don’t want them explaining for at least another 10-15 years, if at all.
This 100%. The Precursors are the new Forerunners. Even though they have never been mentioned in game.
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> How about some de-evolved ancient human religious or folks tales that incorporate truths of the Precursors but in highly altered forms?
Like the stories we got in Primordium with the possible implication that humans have named a Precursor ‘Mongoose’. 
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> Before Halo 4, the Forerunners were the mysterious enigmatic race that we knew little about, and thats what made them interesting. Now that we have started to unravel them, they are loosing that unknown essence.
> This is why 343 gave us the Precursors, to give us another mysterious race to replace the Forerunners. I don’t want them explaining for at least another 10-15 years, if at all.
You do know that 343 Industries didn’t give us Precursors… they were existant prior to any Halo 4 or Halo: The Forerunner Saga.
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> > Before Halo 4, the Forerunners were the mysterious enigmatic race that we knew little about, and thats what made them interesting. Now that we have started to unravel them, they are loosing that unknown essence.
> > This is why 343 gave us the Precursors, to give us another mysterious race to replace the Forerunners. I don’t want them explaining for at least another 10-15 years, if at all.
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> You do know that 343 Industries didn’t give us Precursors… they were existant prior to any Halo 4 or Halo: The Forerunner Saga.
In name only. They were only directly mentioned once in Halo 3’s Bestiarum, and potentially indirectly referenced in Halo 3’s Terminals (we still don’t know, and won’t until we find out where the Great Journey took the Forerunners). It’s fair to credit 343 for actually fleshing out the lore behind the Precursors’ impact on the universe because all we had before that was a sentence saying that they were the one example of a more advanced species than the Forerunners.
As much as I’d like to know more stuff about Precursors, it would be a difficult to make a trilogy out of them. It could be so fairy tale like since they basically were a god species, having been born even before the current universe.
a spin off setting during the Forerunner Era sounds great! Maybe and RPG, there are so many possibilities!
No, not really. I was never really a big fan of the Forerunner Saga in the first place.