So we all know that the fore runners took saved every species and sacrificed themselves to try and end the flood. My question is how far do you think those humans technology got before we were forced to restart? How far would we be in 2553 had we not started over?
Before the Forerunners regressed humanity to the stone-age, humanity had technology comparable to the Forerunners, capable of complex genetic manipulation and planetary destruction. If they hadn’t been forced to restart, it is possible that the Precursors would have allowed them access to Neural Physics and sustainable inter-galactic travel, but there’s really no way of knowing.
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> Before the Forerunners regressed humanity to the stone-age, humanity had technology comparable to the Forerunners, capable of complex genetic manipulation and planetary destruction. If they hadn’t been forced to restart, it is possible that the Precursors would have allowed them access to Neural Physics and sustainable inter-galactic travel, but there’s really no way of knowing.
Is this information in the books?
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> > Before the Forerunners regressed humanity to the stone-age, humanity had technology comparable to the Forerunners, capable of complex genetic manipulation and planetary destruction. If they hadn’t been forced to restart, it is possible that the Precursors would have allowed them access to Neural Physics and sustainable inter-galactic travel, but there’s really no way of knowing.
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> Is this information in the books?
Yes. Humanity was purging entire worlds of life in an attempt to prevent the Flood from plaguing the rest of the galaxy. Their final attempt to stop the Flood was genetically manipulating Flood Super-Cells to try to make them target only the unaltered Flood Biomass as food, instead of all sentient life. Now we know that they failed and that the Flood faked its success as part of the plan to save humanity, but the fact that humanity had the ability to try, and were confident enough to sacrifice a third of their entire population to provide enough biomass says a lot.