Anyone think the Precursors sent the meteor the wiped out the Dinosaurs 65 million years ago? Or perhaps did they save as many as possible and transplant them to another planet - a biological preserve hidden away somewhere from the galaxy? Perhaps they did for other prehistoric species over 100s of millions of years and there are descendants of them still out there on other planets hidden from the eyes of meddling, curious species.
I doubt it. If they had anything to do with it, they probably sent it to ensure that the things that would eventually become humans actually had a chance to grow.
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> I doubt it. If they had anything to do with it, they probably sent it to ensure that the things that would eventually become humans actually had a chance to grow.
That’s assuming Earth is our birth world in the Halo Universe. There’s debate on that since Halo Cryptum came out. Yeah I was just watching Jurassic Park the other day and it got me thinking that it would be cool if the Precursors saved the dinosaurs from extinction in the Halo Universe and put them elsewhere as Dinosaur-like creatures have shown up in the Halo games as random wildlife. I mean I would expect them to save some as it would be in accordance with the Mantle to do so but probably not.
I think the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth in the Halo universe was a natural event, though I wouldn’t put it past the Forerunner Lifeworkers to have put various Earth species on other planets due to racial prejudices, expecting humans to wipe them out on Earth. We do see the Moa on Reach after all.
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> I think the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth in the Halo universe was a natural event, though I wouldn’t put it past the Forerunner Lifeworkers to have put various Earth species on other planets due to racial prejudices, expecting humans to wipe them out on Earth. We do see the Moa on Reach after all.
It may or may not have been natural. Nothing’s stopping the Precursors from directing the meteor to Earth to do the job. Lifeworkers did transplant species from their native planets to others as seen in the Forerunner Saga and elsewhere. They certainly wouldn’t have done it with Earth dinosaurs as they went extinct long before the Forerunners were created. Only way the Forerunners could transplant Earth dinosaurs to other planets is if the Precursors saved some. I doubt they transplanted the Moa as there said to be native to Reach but it’s possible they’re not. I’m actually curious now as to what other species existed on Earth that don’t now following the Halo Firing as the Librarian said that only a thousandth of the large species on Earth could be saved according to pre-Array projections. So I wonder what other large animal species went extinct and have become lost in our distorted fossil records.
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> It may or may not have been natural. Nothing’s stopping the Precursors from directing the meteor to Earth to do the job. Lifeworkers did transplant species from their native planets to others as seen in the Forerunner Saga and elsewhere. They certainly wouldn’t have done it with Earth dinosaurs as they went extinct long before the Forerunners were created. Only way the Forerunners could transplant Earth dinosaurs to other planets is if the Precursors saved some. I doubt they transplanted the Moa as there said to be native to Reach but it’s possible they’re not. I’m actually curious now as to what other species existed on Earth that don’t now following the Halo Firing as the Librarian said that only a thousandth of the large species on Earth could be saved according to pre-Array projections. So I wonder what other large animal species went extinct and have become lost in our distorted fossil records.
Keep in mind that we don’t know how old the Forerunner civilization was. There’s ten-million years between them wiping Path Kethona of life, and them designing the Halos, but there is an unknown amount of time before that when the Forerunners were becoming what they are and were developing the technologies we would eventually come to know.
I dont think so.
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> Keep in mind that we don’t know how old the Forerunner civilization was. There’s ten-million years between them wiping Path Kethona of life, and them designing the Halos, but there is an unknown amount of time before that when the Forerunners were becoming what they are and were developing the technologies we would eventually come to know.
The Forerunners were created and seeded 15 million years ago (so that’s too late for them to transplant dinosaurs anywhere) on Ghibalb and wiped out the Precursors ten million years ago so there’s 5 million years between that time. Also the Forerunners wiped out the Precursors at Path Kethona ten million years ago. Then ten 9.9 million years later in circa 97,000 B.C. they wiped Path Kethona of all life with the last of the original Halos during the fall of the Greater Ark shortly before the activation of the Halo Array and the galactic cleansing of life.
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> > > > I think the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth in the Halo universe was a natural event, though I wouldn’t put it past the Forerunner Lifeworkers to have put various Earth species on other planets due to racial prejudices, expecting humans to wipe them out on Earth. We do see the Moa on Reach after all.
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> > > It may or may not have been natural. Nothing’s stopping the Precursors from directing the meteor to Earth to do the job. Lifeworkers did transplant species from their native planets to others as seen in the Forerunner Saga and elsewhere. They certainly wouldn’t have done it with Earth dinosaurs as they went extinct long before the Forerunners were created. Only way the Forerunners could transplant Earth dinosaurs to other planets is if the Precursors saved some. I doubt they transplanted the Moa as there said to be native to Reach but it’s possible they’re not. I’m actually curious now as to what other species existed on Earth that don’t now following the Halo Firing as the Librarian said that only a thousandth of the large species on Earth could be saved according to pre-Array projections. So I wonder what other large animal species went extinct and have become lost in our distorted fossil records.
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> The Forerunners were created and seeded 15 million years ago (so that’s too late for them to transplant dinosaurs anywhere) on Ghibalb and wiped out the Precursors ten million years ago so there’s 5 million years between that time. Also the Forerunners wiped out the Precursors at Path Kethona ten million years ago. Then ten 9.9 million years later in circa 97,000 B.C. they wiped Path Kethona of all life with the last of the original Halos during the fall of the Greater Ark shortly before the activation of the Halo Array and the galactic cleansing of life.
Where did you get your dates, particularly the Forerunners’ creation 15 million years ago?
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> > > > > I think the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth in the Halo universe was a natural event, though I wouldn’t put it past the Forerunner Lifeworkers to have put various Earth species on other planets due to racial prejudices, expecting humans to wipe them out on Earth. We do see the Moa on Reach after all.
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> > > > It may or may not have been natural. Nothing’s stopping the Precursors from directing the meteor to Earth to do the job. Lifeworkers did transplant species from their native planets to others as seen in the Forerunner Saga and elsewhere. They certainly wouldn’t have done it with Earth dinosaurs as they went extinct long before the Forerunners were created. Only way the Forerunners could transplant Earth dinosaurs to other planets is if the Precursors saved some. I doubt they transplanted the Moa as there said to be native to Reach but it’s possible they’re not. I’m actually curious now as to what other species existed on Earth that don’t now following the Halo Firing as the Librarian said that only a thousandth of the large species on Earth could be saved according to pre-Array projections. So I wonder what other large animal species went extinct and have become lost in our distorted fossil records.
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> > > Keep in mind that we don’t know how old the Forerunner civilization was. There’s ten-million years between them wiping Path Kethona of life, and them designing the Halos, but there is an unknown amount of time before that when the Forerunners were becoming what they are and were developing the technologies we would eventually come to know.
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> > The Forerunners were created and seeded 15 million years ago (so that’s too late for them to transplant dinosaurs anywhere) on Ghibalb and wiped out the Precursors ten million years ago so there’s 5 million years between that time. Also the Forerunners wiped out the Precursors at Path Kethona ten million years ago. Then ten 9.9 million years later in circa 97,000 B.C. they wiped Path Kethona of all life with the last of the original Halos during the fall of the Greater Ark shortly before the activation of the Halo Array and the galactic cleansing of life.
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> Where did you get your dates, particularly the Forerunners’ creation 15 million years ago?
Halopedia
I don’t think we need the Forerunnners and Precursors to be responsible for every cosmic event. Meteorites hit things all the time, that’s just space.
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> > > > > > I think the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth in the Halo universe was a natural event, though I wouldn’t put it past the Forerunner Lifeworkers to have put various Earth species on other planets due to racial prejudices, expecting humans to wipe them out on Earth. We do see the Moa on Reach after all.
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> > > > > It may or may not have been natural. Nothing’s stopping the Precursors from directing the meteor to Earth to do the job. Lifeworkers did transplant species from their native planets to others as seen in the Forerunner Saga and elsewhere. They certainly wouldn’t have done it with Earth dinosaurs as they went extinct long before the Forerunners were created. Only way the Forerunners could transplant Earth dinosaurs to other planets is if the Precursors saved some. I doubt they transplanted the Moa as there said to be native to Reach but it’s possible they’re not. I’m actually curious now as to what other species existed on Earth that don’t now following the Halo Firing as the Librarian said that only a thousandth of the large species on Earth could be saved according to pre-Array projections. So I wonder what other large animal species went extinct and have become lost in our distorted fossil records.
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> > > The Forerunners were created and seeded 15 million years ago (so that’s too late for them to transplant dinosaurs anywhere) on Ghibalb and wiped out the Precursors ten million years ago so there’s 5 million years between that time. Also the Forerunners wiped out the Precursors at Path Kethona ten million years ago. Then ten 9.9 million years later in circa 97,000 B.C. they wiped Path Kethona of all life with the last of the original Halos during the fall of the Greater Ark shortly before the activation of the Halo Array and the galactic cleansing of life.
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I was able to find the canonical source from Halopedia, but I don’t personally like wikis being used as sources because they don’t have a guarantee of accuracy on any individual topic, due to their nature as being summaries of canonical sources. The actual canonical source is here.
As for the Dinosaurs’ extinction, the Halo universe contains countless historical events that didn’t happen in our real universe, so there’s no guarantee that dinosaurs would have gone extinct when you stated. In fact, in our real world the “evidence” of such a date doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. I don’t mean to cause a rabbit trail away from the Halo content, but if you want to see what I mean you can look up the radiometric dating tests done on newly formed rocks from Mt St Helens when it blew its top. Rocks that should have dated around a decade old were given ages in the many thousands of years. The whole theory of radiometric dating doesn’t work on any material with a known age when the person running the test doesn’t have that information.
this is a pretty cool idea but it sounds a little too far-fetched for the halo universe
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> I don’t think we need the Forerunnners and Precursors to be responsible for every cosmic event. Meteorites hit things all the time, that’s just space.
Yeah I know but someone had to bring up the possibility.
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> > > > > > It may or may not have been natural. Nothing’s stopping the Precursors from directing the meteor to Earth to do the job. Lifeworkers did transplant species from their native planets to others as seen in the Forerunner Saga and elsewhere. They certainly wouldn’t have done it with Earth dinosaurs as they went extinct long before the Forerunners were created. Only way the Forerunners could transplant Earth dinosaurs to other planets is if the Precursors saved some. I doubt they transplanted the Moa as there said to be native to Reach but it’s possible they’re not. I’m actually curious now as to what other species existed on Earth that don’t now following the Halo Firing as the Librarian said that only a thousandth of the large species on Earth could be saved according to pre-Array projections. So I wonder what other large animal species went extinct and have become lost in our distorted fossil records.
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> > > > The Forerunners were created and seeded 15 million years ago (so that’s too late for them to transplant dinosaurs anywhere) on Ghibalb and wiped out the Precursors ten million years ago so there’s 5 million years between that time. Also the Forerunners wiped out the Precursors at Path Kethona ten million years ago. Then ten 9.9 million years later in circa 97,000 B.C. they wiped Path Kethona of all life with the last of the original Halos during the fall of the Greater Ark shortly before the activation of the Halo Array and the galactic cleansing of life.
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> I was able to find the canonical source from Halopedia, but I don’t personally like wikis being used as sources because they don’t have a guarantee of accuracy on any individual topic, due to their nature as being summaries of canonical sources. The actual canonical source is here.
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> As for the Dinosaurs’ extinction, the Halo universe contains countless historical events that didn’t happen in our real universe, so there’s no guarantee that dinosaurs would have gone extinct when you stated. In fact, in our real world the “evidence” of such a date doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. I don’t mean to cause a rabbit trail away from the Halo content, but if you want to see what I mean you can look up the radiometric dating tests done on newly formed rocks from Mt St Helens when it blew its top. Rocks that should have dated around a decade old were given ages in the many thousands of years. The whole theory of radiometric dating doesn’t work on any material with a known age when the person running the test doesn’t have that information.
Point 1. Yeah but Halopedia is also dedicated to accuracy and sources the canonical sources of info. And Halopedia has the dates I gave anyway. Point 2. No but I imagine 343i will stick to our estimated guess for the dinosaurs extinction. I mean how likely are dinosaurs going to be relevant to Halo. I’ll very surprised if we get a flashback of the Precursors wiping them out(regardless of when) or saving some for preservation.
Although even in real life, why did dinosaurs exist?
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Evolution.
Well, just consider that one of the greatest structures within the Halo Universe is the Ark. The Ark is a great reference to the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark. The Precursors could just like in the Bible wipe out the dinosaurs and all life on the Earth, but have select species elsewhere. Google definition of Ark and see what comes up Bungie really used this element in their story.
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> Well, just consider that one of the greatest structures within the Halo Universe is the Ark. The Ark is a great reference to the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark. The Precursors could just like in the Bible wipe out the dinosaurs and all life on the Earth, but have select species elsewhere. Google definition of Ark and see what comes up Bungie really used this element in their story.
I’m fairly certain they meant it to be that the Biblical Ark was inspired by the actual Forerunner mega-structure, since ancient humans were secured upon it against “the Flood”…
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> this is a pretty cool idea but it sounds a little too far-fetched for the halo universe
Agree, actually we know nothing about Precursors and their plans for the universe.