Were the Forerunner’s prison really ever effective most of the prisons we have information about all seems to have been breached and the prisoners escaped. Any thoughts?
Containment facilities seemed to have worked for tens of thousands of years. Everything is subject to error and failure as time passes.
Containment facilities range from normal prisons to cryptums. Cryptums were the Forerunners physical and intellectual prisons, they were designed to physical contain a prisoner and mentally “heal” the prisoners’ minds; that was what the Ur-Didact was supposed to do in his cryptic and what Cortana tried to do to Spartan-II Blue Team.
Like Halsey said above. Over hundreds of thousands of years, everything will eventually reach a failure point. It could even be argued that Precursor tech has a failure point as well. The only difference is that their failure point would be so far into the future that from the Forerunners’ perspective, Precursor constructs appeared unaffected by time.
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> Like Halsey said above. Over hundreds of thousands of years, everything will eventually reach a failure point. It could even be argued that Precursor tech has a failure point as well. The only difference is that their failure point would be so far into the future that from the Forerunners’ perspective, Precursor constructs appeared unaffected by time.
Actually that’s a really good point. The forerunners try to be the worthy species and emulate the creators, yet their technology falls short of it. And then there’s Murphy’s Law and entropy
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> Containment facilities seemed to have worked for tens of thousands of years. Everything is subject to error and failure as time passes.
Yeah when I wrote this I forgot for a second how long along the Forerunners would have built these prisons.