I was just wondering if anyone could explain the precursors in Halo terms? Also what relevance they have with forerunners and humans.
Is it likely that the precursors will appear in Halo 4?
The Precursors were pre-forerunner, the Precursor-Forerunner relationship is essentially what the Forerunners are to the humans and covenant.
> The Precursors were pre-forerunner, <mark>the Precursor-Forerunner relationship is essentially what the Forerunners are to the humans and covenant.</mark>
Not quite…
The Precursors were a race of highly-advanced beings that pre-dated the Forerunner Empire by millions of years. As a Tier-0 species on the Forerunner Technological Advancement Scale, they could traverse galaxies and were the cause of life in the Milky Way galaxy, if not the universe. However, this race of god-like beings had a sinister side. According to the Forerunner named Genemender Folder of Fortune, the Precursors would “delete” species they felt violated the Mantle and failed a mysterious plan.
This cycle appeared to end in the Forerunner-Precursor War, which ended in Precursor defeat and exile. How this came to be, the created defeating the creator, remains a mystery and the war seemed to be forgotten as the Mantle made by the Precursors became a key component to the Forerunner’s laws. Yet it would not be the last the galaxy would see of the Precursors.
The Primordial was found by ancient humanity on a barren planetoid, the Primordial was a biological anomaly. Some reports stated that it was made of several species, yet appeared to be a single body with four arms, a barbed tail and a head that resembled a sea scorpion. Ancient humanity brought it to Charum Hakkor, a Precursor ruin world and the capital of humanities scientific achievements, and counseled it as an oracle. Yet when it finally did speak as humanity questioned it about the arrival of the Flood, it provided a solution so terrible it caused suicides amongst the listeners.
Humanity would fight the Flood for years and repel it with the Primordial’s “cure” until they encroached on Forerunner territory and lost a war with them. As humanity was de-evolved by the Forerunners and their head leaders Composed into genetic memories, the Primordial remained a captive on Charum Hakkor, but not before telling the Ur-Didact that it was “the last Precursor”.
1000 years later, the Master Builder and Mendicant Bias, with a Halo ring in tow, released the Primordial and brought it to Installation 07. While there it would take control of the ring and conduct vile experiments on humans who contained the memories of ancient humans long ago turned by the Composer. Installation 07 would remain rouge until the Bornsteller-Didact re-captured it and interrogated the Primordial. The Primordial would reveal that the cure which the humans thought they had and the Forerunners desired was a lie and that the humans would be tested far into the future for the Mantle. The Forerunners would be relegated to the deepest shadows of history. The Bornsteller-Didact would accelerate the aging process of the Primordial by billions of years, killing it.
I mean it is relatively similar, once we read the final Forerunner book in the trilogy, it may become true, with the humans pushing out the Forerunners because at the end of the last book some interesting things happened that could lead to this conclusion.
Thanks, that is a lot of information to digest haha
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Damn. I love Halo lore, but I haven’t gotten the chance to read the last 4 or 5 books. I find this stuff fascinating. Wish I could get those books…
you should get them
i hope they are in Halo 4, Fingers crossed