This is NOT fact but conjecture and speculation as you can gather form the “theoretical” in the title:
- They received signals from surviving forerunners or orders from forerunner installations and are subsequently being “called in” to assist with operations on other installations, such as the Legendary Planet?
After all, why would they suddenly flee the sangheili out of fear when they didn’t really have a problem being enslaved to the covenant? - (in fact, as they liked and specialised in fixing things, they could’ve enjoyed this role to an extent as they repaired covenant tech)
- That or a geas within them, though I consider this more unlikely than the former reason (they are part biological so the forerunners could theoretically make this work).
Feel free to add your own reasons or comment on mine
They couldn’t stand being forced to work alongside Brutes to fix stuff since Brutes did the job poorly or purposefully broke things to harm the Elites. As well as previous brute treatment of Engineers and such.
Semi-joking, but possible.
If they are going to the Legendary Planet, that’s a pretty long journey.
Purely speculation.
The secrets out on Humanity being the chosen of the Forerunners to inherit their technology. They choose to serve as maybe they used to.
They now feel called to, or given the collapse of the Covenant have opportunity to seek out other Forerunner installations.
Now the largest known active installation is on Earth, and within a few months of the wars end Forerunner enhanced UNSC ships are about to roll of the production line…
> If they are going to the Legendary Planet, that’s a pretty long journey.
Yes, it is. In fact, travelling to any forerunner installation by themselves, without slipspace - capable craft or at least fast - travelling ships is just insane. However, they fled, clearly off sanghelios so they must have been going somewhere.
The underlying arugment of this thread was to show that there must be a deeper reason as to their fleeing the sangheili, rather than to just make a bid for freedom or out of fear.
> > If they are going to the Legendary Planet, that’s a pretty long journey.
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> Yes, it is. In fact, travelling to any forerunner installation by themselves, without slipspace - capable craft or at least fast - travelling ships is just insane. However, they fled, clearly off sanghelios so they must have been going somewhere.
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> The underlying arugment of this thread was to show that there must be a deeper reason as to their fleeing the sangheili, rather than to just make a bid for freedom or out of fear.
I can imagine it all
“And if you look to your left you will see a hurogok migrating across the entire solar system.”
> > > If they are going to the Legendary Planet, that’s a pretty long journey.
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> > Yes, it is. In fact, travelling to any forerunner installation by themselves, without slipspace - capable craft or at least fast - travelling ships is just insane. However, they fled, clearly off sanghelios so they must have been going somewhere.
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> > The underlying arugment of this thread was to show that there must be a deeper reason as to their fleeing the sangheili, rather than to just make a bid for freedom or out of fear.
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> I can imagine it all
> “And if you look to your left you will see a hurogok migrating across the entire solar system.”
…lawl
They saw the Ancient Threat coming, and so; So long… and thanks for all the fish
Engineers are too cute to be around those dirty Brutes, so they fled.
> > > > If they are going to the Legendary Planet, that’s a pretty long journey.
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> > > Yes, it is. In fact, travelling to any forerunner installation by themselves, without slipspace - capable craft or at least fast - travelling ships is just insane. However, they fled, clearly off sanghelios so they must have been going somewhere.
> > >
> > > The underlying arugment of this thread was to show that there must be a deeper reason as to their fleeing the sangheili, rather than to just make a bid for freedom or out of fear.
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> > I can imagine it all
> > “And if you look to your left you will see a hurogok migrating across the entire solar system.”
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> …lawl
Think about it, the engineers have so much data in them, they probably know how to build ships and slipstream space. They probably built a ship and fled to an instalation.
> > > > > If they are going to the Legendary Planet, that’s a pretty long journey.
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> > > > Yes, it is. In fact, travelling to any forerunner installation by themselves, without slipspace - capable craft or at least fast - travelling ships is just insane. However, they fled, clearly off sanghelios so they must have been going somewhere.
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> > > > The underlying arugment of this thread was to show that there must be a deeper reason as to their fleeing the sangheili, rather than to just make a bid for freedom or out of fear.
> > >
> > > I can imagine it all
> > > “And if you look to your left you will see a hurogok migrating across the entire solar system.”
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> > …lawl
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> Think about it, the engineers have so much data in them, they probably know how to build ships and slipstream space. They probably built a ship and fled to an instalation.
Evidence?
Apparently knowing that the Engineers contain the knowledge on how to build and repair slipspace capable ships isn’t enough evidence for some to imagine them tacking advantage of that knowledge.
… oh ya
HAIL COBRA!!
> > > > > > If they are going to the Legendary Planet, that’s a pretty long journey.
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> > > > > Yes, it is. In fact, travelling to any forerunner installation by themselves, without slipspace - capable craft or at least fast - travelling ships is just insane. However, they fled, clearly off sanghelios so they must have been going somewhere.
> > > > >
> > > > > The underlying arugment of this thread was to show that there must be a deeper reason as to their fleeing the sangheili, rather than to just make a bid for freedom or out of fear.
> > > >
> > > > I can imagine it all
> > > > “And if you look to your left you will see a hurogok migrating across the entire solar system.”
> > >
> > > …lawl
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> > Think about it, the engineers have so much data in them, they probably know how to build ships and slipstream space. They probably built a ship and fled to an instalation.
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> Evidence?
- They could store massive amounts of data
Evidence: The engineer that stored the superintendent in ODST
More evidence: Blueprints for the construction/ reparation of covie vessels must be an awful lot of data in itself
- They probably know how to build slipspace capable ships
Evidence: They were employed by the covenant to perform this exact task and furthermore, employment as engineers by the forerunners will undoubtedly have taught them a thing or two in this subject
so yeah, there’s your evidence cobra
also hi erickyboo, nice to see you here on waypoint as well
I imagine they’d up and leave the elites and brutes one the whole covenant social structure collapsed. Think how they’ve been treated those millienia, not talked to, not even “seen” save as a piece of repair equipment.
I can see some going over to the humans, and the rest just up and leaving alltogether. Would like to see some show up as friendlies to the other races.
Like some helping and being protected by the grunts; give the little guys their due.
> 2. They probably know how to build slipspace capable ships
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> Evidence: They were employed by the covenant to perform this exact task and furthermore, employment as engineers by the forerunners will undoubtedly have taught them a thing or two in this subject
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> so yeah, there’s your evidence cobra
So can they gather supplies and resources out of thin air now all of the sudden?
> This is NOT fact but conjecture and speculation as you can gather form the “theoretical” in the title:
So yes, spaceship debris and easily usable raw material in space can aid such ventures quite easily.
They can also choose to sacrifice a large grouping of themselves to create constructs that can either aid in what they need to do, or outright accomplish what they need.
SO with some random space junk you can create a ship durable enough to handle a FTL-drive, much less have enough materials to make said FTL-drive?
> SO with some random space junk you can create a ship durable enough to handle a FTL-drive, much less have enough materials to make said FTL-drive?
Its logical to assume the huragok would’ve had a (forerunner) destination to flee to.
On the off-chance that this is a location close enough to sanghelios that they wouldn’t need a FTL-drive to get there (in same solar system/adjacent to the planet), they could flee there without a slipspace capable ship.
On the more likely chance that this is a location much further away, they could’ve utilised resources that the sangheili had ordered them to repair/maintain and hijacked or constructed a slipspace capable ship from said resources.
I don’t know how heavily the sangheili would’ve safeguarded their resources against the “loyal” engineers, brutes or grunts at this point so I can’t prove the 3rd paragraph with the information I have but nonetheless it is a possibility.
> I imagine they’d up and leave the elites and brutes one the whole covenant social structure collapsed. Think how they’ve been treated those millienia, not talked to, not even “seen” save as a piece of repair equipment.
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> I can see some going over to the humans, and the rest just up and leaving alltogether. Would like to see some show up as friendlies to the other races.
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> Like some helping and being protected by the grunts; give the little guys their due.
If the huragok assist humanity like Vergil then this could justify the appearance of forerunner-enhanced human weapons and technology in future games and novels, even more so than what we’ve seen so far in glasslands (ONI forerunner enhanced slipspace drive).