So hunters are weird, right? Out of all the creatures in halo, hunters have to be the weirdest. They are giant hulking beasts made up of a colony of worms. That got me thinking, what if the Forerunners made them. The first encounter in the halo universe is finding the Lekgolo eating a forerunner installation, which seems weird. Then we are told they were used by prophets to interact with forerunner machines. They are also used in scarab, a monster of a vehicle. So what if Lekgolo were made for war against the flood by the forerunners. They can interact with forerunner machinery almost like humans in certain cases and have shown a affinity with machinery and killing stuff. And what if the Forerunners made then a hivemind because the flood can’t control other hive minds. This allows for only worms to be infected individually and makes it so only one small thing is infected that can easily be removed rather than the whole body. Also, why would they eat forerunner installations unless they were made to. They could be deployed on infected ships, eat through to damage systems and then fight. We know they can survive in a vacuum because in a cinematic, we are shown the arbiter jumping in space into a hole and when he reaches the bottom he sees the worms. What if they can interect with forerunner machinery because forerunners made it to where they can pilot/control ships.Just a weird thought that may or may not be true.
I doubt it. As advanced as the Forerunners were, I don’t believe there have been any instances where they created any kind of life (sentient machines don’t count). They did, however, experiment on them as an attempt at combating the Flood, an example being the Thanolekgolo of Installation 04.
I do remember that in the Forerunner trilogy of books, there was a small colony of ancient Forerunners in another galaxy who were living on a planet where all of the plants and domesticated animals were made from the genetic material of Forerunners. Also, sentient machines should count, as creating sentient machines is probably just as difficult as creating sentient organisms. Another point if I’m not mistaken, is that the engineers are sentient pseudo-biological constructs that the Forerunners made.
The universe was seeded with the building blocks of life by the Precursors and allowed to evolve over eons, our galaxy included. So they either evolved naturally or Precursors created them. Also if the Precursors are responsible for creating the universe aswell than they are directly and indirectly responsible for the existence of all life in the universe. Also the Precursrors would be by far the weirdest creatures in Halo. They’re billions of old, possibly predate the universe itself, have infinite forms and minds that transcend many realms and evolve, go extinct and reincarnate in new forms both physical and incorporeal, have the power to create things via thought, accelerate the evolution of life, create or destroy life on a whim and prettty much make reality their b*tch. Also many of them are also the Flood. Yep definitley the weirdest race in all of Halo.
I don’t think any of that would suggest the Lekgolo were made by the Forerunners. You have real worms here on Earth that eat heavy metals found in toxic areas. I don’t think it is a stretch that some worms from space would eventually find the abundant Forerunner materials in their system a great snack. Also, the Bestiarum that came with special editions of Halo 3 shows that the Forerunners cataloged them as a species with no mention they created them. How canon the Bestiarum is something I don’t know, but I think it’s safe to say our favorite worms were formed without the aid of the Forerunners.
Life in the galaxy was seeded by the Precursors. So, while it’s not confirmed that the Precursors created the Lekgolo, that’d be the more likely scenario.
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> I doubt it. As advanced as the Forerunners were, I don’t believe there have been any instances where they created any kind of life (sentient machines don’t count). They did, however, experiment on them as an attempt at combating the Flood, an example being the Thanolekgolo of Installation 04.
Creating new species through gene manipulation can’t be that hard.