After watching the Halo 4 terminals, I was thinking back to Delta Halo and Regret. Remember all of the stone ruins that were so alien compared to the classic Forerunner architecture? On one of the gondola rides in Regret, Cortana mentions that the Forerunners built these places to protect us. Back then it sounded out of context, but know it makes sense. I know that the ring in the terminals was not 05, but the Forerunners could have kept humans on 05 as well. Just a thought. What do you guys think?
Didn’t Cortana say that they were older than the ring itself? According to what I’ve seen of Cortana, she know’s what she’s talking about, and they’re likely literally older than the ring. Perhaps the Forerunners didn’t destroy our ruins, but relocated them?
Its possible that they did indeed save, move some architecture, ruins, to the ring from previously populated Human worlds, or perhaps they are ruins of the earliest Forerunner colonies.
Some of them do appear possibly Forerunner in nature, but others are pretty far off from what we normally see.
I asked BS Angel this once and she said she’d run it by Frankie…but that never happened.
> I asked BS Angel this once and she said she’d run it by Frankie…but that never happened.
weren’t we in agreement that these were the ruins of human cities as they fit what was described in primordium? We know humans lived on several rings so i think this should still be the leading hypothesis.
> > I asked BS Angel this once and she said she’d run it by Frankie…but that never happened.
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> weren’t we in agreement that these were the ruins of human cities as they fit what was described in primordium? We know humans lived on several rings so i think this should still be the leading hypothesis.
I think we did, but it’d be nice to get confirmation.
I thought they were human as well, but I was fooling around in Regret today and found some dialogue. Out of the blue, Cortana says something like “I wish I could translate these runes. The Forerunners must have revered these places. Maybe these were a university, museum, temple.” I’ve never heard that before. Has anyone else heard that? That leads me to think that they were entirely Forerunner. Humans could have inhabited them, but by Cortana’s comment, I now believe that they were built by Forerunners.
> I thought they were human as well, but I was fooling around in Regret today and found some dialogue. Out of the blue, Cortana says something like “I wish I could translate these runes. The Forerunners must have revered these places. Maybe these were a university, museum, temple.” I’ve never heard that before. Has anyone else heard that? That leads me to think that they were entirely Forerunner. Humans could have inhabited them, but by Cortana’s comment, I now believe that they were built by Forerunners.
Interesting. The only thing that throws me off the look of ancient-ness about them, like Angkor Wat and Macchu Picchu here on Earth. Could the Forerunners have built them ages ago, but moved them to the ring far later to preserve them?
Since we now know the Forerunner Homeworld was torched by a supernova… or so the story goes(I think it may be a cover-up for damage inflicted by the Precursor-War.), I don’t think they could be original Forerunner.
It would make sense that they belonged to another species, maybe even early humans.
> Interesting. The only thing that throws me off the look of ancient-ness about them, like Angkor Wat and Macchu Picchu here on Earth. Could the Forerunners have built them ages ago, but moved them to the ring far later to preserve them?
Are we all ignoring the structure’s the humans were building in primordium?
> <mark>Didn’t Cortana say that they were older than the ring itself?</mark> According to what I’ve seen of Cortana, she know’s what she’s talking about, and they’re likely literally older than the ring. Perhaps the Forerunners didn’t destroy our ruins, but relocated them?
Cortana: “You know, I think the Forerunners built these new structures around the old, to protect them, to honor them. Pure speculation, mind you. I’d need to make a thorough survey to be sure.”
she does say Pure speculation here, but still
Cortana: “wish I had more time to decipher these inscriptions. The Forerunners <mark>revere this place, that much is clear</mark>. But was it a temple, or a university… I can’t say.”
why Protect/honor human structures ?
The librarian seemed very dear of the humans of her installation so i would expect the lifeworkers in general to be the same. You have to remember that the humans found a cure while the lifeworkers couldn’t so they do indeed had respect for the humans.
> > <mark>Didn’t Cortana say that they were older than the ring itself?</mark> According to what I’ve seen of Cortana, she know’s what she’s talking about, and they’re likely literally older than the ring. Perhaps the Forerunners didn’t destroy our ruins, but relocated them?
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> Cortana: “You know, I think the Forerunners built these new structures around the old, to protect them, to honor them. Pure speculation, mind you. I’d need to make a thorough survey to be sure.”
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> she does say Pure speculation here, but still
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> Cortana: “wish I had more time to decipher these inscriptions. The Forerunners <mark>revere this place, that much is clear</mark>. But was it a temple, or a university… I can’t say.”
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> why Protect/honor human structures ?
The Librarian.
I think its pretty safe to assume these ancient ruins/temples are from Ancient Human colonies being watched on the ring after deevolution. One of the Librarian’s Human habitats.