As far as i know 343 was the reponsable for expanding the lore about the ancient wars and civilizations, but i’m quite confussed regarding what bungie told us about it since all information abut it is just clustered today.
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> As far as i know 343 was the reponsable for expanding the lore about the ancient wars and civilizations, but i’m quite confussed regarding what bungie told us about it since all information abut it is just clustered today.
back in the bungie days, it seems that humans were descedants of the forerunners. but now, ancient humanity was at war with the forerunners. see the forerunner saga for details.
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> > As far as i know 343 was the reponsable for expanding the lore about the ancient wars and civilizations, but i’m quite confussed regarding what bungie told us about it since all information abut it is just clustered today.
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> back in the bungie days, it seems that humans were descedants of the forerunners. but now, ancient humanity was at war with the forerunners. see the forerunner saga for details.
Not necessarily. H3 terminals have the librarian finding primitive humans on earth. At best in those days we were a splinter race or an oddly regressed colony.
I don’t think Bungie had made it’s mind and threw around evidence for different theories. I think by the time of halo 3 it was already going towards the story we have now.
Read the Forerunner Series
They told us nothing, in fact bungie generally had a distain for the lore of the series.
Bungie was confused and had a hard time figuring out where to go with that. 343 ultimately cleared that up, and I believe they did a fantastic job of separating them.
The only Bungie told us was that the Flood appeared, they were eating the Forerunner empire and they couldn’t stop them. So they did the Halo Array and take the samples and then killed everyone and most of them letting behind the technology and then the Covenant… You know the rest. But it was to hmm simple. 343i explained all the Forerunner actions and their last days in one of the most terrible wars in Halo Universe, the desperate trying of kill the, with Mendicant Bias, the madness of the Ur-Didact and the composer, the fall of Maethrelian, etc. But it tells how they were loosing the war and show all their suffering at the final of the war. Pretty interesting think on that.
They only told us about the flood-forerunner war and the involvement of mendicant bias. I liked how it was very mysterious, almost like if bungie let you imagine it.
I felt like the forerunners were ancient humans that loved life so much, they decided to restart everything (even themselves, becoming humans) to end the flood.
But now it is confirmed that forerunners were an advanced warrior race that is so annoyingly similar to humanity without explanation, and also fought the original humans before the flood which left them extremely weak. Oh, and before that they fought the precursors (creators of the life) that then returned as the flood after everything. Forerunners were too weak so they built the halo array.
Honestly, I think that making the story this complex just makes the games less important.
They kept it mostly vague and up to interpretation to keep the forerunners mysteries. Nowadays I personally think they explained too much.
Basically it was the flood war and how Medicant Bias screwed the Forerunners.
On another note for everyone else’s answers, it seems like 343 Industries sorta implemented both ideas: they kind’ve imply that Humanity and the Forerunners were one and the same at one point(with lines such as “Those you know call human” - not sure what that’s from, can’t remember right now), but they separated.
The Forerunners were the Precursors’ first attempt at creating Intelligent Life capable of taking up the Mantle. However, the Precursors regarded the Forerunners as a failure and then went on to create Ancient Humanity who they deemed worthy. So in a nutshell Forerunners were “prototypes”.
I see many similarities to Halo and Destiny in the story telling.
Halo has an old conflict that changed the Universe and set about how things are in the current story, this is the same with Destiny.
My point being that, like Destiny, nothing is really said about ‘what happened before’ and we only get snippets or vague items that relate to it. It would be an interesting Halo game to play as the Forerunners or the ancient Humans in the war, but from what the story is now, I don’t see that Bungie, or 343 will go back and reveal more about that story than they already have done.