It’s never implied in the halo lore that all the forerunners/precursors are dead. The lore always hints that the forerunners drifted out far into the galaxy, but the precursors…we don’t know if they went extinct or just fled and went into deep space. Could they still be out there, along with the forerunners? Anyone have any clues or info on what happened to the precursors or the forerunners?
Have you read the forerunner trilogy of books? they pretty much have the answer to ALL of your questions!
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> Have you read the forerunner trilogy of books? they pretty much have the answer to ALL of your questions!
No, I haven’t. Not everyone here is a halo scholar. I’ve played all the games in the trilogy, does that count? Lol
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The games don’t tell you anything. Well barely anything, anyway. The Precursors fled beyond the Galaxy, when the Forerunners purged them. Some of them degenerated into molecular powder, which turned defective, and gradually became the Flood. Its stated that others travelled elsewhere, and continued creation.
As for the Forerunners, we can only speculate. The Ur-Didact lived, we know that. The IsoDidact’s fate remains a mystery (the one who activated the Halos), as well as the a Forerunner by the name of Chant-To-Green, and a couple other assistants of hers. The Librarian, along with all of the other Forerunners, were vaporised, from the array.
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Sorry, didn’t mean to come across like a halo know it all, as i read this i literally JUST finished the trilogy, i had all the same questions as you until i read the books, I’m just excited to finally have the answer to all the questions the games failed to answer!
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> The games don’t tell you anything. Well barely anything, anyway. The Precursors fled beyond the Galaxy, when the Forerunners purged them. Some of them degenerated into molecular powder, which turned defective, and gradually became the Flood. Its stated that others travelled elsewhere, and continued creation.
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> As for the Forerunners, we can only speculate. The Ur-Didact lived, we know that. The IsoDidact’s fate remains a mystery (the one who activated the Halos), as well as the a Forerunner by the name of Chant-To-Green, and a couple other assistants of hers. The Librarian, along with all of the other Forerunners, were vaporised, from the array.
^ this is pretty much it.
Also as far as we know flood graveminds are basically precursors, or rather horrible mutated versions of them.
With regards to the Iso-Didact and Chant-To-Green, their fates post-activation are revealed in the audio epilogue to Silentium called Rebirth. The (relatively) few remaining Forerunners exiled themselves from the galaxy so as to no longer meddle in its affairs. It’s likely that there’s still a Forunner civilisation still existing beyond the Milky Way in the 26th century, but whether we’ll ever find out is up to 343i.
Well I am sure the entire point of that was to bring them up at some point.
We have known since IRIS that the Forerunners were alive and watching,Silentium just confirmed that.
Catalog states there are StarRoads and Flood within the Boomerang Nebula as well.
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But that’s information the Catalog wouldn’t be able to update with the loss of the Domain. Do we know for sure that Catalog’s information doesn’t originate from the time of the Forerunner-Flood War?
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Very good point.
Yeah its likely just outdated. Like how the figure it gave for the average Sangheili lifespan was shorter than the current age of any major Sangheili character. He was likely using their life span during their tribal stage.
In Halo Primordial by Greag Bear,
The Didact encountered something.
Read at your own risk.
The Didact encountered the Primordial (the Last Precursor).
The Primordial replied that some of the Precursors went out of reach of the Forerunners and creation continued.
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> The games don’t tell you anything. Well barely anything, anyway. The Precursors fled beyond the Galaxy, when the Forerunners purged them. Some of them degenerated into molecular powder, which turned defective, and gradually became the Flood. Its stated that others travelled elsewhere, and continued creation.
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> As for the Forerunners, we can only speculate. The Ur-Didact lived, we know that. The IsoDidact’s fate remains a mystery (the one who activated the Halos), as well as the a Forerunner by the name of Chant-To-Green, and a couple other assistants of hers. The Librarian, along with all of the other Forerunners, were vaporised, from the array.
I thought the forerunners all hid on the ark while they fired all the halos?
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No problem, dude. Sorry if I came off as a -Yoink- lol. Yeah, I’ve read some things on halopedia about how some precursors turned themselves into this dust-like powder in order to resurrect themselves, but when they resurrected, they turned into these hideous awful parasites. They used this against the forerunners as revenge.
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You are slightly wrong regarding the resurrection. When the Forerunners tried to wipe out the Precursors, some of those who survived went into stasis whilst some turned themselves into a form of dust. The plan was for them to regain their physical form, but after millions of years, the dust became defective and created disease and biological mutations in other organisms that came into contact with it. Ancient humans found this powder after one of the ships containing it crashed. They believed it to be harmless, but it appeared to have psychotropic effects on lower animals. They started to give it to Pheru which was a domesticated animal that was popular with both the humans and San Shyuum. After centuries, the dust altered their genetic code, some had furry growths and fleshy protrusions, which other Pheru were compelled to consume. After this, Pherus started to show genetic deformities. This also spread to humans and San Shyuum that came into contact with the infected Pheru. They showed signs of altered psychology and started to consume the sick Pheru. The afflicted then moved on to cannibalism and sacrifice of the uninfected, force-feeding victims until they reached gross proportions and then consuming them. Those that were infected also started to spread the disease to other systems and planets. At this point the Flood Infestation started to alter its victims physically and molded them to serve different purposes.
Past that, things get both blurry and complicated. I guess the most important part is that the Primordial believed the Flood to be the solution to suffering and that the Flood would return to test Humanity’s claim on the Mantle.
“Through long study. The decision is finale. Humans will replace you. Humans will be tested next”
“It is the way of those who seek out the truth of the Mantle. Humans will rise again in arrogance and defiance. The Flood will return when they are ripe - and bring them unity.”
“We are the Flood. There is no difference. Until space and time are rolled up and life is crushed…no end to grief, war, or pain. In a hundred and one thousand centuries…unity again, and wisdom. Until then - Sweetness.”
> When the Forerunners tried to wipe out the Precursors, some of those who survived went into stasis whilst some turned themselves into a form of dust
Just like to state these events happen prior to the Forerunners travelling to Path Kethona and wiping them all out.
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Somewhat backwards and off. Some tried to return the Pheru back to their native planets in the hakkor system thinking that they were simply over-bred. Around this time a Human ate an “infected” Pheru which started the original Flood manifestation,which seemed to be a far more primitive incarnation than we know.
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> You are slightly wrong regarding the resurrection. When the Forerunners tried to wipe out the Precursors, some of those who survived went into stasis whilst some turned themselves into a form of dust. The plan was for them to regain their physical form, but after millions of years, the dust became defective and created disease and biological mutations in other organisms that came into contact with it. Ancient humans found this powder after one of the ships containing it crashed. They believed it to be harmless, but it appeared to have psychotropic effects on lower animals. They started to give it to Pheru which was a domesticated animal that was popular with both the humans and San Shyuum. After centuries, the dust altered their genetic code, some had furry growths and fleshy protrusions, which other Pheru were compelled to consume. After this, Pherus started to show genetic deformities. This also spread to humans and San Shyuum that came into contact with the infected Pheru. They showed signs of altered psychology and started to consume the sick Pheru. The afflicted then moved on to cannibalism and sacrifice of the uninfected, force-feeding victims until they reached gross proportions and then consuming them. Those that were infected also started to spread the disease to other systems and planets. At this point the Flood Infestation started to alter its victims physically and molded them to serve different purposes.
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> “We are the Flood. There is no difference. Until space and time are rolled up and life is crushed…no end to grief, war, or pain. In a hundred and one thousand centuries…unity again, and wisdom. Until then - Sweetness.”
When I read into halo lore, the more and more I realize that the forerunners were huge d¡cks. The only good thing they ever did was save all the species in the galaxy and wipe out the flood.
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> > “It is the way of those who seek out the truth of the Mantle. Humans will rise again in arrogance and defiance. The Flood will return when they are ripe - and bring them unity.”
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> > “We are the Flood. There is no difference. Until space and time are rolled up and life is crushed…no end to grief, war, or pain. In a hundred and one thousand centuries…unity again, and wisdom. Until then - Sweetness.”
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> When I read into halo lore, the more and more I realize that the forerunners were huge d¡cks. The only good thing they ever did was save all the species in the galaxy and wipe out the flood.
I don’t know if they were. I mean, they kinda did have a God complex, but I don’t think they were really that bad. The Ur-Didact (as seen in Halo 4) was corrupted by the flood, so to speak, and went crazy and was obsessed with wiping out humanity. Then there was the Bornstellar Didact, who was in Halo 3, and he was a cool guy. Even though he kinda killed everyone ever. But he did it to save them, so he was cool in my eyes. The Librarian was the epitome of kind, in my eyes anyway.
It was bad. They literally stopped all other races in the galaxy from advancing so no-one else could be superior to them.
The Forerunners were originally humans. Remember 343 Guilty Spark in Halo 3, “You are Forerunner.”
But they retconned it all to make way for Halo 4.