With the new halo gameplay demo video we were indroduced to the prometheans, but who are these, my opinion is that there was no race of prometheans, but these are a name given by humand to these god like machines, through research i believe i have found were these machines originated from, when medicant ( or merchant) bias was defeated by offensive bias there was a parts of medicant that was lost, one of them was descovered by the covenent, one hlped you on the ark, but what if one remained evil, in the forruners series ( books ) medicant takes over every single halo, so a part of him could definitly take over a shield world, he is the most powerful a.i. Ever, with the power to corrup any other a.i. Including cortana or 343 guilty spark ( spoiler: who is still alive and heading to find the librain, one of the last forruners), it could end up with the medicant that helped you earlier fighting the other, and you going to destroy it to save cortana whom it has captured or corrupted, as show in the e3 vid. Another reason i believe it is medicant is that only foreruner a.i. S have been know to refer to humans as reclaimers, and since it it a.male voice the only two other possibilitys would be the didact or master builder, which i believe is verry unlikly because the stuff on the planet looks like corrupted forerunner. Tech. Well thanks for lreading my opiniom, tell me what you think and any ideas you have below
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The Prometheans were expressly created as war machines by the Forerunners. Plus, Chief is probably the first human to see one since the Halo rings were detinated a long time ago.
read some books man
the Prometheans were introduced in Cryptum, they are Warrior-Servants = Forerunners - the Didact was one of them.
the “Promethean Knights” are new. they are artificial non-biologicals, about half the size of a real Promethean but i like to think that they are based on them (the name implies that, doesn’t it?), maybe even carrying their geas/memories/spirit/whatever.
> The Prometheans were expressly created as war machines by the Forerunners. Plus, Chief is probably the first human to see one since the Halo rings were detinated a long time ago.
Interesting, but why are they fighting the chief and us now, and why didnt they help fight the flood, that is why i think bias took over them, especialy when at the end of the e3 vid it says, i have been wating for this moment for a long time reclaimer
> the Prometheans were introduced in Cryptum, they are Warrior-Servants = Forerunners - the Didact was one of them.
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> the “Promethean Knights” are artificial non-biologicals, about half the size of a real Promethean but i like to think that they are based on them (the name implies that, doesn’t it?), maybe even carrying their geas/memories/spirit/whatever.
Opps, i guessed i missed the fact that prometheans and warior servents are the same, and it would be interesting if they were implanted with geas, then maybe one of them would join your side like the arbiter did
> then maybe one of them would join your side like the arbiter did
a second faction may already have been revealed:
http://forums.halo.xbox.com/yaf_postst88118_Are-these-the-same-enemies.aspx
and that one was after i acturly and a few others comments on my topic came up with that idea
The prometheans were defeated by the Forerunners according to The Greg Bear series books, Cryptum and Primordium. Therefore, I see no connection as to how they were created by Forerunners. According to the books, as I understnd it, the prometheans were the previous caretakers of the galaxy and the Domain. In their defeat, the Forerunners took over all that had been Previously bestowed upon them by the Promearheans. Later, the Humans fought the Forerunners but were defeated, as were the San’Sharium. The humans had trapped what was thought to be the last Promethean in a time lock. Here there is some details that seem to lead me to believe that the Prometheans are Gravind like creatures or Flood however the backstory to how the known Flood virus came into existance contradicts such notions unless however Promethean interdiction was the result of the Flood virus intensifyIng. It came to be my understanding that the Flood was the last Pretheans plan to take back which the Forerunners had taken many years before on their rise to power in the galaxy. Any possible clArification would be appreciated.
The prometheans were defeated by the Forerunners according to The Greg Bear series books, Cryptum and Primordium. Therefore, I see no connection as to how they were created by Forerunners. According to the books, as I understnd it, the prometheans were the previous caretakers of the galaxy and the Domain. In their defeat, the Forerunners took over all that had been Previously bestowed upon them by the Promearheans. Later, the Humans fought the Forerunners but were defeated, as were the San’Sharium. The humans had trapped what was thought to be the last Promethean in a time lock. Here there is some details that seem to lead me to believe that the Prometheans are Gravind like creatures or Flood however the backstory to how the known Flood virus came into existance contradicts such notions unless however Promethean interdiction was the result of the Flood virus intensifyIng. It came to be my understanding that the Flood was the last Pretheans plan to take back which the Forerunners had taken many years before on their rise to power in the galaxy. Any possible clArification would be appreciated.
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Everything you wrote is completely wrong. You are thinking of Precursors, the Prometheans ARE Forerunners.
The prometheans were defeated by the Forerunners according to The Greg Bear series books, Cryptum and Primordium. Therefore, I see no connection as to how they were created by Forerunners. According to the books, as I understand it, the prometheans were the previous caretakers of the galaxy and the Domain. In their defeat, the Forerunners took over all that had been Previously bestowed upon them by the Prometheans. Later, the Humans fought the Forerunners but were defeated, as were the San’Sharium. The humans had trapped what was thought to be the last Promethean in a time lock. Here there is some details that seem to lead me to believe that the Prometheans are Gravemind like creatures or Flood however the backstory to how the known Flood virus came into existance contradicts such notions unless however Promethean interdiction was the result of the Flood virus intensifyIng. It came to be my understanding that the Flood was the last Promethean"s plan to take back which the Forerunners had taken many years before on their rise to power in the galaxy. Any possible clarification would be appreciated. And oh yes, please do read. A true fan of Halo reads all the books and immerses themselves in the entire Halo universe.
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> Everything you wrote is completely wrong. You are thinking of Precursors, the Prometheans ARE Forerunners.
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The prometheans were defeated by the Forerunners according to The Greg Bear series books, Cryptum and Primordium. Therefore, I see no connection as to how they were created by Forerunners. According to the books, as I understand it, the prometheans were the previous caretakers of the galaxy and the Domain. In their defeat, the Forerunners took over all that had been Previously bestowed upon them by the Prometheans. Later, the Humans fought the Forerunners but were defeated, as were the San’Sharium. The humans had trapped what was thought to be the last Promethean in a time lock. Here there is some details that seem to lead me to believe that the Prometheans are Gravemind like creatures or Flood however the backstory to how the known Flood virus came into existance contradicts such notions unless however Promethean interdiction was the result of the Flood virus intensifyIng. It came to be my understanding that the Flood was the last Promethean"s plan to take back which the Forerunners had taken many years before on their rise to power in the galaxy. Any possible clarification would be appreciated. And oh yes, please do read. A true fan of Halo reads all the books and immerses themselves in the entire Halo universe.
The prometheans were defeated by the Forerunners according to The Greg Bear series books, Cryptum and Primordium. Therefore, I see no connection as to how they were created by Forerunners. According to the books, as I understnd it, the prometheans were the previous caretakers of the galaxy and the Domain. In their defeat, the Forerunners took over all that had been Previously bestowed upon them by the Promearheans. Later, the Humans fought the Forerunners but were defeated, as were the San’Sharium. The humans had trapped what was thought to be the last Promethean in a time lock. Here there is some details that seem to lead me to believe that the Prometheans are Gravind like creatures or Flood however the backstory to how the known Flood virus came into existance contradicts such notions unless however Promethean interdiction was the result of the Flood virus intensifyIng. It came to be my understanding that the Flood was the last Pretheans plan to take back which the Forerunners had taken many years before on their rise to power in the galaxy. Any possible clArification would be appreciated.
Repeating something false doesn’t make it true you know.
> Repeating something false doesn’t make it true you know.
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> The prometheans were defeated by the Forerunners according to The Greg Bear series books, Cryptum and Primordium. Therefore, I see no connection as to how they were created by Forerunners. According to the books, as I understand it, the prometheans were the previous caretakers of the galaxy and the Domain. In their defeat, the Forerunners took over all that had been Previously bestowed upon them by the Prometheans. Later, the Humans fought the Forerunners but were defeated, as were the San’Sharium. The humans had trapped what was thought to be the last Promethean in a time lock. Here there is some details that seem to lead me to believe that the Prometheans are Gravemind like creatures or Flood however the backstory to how the known Flood virus came into existance contradicts such notions unless however Promethean interdiction was the result of the Flood virus intensifyIng. It came to be my understanding that the Flood was the last Promethean"s plan to take back which the Forerunners had taken many years before on their rise to power in the galaxy. Any possible clarification would be appreciated. And oh yes, please do read. A true fan of Halo reads all the books and immerses themselves in the entire Halo universe.
As you aren’t reading the replies people are posting and just re-posting the same thing, I will just go through picking out the incorrect things, because I have nothing better to do :D. Prometheans were the highest and most respected group of Warrior-Servants in the Forerunner Ecumene making them just a different type of Forerunner, so I assume every time you say, ‘promethean’ in this post you mean the precursors so I’ll read it with those changes. Neither the Precursors or the Prometheans were ‘created by the Forerunners.’ The Precursors were the creators of the forerunners, humans and I assume every other living being. They created all of these because they wanted to find if any of the species could up hold the mantle, not the Domain. The domain is simply a collective intelligence base that adult forerunners can use in their armor to access the ancient ancestrial knowledge of their forefathers. To find which species could do this they would release the flood and the ones who could defend themselves from it were the ones who could uphold the mantle. But finding out their plans the Forerunners defeated the Precursors, that they could find in this galaxy. It is not known if they are gone because having obtained the status of technology Tier-0 , it is likely that the Precursors can travel between galaxies. I’m not going to carry on with the basic historic details as you should know as you’ve read the books. As for the Prometheans being created by the Forerunners, that is true in a sense of reproduction of a species but they were not actually ‘created’ by the Forerunners, BECAUSE THEY ARE FORERUNNERS.
What exactly are the San’Sharium’? They are called San 'Shyuum, as in the Prophets. The humans didn’t trap the last promethean in a time lock. The Didact (a Forerunner and a Promethean) was forced into exile (in a cryptum) and stripped of his power because of his proposal for the construction of Shield Worlds across the galaxy (in order to monitor the galaxy for Flood outbreaks) was unsuccessful as the builders (forerunners as well) lead by Faber won over the Council with the proposed construction of a series of super weapons. Can you guess the name of them?
You say that a ‘true fan of Halo reads all the books and immerses themselves in the entire Halo universe.’ You are wrong, there are many fans that don’t read the books and have a lot better understanding than you do.
you guys realize that the forum is acting weird due to the amount of people visiting these days? sometimes it takes ages to load a page - or post a reply. he probably only hit the “post” button a couple of times because nothing happened…
Can I just say thank you to Lone x Onyx for taking the time to correct this guy. If he had read the books he would have known. How can someone mix up Prometheans with precursors. To a non halo fan, yes it is possible the begin with a “pr”. To a fan who has read the books or even just 1st forerunner book…no way.
Don’t take the criticism of your understanding of Halo to seriously, just spend more time reading, listening to others and perhaps reading the books more slowly - not like a computer game but like a long lord of the rings movie. It helps for information, appreciation and imagination to visualise, categorise and store information.