I have a feeling the Precursors will be returning, soon. What do you think? And who knows how much they’ve evolved the Flood over millions of years. Also, do you you think The Didact will join our side against the ultimate evil?
> I have a feeling the Precursors will be returning, soon. What do you think? And who knows how much they’ve evolved the Flood over millions of years. Also, do you you think The Didact will join our side against the ultimate evil?
It sure is starting to seem like it. And I’m sure the Didact will work with Humanity to defeat the Precursors when they arrive. He recognizes that the Precursors are the true threat, so he’ll team up with the rest of the galaxy in an “enemy of my enemy” scenario.
I think the Precursors will remain a mystery. We might find out more about them, but I don’t think we will actually ever see or meet one of them.
Would love for the new spartan ops to deal with precursors, or at least something besides trying and failing to kill Jul.
> I think the Precursors will remain a mystery. We might find out more about them, but I don’t think we will actually ever see or meet one of them.
Right and just throw down the entire Forerunner saga along with it.
I made a thread about this a while back for the Precursors. I’m still a little worried their entrance will be melodramatic and bad because of the lack of planted seeds in Halo 4.
If the Precursors come back, little the humans would do. The Primrodial as a Precursor weapon/experiment was able to defeat the entire Forerunner armada and survive the Timelocker of the Didact.
Also, what would the Precursors do here anyway? I think the Forerunners are the true threat, judging their obsession to the mantle.
> If the Precursors come back, little the humans would do. The Primrodial as a Precursor weapon/experiment was able to defeat the entire Forerunner armada and survive the Timelocker of the Didact.
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> Also, what would the Precursors do here anyway? I think the Forerunners are the true threat, judging their obsession to the mantle.
The Precursors would test, as the Primordial said they would.
Also I dont know what your refering too, the Primordial didnt fight in any of the novels…and was killed by the Didact’s time lock thing.
The Forerunner-Flood war wasnt a test, it was an act of revenge/extermination.
> I think the Precursors will remain a mystery. We might find out more about them, but I don’t think we will actually ever see or meet one of them.
^This!
Again people are looking to much into a couple paragraphs out of two entire books about the Precursors, The only mention of a return in the books is this:
“It is the way of those who seek out truth of the Mantle. Humans will rise again in arrogance and defiance. <mark>The Flood</mark> will return when they are ripe- and bring them unity” - Primordium 364
“We are <mark>the Flood</mark>. There is no difference. Until all space and time are rolled up and life is crushed in the folds … no end to war, grief, or pain. In a hundred and one thousand centuries…unity again, and wisdom. Until then-sweetness.” Primordium 365
<mark>The Flood</mark> will return, not the Precursor’s.
I find it hard to believe that the Precursors are stupid enough to just use the Flood again.
They’ve used the Flood twice so far. Both times they were beaten. “Unity” was never achieved.
The first time the Flood had to retreat, but it looked like Humanity was winning.
The second time the Forerunners committed galactic suicde, wiping out the Flood and “Unity”.
If the Flood return, I think it would be changed drastically.
The Primordial promised that Humanity would be tested soon.
> I find it hard to believe that the Precursors are stupid enough to just use the Flood again.
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> They’ve used the Flood twice so far. Both times they were beaten. “Unity” was never achieved.
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> The first time the Flood had to retreat, but it looked like Humanity was winning.
> The second time the Forerunners committed galactic suicde, wiping out the Flood and “Unity”.
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> If the Flood return, I think it would be changed drastically.
> The Primordial promised that Humanity would be tested soon.
No, see the 2 instances of the Flood you refer too being “used”, are one and the same. The Flood is not “used”, it is its own entity with the desire to absorb all sentient life. The Flood that was killing off ancient humans is the same flood that would kill off the forerunners, it was only delayed not stopped. And we have no indication that the Precursors even still exist! People look to the one or two paragraphs they are mentioned, but they forget about the one where the Forerunners wiped them out!
This is where everyone is confused. Someone put on the forums that the Precursors where returning, when the book NEVER said that. The Flood is returning, now maybe the Flood was created by the Precursors ,or maybe the Flood wiped them out. But there is at no point… at all… ever… in the book which it says the Precursors are coming… only the Flood.
Also try and remember the Flood that we have seen since Halo 2 was not the one the PrimordialGrave-mind was talking about. The Flood in halo2-3 was a single grave-mind that escaped installation 05. That was only ONE Grave-mind that caused all those problems, and we only stopped it by the luck that it followed them to the ARK.
When the primordial talks about a return it is referring to the Flood, a massive invasion to likes that will make the events of halo 2-3, look like cake.
> > I find it hard to believe that the Precursors are stupid enough to just use the Flood again.
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> > They’ve used the Flood twice so far. Both times they were beaten. “Unity” was never achieved.
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> > The first time the Flood had to retreat, but it looked like Humanity was winning.
> > The second time the Forerunners committed galactic suicde, wiping out the Flood and “Unity”.
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> > If the Flood return, I think it would be changed drastically.
> > The Primordial promised that Humanity would be tested soon.
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> No, see the 2 instances of the Flood you refer too being “used”, are one and the same. The Flood is not “used”, it is its own entity with the desire to absorb all sentient life. The Flood that was killing off ancient humans is the same flood that would kill off the forerunners, it was only delayed not stopped. And we have no indication that the Precursors even still exist! People look to the one or two paragraphs they are mentioned, but <mark>they forget about the one where the Forerunners wiped them out!</mark>
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> This is where everyone is confused. Someone put on the forums that the Precursors where returning, when the book NEVER said that. The Flood is returning, now maybe the Flood was created by the Precursors ,or maybe the Flood wiped them out. But there is at no point… at all… ever… in the book which it says the Precursors are coming… only the Flood.
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> Also try and remember the Flood that we have seen since Halo 2 was not the one the PrimordialGrave-mind was talking about. The Flood in halo2-3 was a single grave-mind that escaped installation 05. That was only ONE Grave-mind that caused all those problems, and we only stopped it by the luck that it followed them to the ARK.
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> When the primordial talks about a return it is referring to the Flood, a massive invasion to likes that will make the events of halo 2-3, look like cake.
“Those who created you were defied and hunted. Most were extinguished. A few fled beyond your Reach. Creation continued.”
The librarian pretty implies this. She said she basically made the spartan program and cortana to prepare us for something. Before she can answer she is cut off, but it obviously ISN’T the didact she was preparing us for, he’s just an unfortunate obstacle.
50 bucks says it’s the flood/precursors.
Didact to the Chief: “Your ascendence, may yet be prevented.” Ascendence for what? The guardians of all life in the galaxy. The Mantle of Responsibility. And how exactly would the humans get this? Through being tested by the Precursors through the Flood.
The Primordial said that humans were going to be tested.
The Librarian: “You are the culmination of a thousand lifetimes of planning.”
The Master Chief in response: “Planning for what?”
I say, take a guess 
> The librarian pretty implies this. She said she basically made the spartan program and cortana to prepare us for something. Before she can answer she is cut off, but it obviously ISN’T the didact she was preparing us for, he’s just an unfortunate obstacle.
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> 50 bucks says it’s the flood/precursors.
Arbiter,M.C and the Didact are exhausted from fighting Gravemind.
“You blew me up last time Chief, But this grave is now…yours” trollface
M.C and Didact facepalm
Arbiter “I dont get it”
> > If the Precursors come back, little the humans would do. The Primrodial as a Precursor weapon/experiment was able to defeat the entire Forerunner armada and survive the Timelocker of the Didact.
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> > Also, what would the Precursors do here anyway? I think the Forerunners are the true threat, judging their obsession to the mantle.
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> The Precursors would test, as the Primordial said they would.
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> Also I dont know what your refering too, the Primordial didnt fight in any of the novels…and was killed by the Didact’s time lock thing.
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> The Forerunner-Flood war wasnt a test, it was an act of revenge/extermination.
He controlled the Flood. You can proof that after he managed to make Medicant Bias go on a killing Rampage.
> The librarian pretty implies this. She said she basically made the spartan program and cortana to prepare us for something. Before she can answer she is cut off, but it obviously ISN’T the didact she was preparing us for, he’s just an unfortunate obstacle.
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> 50 bucks says it’s the flood/precursors.
Yes, I strongly believe it was the Flood she was referring to. If the precursors have any role to play in the future of halo it will be what it has been, just a foot note. The Flood has always been the real threat maybe the precursors created it and it back fired on them. But I highly highly highly doubt they are in direct control of it. I would take that bet that we never see a precursor in a halo game or aleast this trilogy. THE FLOOD, not the instillation 05 flood , the Pure Flood is coming again in mass and that is something to be feared.
Theory: I think the future of Halo is going to be MC trying to find a way that stops the flood with out having to use the rings. Which will be one hell of a journey, cause you know some -Yoink- is going to see using the HALOs as the only way to stop the flood, and risks all life in the failed hope they can control the array.
The Precurors created the aflood, along with Humanity and the Forerunners. Thats confirmed.
The Precursor test is widely unknown, speculation. It is highly possible that the Flood is used for that test, or perhaps they are the Precursors way of exterminating unworthy species.
Or it wasn’t used as a test at all, it was created specifically for the task of uniting the species of the galaxies, the Forerunners specifically, because the Mantle has failed them.
Humanity is to be tested, very soon. The Primordial promised that they would attempt Unity again. From our knowledge, that would likely be through the Flood.
We know the Precursors are still active, in some state. When the Forerunners rose against the Precursors, some survived and fled… created again. Then the Flood appeared, an act of barbarity, perhaps a vengeance plan against the Forerunners. Then as the Flood assaults the Forerunner ecumene, the Primordial… a gravemind-type creature speaks on behalf the Precursors. They are still very active, something is coming. And the Librarian knows it.
She knows a test is coming, she is trying to prepare Humanity for it. The Didact would rather have the Forerunners remain in control of the Mantle, but the Librarian sees that it is time for Humanity to claim the Mantle. Something big is coming… the Chief was made to fight it.
Silentium needs to come sooner…
> > The librarian pretty implies this. She said she basically made the spartan program and cortana to prepare us for something. Before she can answer she is cut off, but it obviously ISN’T the didact she was preparing us for, he’s just an unfortunate obstacle.
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> > 50 bucks says it’s the flood/precursors.
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> Yes, I strongly believe it was the Flood she was referring to. If the precursors have any role to play in the future of halo it will be what it has been, just a foot note. The Flood has always been the real threat maybe the precursors created it and it back fired on them. But I highly highly highly doubt they are in direct control of it. I would take that bet that we never see a precursor in a halo game or aleast this trilogy. THE FLOOD, not the instillation 05 flood , the Pure Flood is coming again in mass and that is something to be feared.
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> Theory: I think the future of Halo is going to be MC trying to find a way that stops the flood with out having to use the rings. Which will be one hell of a journey, cause you know some a$s hole is going to see using the HALOs as the only way to stop the flood, and risks all life in the failed hope they can control the array.
History repeats itself.
“Those who ignore history, are doomed to repeat it.”
We’re in a cycle. The Forerunners were the first to be caught, Humanity is next.
We’re doomed to repeat that cycle, not neccesarily because we’re ignoring history, but because its being erased.
The Forerunner’s communication/storage network, the Domain… began failing. All of the Forerunner’s history was lost, pretty much. And its not the first time. The Forerunners had barely any knowledge of the Precursors and their war.
Several times the records in the Domain would randomly dissapear and change. But the Forerunners regarded it as sacred and let their history be changed and erased.
Now we, Humanity, are soon to face what the Forerunners failed to stop. And we have little information on it. The Covenant have already been deluded several times from the lack of clear information, though that was partially the Prophet’s twisting of the data.
The only ship that really knows the most about what the Forerunner times wer elike is the UNSC Rubicon, which has now disappeared. We have found the Bornstellar Relation… but we’re still missing a lot of the story.
Humanity needs to end that cycle. Stop the Flood, save the galaxy without committing galactic suicide, and reclaim the Mantle of Responsibility.
We already have a power hungry, greedy leadership group… ONI. There is corruption and civil war. We’re greedy. We’ve faced the Flood. We’re following the Forerunner’s path. We’ll weaken ourselves ad then be weak for the test. Its coming, nd we’re not ready. Not yet, at least.
Halsey is right about the Spartans being our next step. Literally, the Librarian planned it that way. Its coming along… we have the Chief.
To be honest bringing the flood back instead of introducing the precursor would be lame. We fought the flood in the last trilogy. (same could be said for the covenant, but that’s a different story)