Forerunner Discussion Thread

[=sw=warlord]

As I said before, you cannot entirely trust guilty spark OR mendicant bias for that matter. Both are fully sentient AI yes, but they are still machines. Machines memory can be manipulated and corrupted.

The most likely explanation is that we are the chosen descendants of the Forerunners. We are the inheritors of the Mantle Guardianship.

It may well be they were a another sub species of human or akin to human and because of that they knew one day homo sapians would evolve enough to understand what has happened.
But by that time everyone who knew would be dead along with the flood, by their hopes anyways.
My question is how did the flood survive for 10k years without any food supply?
Even a tortoise which has a incredibly slow metabolism can only live for around 160 years if memory serves me right.
I personaly think forerunners were a sub species of human which would explain alot of things.
Another question is what guilty spark said in halo 1.
"Last time you asked me, would i do it? having considerable time to ponder your query my answer has not changed, we must activate the ring"

[TeeKup]

It may well be they were a another sub species of human or akin to human and because of that they knew one day homo sapians would evolve enough to understand what has happened.
But by that time everyone who knew would be dead along with the flood, by their hopes anyways.
My question is how did the flood survive for 10k years without any food supply?
Even a tortoise which has a incredibly slow metabolism can only live for around 160 years if memory serves me right.
I personaly think forerunners were a sub species of human which would explain alot of things.
Another question is what guilty spark said in halo 1.
"Last time you asked me, would i do it? having considerable time to ponder your query my answer has not changed, we must activate the ring"

Your theory has a good basis. Why would an advanced AI like Guilty Spark, even despite his rampancy, confuse the master chief with Didact? I personally don't know. Perhaps even farther back the Precursor engineered all of this.

And as for the flood you must remember one crucial fact. It was explained that the flood is extra-galactic, meaning it has the ability to travel between galaxies.

The Flood exists in a fairly stable state in the absence of a Gravemind. They lack the ability to spawn spontaneously and form around sentient life forms, specifically those that are self-aware and capable of introspection. This stage of a Flood outbreak is known as the Feral Stage.

During its Feral Stage, the Flood is only capable of local coordination through use of pheromone-based communication. Research indicates that the content of said messages are of very limited complexity. Individual Combat and Carrier Forms have access to the skills and memories of their host; however, once an outbreak establishes a viable Gravemind, the Coordinated Stage begins—and it is at this point the Flood becomes truly dangerous.

[Delta4907]

If the rings were supposed to kill all sentient life, the flood's food, so they would starve, how did the flood that was on Installation 04 survive for 100,000 years without food, locked up inside those prisons? Or do infection forms not need to eat to survive?

[=sw=warlord]

If the rings were supposed to kill all sentient life, the flood's food, so they would starve, how did the flood that was on Installation 04 survive for 100,000 years without food, locked up inside those prisons? Or do infection forms not need to eat to survive?

Thats my point.
Unless the flood have some kind of system like photosynthesis they would need nurishment at some point.

[TeeKup]

Please read my edit. :|

[=sw=warlord]

Please read my edit. :|

Even with rampancy aside, what he says must come from some where.
Remember there is a stage after rampancy as mendicant bias clearly shows.

[TeeKup]

Mendicant Bias was was also fragmented when he made that declaration inside the Key ship, ergo data corruption. :|

Bias became whole again when the Key ship returned to the Ark. :|

Then again, during their final hours, the Forerunner may have signified Humanity as the same status as theirs for all of their constructs. Mendicant Bias may have received this new status change as he was being deconstructed and observed by Offensive Bias.

Regardless, in the end Mendicant Bias achieved redemption, his status is now of Meta-Stability, a fully conscious sentient being.

[Hunter]

Did Bungie design any Forerunner vehicles or weapons? Apart from the sentinel beam.

[=sw=warlord]

Did Bungie design any Forerunner vehicles or weapons? Apart from the sentinel beam.

Forerunner key ship.

[Hunter]

Is that it? Anything else? Lol.