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12/9/2012 11:03:59 AM
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Why did the prehistoric humans not ask for help against the Flood?

So Humanity attacked and conquered other peaceful planets even Forerunner planets because they were fleeing for the Flood. After a 1000 year during war that eventually was born between the Humans and the Forerunners, the Humans were simply exhausted. The Forerunners almost exterminated the Humans and wanted to punish them etc... . After the Humans were devolved, the Forerunners learned that the Humans weren't actually attacking the Forerunners but fleeing from the parasite named the Flood. It was simply an act of survival. Now i wonder, how did i take a 1000 years to discover and understand the true nature of a war? If forerunners themselves were such an (almost) enlightened species they could have easily discovered the true reason of the sudden Human hostility despite their rivalry. -Couldn't the Humans just simply ask Forerunners to aid them in the battle against the Flood? The Forerunners saw themselves as the Guardians of the known galaxy, so they should have helped if needed, they were forced to help. -And even during the war that lasted 1000 years there must have been any trace of the Flood? -How many conversations can there be in a millenium? -How many interrogations during the war has there been? If i were a Forerunner and i would capture a Human, i would at first ask on which argument they attack. Or when Humans cleansed the surfaces of the Forerunner shield worlds, i as a Forerunner would simply ask why and then the Humans could have told about the parasite. No the Forerunners just reacted with a full scale armada.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] RollinRollin13 Maybe not all Humans, but possibly the Lord Admiral, as the one terminal somewhat suggests, as the one Human asks if they should warn the Forerunners and that the Flood outbreak is minimal - that there is time to warn them, to which the Lord Admiral basically goes "lolnope, nuke it all".[/quote] Forerunners worlds are sort of loaded with vessels that can perform slipspace jumps in atmosphere to other worlds in other solar systems, at any point and cannot be blocked by any known defence, as well as possessing slipspace gates to other worlds across the galaxy. Frankly, it's a miracle they managed to contain the Flood in the time they had. Had they waited, and had they contacted the Forerunners, they would have risked the parasite spreading to other worlds. The Forerunners would have likely stalled even longer in trying to evacuate people and treat the Flood like a sickness rather than a sentient, virulent and intelligent predator. (Which is exactly the attitude that killed the galaxy 10'000 years later anyway)

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