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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] ajw34307 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] the real Janaka[/quote] Have you completely forgotten the past 11 years of Halo's story or something? It has been [i]consistently[/i] stated that the Forerunners waited too long to join the fight, believing that they could study and sterilise the threat from afar because they never knew its full significance. The constantly reoccurring theme with the Forerunners is that their hubris was their downfall. As far as the Forerunners knew, humanity was the enemy - after the many thousands of years of struggling for power with the Forerunners and humans engaging in multiple wars, it simply appeared to the Forerunners that humanity was making their move against them. All they knew was that humanity was eradicating entire planets, razing them to the ground leaving no trace of the planet because "one single Flood spore can destroy the species". It was only late into the Human-Flood war that they started moving into Forerunner territory, even then it was remote planets like Seaward far away from the Capitol. Humanity was constantly on the run, chasing down new worlds to move their population away from the Flood, but the Flood was pursuing them. They warn the Forerunners on the planet, the Flood is given time to spread faster and assimilate more of the population. It's not contrived at all, it's genuine desperation on the part of humanity who have been chased across the galaxy and pushed to measure that violate the Mantle of the Forerunners. As far as they knew, humanity was the enemy. They most likely [i]wouldn't[/i] be believed by the Ecumene Council because of the thousands of years of conflict between the two races, there would have been no evidence for the Forerunners to see that the Flood even existed, let alone that it was a threat, since humanity was forced to wipe every last trace of it on the worlds they fled to.[/quote] The Council could just as easily have assumed the Flood was a human bioweapon, and their warning was an attempt to deflect the blame from themselves (which is what they thought anyway). While they're stuck in negotiations, the Flood keeps tearing it up over both Empires. Hell, by the time the Forerunners waged war with the Flood 10,000 years later, they had the exact same policy of destroying the parasite: "if the Flood make landfall on a planet, the planet is doomed. Nuke it from orbit." Because evacuating civillians would have just taken time they didn't have, and granted the Flood more ships in that time. So it does appear that he's forgotten everything about the Flood. Amazing how people conveniently forget details to better suit their own opinions. OT: Op, the two didn't really like each other. As we've said a warning would have resulted in lengthy talks that would have seen that planet consumed in days, maybe faster. People so often underestimate the Flood's speed, but the characters can't afford to do that. Forthenco was desperate, and he had to destroy the planet. [Edited on 12.09.2012 7:34 AM PST]
