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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] Xd00999 I find it silly that at no point humanity couldn't have sent a essays saying 'Evil parasite will kill everything. Help us stop it.' Sure, there were tensions between ancient humanity and the forerunners, but when you have the Flood as an alternative, shouldn't you put your differences aside for a little bit? The Terminals show the Flood was already attacking forerunner planets, why not set up a cordon around the planet, let nothing escape and show the forerunners what is going on? If the forerunners lost 2 billion people to a parasite rather than human warships, the whole plot coud easilly have gone a different direction.[/quote] And who's to say that the Forerunners won't look at the infected planet, see that the humans let it happen, and not draw the conclusion that the Flood is a human bioweapon? You really think the humans letting 2billion Forerunners die would have made for an alliance in any sense of the word? The two sides already detested each other, and the Librarian does say that the humans had always been aggressive. If the humans had done what you say, the Forerunners would respond with war. If the humans tried warning the planet, the Flood would have spread in the ensuing evacuation, got away with Forerunner ships and new biomass, now having full access to navigation data in all of Forerunner space, and the technology to go with it. Now we have a Flood twice as dangerous, easily resulting in the destruction of the galaxy. Or, we go with the option Lord of Admirals chose, which is destroy the planet, force the Forerunners' hand, but deny the Flood access to the Forerunners and their tech, ultimately resulting in a slower, more easily managable Flood. It buys them time to try and come up with a solution. Forthenco knew attacking the planet was a death sentence for his people. You can hear it in his voice. But the humans took responsibility for their actions, and ended up being deemed worthy in the eyes of the Precursors.
