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Edited by Lord of Admirals: 12/28/2017 4:20:55 AMThe Precursors are an enigmatic race of beings who took countless forms over the course of 100 billion years. This makes them older than the creation of our universe by a significant margin. They created the Mantle of Responsibility and sought to create a species that would act as stewards of their creations in the Milky Way. The two most promising were the Forerunners (who acted as their enforcers) and humans.
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Edited by Sportmanteau: 12/28/2017 6:07:12 AMWtf is that Edit: that's awesome, anything else about them?
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A Precursor. Here's another. We know that they created the Forerunners 15 million years ago. 10 million years ago they determined the Forerunners to not be worthy of upholding the Mantle. Afraid that the Precursors would now destroy them, the Forerunners attacked them first, driving them from their field of labor. Some fled beyond the reach of the Forerunners, while most others retreated to the satellite galaxy of Path Kethona (Large Magellanic Cloud). Still fearful of their creators, the Forerunners assembled a massive kill-fleet of 100,000 ships to travel to Path Kethona and wipe the remaining Precursors out. Having never been defeated before, some Precursors sought to experience this first hand, while others turned themselves into a fine dust that could regenerate all of the past forms they held. Over the next 10 million years, time corrupted this dust, and 110,000 years ago they entered the Milky Way aboard derelict star ships of unknown origin.
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So they could easily be the Flood due to the countless forms they've taken?
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They are the Flood. When the ships with the corrupted dust entered the Milky Way, they crashed on inhabited and uninhabited worlds alike. Initial tests conducted by humans and Prophets showed it had a positive behavioral effect on pheru (herbivorous pet) that both species kept. Before long, these pets developed growths that other pheru felt compelled to consume. These growths spread to humans that consumed pheru as a delicacy, and these people turned into cannibals. Eventually entire planets fell to cannibal cults, and the growths overtook their bodies. The Flood was born.
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Wow. Didn't see that coming. I read about one single Precursor in stasis, he was described a lot like the first picture you showed me.
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Yes, that single Precursor in stasis is what the humans called the timeless one, and what the Forerunners called the Primordial. The Primordial is very peculiar, having been mutated to survive long passages of time (10 million years evidently). The Lord of Admirals and IsoDidact both came to the conclusion that the Primordial is a Gravemind, which means that Graveminds existed before the Flood did. At some point, the Primordial underwent a transformation. The second picture is very clearly the Primordial corrupting 05-032 Mendicant Bias, and the first picture is widely believed to be the Primordial by the events of Halo: Primordium.
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So the primordial is technically a gravemind? Will it ever come out of stasis or has it already, being the one that the Master Chief came into contact with?
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Edited by Lord of Admirals: 12/29/2017 4:12:35 AMIt was released from stasis when the Master Builder test fired Halo at Charum Hakkor. It was eventually killed by the IsoDidact, however, it reappeared as a Flood Gravemind - the very same Gravemind we encounter in the games.
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Damn. So are the Flood officially destroyed because we took out the Ark and High Charity? Or do they exist in other places?
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The Ark was only heavily damaged. It's actually in the process of being repaired as of 2559. High Charity, while heavily damaged is very much intact, and host to dormant Flood. Unfortunately, unwitting Banished forces unintentionally released the Flood after breaching High Charity's quarantine shield to search for salvage. They also exist in other places. There is likely other Flood research facilities in the galaxy we have not yet discovered, along with the research facilities on Halo rings. Because the Flood originated outside the galaxy, there's no way of being able to completely guarantee they have been wiped out for good. The Gravemind itself also guaranteed its return: [i]"Like water I ebb and flow. Defeat is simply an addition of time to a sentence I never deserved, but you imposed."[/i]
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So we may see the Flood again in Halo 6 or a later game?