[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Desert_Fox_23 You're bending the story to fit your needs. You're assumption that the Forerunner thought the Flood was a human Bio-Weapon draws the conclusion that the Humans and Flood arrived at [i]each[/i] Foreunner planet at [i]exactly[/i] the same time. But this assumption is proved wrong in the Halo 4 terminal where the Humans explicitly state that the Flood arrived ahead of them. So once again, the Flood were ravaging a Forerunner planet [i]before the Humans were even there[/i] and didn't manage to inform anyone off planet of this? Why were the Forerunner unable to send warning back home of the Flood before the Humans could arrive and destroy the planet?[/quote] Er... no it doesn't. The perception of the Flood as a human bioweapon would be just that - a human bioweapon, and the fact that it's humanity's fault the Flood even came to be in the Milky Way in its feral form would lend credence to that idea for the Forerunners. [quote]Surely the assumption can be made[/quote] You're bending the story to fit your needs. [i]hurr durr![/i] [quote]that with how widespread the Flood infection was, that the Flood was affecting Forerunner worlds that the Humans never even visited. How could Humans be blamed for this?[/quote] Has the part of your head which governs logic recently caved in? In order to move from world to world, the Flood obviously needed [i]ships[/i]. Since the Flood and humanity didn't move into Forerunner territory for a great number of years, those ships are all going to be [i]human[/i]. Not to mention that it is the fault of humanity that the Flood arose as an issue for them in the first place. The Forerunners did not see the Flood as a threat to their Ecumene, all they saw were fleets of human ships bombarding their worlds from orbit, killing billions of their race. Following humanity's passing of the Precursors' test for the Mantle, the Flood simply left the galaxy which further undermined the threat the Flood posed in the eyes of the Forerunners - the next thousand years that followed were dedicated to fighting humanity. [quote]The plot is horribly contrived... you don't need to be so blindly loyal to 343.[/quote] It's really not, it simply looks like you're incapable of understanding it and connecting the various sources on this subject together. It's not out of blind loyalty to 343i that I take the role of apologist, I do not believe in being loyal to a company, and FYI I take issue with a number of things they've done. No, it's the fact that you have so blatantly disregarded or simply cannot comprehend what has been presented to you when it does actually make sense. [Edited on 12.09.2012 12:28 PM PST]