[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cladblackninj4 Ok you can't take what they did in halo ledgends seriously its an Anime made by japanese people that is why all the buildings look japanese. Nothing but artistic license. About what the ODST said [quote]"The architecture is not Covenant design and it sure as hell wasn't built by humans. It pre-dates both sides."[/quote] The ODST and humanity as a whole did not know much about the forunners because ONI kept it locked down. But as you said Spark says "you are forunner" he is crazy but the only humans are able to activate forunner tech. MC is called a relcaimer because he is reclaiming what the forunners had lost to the flood. You ask why would forunners build all these instilations if they were losing a war. I ask how the forunners would change all there tech to acommidate humans and not anyone else. Forunners could create entire planets and suns they had the tech to create the crystal in first strike also. Precursers were teir 0 they either left the galaxy are trancended time and space. The forunners recived their religion "the mantle" from the precursers before the precursers dissapeared. The forunners wouldn't allow the precursers to de-evolve after recieving the mantle. [/quote] I can reach that conclusion if I like; it's my theory. Frank O' Connor pretty much stated that the buildings weren't Forerunner. - When Spark says "You are Forerunner" he either is off his head or, a more likely scenario, is referring to the Precursors; to the Forerunners as we know them, the Precursors would seem as Forerunners to them. - Sure, the Forerunners could create semblances of planets and stars, but an object that manipulates space-time? I don't know about that. - Precursors were Tier 0 indeed, but your suggestion that they left the galaxy is baseless conjecture, when you think about it. - You don't know that they received the mantle before then. - At the time of the Precursors succumbing to whatever brought about their ruin, I imagine that the Forerunners were of a similar technological level as humanity when the Forerunners were toppled. What were they supposed to do?