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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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If this was stated before, I apologize, it's late, I'm tired, and not feeling too inclined to read everything posted. The whole notion that Humanity never contacted the Forerunners in regards to their reasoning and the whole Flood threat is silly, but as I someone did state, it's probably just an aspect used to create the situation we find ourselves in in the games. Making history fit the present, more or less. A semi-reasonable explanation though would have been the Mantle. Both Humanity and the Forerunners saw the Precursors as, I don't want to say gods, not like how the Covenant saw the Forerunners, but there was that definite sense of awe. Kind of how children are in awe with their parental figures, and that's more or less my theory. Both Humanity and the Forerunners thought that they where the sole and rightful inheritors of the mantle, and that the other was simply another species not as grand as their own. The Mantle was that shiny toy both the children wanted, and as opposed to attempting to share it, they attempted to take it for themselves. Humanity felt that by exterminating the Flood they where simply fulfilling the Mantle because they saw the threat that it possessed. And my theory, albeit just a theory, is that they didn't feel too bad about wiping out Forerunners in the process. Humanity thought they owned the Mantle, and most likely saw the Forerunners as competition. Maybe not all Humans, but possibly the Lord Admiral, as the one terminal somewhat suggests, as the one Human asks if they should warn the Forerunners and that the Flood outbreak is minimal - that there is time to warn them, to which the Lord Admiral basically goes "lolnope, nuke it all". So, tl;dr while they may not of hated each other, both the Humans and Forerunners most likely saw each other as competition for the Mantle, and the Flood outbreak was simply an avenue Humanity saw to help promote themselves and wipe out some of their competition, thinking they could take care of the Flood themselves. So in all honesty, I don't think the Forerunners where the only ones with a bit of an ego problem.
