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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] Najar Why would a civilization as advanced as the forerunners not be able to comunicate to their other colonies?[/quote] Who is to say their comms centers were shut down? If a Forerunner force finds a human vessel destroying a planet with no knowledge of the Flood, then what? Especially at the time with slipspace being hectic and unreliable the farthest flung colonies would have to rely on slow subliminal communications. [quote]They build planets, weapons that can kill all the sentient life in the entire galaxy but they are not capable of sending an alert message or something to their capital world? Also as mentioned in the OP, after so many years of war not a single interrogation? You see, in the human-covie war there were multiple interrogations, but the UNSC didn't get answers because the Covenant were so obsessed in their beliefs that they didn't give information.[/quote] Judging from the Terminals, the Forerunners didn't really take prisoners and just attacked. Only towards Charum Hakkor's fall did they take prisoners, but by that point the Flood had been known to them. And as for the Human-Covenant War, the Covenant were known to NOT take prisoners, only Keyes was ever imprisoned and yet he did not betray any information. As for humans taking Covie prisoners, at least the Elites would sooner kill themselves then become prisoners. [quote]And as i remember one of the missions of the Master Chief was to capture a prophet, interrogate him and get to negotiations, why wasn't this tried by the forerunners?[/quote] To understand why none of that occurred, we'd need to know about the full conflict and as such all we've seen is ship battles and a few ground engagements that didn't leave many survivors. [quote]You get attacked by another race and you loose entire planets, yet you don't try to learn their motives, avoid war? You only kill them all without answers, yeah that sounds logical.[/quote] No, it isn't. But as it has been stated before the Forerunners, despite their techno prowess, let their hubris work against them. [Edited on 12.11.2012 10:42 AM PST]
