[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ROBERTO jh [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WEE MAN MJJC [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ROBERTO jh [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WEE MAN MJJC [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Helljumper427 i'm staring to think that you people have no common sense. if the precursors are more powerfull, its obvious they have more powerfull super weapons, and more of them.[/quote] They're obviously not superior, since the Forerunners pretty much revolted against them and drove them out/killed them off. Seriously, power heirarchy is a mess in Halo.[/quote] Answer me these questions, and then I'll concede. 1) What kind of access did the Forerunners have to Precursor technology? 2) Was the Primordial even telling the truth, or lying through his teeth to demoralize the Didact? 3) Forerunners, with some of the best computer archives ever, do not remember this. Why? 4) Was their leaving the result of actually being defeated, or did they instead simply decide to leave? 5) Why did the Primordial's story change in the second book, where now the Precursors survived and are elsewhere in the universe? 6) Why does he imply a Precursor civil war in the same book?[/quote] Ok, you're implying the Precursors allowed for all this to happen, barring some slight unexpectancies? (see 6). Well why are they doing this in such an obscure, cryptic way? Shouldn't they have seen this revolution coming, if they're even as half as powerful as they're lead on to be?[/quote] The theory goes that the decision to create a perfect race fell to two camps: the creators of the Flood, and the creators of Mankind/everyone else. This supposedly fell apart into a civil war, but as I said, the details are sketchy. The point being, the Forerunners as they are in the lore, could never have defeated the Precursors. Even the Didact was shocked and disgusted at the idea of any Forerunner weapon damaging Precursor tech. And gods can war amongst themselves/make mistakes. Look at the Q in Star Trek, or the Emperor of Man(y mistakes). Or every polytheistic religion ever.[/quote] The magnitude of their mistakes is pretty darn significant. One could argue it is comparable to the hypothetical situation of the colonists being driven/wiped out by the Native Americans. Unless they planned all this, which still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. [Edited on 11.12.2012 4:00 PM PST]