#Forerunner

[dougielombax]

Greg Bear: The Forerunner Trilogy is a story about an inevitable tragedy borne of hubris and a failure to listen or learn. It was always going to end this way. It is a story about the dangers of societal stagnation and absolute power. It is also a story of rebirth and rebuilding. A story of hope and perseverance. But it is also a story about the violation inherent in divine destiny. It is a story about the power of ideas and the dangers of blind obedience. It is a story of arrogance and fallibility. A story of the dangers of fanaticism, a story of stewardship, the nature of civilisations, of legacies, and the distortion of history. Above all else it is a story of how we must learn from the mistakes of the past so we can avoid repeating them again.

Gamer Bros With Zero Media Literacy: BRÜH HUMANITY IS TOTALLY WORTHY OF THE MANTLE OF RESPONSIBILITY!!!! OUR SACRED BIRTHRIGHT!!!! GIMME THAT SHIT!!!!!!

Many such cases.

[nynehells]

he can have 2 guns (Forerunner exotic sidearm) as a treat.

[quinnred]

Halo 4 Reimagining - Perdition Visual concept for the Perditions, a reimagining of the Prometheans of Halo 4 based me and my brother's thought exercises.

The artificial Forerunner world of Requiem was a paradise to be enjoyed at leisure, an entirely modular geography and biosphere allowing it's three managerial AIs to please it's creators. Upon the true horrors of the Flood coming to light, Requiem's purpose was changed to one of experimentation. The managerial AIs were given the goal of discovering and exploring strategies that may make their creators immune or unappealing to the parasitic scourge. They were given near complete reign over any and all Forerunner's within Requiem and were locked within their shield world until their masters returned. The boldest and potentially successful operation was Perdition, a project involving a hybrid of sentinel robotics and engineer nanotechnology to create replacement bodies for subject Forerunners. Volunteers were not even considered, with random selection of the civilian populous for conversion. The process involved gradual cell-by-cell replacement of subject body matter with engineer materials, the sentinel mechanics acting as the exo and endoskeleton of the body and protected vital parts. Perdition subjects would be homed in the pleasure facility Idyll Halja, where the Trinity supplied them a glut of stimuli to occupy these immortals for millennia under observation. This only entertained a few hundred years, their technological processing information far faster than their original human bodies. What followed was an eternity of boredom and eventual madness, with suicide in these regenerating forms and true reproduction being impossible. The Perditions would devolve and shift culturally as they tore each other apart and remade themselves, bastardizing their forms into ghostly gravity manipulating monstrosities. Unable to develop into the Meta-Stability stage of their rampancy due to their confines, the Perditions had been tunneling into and hacking Idyll Halja in attempts to breakout into the rest of Requiem. The Trinity AIs were forced to quarantine Idyll Halja deep into the bowels of Requiem and have been in constant digital warfare with their experiments. The Perdition's aggression has been so overwhelming that many other managerial duties of the Trinity have been shunned. Lord help any who may find their way into the Perdition's den.

[crabbynutcase]

Cause I have no impulse control, here's Aura of Judgement's current full design

[halopedia]

Lore Thursday - Prefect

Inspired by the Forerunner Combat skin used by the Prefects, Watershed Division used exotic materials to forge PREFECT GEN2 and GEN3 MJOLNIR armor as a technological demonstration of fusing human and Forerunner armor.

[thelvadams]

Halo • Season 2 Episode 8 ‘Halo’

It is awake because you are here. You are here because it is awake. What is it? It's been down there all this time, waiting to meet you. In the dark.

[billfinarts]

Halo Sketches :D

[faecaptainofdreams]

Chapters of Guilty Spark’s life, in Wander Over Yonder! 🥰🌸

[john-halo]

So, what's it like knowing you've got so much forbidden knowledge now, Chief?

Throughout all your campaigns you've picked up a thing or two about the origins of mankind, the Forerunners, the Flood, all ancient and hidden things that no human really knew about before.

What's it like knowing the fate of your species hinges on the whims of ancient aliens that have long since died off? What's it like knowing there could be even more ancient and even more primordial forces out there waiting to be awakened?

What I know doesn't matter much in the end.

I'm not a xenoarchaeologist, or someone who knows enough engineering to make practical use of recovered technologies.

I'm just lucky that most of the ancient primordial forces usually die when you shoot them enough.

[ab-rinart]

Promethean variant B1 Battle Droid

[dougielombax]

So…

How about that shared ancestry between Forerunners and humans?

A shared generic stock. Created by the Precursors.

Hmm?

*fwiw I much prefer this to the original theory of humans and forerunners being the same, that was never confirmed to begin with but still*

…

I’m just saying future Halo writers have an ample abundance of future ideas and plot threads to elaborate on.

[sebeth]

I Offer A Prayer Before A Merciful Death

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1955 Flajole Forerunner

[thekingdomofran]

Why the flood is so terrifying

Here is the flood terror post I promised yall.

I was going to include a star wars - halo mashup post in this one, but I feel that would make it too long.

Also, this is the post that I made the "accidental deletions" post about. I am still in pain...

The Flood is a zombie. But, it's a different type of zombie and in my opinion the best and most terrifying zombie to this day. If you have any suggestions for a more terrifying zombie after reading this post, please do let me know.

Lets start with it's infection style. It has 4 main forms, the infection forms, the combat forms, the growth pod forms (idk what those ones are officially called), and the Gravemind. The infections forms literally eat their way into the chest cavity and corrupt from the inside out, growing mass so fast that the unfortunate victim's head pops off and sticks out the side, and the infection form takes its place. That alone is terrifying. Canonically marines have killed themselves so they didn't have to deal with this thing. The flood corrupts you like a cancer, and it corrupts at ungodly speeds. If you are infected, there is no cure. You are gone in seconds, turned into a hive-minded killing machine. In some cases the flood won't immediately take its host's mind, but will instead slowly infect their mind while digging through it for information, essentially absorbing the victim's mind into it's own. Also, Graveminds are able to store information at an external source, so if it gets destroyed, and another one gets made, it will have all the information from the previous Graveminds. This thing has decades to centuries of information on humans and the other species.

Now let's move to its attack patterns:

On little battlegrounds, it overwhelms you. The flood is a numbers game. It throws hordes of infection forms at you, and uses combat forms to disable/occupy you so the infection forms can take over your body. On the larger scale though, the flood is terrifyingly smart. It goes for utilities, governments, etc. It takes out the electricity and moves around in the dark. It takes out figures of power, causing disorder and mass chaos, leaving the people confused, scared, and easier to attack.

(This is the point I had to retype from because I accidentally highlighted and deleted like 2 paragraphs (-_-) also I'm not gonna get the same wording I had before which annoys me immensely)

I once saw a youtube short where a person said the flood could take over the earth in just 7 days. 7. Days. one week. over 8 billion people. With each infection adding to the Flood's army, spreading faster and faster. Eventually forming a Gravemind, and corrupting the Earth itself. Probably forming a super flood capable of slip-space travel on it's own. (I had to look this up on the flood wiki to make sure I had some facts right, and found out that there are sub-forms as well. And I couldn't find much on the super flood form, other than the fact that this form is actually only theoretical) (Also, having read some of the wiki, that's some super fascinating and morbid information on that page. If I'm not careful I'll end up in a wiki deep dive and forget to finish this post. Highly recommend reading it) It is insanely lucky that Chief and Thel were there when the flood attacked because earth wouldn't have stood a chance without them there at the moment of infection. In the words of Rtas 'Vadum "One single flood spore can wipe out an entire species."

(This is where I had written to, before the deletion. From this point its all new stuff) (I can't remember what I was going to say after this point either and I'm really mad)

Rtas was ready to glass the entire earth to make sure the flood didn't spread. Honestly, i can't blame him and fully understand why he would do that. The flood took over High Charity in a matter of hours. And took only a few days to make a hive out of the city. The flood took over an entire Covenant city in HOURS.

I think it's important to mention that the Flood is one of the only things to ever make Chief feel truly scared. I don't remember where I read/saw it. It may have been in a skimming of the flood book (I want to read it but haven't had time), but I read that the Chief wasn't scared of much at all, but the flood, it scared him. Like, he was genuinely afraid of it.

Flood Fun fact: the flood is actually caused by corrupted Precursor dust which caused madness and mutations in those that came into contact with it. I thought it infected a fungus first and then spread to animals and humans, but I guess not because I can't find anything about that. I did find that the humans actually experimented on animals with the dust, and then went mad themselves. I guess I have a lot of reading to do.

Speed summary on the background of the precursors and the dust: they got in a war with the forerunners and almost got wiped out so they became dust that was supposed to reincarnate them later but it got corrupted and started infecting people and eventually became the flood we know today

The articles I have done my best to research and fact check with for this post:

Look at how similar the flood looks to the precursors.

I have exhausted my words for this post. I can't think of anything else to say without giving the ENTIRE history of the flood and while I'm sure most of you wouldn't mind that, I feel that would be too much so I included the links to the wiki pages in this post. The flood is the most terrifying enemy I can think of from a realistic point of view. Like, if we had to fight this thing irl, we're all screwed. We could handle possessed animatronics, we could handle jedi and sith, we could even handle the covenant, (barely, but I think we could do it). But, the flood? We're toast.

[thelvadams]

Halo • Season 2 Episode 7 ‘Thermopylae’