#Forerunners

[goblin-sovereign]

Just made this piece of shit

[zilentis]

a Forerunner Builder, Inspiration-From-The-Domain, and her little Huragok; Far Too Dense.

The Forerunner is less impressive, but I’m still happy with her (she looks like a Forerunner). What I was really focusing my effort on, was the cute Engineer, I really really wanted one and I’m so proud of him. Almost entirely sculpted from Greenstuff

[oni-official]

REQUESTING ACCESS TO ONI XENO-MATERIALS EXPLOITATION REPORT 15Y1198

Oh, that's real cute.

Get back in the box.

[grayrazor]

IMO “ancient aliens built the pyramids and taught us agriculture” is a lot less interesting idea than “there were advanced technological aliens on Earth, but they went extinct millions of years before humans evolved.”

Their cities crumbled and were buried, their machines became junk and then dust, and the Earth forgot about them.

[halopedia]

Lore Thursday — Assembler

The Assembler Sentinel is a variant of Strato-Sentinel like Retrievers and Stewards. It is used in the construction of Forerunner megastructures like Halo installations and portal complexes, such as the portal to the Ark at Voi.

[doom-dreaming]

Halo 4 - Terminal 07: Cryptum

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

Blood Angel vs Forerunner Promethean

Art by Nicolas Siregar

[faecaptainofdreams]

I am now attempting to understand the Halo lore through Bornstellar’s story and… dude how did he have CENTURIES of communication with the Librarian if he fired the Array and she died? Was monitor Chakas with them for hundreds of years or only a few weeks/months?? Bc Bornstellar didn’t become the IsoDidact until late in the forerunners’ story and— AM I STUPID OR IS THIS JUST COMPLICATED?!

[nazrigar]

A commission for @thesupremebagel-lord , and a REALLY fun concept to do: a Forerunner Warrior Servant from Halo vs a Blood Angels Space Marine! Considering it’s two of my favorite sci fi settings? I had a LOT of fun here xD.

[nirahsaooc]

Man learning more about the Precursors in Halo makes me think they are the poster child now of why its not always a good idea to try and delve more into "The ones who came before everyone else" Bits.

Cause you got the precursors, who are super advanced they have changed over billions of years taking on new forms like we change clothes. Living out life as more primitive at times to hyper-advanced as others, basically just this race that can literally do whatever it wants and likes enjoying all facets of life including the warts like war, destruction and evil seeing them as inherent to the universe.

Then you got the Forerunners that the Precursors made, considered them for the mantle of guardianship of the galaxy eventually decided 'Nah they don't deserve it." Forerunners get pissed and all out surprised attack the Precursors and commit genocide upon almost their entire race.

Wait...what?

The Forerunners...beat a race that is insanely more advanced than them, a race whose architecture was IMPERVIOUS to conventional weapons until the Halo Arrays were made....which said arrays weren't invented until AFTER the precursors were killed off. Okay okay there is a theory that the precursors let the forerunners win, because hey they don't care about death. They just come back as something else and continue their merry existence and will watch because hey whatever this could be a fun new chapter of existence for a race like us.

Right, alot of the precursors became a molecular dust to prepare to regenerate later on into previous forms. It got corrupted and became the flood that came back to purge the galaxy of all life.

Wait wait, back up...the dust became corrupted? How? Over time it just became corrupted and mutated, giving rise to the flood after being ingested by other creatures later on.

It just...became corrupted over time? A race that is god tier advanced, that changes forms like we breath. Has does this over and over again through the course of BILLIONS of years...how did they fuck that up?

It just did, so what was left of the precursors came back as the flood to consume the entire galaxy and to get revenge upon the Forerunners and ensure none of their creations could ever rise against them again!

...isn't the theory that the precursors let the forerunners kill them

Yes.

So why the fuck do they suddenly have a roaring desire for rampaging revenge after rolling over and letting themselves be killed?

Well because the dust was corrupted it perverted the precursors.

Right right...because they somehow fucked up the thing they were known to be able to do and had done who freakin' knows how many times over the course of billions of years but this was the first time they had ever fucked it up apparently.

Right also the Primordial a living precursor went on about how the flood was revenge for the Forerunners transgressions.

Wait so now there is a living precursor that wanted revenge upon the Forerunners? I thought it was the corrupted dust stuff. Right yeah the corrupted dust.

So why does a living precursor want this too?

Well they spent so long in stasis that it mutated and altered...

For fucks sake...Okay so this god tier OG precursor had to lay down some roaring revenge against the Forerunners directly right?

No they killed it.

God fucking damn it!

(I'm paraphrasing alot, but basically in essence the more i learn about the ancient precursors who seeded life in all the universe of halo, the more I think someone should have taken the writers/producers/executives whoevers pen/storyboard/charts and just told them "No, we aren't delving into that.")

[cappurrccino]

reason #5,371 that the forerunners are the best: they're like the second most powerful species to ever exist in the halo universe and every single one of them could go toe-to-toe with a greek god for levels of dumbassery and pettiness

[critical-quoter]

You are what you dare.

Halo: Cryptum - Greg Bear

[arcadiaberger]

Trope Talk: Precursors

https://youtu.be/N_IP7WEhzyU?si=o-0pDmvqQzFHT9zz

I once found a piece of conglomerate rock which had chunks of rock embedded in it, some of which had chunks of rock embedded in them...which had teeny little chunks of rock embedded in them. I turned that rock over in my hand and showed it to my wife and said, "This planet is . . . OLD."

#YouTube  #Fantasy  #ScienceFiction  #SF  #Fiction  #Tropes  #Precursors  #Forerunners

[plotholefragments]

Celeste stormed through the hallways of the castle. Her fiery red hair was threatening to break out of its ponytail, her fists were clenched so hard she nearly cut her palms, and she glared hard enough to set something on fire. Given her magical prowess, that wasn't out of the question.

She didn't notice the aides and pages give her a wide berth; that would require her to acknowledge them. She did notice the lords and dukes arch an eyebrow at her behavior, and any other day this would be enough to get her to stop. She had an image to maintain, after all.

But that clearly didn't matter anymore, if it ever did.

She strode into the royal suite and past the secretary, ignoring his calls of "Lady Celeste!"—she knew where she was going; she didn't need his help. Past the ostentatious doors to the conference room, down the nondescript hallway to the left, around the back, to the queen's private study.

A flick of her wrist, a slight glow, and the doors opened. Forcefully. Celeste didn't even break her stride as she stormed into the office.

The empty office.

She heard the secretary quickly approaching behind her, so she turned around and snarled, "Where is she?"

The secretary immediately shrunk back. "Her Majesty is with Pr—" he stammered, not wanting to finish the word.

"Margo?" Celeste said, her voice dangerously low.

"P—Princess Margo," the secretary finished with a whimper.

Celeste glowered. "I'll wait."

"But you—" The secretary tried to stand up straighter. "You can't—"

"Can't tell your supervisor about your activities?" Celeste raised an eyebrow.

The secretary winced and trundled out, shutting the doors behind him.

Celeste wasn't sure how long she waited before the doors opened again—gently this time. The Queen glided in, somehow moving effortlessly even in her full regalia. She looked at Celeste, and her face fell.

"I'd hoped you would take this better," she said quietly.

Celeste glared. "How long have I been in your service?"

"Celeste—"

"How much have I done for you? How much of my life have I given to you?"

"That's never been in question."

"Then what is?!" Celeste screamed. "What does she have that I don't?"

The queen just pursed her lips and looked at Celeste.

Celeste growled. "Don't say it."

"Celeste..."

"I'm smarter than her. I'm more skilled than her. I've done more for this kingdom than her. I've done more for you than her!"

"Yet I chose her," the queen said firmly. "Why do you think that is?"

"Don't pull that 'enigmatic teacher' castoff on me. You owe me a straight answer."

"Do I?" The queen stood straighter, her eyes narrowed. She took a step forward.

Celeste couldn't help but step back, hating herself for it.

"Who is to blame," the queen said quietly, "when the student does not learn the lesson? Is it the student for refusing to listen?" She closed her eyes and shook her head. "Or is it the teacher for failing to understand how to teach the student?"

She looked at Celeste with a smile that didn't reach her eyes. "I watched you grow into an incredible young woman. I saw your potential, and I thought I could help you reach it. I'm sorry I failed you in this way."

"I bet you a—"

A sharp gesture from the queen's right hand, and Celeste's voice cut off, a subtle white glow around her throat.

"You do not suffer fools," the queen said, her voice slicing into the silence, "and that is not a bad trait. But these past years you are only too eager to find them. And it has brought you dangerously close to making enemies I cannot protect you from."

She closed her eyes and took a slow breath, her hand still in place holding the silencing spell.

Celeste froze in place, seething.

"Here is your answer," the queen said, staring intently down at Celeste. "She is your equal in intelligence, and her skills in magic surpass yours for one reason: she knows when to rely on her friends. Most importantly, she understands bonds of love on a level that I can only imagine. Which means that when she looks at others, she wonders what she can learn—"

She leaned in and glared directly into Celeste's eyes and snarled, "Not what she can extort."

The queen cancelled the spell and stepped back. "When you are ready to learn," she said at a more normal volume, "my door will be open. Until then, I am relieving you of your duties."

"You're putting me in time out?" Celeste said, incredulous. "I'm not a child!"

"Yet you insist on acting like one," the queen said without missing a beat. "Use this time wisely, Celeste."

And with that, she turned and left.

Celeste stood in the empty study for a moment, ignoring how many tears she wiped away, before storming out.

She was given a similar wide berth on the walk back to her office, though she would swear some of the fearful looks had turned to pity. She closed the door behind her and reflexively made a set of gestures with her right hand to trigger her security measures. The walls, ceiling, and floor pulsed an icy blue glow that settled across the doorway in an intricate glyph.

Celeste moved slowly. She undid the clasp on her robes—white with red trim, her badge of office as a Court Mage—and carefully set them on the hook by the door. Her hair tie was next, followed by her bracelets. Finally, she held a hand in front of her chest and pulled on an invisible strand of magic. The enchantment on her clothes untied, her blouse and pants loosened themselves and settled comfortably around her.

Her breathing started to pick up. She stared forward at the door as her breaths got heavier and shorter.

Until finally, she screamed. A wordless, careless, hopeless yell of frustration and rage.

And like so many screams of its kind, it ended with her on the ground, tears falling, breathing one step away from outright sobs.

[halopedia]

Did You Know that the Boomerang Nebula was the site of a Burn, a region of space so consumed by the Flood that it was deemed off-limits by Forerunner fleets? During the Flood war, the nebula was reported to contain Precursor star roads.