Even the Precursors cannot justify their own existence. They did not create themselves, nor did they create the universe. They rely on the universe for their existence.

My personal head canon is that their are certain aspects of The Mantle that the precursors are withholding from lower species. All the available lore describes them as beings that have apparently experienced all achievable phases of biological, technological and societal evolution so many times over that their own incorporeal existence in the subatomic 4th dimensional fabric of the physical universe they currently inhabit is a bit too boring and predictable. So to remedy this they essentially 'farm' sapient life on the plane of existence just below them to gain fresh memories and experiences while appointing a sapient species or mantle holder to herd the flock sorta like a shepard dog until the precursors decide to reset things by sending in the flood to wipe out their 'creations' to begin the cycle anew and reap the bounties of their latest harvest.

Its so hard to believe that this is fiction sometimes, it's so detailed and itd be amazing and mindblowing to know this much about space and the beings from other galaxies, creatures that have adapted to the endless bounds with knowledge and technology as expansive as the cosmos themselves.

Was super happy to work on this with y’a 00!

Instillation 00: there are 3 conflicting stores but which one is true
KFC ad that popped up: KFC CHICKEN IS ONLY SERVED ONE WAY!

Considering how Halo Infinite is setting up The Endless to be a larger threat than the Flood, which by all accounts come from the Precursors, and this series of games is called The Reclaimer Saga, what are the odds that a Precursor will appear to see the final test of who is truly worth of The Mantle since history recounts that not all the Precursors are dead when the Forerunners went to war against them?  For that matter, what if 117 through all his trials is becoming what the Precursors wanted to see?  We know that the Librarian did something to the humans in order to have a kind of defense against the Didact's Composer which is what spared 117 and Avery Johnson was made immune to the Flood infection because of his SPARTAN-I augmentations even though it was never intended.  These factors can be shown that the Master Chief is either being turned into a Precursor or the true successor.

The philosophy and complexity of the precursors is so fun to become immersed in. Thank you!

The Precursors never truly died. They just evolved. Evolved into the Flood.

All three have their ambiguities and subtle incompletenesses. One example is the recondite description of how the forerunners suddenly discovered they fell short of the probity which accompanies forfending the “mantle of responsibility.” Surely the precursors would never betray their plans to supersede the forerunners with humanity in conferring the MOR on humans? Let me be clear “history is written by the victors” and while the stories are relatively straightforward, yet they do not square. There is an element of mystery and uncertainty that engulfs all 3 accounts. By and large these 3 excerpts leave the Halo fans mired in ambivalence and “wanting” more rich lore to be expatiated by I-00 yo!

Always love to see content on the Precursors.

Sounds more like a cosmic horror story by entities who are enjoying an endless cycle of meaningless existence they created.



Edit: RINGRAD that is only your opinion not a fact. But I am not talking about real life I am referring to this game's internal universe.

"All this has happened before, All this will happen again."

It's funny how you describe the fact that how the universe will repeat itself almost reminds me of how the gravemind describing himself and the flood the fact that they exist like a tide of water they will always regress but always come back no matter what happens to them

Wait, aren't all three of these stories from a Forerunner's perspective?
The unsc ai got it from a foreruner installation, the primordial's account comes from a Forerunner's memories, and the first account from the librarian, also comes from a forerunner source.

The universe is the soil, life is the crop, precursors the gardeners and the flood the sickle

What if the forerunner learned of this cycle of death and rebirth and life and suffering that the precursors were propagating, and as the being the holders of the mantle of responsibility, killed the precursors in order to STOP the cycle? Because if the mantle of responsibility is to protect, then eventually having everything die would go against that, so the forerunners took offense to this because the mantle says so

Food for thought what if, there is a full precursor that preserved itself of being killed in the halo firing array and what if that last remaining lowkey Precursor(not the Primordial) was the one to teach the Endless how to control time to save themselves from firing Halo array… I know my theory might be little complicated but just something that has been circling in my mind.

Probably one of the most intriguing, interesting and fascinating parts of the Halo lore. Makes you ask yourself questions, mindblowning questions, and i like it.

The Precursors had technology that was simply beyond any of hope of understanding by the Forerunners, and could even alter reality with their thoughts.

The Forerunners hunted and nearly drove the Precursors into extinction.


I've yet to hear anything that even comes close to rectifying the above 2 statements. And that is a huge problem.

As detailed by the librerian at the end of the afformentioned book, she along with a few other Forerunners basically manipulated the precursor flowers (who would basically eventually grow into actual precursors), manipulated so as to strip them of what would likely be over a billion years of evolution, not unlike how the Forerunners de-evolved ancient humanity as a depraved act of vengeance and a power-move.