Eldritch Gods of our Galaxy? Precursor Species COMPLETE Breakdown (Halo Lore)
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- The Precursors are the oldest know species in Halo lore, but to call them species is a bit narrow. They are multi-dimensional beings with god like power. See how they shaped the lore of the entire Halo universe, from Forerunners to Flood, Humans and AI like Cortana and the Created.
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Imagine being sooooo advance as a species you devolve yourself out of boredom multiple times over. That's almost godhood there.
'yes'.
the only, utmost repeating kind of power level maxed over there within that single, Small halo universe's and galaxy's/franchise's known territorially-bounded cosmology-Only, hrm....
They played unto abstract alchemy concepts like regression and unification which does a curious parallel towards the human devolution and forerunner fall
That's TRUE boredom.
Literally what we do when playing games with high replayability, it's like giving yourself a challenge and finding new ways to entertain yourself, because life means nothing without pleasure.
When you've done so much in a game that you switch around your playstyle and looks completely every once in a while just for fun.
“Here’s the galaxy, don’t break it”
(Genocides humanity, destroys stars, kills millions)
_”DID WE FUCKING STUTTER?!”_
*quadrillions...halo ring go brrrrr
@@PromptHorizon12indeed
Imagine genociding a race of love craftian gods which created everything only for them to come back as a pissed off zombified old testament god driven by revenge and solving the issue of free will
I think this is the best summary on the Precursors I've seen, especially with the observations from a real-world mythology point of view. REALLY good! I liked this a lot.
This is something I always liked when people bring up a group of pagan gods in fantasy or scifi stories. The idea that they aren't the highest power but just the highest level of power that the mortals can notice and understand without just breaking from trying to understand it.
It’s at 117 likes!
Halo lore on MetaNerdz?! Yes! My favorite video game series being covered here is so great to see! Thank you for this!
Thank! I have a few vids in the playlist link in description
@@MetaNerdzLoreyou should try covering the UNSC Infinity
@@MetaNerdzLore hi dude how are you
It's not Halo lore it's whatever abomination and greatly misinformed and sheltered understanding of what Halo is. Dude probably got into the series because he was a part of the trend where being a nerd and a cuck became mainstream which is why he's trying to think that Halo is based off of New age ideas Man it's a real riot.
hi jdj
Nice! Don't think I've seen such an in depth breakdown for the precursors. Great work!
Really? Then no offence to both of you - you haven't been looking well my good man.
Installion 00, and HiddenXperia have made great videos on them.
@themc.kennyshow6585 Came to say the same. I think even Kammy has one to, just short af cause its on tiktok, but dude is good !
Precursor is way more OP than Star Wars Celestial.
By far.
@@SechsVerehrer3-qd9fu Yes, Hrm.
to those more 'easy' mode kind of universes'/franchises' anyways....
Star wars is ridiculous, illogical and childishly shallow.
@@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617debbie downer
Oh yeah big time. But Vader solos master chief so 🤷🏻♂️
For me the wildest part is that Precursor seems to be far above in Forerunners in everything whether it be knowledge, technologies or even something basic like biology. To the point the forerunners are actually baffled how they ever have the upper hand in the first place. At least in my opinion judging by how unperturbed Precursors are toward their supposed death it feels like they are actually giving Forerunners chance to prove them wrong, that maybe the mantle does belong to Forerunners, but after several attempts they have seen enough and decided to punish Forerunners for the final time.
I never got into the Halo games, but I love the Lore.
What do you also think about stuff like the art style, music, characters, vehicles, weapons, and other things?
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26:44 The way I interpreted the figure of the Domain having 100 Billion years of knowledge is that it has records dating to at least 100 Billion years ago. This would be believable considering all of the other canon feats and implied powers of the Precursors, them having a data repository from before the Universe began could simply mean that they originated from a different or previous universe, and hopped into/discovered this one much later.
Yeah that could work
Or maybe it implies a cyclical universe.
If 3 people read a book for an hour, you have 3 hours of knowledge.
@@carlosandleonexactly thats why 100 billion years of accumilated knowledge doesn't make sense. There were many precursors. ALL of their accimulated knowledge would be more way more than mere 100 billion
Yup the fucking marathon universe. Calling it because it makes too much sense.
Halo is one of my favorite Sci-Fi’s
Edit and my first Halo game was Halo 3 great introduction to the series
I had no idea halo lore went this deep. This is crazy.
yes. in its own anyways.
Halo may also be part of a Bungie "multiverse"
Halo lore is pretty neat, especially with a project im working on. I wouldn't mind hearing some Mass Effect lore from you if it peaks your interests enough. I know that lore goes pretty deep like Halo lore
Yeah I have a ton of Mass Effect scripts written too so I'm hoping to keep consistent uploads on all these franchises
Having seen many Halo lore dumps, I don't think I've ever understood what happened as well as was explained by this video.
I might get installation 00 The intellectual minded individual, however other Halo Channels, are pretty grounded.
reo there are those like in the FSB/(etc other places like FSB's level of hal Lore documentary. those like the old FSA for another example, though FSB is a little bit easier to go searching on when it comes to this kind of franchise's setting) section of this one universe's stuff, or something.
or even those similarly same easy ones that are broadly found like this here on youtube's/Etc's, which is reddit.
Even with all this power, the most freaky thing about the Precursors is the fact that something or someone created them.
I dont think that
'Even with all this power,-'.
(meanwhile, on another bungieverses-connected setting's.-).
'Even with all this power, the mos-'.
oh yes. True.
'-thing about the Precursors is the fact that someone or something created them.'.
Gameplay-wise: Realistically, Not like that (and, er....hopefully so! now? yes?
that halo '06' era introduction of that 'is even worse than the flood!~' Whatever, new, Out-of-context made race for example is more than enough for those like me. so, no.) is ever going to happen it seems coming from those 343I developers there.
and I think many would agree too (especially by those fans who were the ones who got damaged the most during at the start of halo 06's release finally. Lore-wise/storytelling-speaking), that after reading your considerable suggested reminder in here for example (none to the offense).
Lore-wise Realistically though?: ....
....
Not impossible. (Simply put). no.
(especially if we all start with bungie's franchises and settings first anyways (anyone who is biased outside of bungo's multiverses want to join in for here too? touhou, marvel and/or DC, SCP, self-reference whatever engine, manifold, even xeelee sequence, and warframe, etc etc suggested preferred origin guesses), and finding some suitable 'pre-living time/precursors era' level creator-type forces to beings/etc from within the main Destiny's, and marathon multiverse's, and oni universe's(??), etc).
@@CaptainPilipinasThe fuck did I just READ
that one aside.
back to the main topic in here.
@@CaptainPilipinasare you a monitor cause you sound like one
It's awesome that you are doing more halo vids, an idea for the future is the arsenal of the UNSC, UNSC ships such as the frigates and maybe some covenant related videos, such as the history if the arbiter, covenant ships and weapons.
Hey! That's my primordial art!
Love seeing any and all precursor talk, awesome video!
hey that is awesome! I am pretty sure I have it linked in the description if not let me know and I will
Great video! What’s wild is in Outcasts, it’s implied that the Precursors truly exist outside of space and time itself. This seems to indicate that the Precursors are the creators of existence.
As a massive fan of Star Wars and halo, so glad to see this
the main omniverses': pre-T=0 original Final Shape victors....
- the marathon multiverse's: wrkncacnter(/etc other such Causal, etc forces/beings(?) like them).
- those few more other bungieverses-connected settings', but probably not as vast as those 3 main ones of bungo's (Lore-wise).
- the halo universe's (and galaxy's): precursors.
*(**24:24**).*
Hell yeah, MetaNerdz doing more Halo! Even as someone who has read everything, this is great. Very excited at the prospect of your video format/aproceh being done with more halo.
16:30 compare that to the Harbinger, and the resemblance is astounding, suggesting the Harbinger may be the form of the avatars of the Precursors before several were molded together into the Primordial, since the Didact commented that the Primordial wasn't one creature, but multiple molded together.
The Endless being Precursor avatars would also explain their survival from the Halos. They were in Neural Physical temporal stasis when the array was fired, resulting in them being dumped back into the flow of time after the energies of Halo passed, dissolving their neural-physical stasis chambers.
The precursors ARE the flood, always have been and they created life to engulf it and therefore experience life.. you could say they are the universes way to experience life, good and bad.. aka sweetness
reminds me of something....
The forerunner trilogy is my favorite halo series
When i saw "precursor" i thought it was a Subnautica video
lol alot of sci fi uses that term before subnautica there was the ones in jak and daxter
@justan324 yeah, i just like subnautica a ton, so its what i thought of first :)
@@Beanballer 'When I saw 'precursor' I thought it was a Subnautica video.'.
I for example usually now stick to the subnautica universe's and galaxy's(ies'?) own version of their (currently so far known for those of the alterra era Humankind) 'top ancients' type beings, etc's other naming, the 'architects' (a Bit of small, off-topic memorable chuckling from me Aside).
just to make it easier for me these Days and not just calling this one much more extragalactically active-spreading forerunner ecumene-like subnautica version as being 'precursors' or something (I think the architect race also has like another name for them? back in the subnautica games. I don't remember too well from my own currently. any here seeing this? correct me if I'm wrong if there really are not any more other names, and that AL-AN's race was just only referred to as 'precursors'/'architects' only) similarly halo unuverse-esc anymore.
Awesome video, I have always been fascinated via the Precursors.
I have been waiting for more Halo lore on this channel for so long... WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG!!!! thank you please make more
Attempt #3: Hey MetaNerdz Lore, Please upload videos about The COMPLETE Life Story (Canon & Legends) of Luke Skywalker.
'Attempt #3:-'.
(Hm.
sounds Unfortunately familiar, yes...).
Whoa such a great video explaining everything, thank you 🙏🏽
03:27 pretty sure thats a DMT machine elf
I like how in the early edition of the Halo Encyclopedia, it is stated that the Covenant doesn't have superior technology to Humanity by anything really of their doing, but by their imitative usage and reverse-engineering of Forerunner technology. It seems to me that Forerunners mostly just appropriated and imitated Precursor technology- when they could even begin to wrap their minds around it, that is.
Except not everyone got into the domain.
Not bad of a summary. There are a few errors though. It was the Ur-didact not the Iso-didact that destroyed the Primordial. Also, the Librarian discovered that the Forerunners killed off the Precursors during her visit with the ancient Forerunners she met at path kathona.
Can I ask if you still plan to make a complete life of count Dooku? Thank you, absolutely love your channel.
Thank you for all of the details you put into every video you post.
Thank you for the comment I'll keep em coming
I love your channel it's so cool l feel like we are in a star wars universe
'-ods of our Galaxy? Precursor Speci-'.
(judging by that choice of some of this video's titled words alone, for now) hrm. it is not just those things being in that one Halo universe's (main narrative-focused) galaxy alone though.
[EDIT]:
'-but to call them species is a bit narrow. They-'.
Hrm. yes.... understatement,* etc.
(*at least, for the halo universe's and galaxy's/franchise's own level and right for these precursors' anyways).
-it is like trying to Hammer 'just like-
I've been looking forward to this
Gotta love how the Flood used the Precursor's Star Roads to create tentacle hentai snuff porn with planets during the Forerunner-Flood War.
Dang it's been awhile since your last halo video. Very good
frank o conner really ruined the forerunners that bad huh
It's been a minute since you've done a halo lore video.
I wonder if the Xalilin were related to precursors in some form.
Maybe the endless are the first creations of the precursors and have their technology like star roads and other precursors stuff like weapons ships and armors and vehicles and have precursors like neutral physics sure their have the abilities to manipulate and control countless energies and matters including living time but I sure they also can manipulate and control neutral physics
huh....
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@@user-ug6sm4nj9b If the Precursors are Eldritch abominations, the Endless are gods of space and time
@@luciferthechosenone122 if that true then we are screw but wait we defeated one of them that being the harbinger can we just do the same to the rest of them
@@user-ug6sm4nj9b It's the difference between gameplay and lore. In lore, no matter how much master chief you are, it is impossible to beat the Servant of the Endless. In the video game this is ignored because otherwise it would be impossible.
How did they wipe out a tier 6 civilization? Isnt tier 6 harnessing the energy of multiple universes?
a very Small bit of (text) correction there: this is not the Human-esc kardashev direction of the order of from-'small's-to-'great's numbers by the way.
I wish 343 left most of this as a mystery.
Gnural Phisics not Neural Physics
Like in PkMn it's Protien not Protein
I would like to see more Halo lore. Maybe cover the prototype suit.
Very powerful race
Hrm. 'yes',
the next Species other halo forerunner made weapon halo rise and fall
i misheard 15 meters in height as 15 years in height. i was like wow thats pretty tall! then i heard meters and figured out it would be pretty tall but im just pretty dumb.
This was deep. I'm sleepy and may need to watch this again.
Perhaps the Precursors were the friends we've made along the way.
Sometimes even as energy beings C'tan from 40k style.
fascinating!
Isnt the primordial the original gravemind?
The primordial imprinted its personality on the gravemind so any and all graveminds have the memories, knowledge and personality of the primordial
if the precursors were so OP, how did the Forerunners eradicated them? were they stupid?
The Forerunners caught the Precursors off guard.
And Precursors fascinated by this violemce didn't fight back. Some turned into flood some rejected that. I hope we WILL get a full precursor one day in the books.
I always thought Foreunners and Precursors were the same
Wasn't expecting Michael Heisner to be mentioned but was neat touch. Ufology, religion, and classic Halo lore all combining
So glad your branching out wish you did trek too but I understand either way always up for more content
Halo has been done on this channel before, it's not a new thing
I can't wait till he covers the material from the book point of light that one is something else lol
I feel like the Precursors seemingly being behind everything is too simple, and too supernatural. The precursors bringing all these supernatural elements into the setting really mess with the more pedestrian sci-fi vibe that Halo started with.
Precursors may be “Super natural” however many ideas and theories do hold up in our Limited scientific, for example: in 1504 while Christopher Columbus was stranded in Jamaica, he used his foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to fool the natives, at the time Columbus proved that the natives god is lesser than theirs, and that One of many times were, a “lesser” civilizations was dominated, and displays a more advance civilizations, superior knowledge of their understanding of the world around them.
Complex enough science to those who are not informed may seem like magic
You don't just get into space without asking yourself much bigger questions.
And when those questions have answers, you obviously look small in comparison. It all scales up.
What makes it meaningful for me is that these small struggles still contribute to the broader whole.
That Gods would watch us must mean that our actions and choices do have an impact on the world around us, so the core themes of "hope" against all odds, "Duty and Service", "Self-Sacrifice", "Survival at all costs", and "What it means to be human" are all themes with a deep meaning that our gameplay contributes to.
I like it.
@@KillerOrca You see the thing nobody brings up about that "indistinguishable" quote is that is states that there is a difference but we're too stupid to figure it out
@@14megasxlr Either that or the gods are bored. think about it I watch a fly for a week and if he were human levels of sentient he would think he's special. Now he could be or maybe I just have a week to kill and wonder how flys work.Why? Because unlike the fly I can and will. His 7 days are a fleeting memory despite his lifetime
I like that interpretaion too
🙆♂️Precursors be praised!
from this one setting's.
🤔 . . . Year-for-year, merge _Halo_ with _Star Trek_ . I primarily want to see the side by side differences & such…
And when I type year-for-year, I mean _Halo_ & _Star Trek_ at 3000 AD, 4000AD, & so on…
Ultimately, it has to do with technological progression & such…
Shitload more war in Halo, lot less politics
@@KillerOrca
Oh theirs alot. Just in the background. All wars involve politics.
The latest date in halo is in the 2550s.
@@calebreynolds9183
2589 is the latest.
The forerunners defeating the precursors smells like bs.
Love the cosmic horror aspects on scifi games. WH40k tyranids, brethren moon of dead space, the flood halo and so on. They all share the same theme as to like the apex predator of the universe that gives me an impression that no matter how advanced a species can get nature will spawn a natural predator to it to keep things in check.
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I'm not saying the Halo books aren't great, honestly I have no idea I've not even read the synopsis of a single novella from the line, but I find it quite silly that seemingly so many books are tagged with "New York Times best-seller!" But, but how? How is there even 2 marked as such? They can't both be the best, that's a paradox. Whatever.. back to the lore and less with the thinky parts.
'-and less with the thinky parts.'.*
01. Heh. that is Ironic-coming from the byfs' and the mye's-Indeed, yeah.
02. *and 'nitpicking' in other words you mean, yes?
There are 2 Lensman anime movies.
that is amazing, I didn't know that
Neural Physics can be described as the science/art/sorcery of manipulating/bending soul and consciousness.
Oooh you haven’t done a Halo video in a long time.
Whoa 😮 I appreciate this coherent way to learn the lore 😊 thank you ❤
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could you do a breakdown of the scorpion tank
So humanity found the flood and it then started to consume them immediately afterward?
Humanity found dust in jars, which seemed inert, and when they experimented on/with it, they found that when fed to their pets, it made them more docile and friendly. So finding no negative effects, they started using it on their pets across their empire. It wasn't until much later when their pets suddenly started sprouting tentacles, releasing spores that caused humans who came into contact with the spores to do the same. It wasn't long after then that the Flood first emerged, transforming those infected into undead Lovecraftian horrors.
Can you also do battletech?
Great video! We don’t know if other Precursors hide in our physical realm elsewhere than just on Netherop. The connection to harbinger and Endless is especially suspicious.
Can someone direct me to a source that says the precursors were going to wipe out the forerunner??? I always understood the forerunners attacked the precursors because they wanted to keep the mantle. But if they did it to prevent their own annihilation then maybe the genocide of the precursors was well deserved.
In the Kardashev scale, Precursors would be a type 4, capable of using the energy of an entire universe and to manipulate the fundamental structure of space time
A surprise to be sure.
But a welcome one! 😊
saw the word "Precursors" and thought it was the ones from the Jak franchise, but Halo is good, too.
How about the Six Infinity Stones coverage?
Yes, more deep Halo lore please! I was always attracted to Halo because of it's takes on religion and eerie spirituality (big Arbiter fan), but the depth of inspiration the writers took still astounds me. I've heard of the Akhashic Records before, but never would've noticed it inspired the Domain until today.
More halo again😊
Definitely should get back to Halo ship breakdown please. Especially since there's a such a slow down in Star Wars lore these days.
Halo ships such as:
-UNSC fighters
-UNSC ground attack aircraft
-UNSC MACs
-Covenant CCS battlecruiser
-Covie corvettes & frigates
Orion coming up next but those on the list too
....anyone know what audiobook was being read from? ..that's the same fella who read tarkin, and I'm instantly interested
The more I learn about precursor lore the more I’m convinced the flood never were corrupted precursors. They are just precursors exactly as they intend to be
*MetaNerdz posts a not Star Wars video* "a surprise to be sure"
*And its Halo* "but a welcome one"
Wasn't expecting my main fandom to show up from a channel I follow for a side fandom.
Anyone else think if the flood evolves enough they will go back to being a precursor?
....?
make be think of the ancients from stargate and there "library"
Its B.C not bce
in the Halo universe it is B.C.E., if they put zero at the French Revolution or the first contact with aliens, that is what I will use when explaining lore from that universe. Don't make this something it is not
ghostytigger yes. something like that. I could agree, indeed.
In real life it’s sometimes written as BCE as well so yeah this is just a weird nitpick 😅
b.c.e (before common/current era) is often, and increasingly, used instead of b.c. (before christ) for a few reasons, mostly religious neutrality
as the person above mentioned!
bro really got the sith inquisitor to read the book 💀
I haven’t watched five minutes of ancient aliens but I often have been asked after sharing my theories on life and the universe, if I have and if that’s where I got it from.
I’m convinced that show is a psyop to shut simple minds down when they start connecting dots.
DEAR HUMANITY, WE REGRET MISSING THE DEBUT OF THIS VIDEO
WE REGRET BEING LATE.
AND WE MOST DEFINITELY REGRET NOT LEAVING THIS COMMENT EARLIER.
OORAH.
Fun fact sea scorpions are an extinct species of literally crocodile sized sea scorpions from the Devonian Age. They were some of the first creatures that evolved the ability to walk on land.
Some of the best world building in gaming, up there with elderscrolls, mass effect, Pokemon, and fallout. They really understood scifi and had a deep passion for the world they were crafting. They put so much effort into making a compelling story to what was, by the 3rd installment quickly becoming a multiplayer shooter in the zeitgeist that most kids never even touched the campaign. Then...suddenly...they just stopped caring.
A lot of modern game dev teams in the west we see hating on games like elden ring and BG3 for what they tout as "an obscene amount of unnecessary detail that players will never experience". Its often even more deep than they know such as every single NPC in elden ring given a face, eyes, and facial details that not only match their descriptions in the lore but their eyes often give away a profound truth about them you wouldnt find out until the near end of your playthrough, the only issue? Almost all of them have armor that covers these faces, no one will ever see them unless they opened the textures up with a special program and remove their clothes. They could have easily just used a blank standard head for all of them or none at all! No one would have known...accept thats not true is it? They would have known. They care about the consistency of the world they made. Things like not realizing all the ruins throughout the game are actually of one of the last levels and all the random designs and mosiacs not only have profound meanings and lore implications but literally match up such that the devs actually created the city(farumszula) then broke it up and places the ruins that way. Insane level of world consistency and attention to detail.
You may not notice that detail, or the faces or the fact everyones eyes tell you who they serve and why or any one thing but these hyper passion filled decisions act as flags to us players. A dev team willing to go to such lengths and have such pride in their world is not going to give you a crap game. The people that made fallout 1 and 2 and even wrote a lore bible made such a good and believable world because they built a world they played in. Thus it was a world they personally cared about and it shows. Western game companys have begun hiring non gamers to make their games or worse gamers who dont make the game they are working on to be fun to them personally. They have no passion or connection to this escapism and thus they fall into vapid traps like uing the franchise as a method to platform their cringe personal political beliefs. A game developer who would take a once non modern political game franchise and immediately begin stuffing it with trump or obama hate refrences and dialogue is a game dev who isnt making a game, they are exploiting the franchise and converting someone elses passion into pure vanity. I believe this is why these companys like bioware, bethesda, and 343 now suck at world building. They no longer even view their job as a world builder, but rather at best, a gambling and behavioral addiction salesman whos job it is to link all these addiction systems together into a coherent story that a child will be able to easly wander into their digital exploitation traps.
At worst these devs view them selves as propagandists, as specialized digital activists that have a duty to deconstruct your world to prop up their ego.
So sad, this is why we need to protect Japan from this memetic marxist-decnstructionist mind plague. They are our only hope for eacapist media now.
This sounds like the same argument Tarns people use to explain their nonsense
current theory: the endless are the precursors, or another unmet species are the processors, and when an individual evolves/becomes learned enough to attain access to the domain they can be classified as a precursor. The floods hive mind is similar to a domain. but seperate and only available to the flood biomass.
'-and when an individual evolves/becomes learned enough to attain-'.
'-they can be classified as a precursor.-'.
obviously much if those of 343I do (give a flip about this) go for this kind of theory (about the 'endless'' I mean) to continue with anyways.
though in definition of that it is just some weaker version, back in the halo cosmology's/franchise's, of how it reminds me about something else from another franchise's too then, huh.
@@CaptainPilipinas I cannot understand your comment lmao
@@TheoVerveris for the Simples' translation: ''-and when an individual evolves/becomes learned enough to attain access to the domain they can be classified as a precursor.-'.
obviously much, IF your one theory here were to be canon anyways.
though what you only quickly shared in here kind of reminds me about something else, from another franchise's own. except, this is a weaker version (according to what you said here about halo's precursors and races like those of the 'endless' 'eventually becoming one of the former's' billion whatever Years later, or something) compared to that said-other franchise's.'.
@@CaptainPilipinas buddy, please tell me english is not your first language. lmao.
@@TheoVerveris (even) More Simpler translation: ''and when an individual evolves/becomes learned enough to attain access to the domain they can be classified as a precursor.'.
obviously. IF your theory guess here is canon.
kind of reminds me about another franchise's own. except, this here is a weaker version.'.
If you're going back to doing different fandoms would you consider doing some Warhammer or mass effect stuff
have a bunch of mass effect written maybe Warhammer a lot later
In regards of their biological composition I’ll only say this….If this isn’t a person’s quantifying of God’s nature and plugging it into a sci-fi environment then I don’t know what is! Rather well thought out. 😎
Forunner might of leave gaxary before halo fire
the majority(?) of those out in the open (not shelter-ly joined in any still standing forerunner shieldworld or something) were, like....surrounded from all of those under the ever encroaching precursor'd Mendicant's still. those who stayed behind for the activation....
so, you know. no proper breathing room (like deciding to Try and warp out fast above the milky way or something as they could temporarily, if Most of them choose to anyways) for those still standing but now heavily flood-swarmed up prominent forerunners like bornstellar there just Minutes away from holographically pressing that halo erasure step of theirs.
at least....Simply put, from what I have so far only remembered about those exact described details of the remaining forerunner members' current activities on that lesser ark installation and the parts of just after they activated their great purification move.