Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13199219-20130809220651/@comment-13199219-20130814192459

Man of steak wrote: Precursors are not le creators of everything.They were simply the most advanced race known.They created the flood as a failsafe, the flood gravemind simply thought it was a Precursor. Well they created quite a few species, but I'll give you the first point. The Flood was actually a way to avoid extinction on the part of the precursors. Towards the end of the Forerunner-Precursor war, some precursors converted their essences into dust. This dust would at a given time reconstruct into the precursors they once were. However, the dust got corrupted, and the minds of the precursors inside decided to take revenge against the galaxy. When Humans and San'Shyum came upon the cargo ships carrying the dust, they tested it, and saw no malignant things in the dust. They began feeding it to their pets (Pheru) because it induced a peaceful state in them. Over time, it began to morph the dna of the pheru, and then a bunch more stuff regarding earlier humans, cannabalism and the destruction of planets happened, and then eventually the forerunners had to light the halo array.