Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13199219-20130809220651/@comment-13199219-20130812040221

Greenerseyes wrote: I thought Halo only killed (Higher) intelligent life. I'm not saying Dogs, Dolphins, and even pigs don't have some level of  intelligence. But there is a gap between them and average human intelligence. I'm not sure where the intellect line is for the Halos, but we can assume most animals are safe. The Falmer on the other hand are intelligent enough to use bows, craft armor/weapons, use magic spells, and herd animals. This indicates a level of intelligence that puts them on par with per-historic humans (cromagnid). The Halos should kill the falmer I'm not sure if you have read the forerunner saga (A prequel series of books for halo, set during the final years of the Forerunners), but the humans that were wiped out by the Halo array were actually at about the level of intellect of the dwermer. They had steamboats and rudimentary knowledge of space. This was because they had a vast interstellar empire until they came into contact with the flood and the forerunners at the same time, leading to a war on two fronts. The humans beat back the flood temporarily, but at the cost of losing to the forerunners, who split the species genetically, and reduced them to a small cluster of towns on earth. Then the forerunners found the flood and the rest is history.

But my point is, we don't know if cromagon men would be wiped out or not. As far as we know, the falmer know how to operate things, but their ability to display emotion is little to none. They only have blind hatred for anything that is not falmer or chaurus. I believe sentience carries a degree of emotional comprehension as well intellectual comprehension.