The Forerunner Saga (particularly Silentium) left a lot of questions unanswered

[Mr. Bashful Brute]

I enjoyed Silentium. Very good book, and very suspenseful as well. However, I felt it left some loose ends, and left many questions still unanswered. The whole Path Kethona thing felt detached from the storyline. How did that settlement of Forerunners get there? Whats the deal with all the empty Forerunner fleets and Precursor mumbo-jumbo? What exactly is that anchor thing, what is its purpose, and why is it there?

 

But the biggest question still in my mind is: Where did the Forerunners go??? Was every single one of them consumed by the Flood or Halo? Or did some manage to get away? Did some possibly go live with the other Forerunners in Path Kethona?

 

Maybe its just me, but I still feel empty as far as the Flood, Forerunners, Precursors, etc. I hope either Halo 5 and 6 cover this, or maybe more books will be released. Who knows? Maybe Infinity travels to Path Kethona and finds the Forerunner settlement?

 

Oh and PS: Wasn't Infinity assembled in Path Kethona?? If so, why didn't the UNSC see any Forerunner or Precursor shenanigans such as empty ships and star roads?

[I Mendicant Bias]

Um those were elements that were left out because they were going to be explained later. There is an epilogue released which you can find on youtube detailing the Trail of Mendicant bias and showing the forerunners leaving to somewhere.

 

 

Infinity was assembled in the Oort cloud at the edge of our system. Not outside the galaxy.

 

 

 

What was really left out was the subplot with the humans and forerunners once being the same that was being hinted at in the last two novels. The whole "Chakas is 343" segment was forced and didn't fit what he just said in primordium. The San Shyuum never had their true involvement explained,etc etc.

[Mr. Bashful Brute]

Um those were elements that were left out because they were going to be explained later. There is an epilogue released which you can find on youtube detailing the Trail of Mendicant bias and showing the forerunners leaving to somewhere.

 

Oh ok for some reason I was not aware of this. Linky pl0x?

 

Infinity was assembled in the Oort cloud at the edge of our system. Not outside the galaxy.

 

Oh, right. I was confusing the Oort cloud with the Magellanic cloud. I think I made that same mistake while reading Glasslands, and I thought that the UNSC was going to find the origin of the Flood or something. But then I realized I was mistaken. Funny that I would make the same mistake again. xD

 

What was really left out was the subplot with the humans and forerunners once being the same that was being hinted at in the last two novels. The whole "Chakas is 343" segment was forced and didn't fit what he just said in primordium. The San Shyuum never had their true involvement explained,etc etc.

 

Woah woah woah, now you've lost me... Humans and Forerunners once being the same? I know they were both created by the Precursors, and they were very similar, but the same?

 

And what do you mean by the Chakas = 343 segment being forced and not fitting with Primordium?

[I Mendicant Bias]

Here you go

 

Ha

 

One of the main subplots in the first two novels "primarily cryptum" was the notion of the two races being the same due to how similar they are. It would probably take me an hour composing all of the stuff from cryptum but i will give you this crazy excerpt from primordium.

 

These entities were expressing an almost cruelly isolated and lofty interest in the stages of an ongoing experiment. Was there some sense of satisfaction at this melding of so many Forerunners and humans? Some triumphal revisiting of an ancient plan, long ago frustrated, then abandoned, but now possible once more? Could Forerunners and humans be recombined and reverse their shivering asunder so many millions of years before . . . when the Primordial and the last of its kind decided on a larger, wider strategy, a greater plan that would no doubt bring about immense pain, but also a greater unity of all things. . . .

 

 

This was when chakas was fused with a forerunner so at this moment both of them are thinking this with their combined knowledge. It's so effing crazy. I have talked pages worth of babble over this passage.

 

 

 

It was forced. In primordium chakas constantly makes a distinction from other AI's we have seen and 343. Yet in primordium he just pops up and is named 343 despite what he said in primordium about not knowing about him.

[Mr. Bashful Brute]

Yet in primordium he just pops up and is named 343 despite what he said in primordium about not knowing about him.

 

But in Silentium, most of his memory was wiped, no? So he would have no memory of Chakas, his former self.

[CrimsonVolver]

I feel like I should start reading the damn books already. CV

[I Mendicant Bias]

But in Silentium, most of his memory was wiped, no? So he would have no memory of Chakas, his former self.

 

He knows himself in silentium though not to mention he was compartmentalized not lobotomized. Only the information that could aid the flood was erased such as the location of the arks,halos,etc.

[BeckoningZebra1]

This is awesome how much background there is to know about Halo, did all this come from just one book?

[I Mendicant Bias]

well all the information here is a mix from the books.

[CrimsonVolver]

Like I said: I need to read the books. I might buy the first this weekend. CV

[BeckoningZebra1]

Do any of you know any summaries? That go in depth but not too much depth? (Not that you can have too much Halo, but I'm still in school)

[Frankenzer]

I would have bought Silentium if the cover wasn't creepy

[SternuS]

I enjoyed Silentium. Very good book, and very suspenseful as well. However, I felt it left some loose ends, and left many questions still unanswered. The whole Path Kethona thing felt detached from the storyline. How did that settlement of Forerunners get there? Whats the deal with all the empty Forerunner fleets and Precursor mumbo-jumbo? What exactly is that anchor thing, what is its purpose, and why is it there?

 

But the biggest question still in my mind is: Where did the Forerunners go??? Was every single one of them consumed by the Flood or Halo? Or did some manage to get away? Did some possibly go live with the other Forerunners in Path Kethona?

 

Maybe its just me, but I still feel empty as far as the Flood, Forerunners, Precursors, etc. I hope either Halo 5 and 6 cover this, or maybe more books will be released. Who knows? Maybe Infinity travels to Path Kethona and finds the Forerunner settlement?

 

Oh and PS: Wasn't Infinity assembled in Path Kethona?? If so, why didn't the UNSC see any Forerunner or Precursor shenanigans such as empty ships and star roads?

 

I've just listened to that epilogue and...well, i've understood nothing. Maybe i need a translation. But whatever.

Yep, i too am concerned about that anchor thing. Was it built by Forerunners or Precursors? What is it?

 

I think all the Forerunners were killed when the Halo Arrays fired. But that epilogue thing disturbs me, i'll wait for canonical approvement.

 

But yeah many things were left half-explained. He didn't really said who the Precursors were. All we know comes from a Gravemind. Maybe the Flood are the inheritors of Precursors, maybe not. He's never explained whose were those ships the Humans found, those ships where it is said the Flood comes from.

 

Questions, questions everywhere.

[Mr. Bashful Brute]

I've just listened to that epilogue and...well, i've understood nothing. Maybe i need a translation. But whatever.

Yep, i too am concerned about that anchor thing. Was it built by Forerunners or Precursors? What is it?

 

I think all the Forerunners were killed when the Halo Arrays fired. But that epilogue thing disturbs me, i'll wait for canonical approvement.

 

But yeah many things were left half-explained. He didn't really said who the Precursors were. All we know comes from a Gravemind. Maybe the Flood are the inheritors of Precursors, maybe not. He's never explained whose were those ships the Humans found, those ships where it is said the Flood comes from.

 

Questions, questions everywhere.

 

Well I've gathered enough that the Anchor was built by Precursors. Nothing more than that, though...

 

The Humans are the Inheritors of the Mantle/Precursors. That's why the Forerunners rose up against the Precursors.

 

Still not sure who sent the automated Flood-ships, from where they were sent, when they were sent, or why they were sent.

[SternuS]

 

The Humans are the Inheritors of the Mantle/Precursors. That's why the Forerunners rose up against the Precursors.

Oh no i meant, maybe the Flood are the heirs of the Precursors, their descendants. I know Precursors chose Humaninty to be the inheritor of  the Mantle.

[DarthWeasel]

What was really left out was the subplot with the humans and forerunners once being the same that was being hinted at in the last two novels. The whole "Chakas is 343" segment was forced and didn't fit what he just said in primordium. The San Shyuum never had their true involvement explained,etc etc.

 

Here you go

 

Ha

 

One of the main subplots in the first two novels "primarily cryptum" was the notion of the two races being the same due to how similar they are. It would probably take me an hour composing all of the stuff from cryptum but i will give you this crazy excerpt from primordium.

 

actually this was hinted at in the first game and book series. In "Halo: the flood" (second book) whenever master chief pressed a forrunner button they mentioned an instinctual feeling and a familiarity with the hieroglyphs.