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Published: 2020-02-08 16:40:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 6412; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 33
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I suppose you remember this phrase, the truth when I read Halo: Primordium I could not imagine much beyond what the Lord of Admirals said. However, today, reading the book again, I reflected on the words in question: "Once we were a great Empire, united in power and concerted in our goals"...Speaking before the war with the Flood and the Forerunners. I suppose this unity Forthencho refers to must be a kind of harmony that existed between humans on all the planets, an inner peace.
Another situation that makes me think of this sentence is that each individual in society collaborated in a specific matter, (something similar to Forerunner society) but far from so much arrogance and corruption, but rather simplicity and determination. In fact, I can't imagine ancient humans before the war as arrogant or enlarged as the Forerunners, and I have my reasons, since humans sought help from other races to advance, thus showing that they were okay with working in groups among other species. Which the Forerunners avoided doing.
The fact that they were focused on their goals, led the human with the help of the San Shyuum to make unprecedented technological advances. And so ancient humanity advanced and became a species worthy of the mantle.
However, the other very powerful race already ruled the outer space, the Ecumene Forerunner imposed their rules in the galaxy and they called themselves "the heirs of the mantle" preaching their exploits to the other races and promising to protect them against any threat. And because of beliefs that both races were enemies, humans also believed that they were the heirs to the mantle. One fact is also worth clarifying, humans by habit took planets from other races in a belief of destroying the souls of others to create new human lives, so it was that ancient humans were gaining territories by force.
The Forerunners observed the humans and their exploits and began to harass them with the excuse that invading planets of other species and then occupying them was against the mantle, producing several primary confrontations between both races, small-scale but important. Thus the humans before the powerful harassment of the Forerunner began to flee from the center of the galaxy towards the galactic edge, leaving behind thousands of systems and planets. After moving their civilization to the galactic edge, humanity, after a journey of thousands of light years, and guided by a series of ancient constructions, arrived at the Charum Hakkor system, the system had 15 planets around a white star. The human ships, cautious because of the risk that the planets belonged to a strange powerful race, entered in stealth mode, however the planet was uninhabited and in addition the immense strange structures in space, acted favorably, as if they were alive and happy to see them, the screens in the command centers of the ships indicated green, they were welcome. After taking the Charum hakkor system the humans discovered that the system actually contained Precursor constructions. In this way they believed they had gained the favor of the Forerunners. Moving forward in the timeline the humans along with the San Shyuum began to advance unprecedentedly, managing to manipulate some Precursor technologies and equalize even the power of the Forerunners.
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TacoVoodooDoctor [2021-06-01 18:57:34 +0000 UTC]
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LordArcheronVolistad [2020-02-08 23:20:10 +0000 UTC]
I really like the story behind the image, of how Ancient Humanity went out to discover Charum Hakkor. Something I found interesting was your interpretation of how the AHE would conque the worlds of other species. I remember the part in Primordium where it says that the AHE believed in "creating many souls", but I never saw any evidence that suggests that they purposefully wanted to destroy the lives of alien civilization and replace it with their own, but instead to take control of the worlds' resources and have their own populations settle and reproduce on said planets. The Didact said that Humanity "has dominated, cruelly, and without wisdom". This speaks to me of an imperialist control policy, where the citizens of the occupiers would be treated better or preferentially than other inhabitants, but nothing to suggest that the natives were purged or expelled in any way. Why kill people if you can train and indoctrinate them as fodder considering that the AHE were always living under the shadow of the exponentially-larger Ecumene. Another thing, the Canon states that the AHE invaded around 50 worlds that the Forerunners had relocated less-capable species to once their native homeworlds had been siezed by the Ecumene. It didn't say that the AHE destroyed the displaced species, just took the planets. One would think that it would be easier to convince them that you want to take their resources if the reason is "We need this to stop everyone from becoming food for an Eldritch super-horror that can turn anything into blobs of pure eternal suffering and use all the knowledge from those they infect for their own evil purposes" rather than the Forerunner explanation of "We are an enlightened and superior species than you with a superior ideology and as such we deserve your resources more than you do, lesser beings, because it is written in our interpretation of a faith that you donβt even know aboutβ.
Iβm not trying to criticize, I just wanted to know why thatβs your view on it. The rest of the story I agree with and the image itself conveys that sense of lost power and former glory very well. You can imagine that Forthencho would be reminiscing in his mind on a time where the AHE sailed the void and stood tall in the face of something that was not their impending doom by a misguided tyrannical Xenos empire, much less towards possibilities and wonder at discovery.
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MarkushMasterWarrior In reply to LordArcheronVolistad [2020-02-15 01:38:15 +0000 UTC]
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Kamikage86 [2020-02-08 16:58:35 +0000 UTC]
Wow, I am truly impressed, the quote adds so much with the powerfully beautiful image, incredible.
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MarkushMasterWarrior In reply to Kamikage86 [2020-02-08 18:27:59 +0000 UTC]
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