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Using that logic, and precedent, Masterchief's helmet could be named Mantle too, and that trivial fact should be posted. I'd remove it, but as noted above.. I'm new and don't want to mess everything up. | Using that logic, and precedent, Masterchief's helmet could be named Mantle too, and that trivial fact should be posted. I'd remove it, but as noted above.. I'm new and don't want to mess everything up. | ||
[[User:24.73.77.230|24.73.77.230]] 21:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC) | [[User:24.73.77.230|24.73.77.230]] 21:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC) | ||
== Assured Failure == | |||
So the Forerunner saw themselves as guardians of biological diversity and life in the galaxy, and then activate a mechanism that not only wipes it out, but even when it is reseeded, the very thing that would threaten it is allowed to live? | |||
What hypocrisy. First off, that title is a duty that is actually quite futile. While the Halos were a last resort plans, it undermines the Mantle's pledge, because even though life is restored after the firing, the very reason that biodiversity is threatened is being preserved by the Rings after firing. If the natural cycle of life is meant to last, there should be no Flood whatsoever in the galaxy. | |||
Another factor that seems to be overlooked is that species come and go constantly from evolutionary processes and different cataclysms: planets are routinely sterilized via impacts, flares, failing tectonics, vanishing atmospheres, consumption via home stars, gravity slingshotting, supernovas, radiation, etc. | |||
So in many ways, its a position that is doomed to failure, and besides, the galaxy was overrun with the Forerunner themselves anway, probably to the point of an infestation in its own right. | |||
So what is the point of following such an idea if it guarantees your own meaningless destruction? | |||
The Forerunner should have focused on self-preservation, and kill all non-Forerunner life immediately, and even actively exterminate their own kind who were either to slow or too stupid to evacuate. Perhaps a program of life extermination instead of life preservation would have been more successful. | |||