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==Tier 1: World Builders== | ==Tier 1: World Builders== | ||
The species has the ability to [[Buffer field|manipulate gravitational forces]], create [[Contender-class artificial intelligence|AI with full sentience]], fabricate super-dense materials, perform super-accurate slipspace navigation, [[Huragok|the ability to create life]], and [[Astroengineering|the ability to create worlds]]. The Forerunners, prehistoric [[San 'Shyuum]] and [[Prehistoric human civilization|prehistoric humans]] | The species has the ability to [[Buffer field|manipulate gravitational forces]], create [[Contender-class artificial intelligence|AI with full sentience]], fabricate super-dense materials, perform super-accurate slipspace navigation, [[Huragok|the ability to create life]], and [[Astroengineering|the ability to create worlds]]. The Forerunners are the most prominent civilization to have reached this level. Given their technological sophistication, it is possible that prehistoric [[San 'Shyuum]] and [[Prehistoric human civilization|prehistoric humans]] also stood at Tier 1 before [[Human-Forerunner wars|their defeat]] by the Forerunners. | ||
==Tier 0: Transsentient== | ==Tier 0: Transsentient== | ||
As the Forerunners had no examples of civilizations with technological accomplishments greater than themselves - with the exception of the [[Precursor]]s - this is a theoretical ceiling. It is suspected that they can travel across galaxies and accelerate the evolution of intelligent life. | As the Forerunners had no examples of civilizations with technological accomplishments greater than themselves - with the exception of the [[Precursor]]s - this is a theoretical ceiling. It is suspected that they can travel across galaxies and accelerate the evolution of intelligent life. | ||
The state of transsentience is evidently connected less to the level of available technology as understood in the traditional sense and more to a metaphysical elevation of the beings themselves beyond conventional existence.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 321''</ref> The Precursors' technology was created through [[neural physics]]; an abstract interplay between thought and the fabric of reality.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 103''</ref> The [[Flood]]'s [[Gravemind|compound mind]] may also be understood as a form of transsentient being;<ref>'''Bestiarum''' - ''Flood''</ref> indeed, in the later stages of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the Flood was able to tap into neural physics and control Precursor artifacts.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 214-215''</ref> | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== |