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The majority of this information was mythology with a dubious historical basis, providing a set of explanations for the innumerable mysteries surrounding the Precursors. The facts were very different from what the Forerunners had ultimately chosen to believe. | The majority of this information was mythology with a dubious historical basis, providing a set of explanations for the innumerable mysteries surrounding the Precursors. The facts were very different from what the Forerunners had ultimately chosen to believe. | ||
According to the [[Librarian]], the concept of one-mind unity as seen in the [[Flood]] is not an aspect inherent to the Precursor race as a whole. There was corruption, but purity, division and unity, inclusion and exclusion and all Precursors were not the same. While the [[Primordial]] relished in suffering, others celebrated joy.<ref>'''[[Halo: Point of Light]]''', ''page 315''</ref> | According to the [[Librarian]], the concept of one-mind unity as seen in the [[Flood]] is not an aspect inherent to the Precursor race as a whole. There was corruption, but purity, division and unity, inclusion and exclusion and all Precursors were not the same. While the [[Primordial]] relished in suffering, others celebrated joy.<ref>'''[[Halo: Point of Light]]''', ''page 315''</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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===Netherop=== | ===Netherop=== | ||
In late [[2559]], forces from the [[UNSC]], the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[Banished]] sought the [[Divine Hand]], the weapon that the Precursor fugitives had used on [[Netherop]] to destroy an attacking [[Guardian Custode]]. The hope was to use this mysterious weapon to defeat [[Cortana]] and the [[Created]].{{Ref/Reuse|Out}} After encountering examples of technology that didn't match the Tier 6 inhabitants of Netherop, [[Olympia Vale]] and [[Keely Iyuska]], remembering the [[Gravemind]]'s story of the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]], realized that the fugitives were Precursors and worried that they might have survived the eons | In late [[2559]], forces from the [[UNSC]], the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[Banished]] sought the [[Divine Hand]], the weapon that the Precursor fugitives had used on [[Netherop]] to destroy an attacking [[Guardian Custode]]. The hope was to use this mysterious weapon to defeat [[Cortana]] and the [[Created]].{{Ref/Reuse|Out}} After encountering examples of technology that didn't match the Tier 6 inhabitants of Netherop, [[Olympia Vale]] and [[Keely Iyuska]], remembering the [[Gravemind]]'s story of the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]], realized that the fugitives were Precursors and worried that they might have survived the eons.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Out17|Out|17}} At the same time, a Precursor approached a severely injured [[Rosa Fuertes]] with the choice of whether to exist or not. The Precursor made it clear that she must not tell anyone of their encounter and healed Rosa of her incurable prion disease. The Precursor told Rosa that the species called itself the Veiled Ones, then the Lost Ones and now Nothing.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Out16|Out|16}} Rosa subsequently kept quiet about her encounter with the Precursor, sure that they were still with her, not wanting to know what they would do if Rosa betrayed them, and knowing that, real or not, they had saved her life.{{Ref/Novel|Out|22}} | ||
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==Appearance== | ==Appearance== | ||
Due to the Precursors' transsentient nature, their true physical | Due to the Precursors' transsentient nature, what their true physical forms (if indeed if they possessed any originally) are like is unknown but according to the Gravemind, they could assume any form they saw fit, be it physical or immaterial, having done so over billions of years of existence.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 321''</ref> | ||
At least three forms are known with some degree of detail. One form of Precursor, or at least an infantile stage of them, took the form of green teardrop plants as large as melons that when exposed to light would unfurl wide leathery leaves that would fan gently with the grace of a bowing dancer, and expose a glowing starburst of delicate white blooms dangling from groups of lantern-like stems.{{Ref/Novel|PoL|page 263}} | At least three forms are known with some degree of detail. One form of Precursor, or at least an infantile stage of them, took the form of green teardrop plants as large as melons that when exposed to light would unfurl wide leathery leaves that would fan gently with the grace of a bowing dancer, and expose a glowing starburst of delicate white blooms dangling from groups of lantern-like stems.{{Ref/Novel|PoL|page 263}} | ||
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The most detailed and most prominent form of the Precursors known to the inhabitants of the Milky Way is their form as the Flood, a species of highly virulent parasitic organisms that reproduce and grow by consuming sentient lifeforms of sufficient biomass and cognitive capability. This form was intially born of corrupted Precursor remains.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 181-182''</ref> | The most detailed and most prominent form of the Precursors known to the inhabitants of the Milky Way is their form as the Flood, a species of highly virulent parasitic organisms that reproduce and grow by consuming sentient lifeforms of sufficient biomass and cognitive capability. This form was intially born of corrupted Precursor remains.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 181-182''</ref> | ||
==Technology== | ==Technology== | ||
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Perhaps the Precursors' most extraordinary creation was what the Forerunners knew as the [[Domain]]: a vast reserve containing the totality of the Precursors' accumulated knowledge and experience - amounting to a hundred billion years, with most of the information gathered originating from the beginning of the universe if not earlier. This reserve of knowledge was contained in Precursor constructs in the Milky Way galaxy and projected a massive field through which the records could be accessed anywhere regardless of locality. The Domain itself was also a conscious entity, although this only became apparent to most Forerunners near the end of the Forerunner-Flood war. The Domain would later be discovered and appropriated by the Forerunners as a store of their own records and knowledge, becoming a principal element of their culture. Despite this, the Domain remained highly esoteric to the Forerunners; not even its origin and true nature were known. With the activation of the Halo Array and the galaxy-wide unraveling of Precursor neural physics, the Domain and all knowledge contained therein was lost along with all Precursor architecture.{{Ref/Reuse|sil320}} While a group of surviving Forerunners later managed to reactivate the Domain, it remains unclear how much of the knowledge it once contained has been successfully recovered.{{Ref/Reuse|ptk}} | Perhaps the Precursors' most extraordinary creation was what the Forerunners knew as the [[Domain]]: a vast reserve containing the totality of the Precursors' accumulated knowledge and experience - amounting to a hundred billion years, with most of the information gathered originating from the beginning of the universe if not earlier. This reserve of knowledge was contained in Precursor constructs in the Milky Way galaxy and projected a massive field through which the records could be accessed anywhere regardless of locality. The Domain itself was also a conscious entity, although this only became apparent to most Forerunners near the end of the Forerunner-Flood war. The Domain would later be discovered and appropriated by the Forerunners as a store of their own records and knowledge, becoming a principal element of their culture. Despite this, the Domain remained highly esoteric to the Forerunners; not even its origin and true nature were known. With the activation of the Halo Array and the galaxy-wide unraveling of Precursor neural physics, the Domain and all knowledge contained therein was lost along with all Precursor architecture.{{Ref/Reuse|sil320}} While a group of surviving Forerunners later managed to reactivate the Domain, it remains unclear how much of the knowledge it once contained has been successfully recovered.{{Ref/Reuse|ptk}} | ||
==Production notes== | ==Production notes== | ||
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*''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' | *''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' | *''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== |