Editing Talk:Forerunner-Flood war

==Outcome of the war==

Technically isn't it a self-induced Forerunner defeat, as the Forerunners annihilated themselves by firing the Halo rings while leaving the Flood alive.

:You do know we're Forerunner right? And also, in Contact Harvest, after Mercident Bias(Or however you spell it)tells the Prophets at the Dreadnought that he has watched them misinterpret it for years, and he states that their symbol for "reclaimation" was actually upside down, and stood for "reclaimer", and therefore Harvest was full of them. [[User:Bllasae|Bllasae]]
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:I don't think that enough is explained on the forerunners in the Halo universe as the master chief or any other UNSC personnel have plenty of time to ask 343 guilty spark about the forerunners or at least the origin of the Halo rings.
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:"The Forerunners then left the Orion arm of the galaxy, and the Flood were halted".
:If the forerunners activated the Halos then im sure at least some of them would have survived. If they were so great in number that they could populate the galaxy with colonies of 2 billion + forerunners, how could they all have died out. If they did survive and they did flee the orions arm, then why wouldn't they come back to investigate the destruction of one of their Halos? or when the firing of the Halo at the hands of the master chief put the rest of the halo structures on standby, then any surviving forerunners would surely come back to investigate. Also, something that has bothered me about this game is that if the:
:Sangheili
:San Shyum
:Jackles - whatever they're called, kig yar I think
:Ungoy
:Jiralhanae? - Brutes
:Lokogo? - hunters
:Homo sapiens
:Drones - who knows what they're called, they're drones..
and various other intelligent species existed in the orions arm alone, then why wouldnt the UNSC send out a distress message in the hopes of other intelligent species, informing them of the possible extinction of all species in the milky way? It is understandable if they feared having yet another foe enter the already downhill battle but shouldn't they have at least tried to request the aid of another intelligent species for a common cause, saving the entire galaxy from total extinction?

== Forerunner survival? ==
Why does it say that the forerunners survived and left the galaxy? I thought the Forerunners were killed by the array? And if I'm wrong then what's the source?[[User talk:Toen6|Toen6]] 22:10, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

You're right, the [[Forerunners]] did not survive the [[Halo Array]]. [[User talk:Redkast|Redkast]] 22:13, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

For both of your questions, this information came directly from the Halo Encyclopedia, specifically pages 16, 28, 171, and 289.
It just hasn't been sourced into the page.

Unless there is more recent information that you are aware of that contradicts this, then this is, for the time being, fact.
--[[User talk:Exalted Obliteration|Exalted Obliteration]] 23:38, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

As an additional note, acknowledging that this section is quite old, Silentium makes it clear that at least a small number of Forerunner survived when the Lesser Ark (the Halo 3 Ark) was fired; additionally, 343 released a short reading of the trial of Mendicant Bias after the release of Halo 4, which takes place some time after the Halos were fired. [[User:SNovah|SNovah]] ([[User talk:SNovah|talk]]) 01:01, 3 October 2013 (EDT)

== So why is the talk page blank? ==

I came in here to see what was being disputed...and poof. Nothing. What the heck? [[User:Itsgms|Itsgms]] 06:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


How do we know that the Flood entered the Milky Way Galaxy in 98,379 BCE? That is only when they were discovered on G617g. The Flood could have been lying dormant on that planet for thousands of years.

== I added more ==

commanders --KDP3 22:18, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

==Discrepancies in dating ==
I've been researching the Forerunner-Flood War as part of a discussion with a friend, and he said that the Halo Nation [http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Forerunner-Flood_war#cite_ref-arraywithwords_0-0 article] has a more accurate dating of six centuries as [https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-array-with-words said] by this article, linked in the Halo Nation article. Is there a way to resolve this, or is Halopedia more accurate? --[[Special:Contributions/173.71.151.54|173.71.151.54]] 01:15, 12 November 2016 (EST)
:That Cannon Fodder doesn't mention anything about the Forerunner-Flood war lasting six centuries, only that ended on 97,445 BCE. --[[User:Dr Mutran|They&#39;re coming. They&#39;re hungry.]] ([[User talk:Dr Mutran|talk]]) 08:24, 12 November 2016 (EST)
::I thought so. Thanks for clearing that up. --[[Special:Contributions/173.71.151.54|173.71.151.54]] 21:58, 12 November 2016 (EST)