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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> The fugitives on [[Netherop]] appeared to be of this kind of Precursor, choosing to hide themselves away but at the same time allowing the [[Defenders of the Sanctum]] to share their hiding place, kept them fed using the Precursors' technology and allowed them to live in some modicum of comfort for over thirty years which was an act of compassion that didn't match the Forerunner stories about the race.{{Ref/Reuse|Out17}} The Precursors also healed [[Rosa Fuertes]]' injuries and incurable prion disease on the condition that Rosa kept their existence a secret and warned her that everyone must leave as they would all die otherwise,{{Ref/Reuse|Out16}} likely aware that the Inner Sanctum would become uninhabitable once the power source was gone.{{Ref/Reuse|Out25}} | ||
==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.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Out17|Out|17}} At the same time, | 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. However, these Precursors appeared to be compassionate rather than vengeful like the [[Primordial]] was because, as noted by Iyuska, they allowed the [[Defenders of the Sanctum]] to share their hiding place, kept them fed, and allowed them to live in some modicum of comfort for over thirty years using the Precursors' [[nanotechnology]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=Out17|Out|17}} | ||
At the same time, two Precursors approached a severely injured [[Rosa Fuertes]] with the choice of whether to exist or not. The Precursors made it clear that she must not tell anyone of their encounter and healed Rosa of her incurable prion disease. The Precursors told Rosa that the species called itself the Veiled Ones, then the Lost Ones and now Nothing and warned her that everyone must leave the planet with her or they would die.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Out16|Out|16}} Rosa subsequently kept quiet about her encounter with the Precursors, 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}} | |||
Subsequently, the Banished were allowed to take the Precursor weapon before all of the survivors of the battle fled Netherop before [[Created]] forces could arrive to investigate.{{Ref/Novel|Out|24}} Without the power source for the Divine Hand, the [[Sanctum of the Ancients]] and the remaining Precursor technology on the planet lost power, causing the food and water that had been grown for the Defenders of the Sanctum to become withered and contaminated, leaving [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]] and [[Tam 'Lakosee]] facing imminent death after they were left behind, fulfilling the Precursors' warning to Rosa that anyone who remained behind would die.{{Ref/Reuse|Out25}} | |||
==Appearance== | ==Appearance== | ||
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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> | ||
On [[Netherop]] the Precursor fugitives, of which there appeared to be at least two, took on the form of the pearl | On [[Netherop]] the Precursor fugitives, of which there appeared to be at least two, took on the form of the pearl ambience around [[Rosa Fuertes]].{{Ref/Reuse|Out16}} | ||
==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}} | ||
However, not all Precursor technology was based on neural physics. A group of Precursor fugitives on [[Netherop]] instead used an extraordinarily advanced form of [[nanotechnology]] to build [[ | However, not all Precursor technology was based on neural physics. A group of Precursor fugitives on [[Netherop]] instead used an extraordinarily advanced form of self-directing [[nanotechnology]] to build [[Sanctum of the Ancients|their base]] and [[Divine Hand|their weapon]].{{Ref/Reuse|Out17}} [[Keely Iyuska]] suggested that such technology was probably just a parlor trick to a species as advanced as the Precursors.{{Ref/Novel|Out|13}} The Precursor nanotechnology was unaffected by the firing of the Halo Array and was still active a hundred thousand years later where it was made use of by the [[Defenders of the Sanctum]], a group of [[Sangheili]] exiles on the planet.{{Ref/Reuse|Out}} The technology was powered by a [[vacuum energy condenser]] and once it was removed,{{Ref/Novel|Out|21}} all of the Precursor technology shut down, causing the food and water that it had grown for the Sangheili to wither and become contaminated.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Out25|Out|25}} | ||
==Production notes== | ==Production notes== | ||
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*''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' | *''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' | *''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]'' | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||