Vegerot's board-to-board with Tacitus
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Ahhh yes, have you seen my post on the Geas talk page?
By that I assume you mean responding to your previous post? Sorry, I didn't notice it at the time and had since forgotten about it.
There's not much to say since I mostly agree - adapting and using Forerunner technology for a while would be likely to hinder humanity's innovation capabilities, but like you said that's not likely to happen anytime soon. It's also a matter of how the new technologies change their society and culture, and vice versa; something that is completely unpredictable.
It should also be noted that there is a difference between how humans and San 'Shyuum regard Forerunner technology. For the San 'Shyuum, they were holy relics, though they were nonetheless allowed to tinker with and reverse-engineer them. However, their reverence for the technology may have caused them to hold back and tread more carefully when attempting to actually improve the relics they found. The tech was a major contributor to making them more dependent, but there was also the religious angle.
The humans, on the other hand, see it solely as technology, so there's really nothing holding them back from changing or improving Forerunner technologies once they start understanding them. Then there's also humanity's "natural" understanding of Forerunner technology, which may well be the result of a geas, which I assume might also allow them to adapt to Forerunner tech faster than other species.
As for the Forerunners being "already at the top", I wouldn't quite say that. They were advanced, but they still had room for improvement. For one, they were still at Tier 1 and there's still one tier after that - and a lot of room in between. Not to mention they would have likely improved further if they hadn't wiped themselves out - Cryptum states their technology still kept advancing, even if it happened at a slower rate.
About your post on Forerunner's wall:
But don't forget that the San 'Shyuum were the EXACT same way before. It was the Forerunner technology that made them dependent and lazy. So technically the same thing could happen to humans. It would be ideal for humans to discover it by themselves, then they will understand the technology more "deeply", but more than that, IMPROVE upon it and discover new things (kinda like Mass Effect, they know exactly how it works, and can modify it to some extent. But since they didn't discover it by themselves it stops them from INNOVATING it, making new thing, and discovering new technologies in general). But humans will undoubtedly use Forerunner technology and not stop, but at least somewhat hinder their innovation capabilities. But, humanity will spend so much time adapting to and researching Forerunner technology that this "slowing down rate" will not have any effect for MILLENNIA, if not more. Besides, it's not like it's necessarily a BAD thing. There's no need to improve when you're already at the top.
I know you do a lot of things for this Wikia, but thanks for your edit to the Halo: Cryptum page. I was wondering when someone would do that. :)
Dang, I think I had a couple hundred back at Wikia. But now because the transfer didn't include watchlists, I only have 40 or 50.
Re: All the edits you make to the most random pages: I have seen that you, as well as all the other admins; always manage to change to the randomest and most absolutely unpopular articles. So does that mean that you, along with all the other Admins, watch EVERY page?