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Halo: Cryptum (book spoilers)
14 years ago
Wow. The very language reflected the specific and harsh intelligence of what was once considered the greatest race in the Halo universe.
Forerunners led a doomed existence, their demise wrought by their own creators not out of baseless malice but of harsh judgement. Precursors to them in ancestry and name left a last fatal blow revealed, enacted, and then defeated solely by ancient humans. Initially ignored by the Forerunners, the Flood spent nearly ten thousand years in exile outside the Milky Way after the human's and San'shyuum's defeat at the hands of the Forerunners, returning with swiftness and vulgarity compounded. The last Precursor, freed from their quantum prison, is then suspect to have allied with Mendicant Bias and the Flood. Eleven Halos at the Forerunner Capital likely were destroyed if not rendered useless, but not compromising one escaped and six unscathed at the Arc.
One hundred millenia later, we yet again encounter the Precursor's final curse mantled to the Forerunners and inherited by all the Librarian could save. The Gravemind haunts and torments when reawakened by the foolish old San'shyuum, memories of their once captors exalted to gods beyond measure with their own youth lost to time.
Within the Halo universe, much still needs to be done. Humans again need to simultaneously rise against both the Flood and galactic oppression, with no option of defeat or retreat. The Covenant is broken, and the Arc destroyed, but still the Flood, the Jilrahane and Kig-yar and Unggoy, and the reawakened Forerunner ancillas controlling what remains of their empire remain. This story cannot be told on the scale of one life.
God I love Bungie for starting this, it's absolutely amazing. X3
Forerunners led a doomed existence, their demise wrought by their own creators not out of baseless malice but of harsh judgement. Precursors to them in ancestry and name left a last fatal blow revealed, enacted, and then defeated solely by ancient humans. Initially ignored by the Forerunners, the Flood spent nearly ten thousand years in exile outside the Milky Way after the human's and San'shyuum's defeat at the hands of the Forerunners, returning with swiftness and vulgarity compounded. The last Precursor, freed from their quantum prison, is then suspect to have allied with Mendicant Bias and the Flood. Eleven Halos at the Forerunner Capital likely were destroyed if not rendered useless, but not compromising one escaped and six unscathed at the Arc.
One hundred millenia later, we yet again encounter the Precursor's final curse mantled to the Forerunners and inherited by all the Librarian could save. The Gravemind haunts and torments when reawakened by the foolish old San'shyuum, memories of their once captors exalted to gods beyond measure with their own youth lost to time.
Within the Halo universe, much still needs to be done. Humans again need to simultaneously rise against both the Flood and galactic oppression, with no option of defeat or retreat. The Covenant is broken, and the Arc destroyed, but still the Flood, the Jilrahane and Kig-yar and Unggoy, and the reawakened Forerunner ancillas controlling what remains of their empire remain. This story cannot be told on the scale of one life.
God I love Bungie for starting this, it's absolutely amazing. X3
