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 :Of course, this is all too wild to be treated as factual, but it would explain the Primordial's origin. As for who struck first in the Forerunner/Precursor conflict, the IsoDidact firmly believed that the Precursors planned to end the Forerunners first. He, in turn, apparently gets his info from the Librarian who was connected to the closest thing there is to a first-hand source (apart from the Gravemind, whose motivations are questionable to say the least) so I'm leaning towards Option 2 as the more probable one. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 01:26, 4 October 2013 (EDT)
+Well, I'll freely admit that most of the omissions seem deliberately intentional, using the unreliable narrator excuse: we really have no idea how sincere anyone was being during any of the Forerunner trilogy, or how much was "lost" (given that the entirety of the stories was, from an in-universe perspective, recovered and translated by ONI personnel).
+I do, however, like the idea of the Precursor's not all having become or assimilated with the Flood; while obviously, as you said, it's all wild conjecture at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if some of your theory regarding the Precursor's experimenting with the Flood is at least partially true (assuming that the fiction which would confirm or deny it has been written yet). Primarily, the idea of Precursors experimenting with "proto-Flood" and having created the Primordial fits in very well with what has actually been said.
+At this point, my primary thought in regards to the Flood is the origin of the ships containing the powder, as no-one mentions any similarity to any known design, and it seems unlikely that the Precursors actually used mechanical transportation; and in reference to the Primordial being an experimental predecessor for the Flood, there again is the issue of where its original cage came from.
+For that reason, I greatly like the idea of there having been differing Precursor factions for this reason: if we assume that the Primordial was not captured and imprisoned by the Forerunner, that leaves either other Precursors, or an extragalactic origin, assuming there was no other race of comparative technology and ability in the Milky Way at that time.
+In relation to my original line of thought, after a few re-reads of the trilogy, I'm more or less convinced that, regardless of the Primordial and Gravemind's interpretation, the IsoDidact and Librarian are the closest to the truth: I just don't believe that their sources have any particular reason to lie about why the "war" began.
+Although, I am still very curious as to why there was explicit mention given to the fact that humanity spread along the galactic rim, where it would absorb the initial attacks by the Flood. I really feel there's more to that story that just didn't have time to be told, or is being saved for later. [[User:SNovah|SNovah]] ([[User talk:SNovah|talk]]) 00:30, 15 February 2014 (EST)