Forum:The precusor really extinct.

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I am sceptical of this as they were in many many galaxies over billions of years. Its possible that All the precusors in the milky way galaxy are extinct but they well be still billions of them in other galaxies. Well the ones in the milky way became the flood eventually so we are fighting our own creators :S. Spartan Matt (talk) 23:37, 6 May 2013 (EDT)

The Gravemind that tortures the Didact admits that the Forerunners exterminated all but a few, who either went into stasis like the Primordial or went dormant and became the corrupted flood dust. Unless those who went dormant show up again, the last version of the Precursors are extinct. The flood are the precursors though, just a corrupted form. But we have no evidence that they existed beyond the Milky Way at the time of the Forerunner attack. The Primordial/Gravemind admits that they were driven from their home to another, Path Kethona, and that they were wiped out. ProphetofTruth (talk) 10:22, 7 May 2013 (EDT)

Fair warning, remember to take anything a Gravemind (and Primordial) says with a grain of salt. While I don't think they've ever outright lied, there's no evidence that they're telling the truth most of the time either. That said, all evidence that can be verified suggests that, at least in the Milky Way, the Precursors are indeed gone; I would hesitate to claim that they're all actually dead. SNovah (talk) 00:34, 15 February 2014 (EST)

There's always that old element of compartmentalisation - why do we think the Gravemind knows for sure what happened to its (former?) species? It was trapped in stasis for millions of years, and that's plenty of time for the Precursor survivors to have begun spinning new webs, separate but perhaps not unrelated to those of the Flood. Given how big a deal was made of them in the Forerunner Trilogy, I fully expect them to reappear at some point, looking for a little payback against what is left of those who wiped them out. They may not have quite finished the job by manipulating them into building the Halos, but I imagine a species like them would want to be thorough. -- Qura 'Morhek ^{The Autocrat of Morheka} 18:39, 31 August 2014 (EDT)