Halo 4

for some of you this might be old news, but i stumbled upon this 1up article from the 28th of august today, about what was stated at the PAX: halo fest. heres the article http://www.1up.com/news/postcard-pax-halo-4-master . and heres my quote of interest from frank o'connor (director of franchise development at 343): "...the Halo series to date has always transpired across abandoned alien structures, and that something new for the upcoming trilogy will be the way its environments are still living and populated."

alright so, as far as abandoned alien structures go, we can safely assume hes referring to forerunner structures, since these are the only abandoned structures we've come across. he also states that these environments will still be active ("living") and populated. quite honestly i can't interpret this any other way than there will be actual forerunners. not just monitors/AIs, since he does say "living" environments. also, he refers to past forerunner structures as abandoned, even though they were populated by both monitors and sentinels, which then strengthens my belief in that there will be actual forerunners in these new environments. unless he misspoke, than i think my assessment of what he said is pretty reasonable, unless anyone can shed any more light on the issue?

well id prefer forerunners over some other alien race that we've yet to discover, since adding a new race to the already vast variety of creatures we've heard of so far would be messy, and would just feel... alien.

indeed some of the structures seemed only decorative. the ones on the halo level in CE i believe were part of some sort of communications outpost, correct me if im wrong, not bothered to go through the book atm. i agree that seeing some active forerunner installations would be really awesome, but i think there'd have to be live forerunners operating them in order to achieve this level of "life".

SavageHatesNmco posted...
Famine_10f4 posted...
It could also be another alien race that has figured out how to use the Forerunner's technology, but if it is one thing I always wanted to know is what some of these structures were for... There are so many, some with and some with out any sort of tech or panels, what would such buildings be for? Or how about in Halo CE on the level Halo there were those structures that had blue light firing from them, why?So if we get to learn more about that I'm all for it.

I have no proof, but I believe I heard somewhere that the blue light firing structures in Halo were supposed to spread the fire from the Halo ring (if ever activated). The weapon Halo uses is centralized in the Halo ring, and the blue light fires, hits the centralized weapon, and explodes, firing out into the universe.
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Not thinking about changing this until Tales of Xillia confirmed for US release

each halo array has an effective area of 25,000 lightyears. altogether, they spread out and cover the entire galaxy (or as far as 3 radii from its center, which i guess is all of it?)

lordgamingtonV posted...
Guys, there is another detail that, while seemingly inconsequential, needs to be taken into consideration: Precursor Tech was alive. True story bro.
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I LIEK TURDLES

actually, it wasnt alive. precursor building, structures, etc. were inanimate. however, the forerunners believed that precursor tech was built through the concept of neural physics, and that for the precursors, inanimate buildings/material and thought were somehow connected. this is the main reason why no precursor artifacts have been discovered by the covenant or humanity (current history). since the halo arrays were able to selectively destroy only the central nervous of sentient beings, the halo array was also able to selectively destroy all precursor artifacts, while leaving forerunner remnants intact.