To contain their vast knowledge and experience the Precursors created the Domain, a transcendent quantum reservoir of information later accessed by the Forerunners. The Precursors' stewardship for all life involved the belief that all experience of biological organisms enriched the greater, universal whole, something they experienced firsthand through the constantly changing nature of their own existence. According to the philosophical aspect of neural physics, the universe itself is a living entity, though vastly different in nature and scale from organic beings. The Precursors based their existence around the philosophical concepts of the Mantle, Living Time, and a meta-technological mechanism known as neural physics, which enabled them to manipulate the fabric of the universe. They lived through different stages of technological and cultural development countless times, being at times hyper-advanced and spacefaring and at others living primitively and remaining confined to their worlds. The Precursors were not tied to any particular physical form, assuming any shape as they saw fit they would allow themselves to die away and be evolved anew over and over again, taking on numerous incarnations both physical and immaterial. As transsentient beings, they existed on a level beyond that of conventionally sapient biological organisms they were described as "dreamers and makers whose minds transcended many realms and having infinite forms, many voices, and singular purpose". They were an incredibly advanced race of beings who explored many galaxies and seeded them with life over the course of many billions of years as part of a grand experiment. The Precursors originated outside the Milky Way and arrived in the galaxy billions of years ago. It is past all our understanding, from the greatest to the smallest." - Forthencho's imprinted essence to the Librarian " The Gravemind no more understands the whole truth than we do. While the Primordial relished in suffering, others celebrated joy. There was corruption, but purity, division and unity, inclusion and exclusion and all Precursors were not the same. The facts were very different from what the Forerunners had ultimately chosen to believe.Īccording to the Librarian, the concept of one-mind unity as seen in the Flood is not an aspect inherent to the Precursor race as a whole. The majority of this information was mythology with a dubious historical basis, providing a set of explanations for the innumerable mysteries surrounding the Precursors. By the time of the human-Forerunner wars, ancient humans also claimed to be the sole inheritors of the Mantle, something contemporary Forerunners considered heretical. The Forerunners believed the Precursors had shaped the Forerunners in their own image, and some even suggested that they may have done the same with humans. According to Forerunner belief, the Precursors had peacefully passed away after they fulfilled their mission in creating the Forerunners. From a Forerunner perspective, the passing of the Mantle secured the Precursors' legacy in the form of the Forerunners, continuing their work after they departed, much in the same way humanity was appointed to be the Forerunners' inheritors shortly before the activation of the Halo Array. Their most central belief was that the Mantle (the role of guardianship of the galaxy and of all life) was bestowed upon them by the Precursors. The Forerunners knew few concrete details about the Precursors, and most of their supposed knowledge came from the mythology they had constructed around their creators.
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