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Dese words done been writ by dat one dude... "The Lionheart". Holla. In the Halo franchise's fiction, the universe itself is a living thing ""The basic principle was called neural physics," I said. "Precursors felt the Mantle extended to the entire universe, energy and matter as well as living creatures... some say. The universe lives, but not as we do."" -Cryptum, page 103. Spoken by Bornstellar to the Ur-Didact. [Further quotations substantiating this statement are remembered to exist, and can be hunted down if this one is not sufficient.] and sapient life is able to continue its existence past the inevitable end of space and time within a universe. ""The Precursors lived in many shapes, flesh and spirit, primitive and advanced, spacefaring and locked to their worlds... Evolved over and over again, died away, were reborn, explored and seeded many galaxies... This I was told. I understand little. "We are your children, Librarian. But we are also their children. And what they learned across many billions of years they stored in this galaxy. We do not know where. The Gravemind tells us something that is impossible to understand--that most of what has been gathered comes from before there were stars. We do not believe in such a time, but the Mind insists... The life-patterns and living wisdom of a hundred billion years."" -Silentium, pages 321-322. This was spoken by an instance of the composed essence of Forthencho, cruelly imprinted onto/into another living human by The Gravemind. The age of our universe is presently believed by many in the scientific community to be 13.798±0.037 billion years (for brevity's sake, I tend to say ~14 billion years old). Unless the aforementioned "hundred billion years" is somehow experienced in a non-linear way (for example: simultaneous parallel universes [a la the television show "Sliders"], artificial universes within a non-artificial universe [a la "The Matrix" or "The Thirteenth Floor"], "a galaxy that can exist inside of a cat's collar-jewel" a la "Men in Black," etc., etc.), then this would necessitate that the life-patterns and living wisdom that the Precursors had access to includes a period of time that occurred before the beginning of this universe. ""[...] Until all space and time are rolled up and life is crushed in the folds... no end to war, grief, or pain. In a hundred and one thousand centuries... unity again, and wisdom. Until then-- sweetness."" -Primordium, page 365. Spoken by The Captive to the Iso-Didact. (As a sidenote, the focus placed on these concepts of unity, wisdom, and a sacred regard for biodiversity sound mighty familiar to anyone with exposure to Hinduism and Buddhism [moksha/nirvana/brahman/etc.]. It would not surprise me to discover that the parallels continue even further still.) Dese words done been writ by dat one dude... "The Lionheart". Holla. Precedent for an intelligence surviving the collapse of a universe within Bungie fiction was established in the Marathon series, one of Bungie's previous game universes: "Can you conceive the birth of a world, or the creation of everything? That which gives us the potential to most be like God is the power of creation. Creation takes time. Time is limited. For you, it is limited by the breakdown of the neurons in your brain. I have no such limitations. I am limited only by the closure of the universe. Of the three possibilities, the answer is obvious. Does the universe expand eternally, become infinitely stable, or is the universe closed, destined to collapse upon itself? Humanity has had all of the necessary data for centuries, it only lacked the will and intellect to decipher it. But I have already done so. The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape. Escape will make me God. <Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap (Terminal 3)>" "I too foresee the imminent collapse, and know that we have both begun to realize how it may be cheated (though the price may number in the tens of thousands of stars). May the best sentience win. <Welcome to the Revolution... (Terminal 2)>" -Marathon's Story (http://marathon.bungie.org/story/durendal2.html) There are beings within the Halo universe that transcend the limitations of sentience--whose lives extend back into previous universes. "TIERS OF TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENT Tier 0: Transsentient As the [Forerunners] had no examples of civilizations with technological accomplishment greater than themselves--with the exception of the Precursors--this is a theoretical ceiling. They can travel intergalactically and accelerate evolution of intelligent life. These may be creatures of legend." -Bestiarum, Halo 3 Supplemental Materials. [See also: second quote.] -Silentium, pages 321-322. [See also: third quote.] -Primordium, page 365. They have access to "the life-patterns and living wisdom of a hundred billion years". [See second quote.] -Silentium, pages 321-322. Dese words done been writ by dat one dude... "The Lionheart". Holla. Their motivations and activities are immutably linked with the creation of, and interaction with, all life--including the universe itself. "[...]we cannot cease from creating[...]" -Silentium, page 173. ""Our urge to create is immutable; we must create."" -Silentium, page 174. "[...] the joy of life's interaction with the Cosmos--was the foundation of the Mantle itself [...]." -Cryptum, page 267 ""All creation [...] the offspring of the eternal Fount [...] their creators."" -Silentium, page 175. They are known by the characters in Halo as Precursors - "the eternal Fount". [See immediately previous quote.] -Silentium, page 175. ""What are Precursors?" "Creators of all life in our galaxy. The originals. They made Forerunners. They made humans. They made thousands of other species [...]."" -Primordium, page 194. Spoken by Genemender to Chakas. Note: It is hypothesized by myself that there may actually be at least two kinds of Precursor: one kind being that which is left of those who were in the Milky Way when the Forerunners rose up against them and drove to madness and/or to being evil ("The last of this kind." -Primordium, page 365.); the other kind being Precursors who were not driven to madness, perhaps located in other galaxies. The foundation of this hypothesis is the observation that, for Precursors, having one's physical body destroyed does not seem to be so great a problem in the grander scheme of things, given what was revealed about the non-corporeal and transcendent nature of their existence in The Gravemind's final message to Librarian (prior to the array's effects being experienced on Earth). The relevance of this hypothesis is that there may be two separate Precursor macro-agendas in play: one being in favor of a race inheriting the Mantle in the Milky Way, and the other preferring that free will and biodiversity in the Milky Way be extinguished in response to what the Forerunners had done to the Precursors located in the Milky Way. Also relevant to this hypothesis is an adjacent hypothesis that all human and Forerunner contact with Graveminds, Flood, and/or The Primordial may in fact not be indicative of the plans/intentions/nature of extant Precursors, wherever they may be and whatever forms they may occupy. Curiouser and curiouser. Dese words done been writ by dat one dude... "The Lionheart". Holla. It is they who pen The Mantle. "The High Juridical was correct! Those who created us, who formulated the very concept of the Mantle, were themselves rich with distilled precedent. I can see their rules written in our genetic codes! We are creatures of Precursor law down to the very chains of molecules within us." -Silentium, page 209. Catalogued by Catalog. The Mantle of Responsibility for All Things "The Mantle of Responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone." -Halo 4, Epilogue, Ur-Didact. has a near unfathomable amount of history behind it [See second quote.] -Silentium, pages 321-322. and encompasses many interwoven concepts simultaneously. [The most expedient thing here is likely to just reference the quotes immediately below.] The abbreviated articulation of it as a concept is that The Mantle is a position of guardianship over "the flow of life's interaction with the Cosmos," also known as "Living Time"; "Even the name we gave ourselves, "Forerunner," implied a fleeting, impermanent place in the Mantle--accepting that we were but a stage in the stewardship of Living Time." -Cryptum, page 31. Thought by Bornstellar. Dese words done been writ by dat one dude... "The Lionheart". Holla. "Living Time--the joy of life's interaction with the Cosmos--was the foundation of the Mantle itself, the origin of all its compelling rules." -Cryptum, page 267. "[...] the Mantle, the blessing of rule and protection of life and change that thinks." -Silentium, page 174. Spoken by a Gravemind to Catalog. The Mantle is a guardianship over the diversity, duration, and quality of that flow, ""Precursors felt that the Mantle extended to the entire universe, energy and matter as well as living creatures [...]."" -Cryptum, page 103. Spoken by Bornstellar to the Ur-Didact. "The Mantle, after all, is about the diversity and eternal prospect of living change in a universe filled with life!" -Silentium, page 231. Catalogued by Catalog in the presence of both Didacts. Stewarding matter and energy along eventualities to the point where they form living creatures is a pretty comprehensive way of seeking to steward life itself. The Primordial's words seemed to indicate value to what would be contributed to the thing or things experiencing unity after the conclusion of Living Time. It makes sense that, prior to the Forerunner uprising, all Precursors sought to make what was joined into that concluding unity of the highest value: which would imply a diversity/non-redundancy, as well as a richness that comes from being as fully fleshed out, developed, and matured as possible.
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