My Precursors are Different from Halo Canon

And that sounds like a trope, doesn't it?

Our Dragons are Different.

Well, so are our Precursors...who are also technically dragons.

Or bugs.

Or...yeah.

I need to address this.

First things first.



This is what a Precursor looks like in Halo's canon lore.  This is what the Forerunners fought and booted out of the galaxy because they got pissy over the giant cockroaches deciding that humanity was the best pick for the Mantle of Responsibility.

That bug thing is a Precursor.

And yes, I do know about what they become later on.

I'm addressing this because a few years ago, I got this little comment on an old image of mine...

However your way off with the Precursor.For starters they were described as being 4 armed humanoid insectoids.NOT DRAGONS!I have no idea where you got that idea from.

And apparently the guy doesn't know what a spacebar is.

So, YES!  I am aware of the Precursors being giant bug things.

HOWEVER...because I am writing in an alternate universe, and because of shits and giggles and I didn't want to make up a whole new race...when I had one already made...culture...language...technology...everything...already made...

I chose these guys...



To take over as the Precursor role for my Halo stories.

The Kethosi, and thereby the Blitzardi, are an already made species.  Have pretty much the level of technology that would make them a Precursor race...

And they're 90 meters tall and weigh over 150,000 metric tons.

These guys can very well stop the Didact flat.

And squish the canon bug people.

That is what I think of when I think near godlike super species.

One who could take the close to 1500 times the size limit for a living creature and laugh at physics and the Square-Cubed Law.

And pretty much, they are basically made out of millions of Bucks.


Shut up, I love Buck!  He kicks ass!

And he's cute.

And I squeed when I found out he was turned into a Spartan IV.

Yay!  If the entire UNSC was either made out of Blitzardi, or Bucks, or Bucks and Blitzardi, there would have been no Covenant War.

Buck: "Hey, Truth, I'm Buck!"

Prophet of Truth: "Well...shit." *shuts himself*

And that's the math question of today.  How many Bucks would it take to equal the mass of Emperor Kedzuel?

And yes, I cried when I heard the Rookie died in an expanded literature book.  *sniff*

Anyways...

Yeah...I know what the Precursors really look like.  I just didn't like them.

In the books, I did kinda hear that they may have had this rather peaceful society.  Like they were advanced, but they had no weapons.  Which is why the Forerunners were able to kick their asses.

And in a way, I don't see how that could even happen.  Nature itself produces weapons for creatures.

I mean there's a beatle that spits hot acid, mammals who still lay eggs and have poisonous spurs.  Or spray noxious fumes at you that will cling to your clothes and the only way to get rid of the smell is to bathe in tomato juice and toss your clothes out.

Lions have talons and fangs.  What they hunt...have pointy things on their faces.

And don't ever get a hippo pissed.  Hippos use their own shit as weapons.

So, at least for Earth, it's a natural part of well...nature itself to create defenses weapons or offense weapons.

I mean a cactus has barbs.  So do a porcupine.  

And poison ivy?  Don't ever get that crap on you.  And I hear stinging nettles are just as nasty for my European friends.

And then there's Australia.  An entire continent that is full of dangerous lifeforms, regardless to whether or not they eat meat.  Hell the continent itself is probably just as dangerous as the critters that roam it.

So, I'm sorry, I can't see a sentient life form struggle up the food chain to become dominant and then just don't have any form of weapons.  

Well, they are bugs, maybe the carapace, chitin could be tough, and they could have had stingers and poisonous bites once.

I'm sorry, but I do not like the bug people being the Precursors.  So, because this is fanfiction, this is a story that takes place on a different universe...then who got the part of Precursor is also different.

And these guys do have weapons and are capable of fucking people's shit up if they get pissed off.



I think in the remastered version, where everything is a lot different than what was originally written...there's a whole different sort of route I'll take on revealing the Precursors.

Hell, they may not be as handicapped as they are in the Mass Effect stories.

The Precursors are heavily handicapped due to their own wars, running out of resources, and the stunt Cerenath Khan Draconis pulled when he pretty much fucked up the Domain/Array/Organon.  They relied a lot on their technology that they took a lot of things for granted.

So, without a good chunk of that advanced tech, the Precursors suffered.

But in the Remastered version, they may not be as handicapped.

One reason for their non-interference is probably due to something similar to what Kiryuu started coming to realize running his simulations.  They really didn't want to be the police of the galaxy.  They wanted to focus on finding new ways of defeating Abominations of the Outside and policing the galaxy would hinder that.

Protecting the lower cultures is what they do, policing them and making sure they behaved themselves is NOT what they do.

Only when one of the lower cultures do something that does warrant a Precursor interference do they EVER show up and pull the plug.

And yeah...Cortana just might do that.


With her thinking that AI Constructs are the true inheritors of the Mantle, the Precursors Blitzardi would come down and smack her in her stupid face and say: "NO!  We said humanity.  Humans.  Primates.  Not Forerunner, not ancillas, not skunks either.  Or Sangheili, or San-Shyuum, or Unggoy.  Humans!  Those short...6-foot tall hairless apes.  That's who we mean."





I can imagine Khan coming down and saying: "I meant humans, damn it!  How hard is it for you people to understand?"

Because Khan in my stories said humans are the inheritors of his empire in this galaxy.

So, he'd be pissed.

However, Kedzuel...Khan's successor in the Mass Effect stories...



Pretty much proposed that the Mantle shouldn't belong to just one species alone.  That all have the right to protect their galaxy from the evils of the Far Realm.

And he felt that Khan pretty much jumped the gun on not choosing others.  Hell, if anything, if Khan had actually said that both the Forerunners and Humanity were to work together, maybe the bitch fit wouldn't have happened.  The Mantle could have been taken care of by the tenacity of the Humans and the patience of the Forerunners.  

But no...Khan said one species...not two.  I guess he was hoping that one species might enlist help of others.  He really didn't care either way.  It wasn't his problem because he was now in another galaxy doing what Blitzardi do.

Conquer shit.  

One thing I wouldn't mind changing though with the Precursors is who is Emperor at the time of well...Cortana's ascension.  

And I'm thinking the only guy who can handle this and handle it properly is Cerenath Khan.  It'll help separate the two different paths these stories are taking.

Kedzuel can handle Mass Effect and the Reapers...and Cerenath Khan can hang back and bitch slap Cortana while Kiryuu laughs in the background.

It's quite simple.

And it allows me to bring in an element that WAS once a part of the Jonathan Long story but I never really went with it.

That being our favorite best friend to Jon, Colonel Sam Davidson as motherfucking Emperor Cerenath Khan Draconis.

Yeah, Sam Davidson from the Crimson Dragon stories will be appearing in the form he was supposed to reveal himself as...the friggin Emperor of the Laniakea Supercluster, aka the supercluster our galaxy and Andromeda belongs to, along with the Magellanic Clouds and a few other smaller galaxies around ours.

Just think about that for a moment...

This guy...



The human on the right of the big dragon made of Dark Energy...is really...



Yeah....

And I get to play that.

Yeah...Cortana is fucked.  We bring in Khan...and she's fucked.  

Well, she was fucked already by proxy of Kiryuu Knight.  Because...Kiryuu Knight.

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And for those of you who don't know what the Forerunners look like...