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Check out no_remorse, love that palette.

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Check out no_remorse, love that palette.

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Ha, no way. No Remorse is a damn good map. By mappers long forgotten. :(

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Alternative human architecture should be underground bunkers. Most of the forerunner architecture is underground or submersible, but made out of metal. Human architecture should be made out of stone, as in, carved and excavated stone lined with metal and glass for windows.

For example, imagine how an underground city would be built in a natural disaster area like the central mid-west USA or somewhere else where you might get hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and floods. For human extraterrestrial architecture, imagine natural disasters include meteors; the humans would rely upon technology and atmosphere for protection against meteors, and would rely upon stone, metal and glass for stationary bases. They would also utilize smaller objects in orbit around planets (like space stations) but these would be made out of rock, metal and glass also.

By contrast, Forerunner architecture is mobile in space.

What is Covenant architecture like? We have not seen that yet, so that's open for creative declaration.

EDIT: By "glass", I mean transparent materials that are not as brittle as glass. Consider that humans would utilize an exploration of various materials, whereas Forerunner would not, and Covenant would only consider different materials for their potential to be weaponized unless the materials were native to their own planets, in which case they would try to weaponize it anyway or basically just ignore it.

For example, humans would fabricate synthetic gels for mitigation of impact, whereas Covenant would just try to destroy the impacting object, and Forerunner would move out of the way of the impacting object.
Edited by sparky on Jan 20, 2015 at 06:41 PM

The trend of human technology is towards Covenant, because "we" are being confronted by them. The psychology is that the Covenant-Human war is making the humans think that they must match the apparent strength of force that is being shown them by the Covenant weapon technology. However, superior still is the Forerunner technology which is designed to apprehend, contain, and avoid, rather than destroy. Halo in fact is not a weapon, like the humans see it, nor is it an object to be revered, as the Covenant see it. Rather, it is a tool for the apprehension, containment and avoidance of what is essentially evil (the Flood). So the Forerunner weaponry should not be considered to exist -- rather, they only design tools. It is the result of an understanding that weapons are not necessary. This is a lesson that Humans in this saga and in reality need to learn and develop technology by. If in fact the humans in this saga learn this, then they can understand the intent of the Forerunner and the purpose of Halo and other Forerunner technology.

The Forerunner have arrogance and folly, though, because they have decided to "play God" with their technology, and are careless as a result. The humans in fact have a greater potential than the Forerunner because of that. The end result of the Covenant is death, because they will destroy themselves by their own hands. So the future of the Halo universe is human utilizing technology that is down the path of apprehension, containment and avoidance, but not with such an arrogance and horror as the Forerunner technology --- in other words, the humans would not develop a Halo system in their future technology, as long as they learn from the mistakes of the Covenant and Forerunner.
Edited by sparky on Jan 20, 2015 at 06:54 PM

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twas a dry/drab map quite honestly. on the bright side it wasn't unwrapped terribly *cough*unlikeopsy*cough*