While the Didact revealed the existence of the Primordial to several others, he withheld what it had said to him from all, even the Librarian, regarding its potential implications as being too destructive. However, upon conversing with the creature, the Didact discovered that it was - or claimed to be - the last Precursor, and that the Forerunners had rebelled against the Precursors. It was also theorized that the captive may have been preserved as an ultimate weapon of last resort, to be unleashed in case of an imminent defeat of the humans and the San'Shyuum. Initially, the Didact believed the Primordial to be a hoax - a psychological weapon created by the humans to demoralize the Forerunners. įollowing the Battle of Charum Hakkor, the Didact and a group of Prometheans gained access to the prisoner, though only the Didact ultimately faced it in person.
When asked about the Flood, the answers given to the humans present were so deeply horrifying that many of them committed suicide. Most of the time, the prisoner's answers were confused or unintelligible. They came to regard the creature within the cell as an oracle of sorts, asking it questions in the hopes of gaining greater understanding. ĭespite the advanced nature of Precursor technology, Yprikushma and her research team managed to find a way to communicate with the captive for brief periods of time. At a later date, the captive's prison was sealed with a timelock as a further precautionary measure. Yprin Yprikushma then transported it to a vast arena on Charum Hakkor, where human researchers found a way to revive the creature. Several decades before the end of the human-Forerunner wars, circa 106,538 BCE, the creature was discovered by prehistoric humans on a small planetoid near the edge of the galaxy, hibernating inside a stasis capsule of Precursor origin. Despite the being's hibernating state, Forthencho believed that the Primordial may have been responsible for remotely triggering the movement of the ships which initially brought the Flood into the galaxy. According to the Gravemind, the Primordial "arrived" in this location at this time who was responsible for placing the being in stasis is unclear, though it is most likely to have been early Forerunners. The Primordial was placed in dormancy within an asteroid outside the margins of the galaxy around 9,000,000 BCE a million years after the Forerunners wiped out the Precursors. Forerunner researchers were unable to conclusively determine whether the entity was truly connected to the Flood, although there was believed to have been a link between the two. Some later believed it to have been an artificial being, perhaps a very early form of Gravemind, created from several creatures the exact number was never determined, but Forthencho theorized that there had been at least twelve.
The Primordial was a Precursor mutated and evolved to survive vast passages of time, to the point it no longer resembled the Precursors as they appeared at the time of the Forerunners' campaign against them. Not all Precursors chose this fate some entered deep suspended animation without reducing themselves as thoroughly, although only one would evidently survive to the latter days of the Forerunners intact. Over the millions of years that followed the Precursors' fall, this powder degraded and became defective instead of re-forming the Precursors as they used to be, it instead resulted in misshapen life-forms that ravenously assimilated biomatter they came in contact with - the earliest stages of the Flood parasite. Following their defeat at the hands of the Forerunners circa 10,000,000 BCE, many of the remaining Precursors transmuted themselves into organic particles that would re-constitute their original forms-themselves highly variable-at a later time.
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