Could the Forerunner Defeat a Unified Star Wars Galaxy? Halo vs Star Wars: Galactic Versus
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2017
- The Forerunner were one of the most most advanced races in the Halo Universe. In this episode, the Forerunner have been sucked to the Star Wars Universe which has united to face the threat. Can the invading Forerunner defeat the Galactic Empire, the Rebel Alliance, and all other forces? Forerunner vs Everyone. Halo vs Star Wars. Who Wins? Watch this episode of Star Wars: Galactic Versus to find out!
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The Forerunner Ecumene was an advanced civilization which spanned the Milky Way Galaxy 100,000 years before the Halo Franchise. They were experts of astroengineering, building the halo array, the ark, the maethrillian and other megastructures. The Forerunner during ancient times fought the Flood in the Forerunner Flood War, while attempting to uphold the mantle of responsibility. The Forerunner Navy is large, comprised of powerful ships including the Mantle's Approach, and manning defensive positions like the Maginot Line. The Forerunner also used very advanced artificial intelligence.
The Star Wars Universe is large - very large. Star Wars Legends gives the galaxy billions of planets and quintillions of people. Inhabiting the galaxy is the Galactic Empire, the Rebel Alliance, and various other factions. 
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for all the people who say "give star wars the celestials!" I'd say "Give the Forerunner the Halo array!"
They don't even need the Halo Array. All they need is the Composer and an army of Promethean Knights
Give the Forerunner the Precursors😎
@@OkayThatHurt Nah. Just give them Halo 4 Promethean Knights, Halo Reach Elites, and Halo 2 Jackal Snipers
@@mattwong5403 Can't forget Self-destruct Grunts
@@mattwong5403 forerunners could collapses every star and destroy galaxy by galaxy
If the star wars empire is using their cannon technology, The forerunners would win
If they were using legends technology, The forerunners would win
Add in the Star Forge, and we have a war that won't end until either the Forerunners get to the Star Forge, or the SW Universe eliminates most of the fleet
@@radicallarrythemailman8269 I don't think you understand how powerful the forunners are. Even if they did have the star forge all they would need is to find the location of the ship. Slip space there with like idfk 100 ships and just one shot that thing
just like they "won" against the flood ? don't make me laugh.
Add Darth Nihilus and its easy win for Star Wars Galaxy.
@@bgcvetan well the flood was an unconventional threat something I doubt any power logically speaking can predict. Even ancient humans in the Halo universe where close but no cigar in finding a way to stop a flood infestation because it really is like a flood fast and consuming but it also consumes intelligence as well which is dangerous brute force numbers alone cant stop that.
Finding out just how truly powerful the forerunners were makes me realize just how threatening the flood were. I mean in order to beat something like that to the point of extinction is beyond impressive
Maribro yeah, the current Halo universe is lucky that the Forerunners were there to weaken and contain them for the most part
The flood is OP AF
Don't forget the flood had the superior ai on thier side, offensive bias
oh, but mendicant was the superior ai right?
Broccoli_Assasin yes
One megastructure?
Installation 00. Show them The Great Journey.
B-B-B-B-B-Bingo! If they wanted to colonize the SW galaxy, literally drop the halos in next to them, then fire them. Its that simple.
@@evanpartin1323 they wouldn't. Halo is only a last resort. They need the natives as enslaved. Like all wars tend to have
He said "No halo arrays" right at the start.
:v The clone troopers are like: "for the covernant"
@@libertyprime9891 One flood spore then. Or no 'array' just omega halo and the ark
I fear nothing...
But that thing
*single flood spore*
It scares me...
That shit horrifying.
A single jackal sniper could take over the united star wars galaxy in about three hours.
From halo 2 on legendary
Not exactly, it could take about 5 minutes or less
have the comments on every video are like just throw a sniper jackal and i find that amusing and shiws how many other people have as much pain as me.
at first i was like “no way a single man could take over a galaxy”, then i remembered what a jackal sniper actually is...
If it was covenant vs United star wars dozens of jackel snipers are enough let me write a joke
Death troopers: We are the most elite of all space marine
Jackel Snipers: play Halo 2 in legendary
Lets see, the forerunners were capable of creating stars and planets. They were such an advanced species they could replicate and therefore create life. They had technology capable of destroying all life in their galaxy and indeed, in the end, did so. And then restored all life afterward. No faction in the star wars universe was ever so powerful.
Taylor N Star Wars could also create life, just listen to what Palpatine says to Anakin in episode 3
“He was so powerful and wise, that he could influence the midaclorians to create life 😏
There are civilizations in Star Wars galaxy that can do the same thing.
@@renton0915 For example?
@@ebimd1851 The Celestials are one. Also the Forerunners didn't create life in the Galaxy they, the Forerunners, and the rest were brought about by the Precursors. Those reseeding operations done after the Halo Rings were fired was the survivors or in the Foreunner term specimens they saved and then reseedee them back on their Planets.
@@ebimd1851 Also Echartsladder has a video on the most technologically advanced species in Star Wars.
Star Wars entering the fight: “Behold! The pride of the Empire, the Death Sta-“
Forerunners: *Casually brings in a couple hundred shield worlds*
SW: “wait that’s illegal”
Shield worls like requiem could resist? I only think onyx can survive to a Death Star
@@Joseph-jr5uj Lol no, death star wouldn't do shit, and forerunner shield worlds weren't really something like planets that have global shields, it was more like sending planet to another dimension to nullify any incoming attack, that's what they were going to do to save themselves from halo array buut mendicant bias lol noped that
@@Joseph-jr5uj the other dude didn’t even mention some of sizes of these shield worlds, one is so big it uses Sol as a measurement.
@@nou6256yeah one of the shield worlds had a diameter of 2 AUs.
For Star Wars Universe, the Forerunners has already taken over the majority of the galaxy, destroying Coruscant by throwing a shield world at it, and composed the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance.
But for the Forerunners, it was Tuesday.
I like how the Star Wars Galaxy was winning the poll but then suddenly The Forerunners started to win by a landslide😂
He threw Star Wars a bone by not including the rings and they would still get rekt by the forerunners
Nah
@@errorcringyname4044 the didact has something akin to the force which he used on master chief when he got out of the cryptum
@@errorcringyname4044 bruh the forerunners will make every sw faction their bitches lol
@@axelramirez6201 don't forget that the galaxies around the SW galaxy will get conquered too at a rediculously fast pace
@@YoRHaUnit2Babe and the fact that the forerunners literally weapnize stars whenever they want to and literally tilted the galaxy says a lot about their raw power, now imagine if they were bloodlusted while going against the star wars galaxy.
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"Forerunners are bloodlusted"
The Star Wars galaxy was going down regardless, but against bloodlusted Forerunners.......ouch.
Godfucking damn, that’s overkill
Bloodlusted forerunners are basically normal forerunners lol. We know from the books they have committed genocide hundreds if not thousands of times.
@@Orinslayer When were the thousands of times. They wiped out the precursors, but it's hinted at them having a very good reason to do so, and the precursors not being as noble as people think. They wiped out the ancient humanity civilization, but even then they didn't eliminate the species, just regressed them, who else?
@@tinamoul Its mentioned very briefly that any species they thought had no place under the mantle was outright exterminated, and they have devolved multiple species not just the humans, if they thought they could be tamed.
@@tinamoulthey wiped them out because the forerunners were enraged by the Precursors' decision to pass the Mantle of Responsibility on to prehistoric humanity instead of the them
A race that was constantly making new discoveries, even going as far as to shift the tilt of their galaxy just to see if they could, vs a culture that seems to be technologically stagnant. Yeah, I think the Forerunner have this one.
yeah fr tho, Star Wars technology is completely stagnant for at least 1000 years with the only exception being the occational superweapon... but that's about it not that much more.
Precursors from halo vs everything that you can think of
BTW precursors are basically gods they can create and exellerate life and there smallest ships could harvest stars and where basically indistructibal (they created humans and the forerunners) and they accedently created the flood. The primordial was found by ancient humans and was questioned. The people that asked them the question where later overloaded with intelligence and later committed suicide. Also they lived forever and could morph reality. So they are very powerful I think it would take a lot to take them down.
*pulls God card from my ass*
the precursors get raped by the forerunners
vev i orten cory in da hus Because they did nothing. They didn't fight back. It's stated somewhere that they were just so technologically advanced as a species, that they basically "ascended" and were so much so that nothing in the universe bothered them anymore, till the last moment when they realized they were near extinction, they turned themselves into DNA powder.
@@AraluenSparr ik i didnt mean it as a serious statement
LOL, Forerunners would stomp them so hard and so fast the SW galaxy wouldn't know what hit them, even if we're talking about the SW universe using the ridiculous Legends power calcs.
22steve5150 the suncrusher is op af and emperor palpatines ship,etc are op
Astro Doodie I don’t think you realize the forerunners have the tech to store their memory in a hardrive and just can use halo rings to annihalate the entire galaxy of living life and move to robotic bodies
22steve5150
Legends is awesome but they lose by a large scale agreed.
Halo has physics on its side and god will cough* i mean physics will lead the way
Star wars legends (All era's combined) vs the forerunners
I didn't even realize the Forerunners were THIS powerful, but the fact that the opponent was a UNIFIED Star wars definitely piqued my interest.
Is this even a question??
The forerunner can collapse stars, raze planets in an instant, and coordinate fleets bigger than those seen in star wars without breaking a sweat.
Star War's main advantage over other series match-ups is its sheer power output, well, that advantage goes out the window and the other direction when they go against the forerunners. It's not a matter of ships at this point, it is a matter of how individual ships function. A Keyship sat on a planet for 150,000 years, and was still in working order, Forerunner AIs alone can outmatch the processing power of half the droid in the galaxy.
I never played Halo games and so I don't know anything About this universe except the Things I learn on this channel. So I imagine the Forerunners used Shields? If yes it could very much be a Thing for one of this "Fortress" class ships to tank a direct hit or two from the Death star… Yeah, SW is fkkd XD
@@keinenbockmehr1749 their shields where pretty damn op, the human ship infinity used such shield but at a much less power then the forerunners. And it was able to ram km long ships cutting them into two and able to hold against covenant ship plasma lasers "ranked in the gigatons" and be just fine. Forerunner fortress ships where known to be some of the most durable. And they where 100km long during the flood war.
So as I said… SW is fkkd. Well... until Obi Wan gets the high Ground ;-)@@marcelrodriguez2067
the fact you even think the forerunners have a chance against the bedlam spirits just show your fanboyism, the other entire factions including the celestials wouldnt be needed.
@@keinenbockmehr1749 wrong halo is fucked.
Mendicant Bias alone could take the SW Galaxy.
Lol yes xd
don't forget offensive bias: hey i'm the same but more powerfull and i resist better to the floods.
Vörnir he’s less creative than mendicant, but in sheer processing power he’s better than MB.
@@punctuationman334 thanks for that precision, i think i need to read the books again ^_^
Mendicant bias would get hit pretty hard by force powers due to being an independent sentient model.
The Didact could also just keep digitizing beings and keep adding to the insanely huge Promethean army.
would composing stormtroopers improve their aim? or would there be no aim improvements?
@@watermelongaming3698 ok this shit right here will actually degrade the accuracy.
@@watermelongaming3698No former components of biological life are present in prometheans, except for maybe the skull shape in the knights. therefore, yes the aim would be fixed because no existence of the storm trooper would remain.
Just use the composer on the death star and then a forerunner admiral could give it to his children as a present
I think they would actually be VERY interested in the kyber crystals.
@@mrbuttocks6772 God help the SW Universe if the Forerunners start Amplifying their weapons with Kyber Crystals.
@@homelandenvironmentalriskc2787 The Forerunners would likely find Ilum, and figure out how to MAKE kyber crystals.
Fuckin awesome comment
@@mrbuttocks6772 www.halopedia.org/Menachite_Forerunner_crystal
I don't think they'd care much about kyber crystals lol.
*_If the flood can make the forerunners extinct then the flood can take the star wars galaxy in seconds._*
Not necessarily true.
@@CommissarChaotic The Vongs almost destroyed SW 😂 the Flood is 10 times if not more worse
@@matty9699 No, I meant that they possibly couldn't take it in seconds... I'm pretty biased for Halo haha
@@CommissarChaotic yeah in miliseconds
*One spore could destroy an entire species*
-Shipmaster R'thas Vadum
Yes the forerunners would demolish a star wars unified galaxy
Not when we have omnipotent races
Wendy and Mike Terell those are literally cheat codes. U can have omnipotent beings but does that matter when all sentient life has been wiped out?
But the star wars galaxy would "defeat"/survive the flood.
No. At least not the Old Republic Era Star Wars.
@@tchoythao1730 not in the slightest. As mentioned by guilty spark the forerunners "exhausted every possible strategy against the flood." That means there was NOTHING left that could be done against the flood. If the forerunners who can collapse stars, create stars, can make teleportation technology, slipspace, and literally transported entire planets to the arc to make the Halo rings, could do nothing, how can SW do anything?
:Star wars. “together we can crush them” :halo installations. Hold my 🍺
It’s literally like comparing the entire covenent to a puppy
This is a bad comparison, the puppy has to much of a chance at winning
Peak Anakin who could just destroy the halo arrays :/
@@errorcringyname4044 I highly doubt that, yes Anakin is powerful but the force is compared to the power capable of destroying all life in the galaxy
Cosmo the Space Dog!
Star Wars would crush the halo universe until it comes to the forerunners and flood
Saying they’re only allowed one mega structure is like telling a pro wrestler to only use one hand. It’s only because the forerunners would just win.
Now, imagine how much faster the Forerunners would win with ZERO megastructure limitations.
Could the emperor survive a cyanide pill?
Pheonyx most likely yes. He survived a bio weapon that instantly turnd everyone else's insides to liquid in under 2 mins.
Force users can actually resist nearly any poison.
Pheonyx More like a gallon.
Now what about Jar-Jar
@@Cameron088 lol
*Titel: Could the Forerunner Defeat a Unified Star Wars Galaxy*
*Halo Ring:* "May i introduce myself"
The forerunners be like:
"Ugh. Huuumaaaaans."
The humans be like:
"Wots a 'umin?"
Bro you had me rolling with that one😂😂
FORERUNNER VS IMPERIUM OF MAN
Haakon nordli the forerunners would still win
Forerunners stomp.
Forerunners stomp necrons or chaos is more fair
The imperium would be destroyed
FOR THE IMPERIUM is aduio for one of the imperial soldier
I love the videos man!
Houston Jones didn’t know you enjoy Star Wars haha??? Yeah
No, they were 3,000,000 worlds controlled by the Forerunners if I remembered.
Didn’t expect to see you here
Caught me off guard
I just found you here Houston lol
Its not even a game of "the forrunners has 10 trillion ships and SW has 1 million."
I bet one forrunner ship could tank the fire power fielded at endor, and destroy the SW fleet after.
Funnily enought they can do even worse
JHONNO il meme perduto Halo rings *cough* *cough*
@@svary6440 They don't even need the Halo Array . Because caugh, caugh Composer caugh. Turns Star Wars factions into nice little loyal robots and has them serve drinks at their parties after the very short war or just fight to the death for their entertainment. In any case Forerunner >well the entire Star Wars galaxy.
Remember a single Forerunner Keyship could take an entire planets defense fleet unloading on it and thats the smallest known ship type thats not a fighter or combat skin. The Forerunner effectively controlled the entire milkyway galaxy and practically enslaved the majority of 123 species. The Galactic Empire couldn't handle a small rebellion. And their "elite" Stormtroopers got their asses handed to them by 3ft tall teddy bears in a forest. No joke . the Forerunner would have kicked the little bastareds asses then enslaved or deevolve them for such insistence. They may make cute pets but that would be about it.
Does the forerunners have 10 trillion ships? I wonder where the source of the fact is. Of course I am a forerunner fan
@@user-fu7qp6qk4d no the number is more along the 10's of millions. But still, even their smallest ships could take on a few Star Destroyers on their own.
in halo wars 2, there was a mission where you had to stop the banished from getting ahold of a single despair class fighter because if they had it, they would gain the ability to drive all of your forces away from the ark and take control, with a single forerunner starfighter...... the forerunners would absolutely destroy the star wars galaxy, its not even a fight, the sheer power of the forerunners isnt even quantifiable, their megastructures reach 100'000+ km in diameter, they can suspend things inside slipspace, they can weaponize stars on demand while the star wars galaxy really only has 1 ship capable of it, theyre individual soldiers would be so powerful compared to any foot soldiers the star wars universe has to offer that theres no chance even on the ground, even with jedi, look at the didacts combat skin, he has telekinesis that is equal to if not better than the force, i imagine thats an ability inherent in a lot of warrior servant combat skins. the 2 most important massive advantages are the ai and the forerunner beam weapons though, the star wars laser weapons are laser bolts that travel far slower than even a standard bullet. the forerunner beam weapons travel at the speed of light, and sojourner class dreadnoughts have lasers capable of annihilating huge areas of the surface of a planet with a single pulse. instant destruction from far outside the engagement range of any star wars ship. ultimately the nail in the coffin for the star wars galaxy though would be the contender class ai, you just cant compete with mendicant and offensive bias, were you to leave them heavily outnumbered, i imagine they would still find a way to win and be far more efficient as commanders than even thrawn
The laser bolt in star wars travels the way it does more for spectacle than anything else.
I don’t wanna read this
Bro I think Thrawn would just befriend Mendicant Bias and just betray the Star Wars Universe XD
@@CrimsonPisces113haha as soon as he sees the forerunners he be like "oh hell naw fuck that shit man im joining them instead"
The forerunners tech is practically magic
Imagine if the foreigners could use the halo rings. It would be like throwing a grenade in a chicken coop
Elias Atchison Lmao, "Foreigners"
Thos goddam illegal aliens in OUR galaxy.
Sword of Sanghelios Quick, someone do Galexit before we're doomed...
Optic Aurora
😂😂👍
exactly!!!
I think it might be a fairer fight to choose an era when the Jedi Order were in full flight. Tens of thousands of super soldiers co-ordinating the attack stand a better chance than the era where there were four known force users (plus Ezra and Leia).
But even then, they get STOMPED.
Lol there is absolutely zero fairness in this fight whatsoever.
You can resurrect every Force user who ever lived and have them stand in a unified front , it won't change a damn thing.
Forerunners are on par with 40k and even give some of their factions pause for concern.
And then there's the Precursors...
The Forerunners can go Toe-to-Toe with the worst of 40k.
Star Wars doesn't have a prayer.
*ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL*
*halo ring*
The Forerunners would have just composed everything.
that's a lot of promethean knights
@@bbarbiter not that much, might be quadrillion or more?
Force users like jedi and sith could fight the didact on equal terms.
Debbie Bernhardt the didact would most likely not put himself in a situation where he’d be in a 1v1, even if he did I think you guys forget that most force abilities don’t even work on extra galactic entities such as the vong. The Jedi and Sith could still use it to enhance themselves and manipulate there surrounding but unless they are using lightning or creating black holes/force storms there powers will have no effect on the didact, and they won’t be able to use the force for pre cognition purposes on the didact either. The didact is incredibly powerful as well. He possesses a incredibly efficient and state of the art combat skin, he’s physically very powerful, essentially wields telekinesis, and is durable(he survived being stabbed through the eye by a spartan). It matters who you put him up against. Legends Palpatine or Grandmaster Luke would most likely beat him, while a legends Vader would most likely lose to him.
there is also the fact that the forerunners have a kinda technological version of the force as seen in halo 4
I wonder, have you ever thought about doing a ground battle versus, if so, I want you to find something in Star Wars that can compete with 100 Spartan-IIs in Mk IV Mjolnir Armor
(Be more civil than last time)
TheRed Hawk why shieldless MK IV?
The Mandalorian army (during the Mandolalorian war) vs the UNSC ground forces.
THE GROUND FORCES OF REACH VS THE GROUND FORCES AT THE BATTLE OF GEONOSIS.
The line of the Darktroopers would be some-what similar to the Spartans. Elite forces, mech armor, nearly impenetrable armor, each one beyond a Phase I being able to solo an army.
The Dark Trooper Inquisitorium Trooper for example was made specifically to defeat jedi and was VERY effective. Phase II Dark troopers have gatling-gun like weapons (depending on source) and have built in jetpacks, on top of their incredible armor. Phase III were basically an upgraded Phase II but with a cannon as their weapon.
Then of course there are the Dark Nova Troopers which are slightly smaller than Phase II and more form fitting and less mechanical, since they were intended for boarding actions.
In regards to the armor on all of these, it is one of the materials in the galaxy that is nearly indestructible.
Imperial Royal Guards, Shadow Guards and Royal Sovereign Protectors.
These are one of the few soldiers/units in Star Wars that would kill the Spartans.
My mind about this vid
(Ring turns on)
SW: Is that a giant ri-
?
Nunu Support One Trick Exactly
@@funkle2645 The Halo rings disintegrates *all* lifeforms more complex than moss.
@@funkle2645 A halo ring basically kills everything within 25,000 lightyears
@@lemon_curry_ aka gods own anti son of a bitch machine
It’s awesome how master chiefs armor is only class 2 of 18 lol. The forrrunners were so freakin intense
According to Guilty Spark, Chiefs armor was the Forerunner equivalent to a HazMat suit
@@Angry_Peanut_52Just to ask did you see pancreasnowork’s video? Because I think he said that line in it
5 American M1a2 Abrams Tanks vs 1 AT-AT or AT-TE
Thanks Eck :)
this is bit hard... if is Abrams vs AT-TE, the question does go down to the crew cause the cockpit would quickly be taken out. it would come down to the main gun and crew. The AT-AT however would easily win. it just as to keep shooting. The Abrams only chance is to get a lucky neck shot or to get close to the underbelly.
ArchAngel 1312 don't forget the at-ap
lancer737 NIEN walker made of durasteel Abrams gun cuts through titanium like butter the gun should easily cut through whatever glass they use on the at te
or AAT, i feel that would be more fair
The Dalek Empire VS The Galactic Empire
Which one? I forget which but didn't one of those empires have the ability not only to destroy the universe but all instances of existence ever? Which surely makes them the most OP civilisation ever yo have existed.
Because writers need to make huge threaths. If I made a Sci-Fi race, they would be immortal indestructible robots with near infinite computing power and the power to destroy multiverses. Also, they have a glove that turns planets into pure metal and that was made by a student working on a physics/engineering project.
Doctor who universe is just way to wonky and timey wimey for an accurate versus . But the Daleks , If lead by competent leaders , would win .
Ahem ... The reality bomb. Debate's over.
+Gowan James Ditchburn Nope, that is the Xelee xD
The forerunners could stomp the 40K galaxy. So yea, Star Wars will get stomped
i’m very late but i’ve been reading the halo books in chronological order, and the forerunners will easily beat anything in star wars
3.2.1. START
"Looks like the forerunner just brought in the halo rings and... what's that? Oh.... folks I've just been informed literally every sentient in the galaxy is dead and being re-seeded by the forerunners"
Short answer: no
Long answer: oh hell no
H.M.S Rodney bro they could just yeet halo arrays around the galaxy. The exact reason he said he was not going to allow halo technology was because it would take the Forerunners a solid month to wipe out all life in the galaxy. That being said they could also just say screw it and have their advanced AI to control their fleet while they focus on just throwing stars at enemy systems
Dumbass the forerunner would wipe out the galaxy you fucking idiot.
Tf u on about. The forerunner would fuckin stomp the SW universe.
@@toothlessthenightfury2088 he’s on that good shit
Slipspace allows them to bypass hyperdrive lanes entirely too. Forerunner ships can just slipspace through stars or the super massive blackhole in the Galaxy's center to systems on the other side with pinpoint accuracy. All they would need to do is upload the data from a single navi-computer, which are literally everywhere, to have the Galaxy mapped out mostly.
Bro forgot that the forerunners can scan a galaxy on a molecular scale nearly instantly 😂
The prehistoric humans in the halo universe could have beat the forerunners of they weren't fighting both them AND the flood
We were supposed to have the Mantle in the first place, and look at what the Forerunners caused.
No they couldn't.
Three million worlds vs 20,000 isn't very good odds for the humans.
And no, they weren't supposed to inherit the Mantle. They were simply the next species in line to be tested by the Precursors's after the Forerunners. They very well might have failed the test like the Forerunners had.
MrMcp1995 Actually, Ancient Humanity WAS supposed to inherit the Mantle, except the Forerunners got pissy about it and blew up the Precursors, taking the Mantle for themselves.
+MrMcp1995 The Forrunners attacked The Precursors because they were going to give the Mantel to humanity. The Forerunners hated that and they attacked there creators that is what I have been hearing.
MrMcp1995 I don't get it, if humans failed they wouldn't be here right, forunners didn't actually die out as well, I mean any surviving forunners are in the spider nebula and are heavily devolved from after the halo event.
Lol imagine if the precursors went up against the Star Wars galaxy
Technically speaking that could be the flood vs Star Wars
Brown Town that would be even more of a slaughter the flood have the potential to use all precursor technologies and more combine that with the flood being already an unstoppable force very little forces in any sort of fictions can stop them at their peek
Inferno The last elemental big oof
@@infernothelastelemental514 wrong, just a single bedlam spirit would be more than enough to own the entire halo universe
@Zamasu Sama not as raped as the entire halo universe when Tilotny turns them into popcorn
The lore can now show that a couple of Guardians can destroy a planet. So yeah. Forerunners can’t possibly lose
Death Star can do the same.
@@syzorst guardians > death star
@@syzorst X-50...
@@syzorst One blast from one of two Attenuation pulse emitters on a Guardian would completely cripple the Death Star
The singular fact that the forerunners are 4th dimensional or higher and the Star Wars galaxy isn’t, makes this an easy forerunner win.
It would be a more even fight if it were the Forerunners against WH40k galaxy. Then they’d have an equally overpowered opponent to through themselves at.
Necrons and the ctans can put a fight. They might win. But idk.
Imagine the Emperor being like "hey man, can I borrow some of your Halos? Yeah im just gonna fire it in the Warp. Yeah, thanks, I'll be back later. See ya!"
No doubt the forerunners would win in Warhammer 40k, if the chaos gods wants to do some damage against the forerunners they have to reach and manipulate mendicants bias or offensive bias which is quite unrealistic if they can't stay for long period of time to do it but even in that scenario the only one who could manipulate the AIs is Tzeentch after centuries of debates, I can see the Necrons going on par against them but it's just matter of time for the forerunners to win, the Tyranids would put a good fight too
The only races that can put up a fight are the Eldar (before they fucked themselves quite literally), the War in Heaven Krorks and Necrons.
Unfortunately though, the Eldar fucked themselves that even if they outclass the Forerunners in weapons technology they're simply way to small compared to the Forerunners, the Necrons are still sleeping but the Dynasties might be able to put up a decent fight and the Krorks turned to Orks
@@BLOrtega If modern orks were fighting the forerunners they would be more powerful than krorks and necrons since they evolve to match their opponent no matter what and halo arrays cant kill them off because the fungal spores they reproduce from arent sentient life (and it would kill the forerunners too) I don't really see anything but a stalemate until chaos makes the forerunners split off a few chaos sided factions (Chaos affects all creatures with emotion) at which point its forerunners vs Peak krorks, nekronsand ctan shards, chaos, imperium of man, tyranids and more forerunners
Reapers from mass effect vs flood from halo
Buck's chin stroke How many Flood would there be? Could they get new hosts?
Daniel Bob.they infect anything the has a nervous system so their numbers can be almost limitless
Im curious about whether the reapers could stop the flood outbreak before it gets out of hand
Buck's chin stroke
"Logic plague"
I'm pretty sure one like say Sovereign would get into a conversation with a Gravemind and then be infected with the Logic Plague sorta like how Cortana might be infected in Halo 5. And before you say anything there is evidence that supports the theory that Cortana has the Logic Plague, because there's several days between Halo 2's end and Cortana's rescue in Halo 3. And what was she most likely doing on High Charity? Talking and being tortured by the Gravemind. And I highly recommend that you watch HiddenXperia's video on it.
The short answer: yes, lmao.
*Sees title*
Yes.
Easy.
They ended all life in the dang galaxy with ringworlds once. A mere fraction of their power.
*TAU EMPIRE VS THE COVENANT*
for the fith time!
Man I'm sorry, I don't think he really knows or cares about the 40K universe. Even if he did care, if he doesn't feel like he has enough information to feel qualified to make a video on the subject matter then that's his decision to make.
Personally if I were him and didn't know about the 40K universe, I wouldn't want to make a video with just the information off of the wiki, I would just lack the information necessary to do the video proper justice.
ANGRY MARINE Tau don't even engage in melee, the Tau are fucked. Elites would fuck those gay birds.
FUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The warhammer 40k universe is insanely more powerful than the star war/halo/Star Trek Universes. Like in this video the forerunners wouldn't have a snowballs chance in hell vs the Eldar empire, let alone the war in heaven combatents. PS. The Tau will shit kick the Covenant. Melee means nothing to the Tau, you can't get into Melee with them. And there armored units are way more combat effective. Only in space combat do the Covenant have any advantage, and there it is only in numbers.
Halo Universe Post 4 (with Forerunners, Precursors, Halo Array and ancient humans) Starcraft (with Zerg, no Xelnaga), Doomguy 2016, Mass Effect Post ME 2 (with Protheans) , Star Wars (no celestials and post Clone Wars), and Dune vs 40k
Let the BATTLE BEGIN!!
Even if Abeloth or The Ones sided with a united galaxy, I wouldn't put money on them. They can be weakened and overpowered and the Forerunners are ridiculously more advanced than anything else in the Galaxy.
If halo rings were allowed they because they could wipe out the galaxy
How does a Star Wars celestial hold up against The Forerunners ? The Ones, I found out, are actually the descendants of The Celestials. And they're stupid OP as well !
@Michael Bailey Bro how do you weaken an entity that permeates through everything in its range with control over basically all forms of matter !? And I don't even think Luke and the Lost Tribe discovered Abeloth's max range of influence 😅
@Michael Bailey *When you're so overpowered you have to turn off your mad hacks just so you can die*
Eh... I think they could make a difference. Like a really big difference. They built Centerpoint Station which can destroy entire Star Systems. They are super OP even by themselves anyway
Dammm!!! If the Forerunners are this OP!!! This just gives out how threatening-powerful and robust the Flood really is given the fact that 1000 plans was put into action by the Forerunners but failed and have to resort to firing the halo rings.. so can you imagine the Star Wars Universe going up against the might of the Flood.
It’s worse if you realize what the flood at their peak can do they were basically warping reality in halo silentium
I love how many conditions need to be put on this battle (and rightfully so) like the forrunners having bloodlust and not caring about the mantle. Good stuff man
forruners talking to SW Galaxy
einstein talking to a monkey
forerunners probably have dispossable low tier ships that are around the size of the death star of the force awakens also a spartan by himself can probably kill hundreds or even thousands of storm troopers and now a forerunner with an armor atleast 100 times better and crazy weapons its pretty safe to say that a single forerunner can single handed obliterate entire armies and fleets so when you take stuff like that into consideration i think its pretty obvious that even with star wars legends insane calculations forerunners would still be able to wipe out all star wars life with barely any loses
literally forerunners shot ligth
Spartans actually have weaker armor and weapons, as well as less numbers. Their armor is weaker in defense. Their advantages are augmented stats and armor stat augments. A spartan 2 could probably kill 1-4 basic clone troopers. Don't forget, Clones are essentially peak human+ spartans 2's with better training. They aren't as strongly augmented, but are each bred from birth for war.
@@tchoythao1730 I normally don't make comments like this but you know literally nothing about Spartan 2's. I love Star Wars and the clones are my favorite part about it but a more fair fight would be ODSTs vs. Clones. Spartan 2's are too much for any basic Star Wars infantry.
Elemental Rice agreed spartan 2s are atleast a match maybe for an entire platoon of clones
Tchoy Thao Spartans have their speed and reaction time increased by 300%, not to mention their insanely augmented strength, especially in armor, that allows them to flip tanks and even elephants. Then there’s the armor. Even MkIV augmented their strength and had a heat resistant coating to protect from Covenant plasma. Since MkV they’ve had shielding that can deal with plasma pretty well.
Actually the forerunners at the peak of their empire had 3 million worlds not 3 thousands
Couldn’t the forerunners just capture a flood spore and release it onto the Death Star? Screw over the Star Wars universe then up and leave 😂
That would just be stabing themselves in the back on a later date since the flood would consume the entire SW galaxy and gain all the knowledge and abilities of the galaxy eventually spreading to other SW galaxies inevitably consuming the entire universe very similar to the tyranids.
For your top 5 or even top 10
Some examples ;
Top sci-fi military techs
Top best flagships
Top space fighters (x wing, sabres, banshees etc.)
Top parasitic species
Top biggest structures in scifi
Hope this helps
Could the Mass Effect Universe survive a Flood Infestation?
That's a tricky one.
if they can isolate the flood but deactivating Mass Effects and stave it. Maybe? Just hope they don't use the logic plague on the Geth or even the Reapers if they are involved.
No
lol the flood use slipspace
the flood use slipspace because that is what the forerunners and other species in the Halo Universe use. In Mass Effect there is no slipspace.
The best part is you are being kind with this…there is quite literally nothing in star wars EVER that could beat a single forerunner fleet…or just one fortress.
"Whoever controls the halo, controls the fate of the universe"
Gunnery Sergeant Buck (before becoming a Spartan) vs Han Solo?
Give this man a cookie
Sword of Sanghelios and some milk
...Oof. Sorry, but Han Solo wins. He always shoots first, and he flew the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs ;3
Nah. Flying really fast doesn't have anything to do with raw dueling skill, plus, he's not wearing any armor.
You, sir, don't understand the joke. I know that Buck would win from a realistic standpoint.
Would really love to see you tackle some Stargate ships vs various other sci-fi universes.
The BC-304 Odyssey vs a Super Star Destroyer.
Or maybe the Ori vs the Forerunners.
Wraith vs the Empire.
The guardians ALONE could wreak serious havoc on the star wars galaxy. Going from planet to planet basically putting them into he stone age by doing their big pulse and shutting everything down. Combine that with the massive weapons that the sentinels can combine to form (ghosts of onyx I believe had a good example) you're looking at complete annihilation of the star wars galaxy
On top of that the guardians were designed only to intimidate and force less advanced civilizations to behave. So if the star wars galaxy could be defeated by guardians, then they were never even enemies to the forerunners. Just misbehaving children.
star wars has awesome tech but halo is by far ridiculous they would just stomps almost all star wars
The bedlam spyrits are literally omnipotent Star Wars stomps and if you mean all of halo beats all of Star Wars than you have to read Star Wars
@@wendyandmiketerell997 Halo precursors are also omnipotent,. Your point?
The Didact hey didact
@LiverHook Placed The bets part of star trek is when it does approach "magical" levels of science, crazy shit like red matter gets to happen!
LiverHook Placed only to a certain point. Slip Space travel, shields, incredibly small fusion reactors put into relatively small exo suits, etc are just scratching the surface of how unrealistic halo can get from a modern day scientific standpoint. Factor in Neural Physics, Halo Arrays, Hard Light, Composers, Teleporters, the flood super cell, etc and halo becomes incredibly wild as this is all hard SCI-FI stuff and some of it is frankly impossible(Flood Super Cell, Neural Physics). The UNSC, especially pre war and human covenant war UNSC, are grounded even to a fault in some areas, particularly battery technology, automation, vehicles, and ballistic weaponry. The grounded approach to halo since CE has always appealed to me, even if it was silly at times.
Of course the forunners would win😎!!!
The forerunners would throw a star at a celestial just for funzies! They casually bore into alternate realities to power their side projects, they can create a solar system sized shield world swallowing a sun and three planets in the centre then compress said shield world into a tiny bubble which they hide in slip space! What is anything in the Star Wars galaxy gonna do!
Nothing.
Ok, so they race that killed god, killed most of humanity, and had to fight the Flood two times, they won twice and went all but extinct in the process. And now for Star Wars, a galaxy that was just fighting each other for about 40 years at that point, so... I’m going with Maethrillian and the Forerunner armada, oh great, my boi Mendicant is here to, sorry SW, been a good run but he is a contender class AI, your fucked
Just the sheer fact that the forerunners can alter the galaxies axial tilt says enough
The idea that a single shot from a single turbo-laser on a single star destroyer carries 200 Gigatons of TNT is absolute nonsense at its finest. That's continental destroying fire power. You could never use it for orbital bombardment to support ground troops because you probably vaporize those ground troops in the process. Basically each shot would impact with the explosive force of a Yellowstone Super-volcano eruption, and star wars warships have dozens, hundreds, or - in the case of super star destroyers - even thousands of these things?! all that can fire several times a minute?! I don't know why the empire bothered building the inefficient and very expensive death star (let alone two). when they could make a planet effectively uninhabitable in just a few shots from any old star destroyer, which - LMAO - apparently only cost about as much as Boeing 747. It's all ridicululous. I think AT MOST a shot could be a couple Megatons, but even that is pushing the suspension of disbelief, lol
This is exactly why I find Legends ridiculous and an extraordinarily stupid way to look at the SW universe. The same thing happened here as did in DC and Marvel:
When people with zero fucking clue about what they are writing try and slap some "impressive numbers" on their characters/machines/civilizations and don't realize wtf they just said.
Its written in SW legend. Physics says a bumblebees isn't supposed to fly but it does. Why is it hard to believe a made up universe is so powerful? Many examples show that weapons have power levels. The DS blows up planets. They can produce the output. Its a matter of power scaling. Again, its written. You're basically picking and choosing your facts. Life must be easy for you.
@@Aegis030
Doesn't matter when your enemies punch harder than you...
@@Aegis030
"Its a matter of power scaling. Again, its written. You're basically picking and choosing your facts. Life must be easy for you"
it's not picking and choosing facts, some things are called "legends" because they're fucking legends in-universe. dipshit.
your comments make you seem like the kind of person who would believe legit propaganda, note that "propaganda" is
:information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
note that it's not 100% true information, it's misleading. For all intents and purposes star wars legends is propaganda.
nova bomb of humanity in human-covenant war, is a planet destroyer, 200 gigatons pff this is trash
Don't you think average warrior servants would be stronger than palpatine after they learn about midichlorian?
These are so great!! Thank you for doing these.
SW: we created the biggest Weapon the death star which is bigger than planets!!!!
Forerunners: Bro give me 8 minutes
The deathstar is like a thenth the size of a planet.
@@Julian-pw5mv a shield world has a total land mass of 500 million earths, and there's over 600 of this
SW does not have the power of the forerunners
@@ur-didact1991 your point?
@@Julian-pw5mv my point is that death star is Nowhere near big as forerunner installation.
The Forerunners would press a button and the war would end.
Please do the Eclipse dreadnought vs 25 Venator star destroyers. Thanks in advance!
P.S-Love the vids, keep it up! :)
I like it how he said no halo array lol, it'll be hirashmia
Forerunners: you've just messed with the wrong bloodline.
Starwars: oh crap we're really screwed.
Swords of Sanghelios [halo] vs rebel alliance [Star Wars]
Yes
or the resistance (unsupported by the new republic)
callum bailey sword would win
Sword of Sanghelios
Awaiting Orders!
Having been a huge Star Wars fan for the majority of my life, but also having read the forerunner books, let me just say: a single Sojourner-class Prime Dragoon (10km in length) could easily win against the entire united Star Wars galaxy. And the forerunners had at least several hundred thousand of these, likely millions.
The only threat of any kind would be the death star, and they'd just slipspace rupture right behind it, and use the torsion driver to collapse it into itself. While the death star could likely destroy or at least cripple the Sojourner with its main weapon, I severely doubt it would ever get a good shot with how slow it is.
The 28 converging beam cannons would essentially be mini death star beams violently dancing through space, slicing and coring ships left and right with such a lust for destruction and violence not even the ship firing them could control their exact pathing. One or two hits from those would be enough to render a Star Destroyer so much as swiss cheese, while a full broadside would easily incapacitate or outright annihilate super star destroyers, dreadnoughts, freighters with plot armor, and the like.
The light mass fusillade cannons, of which the Sojourner employed 300 of for point defense, would be significantly more destructive than even the fiercest turbolasers, shredding light cruisers, frigates, and corvettes, vaporizing freighters, and error 404ing all starfighters breaching the point defense grid instantly.
Security on board the ship consisted of 200 Scutarii, a class of warrior-servant that excelled in shipboard combat. Think of the most powerful soldier you can - Master chief, Noble 6, the Didact, Mandalore the Ultimate - and realize that a single generic warrior servant could defeat them all in seconds without breaking a sweat. Force users would be more tricky, but hard light projectiles would pass right through lightsabers, leaving force choke or rend as the only option. Even still, a warrior servant's combat skin would keep them lucid enough to simply disintegrate the offending sith before lasting damage could be done.
The Sojourner also carried 5000 Venatore, warrior servants employed with war sphinxes (think forerunner basilisk war droids) that were capable of leveling cities individually.
Aligning with the forerunner naval doctrine of the time, Sojourners also carried literally millions, yes millions, of Despair-class fighters. Don't let the name fool you, each "fighter" is actually an extremely fast and nimble 200 meter long warship capable of going toe to toe with most capital ships the star wars galaxy can throw at it.
The Sojourner itself boasted shields and armor of such strength that no weapon in the entire star wars galaxy would be any kind of threat, once again with the possible exception of the Death Star's super laser.
The forerunners wouldn't need Maethrillian, any megastructures, hero ships, or named characters. They wouldn't need fleets of thousands of warships, they wouldn't even need a Contendor-class ancilla (basically a super AI). All they'd need is a single prime dragoon that could be manufactured within days using Summus Assembler Vats.
Let's make things clear here, I'll be including EVERY single character from star wars history to make it fair, because there's really no competition or argument otherwise.
The star wars galaxy loses 10/10 here, but if we include everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY as in the Yuuzhan Vong and entities, then I'd say it's more fair and I'd say they'd win against the forerunners. That would also include the starkiller base, and it could destroy several planets at once. Actually, theoretically it could destroy thousands of planets by 1 blast because it has the energy of a star, but star wars lowballed it. But again, to really even it out let's say that starkiller base can only destroy a couple of hundred planets. That would destroy several ships for sure. Also, Luke Skywalker managed to move a black hole with the mass of a star to slam into an enemy ship. So most of the force users would be completely annihilated, but the grandmasters and Sith Lords would beat warrior servants pretty easily. Especially Luke Skywalker, he would completely obliterate any warrior servant, if Luke Skywalker can move the mass of a sun, then yeah, no argument there. Also, Palpatine's force lightning was powerful enough to bring down the resistance fleet, even though he was toying. It's definitely not going to do much damage to most ships, since well, they are the forerunners, but most lighter ships would crumble to Palpatine's full power lightning. Palpatine's force lightning would be enough to bring down plenty of Despair class fighters. The starkiller base has the power of a literal star, so it wouldn't even need to use its full power just to destroy 1 sojourner.
"The forerunners wouldn't need Maethrillian, any megastructures, hero ships, or named characters. They wouldn't need fleets of thousands of warships, they wouldn't even need a Contendor-class ancilla (basically a super AI). All they'd need is a single prime dragoon that could be manufactured within days using Summus Assembler Vats."
That's my biggest disagreement here. Abeloth herself could wipe out an entire fleet. I'm sure you you know who she is, am I'm sure you know that it took Luke Skywalker, Ben Skywalker, Darth Krayt and a couple of other Sith Lords just to beat Abeloth, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't even full power Abeloth, that was just her avatars. I'm also sure you know how powerful Darth KrayT and Ben Skywalker are, right? If it took Luke that many people to beat Abeloth's avatars, then Abeloth would easily destroy a sojourner and a fleet by herself at full power although that would be high def. People forget that Abeloth is 12 times stronger than Luke who can move something that has the mass of a star. For sure, the Star Wars Galaxy has an edge of ground units and just infantry in general, but the space ships is iffy. The Empire itself has slightly over 25k star destroyers, I'm assuming that it already includes the dreadnoughts and super star destroyers in that 25k. Then take into an account that the Dark Empire has just about that same number if not more, and are stronger since they have super weapons like the Galaxy Gun, the super laser of the Eclipse and the Devastator.
I would give the slight edge to star wars because of the starkiller base and cosmic entities advantage.
@@sittienakan1594 Yeah the whole Star Wars Legends galaxy could definitely take on a single Sojourner. I was just saying that in the scenario he provided a single ship would be enough. If you bring into account all characters throughout history, as well as cosmic entities and force monsters, the Forerunners would likely need a whole fleet if not some megastructures as well.
The only thing I disagree with you on is the importance of Starkiller base. I think it would be all but useless against a Forerunner threat. It's just too slow, and let's not forget it needs to drain a whole star every time it fires. Not only would the Forerunners flag it as one of the few weapons capable of damaging their ships and immediately prioritize its destruction, but they could also slipspace away every time it turned to aim at them. They'd likely do the same thing I described with the Death Star, simply slipspace rupture right behind it and use the torsion driver on the thermal oscillator.
As far as cosmic entities go, I'll have to defer to you, since I haven't done much research or know much about them. Generally when some type of magic is involved, things get iffy, and it's entirely possible they'd be able to destroy quite a few ships.
This is the first video I actually like
I LOVE watching the Star Wars universe getting whacked in the face so hard that a tomato looks pail in comparison. Also that's why I love watching this video over and over again.
Sadly with all the poisonous Star Wars fans, it does sadly feel good to see SW lose. :(
Normally in these vs vids, the SW fan boy bias is such that they will pull anything out of their ass to save the SW universe from getting roflstomped. This is the one time that nothing they can pull, not even their own fan boy bias can prevent the SW universe from not only getting face rolled, but getting face rolled so hard that it is like a single solitary ant against an elephant wearing combat boots stepping on it.
Left Hook but how do you think it will play out if in stead of starwars its warhammer
@@lordinquisitorsionmasterof128 warhammer 40k universe>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Halo universe 100%
@@lordinquisitorsionmasterof128 depends on whether khaos demons can influence the forerunner or their A.I.. If the forerunner stay united and their A.I. doesn't turn on them they will probably take a similar place as humans enjoyed during the golden age of technology. If they can be influenced by the warp they will likely stack up as slightly more powerful than humanity, but, just barely.
Sw: we have thr high ground
Halo:
h2 sniper jackal
So basically, despite having only 300is worlds the forerunners had unlimited resources to build ridiculously large structures and weapons.
+Marshall York 300 million :). Not sure if I mispoke in the video
+Marshall York *I mean 3 million
That makes more sense. Although they still seemed to have unlimited resources.
EckhartsLadder---You said you haven't been feeling the love lately in your last video. If I contributed to that at all I'm very sorry. I get the fact your busy and I shouldn't complain. I really should appreciate your efforts instead. Again I'm sorry. (Yes Guilty Conscience, much).
Marshall York 3,000,000 worlds
Love these videos, huge Halo and Star Wars fan.
I think that the Forerunners are OVERPOWERED!
That's the point
The forerunner would annihilate the star wars universe
UNSC Autumn Class Cruiser vs Imperial 1 or 2 SD
John Pionzio now that's a good match up since the ship has shields now but still a lack of info only thing holding the vs back
Easy clap. Forerunner stomp.
Forerunner vs type 3 (kardeshev scale) humanity
Omg i love all your work. Its so hard to say this or that. So just keep up all the good work.
Hey Eckharts if u ever do ground battle versus I think it be a great match up between a Covenant elite honor guard and a Jedi Knight or master maybe
Kingx Kai117 The Jedi would speed blitz or ragdoll the honor guard. A much better fight would be a elite honor guard vs a red honor guard
Legends Jedi win with ease.
Canon Jedi get murdered as they don't use the freaking Force. Seriously, SWtCWs made me like the Sith way more than the Jedi, our supposed good guys.
Ancient humanity (Halo) vs the galactic republic
humans would win. They were almost on par with the forerunners. That being said they occupied much less of the galaxy
We know almost nothing about Ancient Humanity, besides that their technology was on par with the Forerunners.
Xyro
I wouldnt that far.
We know they fought a 1000 year 2 front war against both the Forerunners and the Flood. In the climax of the war when the Flood had been 'defeated' at the cost of a 1/3 of the remaining human population and worlds. The humans had been driven back to their capital world where they successfully held off the entire forerunner war machine for a futher 50 yrs. It took humanity's major ally the San Shyumm, to betray them and surrender to the Foreunners, before Humanity was ultimately defeated.
Ancient Humanty with their war machine destroyed and space reduced to their last remaining world were still capable of putting up more of a fight than the entire Galactic Empire would be capable of.
At their height the Ancient Human empire would crush the Empire and Darth Sidious and Vader would get to see first hand what real power is (and they wouldnt like it).
The Humans were better. They found a cure even with their many limits that the Forerunners didn’t have. They would have won the Human-Forerunner war if the flood wasn’t involved.
Daniel Fire knight
Lol. The humans never found a cure, the flood played humanity and the Forerunners like a musical instrument. The flood retreated so as to give the impression that the flood cure worked. By this point in the war the Forerunner leadership already knew about the Human - Flood war, and understood the looming threat the flood posed. By retreating the Forerunners realised that they couldnt wipe out humanity as they may lose the cure as well. The flood saved humanity in order to get to the Forerunners, their real enemy.
Over 3 million worlds, millions of ships, trillions of Promethean, shield worlds, etc etc
I love the match up videos!