The Most ADVANCED SPECIES In Halo Lore (The Creators of the Flood)
Halo's universe is teeming with a diverse array of species, but one stands leagues above the others. This is the most ADVANCED SPECIES in Halo Lore EXPLAINED...
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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - The Forerunner's Technological Advancement Tier System Explained
9:17 - The Most Advanced Species in Halo
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PRIMORDIALS:
TAGSTER
Beefast
Brandon Mihelic
Carakal
Mannequin
GRAVEMINDS:
TAGSTER
Stan
MendicantDG
Sean T
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The title is of course in reference to Chips Dubbo, what else did you think I was talking about?
Please stop saying the Lord’s name in vain in your video titles. I love your videos, but I can’t watch you if you do that.
The video isn’t about chips dunno? 😢
Chips Dubbo can beat all Flood, Covenant, Promethean, Banished, and UNSC forces combined in 9 seconds oh yeah and we want you to get 1 mil
@@frankieiv3637agreed
Nah the primordial will anniliat them in the quick of a second but before that even happens the flood will just erase there species I didn't even mention the didact species 😮😮😮
Obviously the most intelligent species in the Halo universe is the sniper jackal as it knows that beam rifles are the best weapon ever created.
Annnnddd back to the only halo universe people love and adore.
Sniping's a good jobe mate.
They know exactly where their target is by knowing where their target isn't and will thus never miss
Closely followed by the suicide Grunts
I figure, you can clear any halo run with the CE magnum.
It’s a funny contrast seeing you go from being pushed to your near breaking point talking about the Halo tv show to this video where you exude joy by talking about actual Halo lore.
Haha yeah... the contrast in writing quality is quite telling :)
This is how Luke heals 😂
@@HiddenXperialistening to The Flood, Ghost of Onyx, Fall of Reach, and Contact Harvest in between episodes of the show is, just sad to see what could’ve been
Think of it as a palette cleanser. He copes with the exhaustion of the tv show by pivoting to what he loves best.
@@HiddenXperia the whiplash would be useful for your boxing training lol
*Talks to little doggy on the street* “What’s your name little guy?” Doggy: “I am a monument to all your sinssss.”
LMAOO
So chihuahuas and French Bulldogs
I would have shit my pants
The most human thing in Halo: “A mysterious alien powder? Lol, feed it to the dogs and see what happens.”
Second most human. But I can see how "this crashed ship full of powder must be a narco-starship, let's snort some rails of this stuff" might have been a problematic thing to put in a novel.
Actually, they did do thorough lab testing for a significant amount of time, but nothing bad came up. Which is why it took ancient Humanity by surprise.
Idk, the machine gun in the back of a pickup truck seems pretty far up too
Ever read war of the worlds? Martian's carcasses were used to feed the dogs and other carreon eaters.
@@rapatacush3i read war of the worlds and i completely missed that. Crazy stuff tbh
i love that most of the concept art for the precursors resemble crabs.
return to crab
@@Eisendergusky exactly 😆
Crab people
The fabled 5th time crabs evolved
Crab is peak evolution
A halo prequel taking place during the human forerunner war would be absolutely nuts. The possibility of lore expansion on the precursors is a pure untapped well
Or for the love of god a modern day version of the forerunner flood war with modern day humanity as it is now maybe give or take however many years we would need to build our forces back up THAT WOULD BE A SIGHT
yeah playing as a human and then playing as a forerunner chief and arbiter style would be dope
ya but 343 would fuck it up so no thanks
No man, the reason we LOVED Halo CE was the mystery. Some questions are never meant to be answered
@sa-admiral-haydee69 That's a preference. I did expansion of the Forerunners and Flood was done really well.
12:46 I think that my favourite description of the Forerunner - Precursor War came from Late Night Gaming describing the Precursor perspective as "We're being driven to extinction, this is like interesting." in a lore podcast a few years ago.
Haha yeah that's a good way of putting it
@@HiddenXperiaalso I don’t think Precursors are omnipotent, nigh omnipotent sure but at the end of the day, but they were not all-powerful (evident in that they couldn’t prevent their own corruption & the Primordial’s death), they were all-knowing.
@@HiddenXperia yeah, I recently rewatched the podcast episode (which featured you and Halo Canon) and I love how funny yet accurate the explanations of everything from the Forerunner Saga was, especially the parts surrounding "Lore podcast part 2: WTF is the Domain" and the explanations of the early Flood infections. I hope Late Night goes back to hosting podcasts.
@@theonewhowatches-jp9st7gu4xthey'd be omniscient in that case. Omnipotent essentially means all powerful
Job Interviewer: "How would you best describe yourself?" Precursor: *mutters incomprehensibly*
Job Interviewer: *jumps out the window after learning of the Flood’s true story*
The lore behind the different species and the tiers they were in always fascinates me. The Brutes especially for going from tier 4 to tier 7 thanks to nuking themselves that hard. But they became tier 2 thanks to the Covenant, and still are if we take the Banished into consideration. The rise and fall and resurrection of Brute society and technology.
Yeah, they survived a nuclear apocalypse as a species, pretty rad (pun intended.) I always wondered if the Lekgolo had a max colony size, scarab to like starship kinda thing.
Nah I don't count the Banished as Teir 2, I would say they're Teir 3
Should've stayed down in 7.
@@mellon3891 Unknown, however we do know that lekgolo colonies were used in some covenant ships extensively. Whether they were a part of the whole ship, or several smaller colonies in different sections of the ships, is never stated. But at the very least, a safe assumption is that multiple colonies can be used in tandem for larger projects, if there is a theoretical limit to the size of a single colony.
Bonus points for the old school runescape music
im playing osrs while i watched this, but i dont have the music on so i never even knew lol
I'm pretty sure jackal snipers are omnipotent gods, they always seem to know what you're going to do.
The precursors where modeled after the concept of consciousness. If you study the science of consciousness you start to re hear this.
Interesting! I thought something, especially when reading about lore surrounding the "Domain." It contains information BEFORE the formation of stars. I think the Precursors became pure information long ago, and have been playing with reality however they chose ever since.
It contains information BEFORE bigbang 😂
So the big fuckers cracked time travel. So how the fuck did the forerunners beat them? Did they actually spoon feed the forerunners everything and let them deep into Precursor society. To the point they knew what button to press to blow up Precursor societies.
the thing you said with Tier 7 species is canon “While many sentient species were ultimately indexed and reintroduced, many of them did not reach Tier 7 of the Technological Achievement Tiers after the firing of the Halo array, where only a handful were encountered by Humanity in the Orion Arm of the galaxy, and not every species that were in the Covenant were cataloged by the United Nations Space Command, with even the Covenant client species keeping few records of their affairs with them.[2]”
I want hiddenxperia as chief in season 3. This channel is great, it really got me back into halo and has been a place of comfort over the past months. Thanks for everything
Appreciate it king
We wouldn't know its him cause he'd be wearing his helmet😂
If the master chief was 5’1 I guess
Personally after reading Halo: Outcasts, where we saw ruins of a civilization that was rapidly advanced by Precursors hiding from the Forerunners, and that back in the Forerunners age, the *CRITERIUM* came to Netherop to investigate is very interesting considering we hear of the Criterium in being involved in the Endless imprisonment heavily implies that the Netherop civilization and Xalanyn civilization are similar. How? I think they were both evolutionarily manipulated by Precursors. The Harbinger literally has the Reclaimer Symbol on her helmet and back armor! I believe that the Xalanyn are a new type of Reclaimer manipulated into this role by the Precursors. Even the physical form of the Xalanyn and Gasgira (Skimmers) has similarities to the Primordial itself! As the Primordial was described as having “mandible on their face, and two degenerative legs” so how do 2 separate species end up with the same physical traits? I think the Endless is a faction of several species that have been spliced with Precursor DNA. Like the Flood but much more “pure” This is why the Forerunners were terrified of them. If they let the Endless become holders of the Mantle, they could potentially infect all other species with Precursor Genetics, completely destroying the Forerunners efforts of freeing the Galaxy of them. So yeah, TL’DR: I believe the Xalanyn are new Reclaimers groomed by Precursors to take the Mantle from the Forerunners and spliced their Transsentient DNA into them. The Xalanyn did the same to other species, (Gasgira) forming the Endless faction.
The Forerunners weren't trying to "free" the galaxy from the Precursors; they were jealous that Humanity had been chosen over them. The Forerunners simply wanted to rule. They were a power-hungry civilization with a god-complex, and it was completely unearned.
@@TheSuperRattor they were defending themselves from the precursors who were known to destroy their own creations
That would be great actual Lore for upcoming games.
Except the reclaimer symbol is a forerunner rune, not a precursor one
@@swoops7687one of the forerunners ai talked about the fact that the runes the endless had demarcating them predated the forerunners civilization. I don't remember which one but H.E. did a video with that tidbit in it.
I don’t think I could ever get tired of Halo. So much lore and depth to the universe and just such great world building.
my dream is bungie comes back and reignites that flame again
Somewhat unrelated to this video but I'm so happy we got new pictures of the greater ark it's one of my favorite things from the Forerunner books
The dimensions of the older Installations are truly mindblowing.
"Today a not-so-ancient intelligence" Recall that Halo 2 came out just a few months shy of 20 years ago and try to not feel a little ancient.
You deserve more than 600k subs bro. Youre the best Halo lore guy on here. You do a really good job and you seem like a chill ass dude. Keep up the good work bro.
My absolute favourite part of Halo Lore, killed me we didn't get the slightest reference to them in Infinite
There’s actually more references to the Precursors in Halo Infinite in association to the Endless than every other Halo game before.
@morgannull4685no, they actually handled the lore better than Bungie. Ever wonder why Prophet of Truth lost his mind and stopped acting all smart in Halo 3? Bungies got nothing, 343 says he had most of the San’Shyuum citizens evacuated from High Charity to a secret Shield World named Cloister, and once the Halo Array had been activated, the San’shyuum would be brought to the Ark where they can use their systems to remake the galaxy in their image and basically “become gods”
@@jakespacepiratee3740that doesn't really tell why, that tells what he did with his insanity. I feel like 2 and 3 make it pretty evident through context clues. The two other prophets around him died and he lost the Holy City to the flood, it would be surprising if he didn't go crazy. I love how much 343i added to the lore, but my god, do they have a habit of over explaining every small thing with little to no reason or follow through.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 megalomaniacs holding keys to intergalactic superweapons tend to become pretty cocky when they get within seconds of accomplishing their goals I would say
@@sa-amirel-hayeed699 that’s a very weak explanation compared to 343’s.
The Precursors didn't create the Flood. The Precursors ARE the Flood..
Thanks for the art feature! Excellent video as usual.
The fact you can hear old school RuneScape music playing in the background is dope asf!🤣🤣 brought back some memories but just makes this channel even more dope😎
I like the touch of showing the pre-Halo firing Humans in the Forerunner era, with super advanced technology, but with paint on thier faces... To kind of tap into that subconscious perception of ancient humans in a tribal aspect or how we might imagine ancient ancestors... Just in space with exponentially advanced tech
Excellent entry as always, though I have a little request. Kig-Yar lore is seldom talked about, though I get some of it is a little inappropriate. But they're my favorite species and I hope someday they get their own video! You can't hide the Kig-Turducken forever, Luc.
This video only makes me more hopeful that the next Halo game will delve more into the Precursors, the Endless, and the other mysteries of Zeta Halo. But considering 343’s track record of switching up the story, Hidden Xperia’s lore videos may have to suffice. Doing the Primordial’s work 😉.
There are so many references and parralels to the Precursors in the context of the Endless there’s literally no ways they aren’t connected. In an Audio Log, Harbinger says “I shall talk, and you shall listen.” A famous Gravemind quote. In the Halo 4 Terminals, the Ur-Didact talks about the Forerunners coming war with the Flood after defeating Humanity, and ends the monologue with the phrase “and we are afraid.” In the Halo Infinite Legendary Difficulty Depondent Pyre Logs, in entry seven, she speculates on the nature of the Endless and ends her monologue with “and I am afraid.” Lastly, during the Harbingers Boss Fight, she can say “We are Legion!” A reference to the Primordials words himself from the Forerunner Trilogy: "We are the last of those who gave you breath and form, millions of years ago. We are the last of those your kind defied and ruthlessly destroyed. We are the last Precursors. *And now we are legion."* The Harbinger literally has the exact same ability that the Primordial had to drive Humans mad with its mere words, Elite: How long has the human been this way, Chak? Chak 'Lok: A matter of days. It seems their feeble minds cannot contain the power of her words. Lucas Browning: Closed space... off limits... still there... they were still there...the only ones... 'Lok: You should feel honored, human. The truth has apparently set you free! Browning: Price paid... sentence given... we never knew... so old... so far... Chak'Lok: Bring him to her chambers. She has more to tell him. If his mind can last... This is strikingly similar to the Ancient Humans who spoke to the Primordial being driven to madness and killing themselves!!
The runescape music in the background is much a nice nostalgic touch.
I thought nobody else noticed🙏🏿 we gotta real one over here🦍🦍
Always feels good to kick back at 12:30 am and watch an Xperia lore video I had no clue the precursors were reseeded, thats kinds mind blowing. I need to read more halo books
Great job Luke, inspiring, and always a refreshing experience about an awesome storyline.
Thanks HX, miss these types of videos. Used to fall asleep to your lore vids years ago
Your vids are so fun and interesting... only secently discovwred and subbed but been binging alot 😁👍
Always love your lore videos mate! Keep it up!!
Mr. Xperia i hope you are doing that epitaph breakdown. It's probably the juiciest lore book we have ever had.
Love your breakdown videos! Great content!
My brain almost couldn't handle the Runescape music in a Hidden Xperia video.
I do wonder. Could the existing precursors possibly have a cure for the flood? And that’s a good things to know as well that there’s some still existing. You got me brainstorming.
Could they? Probably. Would they? Well, they didn't see it as something to put a stop to so far.
I'm very happy you used Runescape OST in this video for the village times, thank you.
tyvm Jad
I'm not even 5 minutes in and I'm upvoting purely for the music choice LOL what an absolute hero you are! The memories!!
wave: flash 2: tyvm fellow scaper 🫡
@HiddenXperia ah and here we see the mating call of the world 2 falador East Bank mercher. If we stay very still he may repeat the same waves flashy line over 9000 times 😅
the runescape background music is very nostalgic thank you for that
You used a RuneScape theme in this vid, thanks for the nostalgia! It pinged my nostalgia radars big time.
First time coming across your channel , subscription earned, one step closer to 600 thousand😊
That old school RuneScape music made my nostalgia perk up 😂 I’ve been playing that game since they released old school RuneScape back in 2013! Love the videos bro thanks for the content
Them tunes at the beginning sure took me back to a time that was so much more simple. Life was good back then with runescape.
come back to it man! Old school is still huge and even just got another area expansion this week, also a new skill this year with sailing.
Amazing video, dude!
I feel like if the Ancients/Alterans were to exist in the Halo Universe, they would probably reached Tier 0 as they have achieved Ascension.
I think they'd be tier 1 because I don't remember any lore where they built something that could compete with some of the Forerunners accomplishments. Their Ascension is the only thing I can think of that would be tier 0 but with everything else I'd still rate them as Tier 1 on average.
@@frylad the Ancient created the Dakara super weapon to re-seeded life after the plague. It’s possible that the weapon can destroy the Flood.
Love the RuneScape music in the background
The Runescape background music was giving me some good flashbacks
Love your vids
I have always been very interested in gods of halo and its lore & the story is really interesting and its even better when Luc makes a video about it 😁
the didact is not the only forerunner alive when the halo rings were fired the forerunners must have also had samples of themselves for reseeding and the forerunners are either already reseeded or awaiting reseeding
I still believe some are still out there, hidden away on some wayward Ring or Shield World.
Love your lore videos the best!
I absolutely enjoyed this, its like watching Halo lore when I was a kid all over again
Brutes: Reaches to a high society status. Also Brutes: Nukes themselves out of spite.
Solid knowledge here good sir🤝🏽
Crazy to think some Ancient Kief is the reason The Flood exists.
Woah i just actually saw this upload
The harbinger said “they will be found”
Um that's the endless or also known as the xalanyn that's not the precursors
Just felt like there was a similarity
i subbed even though i have watched your channel for like 6 years
I’m strapped in and excited for 2mins of video followed by commercials through this whole video! Get that bread my boi I’ll sit through em for ya
lmao i thought my runescape client was open and realized you had the songs in the background lolol
Thanks for the lore. ^^
The runescape music in the background is a very nice touch! hahahaha
Missed these types of videos
Great video Luc on the most advanced species of Halo, any discussions on the Precursors and the Primordial are great on my book, especially since they involve the Flood. I am wondering though, if the Halo TV show does indeed get to Alpha Halo and the Flood show up... how will they depict the Forerunners and the Precursors in live action? I am... dreading to think about that, lol.
Banger video as always
I don't know how your not at 1 mill subs imo that over due the vids are great as always!
New lore video from hidden 😮
Love the OSRS soundtrack in the background
18:11 *"FLAWLESS VICTORY"* -best to test your speaker bass-
I dig this Halo Lore, hope to get answers on who the endless are soon
The RuneScape sounds at the beginning did it for me
You are tripping me out with the runescape music into the nacht der untoten music from bo1
these are my favorite types of hiddenxperia halo lore videos and I know he has to get paid but I got 6 ads on this video thats crazy
I only got one
Title made me think it'd be another video on just precursors. Pleasantly surprised
I know right he's just talking about the same stuff over and over again
Did not expect to hear the Old School RuneScape tunes on a video about futuristic halo 😂
Loving the RuneScape music 🎶
Fun note about tier 4, I read a great short story years ago about earth in the very near future (the book was written in the 90s I think so tech was about what we have today.. reusable rockets, we were just going back to the moon and just experimenting with electric vehicles and clean energy. The few major differences were that nuclear energy is far more rare, planes were electric and we were regularly sending people to space for space tourism to luxury space stations) and basically humanity meets a space council who sends envoys here.. when the governments insist on private talks, they decline and broadcast the talks to the world on their own. Basically they say “Dude… wtf.” They sent a peaceful probe to earth, with messages in our languages and it was shot down and humanity started moving guns into orbit. They basically said, we’ve proven that we’re too violent and they’ve been watching us for a long time. Most races discover nuclear power and quickly come to peace and advance very quickly and we turned it into weapons which is apparently really rare. They mentioned how slow our development was from the industrial revolution to current day, most races surpass us by decades with their technology far surpassing ours in much less time because they work together, don’t hide behind patents or keep advancements because of greed. Essentially they just spank humanity and say, “get your shit together and maybe you can join us.” and show us some examples of their wonderful technology. They leave a few examples of it freely for curing diseases and helping with food and immediately the governments all fight over it. World war three starts and the short story jumps forward in time to a few decades later where humanity basically blames the aliens for being assholes and finally humanity works together to get into space and kick some alien ass. Violence destroyed us, but violence brought us together. Hahaha That bit about the brutes reminded me of that short story. It’s so similar! The short is a bit preachy but it’s actually really interesting… it brings up great points about how we’re so greedy that we patent everything including art, stories, and ideas… that does cause so much stagnation and I wonder how much faster we would advance if companies and countries shared knowledge. I guarantee that big companies have some sort of technology or innovation that could be world changing but it’s not finished and could be if someone else helped.. maybe a guy in Japan has the exact idea to fix that issue and change the world, but it’s “classified” and just sitting in a warehouse. That makes me sad.
You are an absolute chad for the backround music at 3:15
The Old School RuneScape music in the background is absolutely killing me 😂😂😂
Hitting the algorithm button so I can get suggested more videos like this.
An amazing halo game would be about the Final Test, built like helldivers 2 in the liberation sense, liberating (or trying to) the milky way galaxy from the Flood, playing on the theory of the seeded precursors traveling to the other galaxies.
Any chance of doing a video on hell divers 2 and what halo and 343 can learn from its massive success?
Legend has it 343 tried for a helldivers style game. Microsoft turned it down
hell yeah
The way you pronounced omnipotent is actually criminal
Very good vid
Love your use of runescape music
I'm still going with the endless being precursor in some way or other
They are probably just Precursors that re-evolved uncorrupted. That’s why they can use neural physics. We’ve never seen species with basically magic other then the Flood and Precursors, the same species.
Wouldn't make sense cause the forerunners already knew about the precursors but the endless was a new race they found that couldn't be killed by the halo rings
Yeah I think that 2 look at her and look at the primordial
The Endless are the Xyalayn or some alien like that, aliens who could survive the Halo Rings and therefore imprisoned by forerunners.
I just wanna be Precursor Dust 😔
One day. From ashes to ashes, all the same, but in the meantime try and enjoy yourself responsibly.
One thing that is also mentioned is when the flood or precursors came out of these slipspace wormholes they were basically said to have "multiversal residue" present on their beings, and that the Primordial Flood, aka the last known Precursor was said to trickle with a white blue energy that was said to be creative life energy, the ability to mold life and reality was present and surrounding his being
On the subject of advanced species, could you do a halo species vs mass effect species?.....I'd watch the crap out of that!!!!!!
The RuneScape music with the Halo video is throwing me off. Suddenly I find myself itching to do some fletching in west bank
Love the Runescape background music
Wait what? Grunts are crustaceans?!?!?
They’ve been described by the UNSC as being closest to arthropods on Earth, but you can’t really describe aliens using taxonomies of Earth. So by the strictest definitions, no, they’re not crustaceans, but they are very similar.
They kinda look like crabs
With their backpack
Your background music making me wanna play RuneScape lmao
I’m diggin the RuneScape music
The OSRS music is much appreciated
Banger
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