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The Forerunners have some form of Black Hole extraction/manipulation/creation:
And most importantly is their employment of Clench Tactics:
As seen here, Clench Tactics relies on the exploitation of higher dimensional scalar values for cosmological objects and events, letting them first off be able to calculate and visualise all upcoming future possibilities, and furthermore give them the ability to nudge these scalar values and other cosmological features to their advantage in battle to change the predetermined probabilities into something in their favor. Lord Rama says it best:
This could give Forerunners Indirect Probability Manipulation, Alternate Future Display, and Limited Higher Dimnesional Scalar Manipulation for their successful utilization of Clench tactics.
Higher dimensional manipulation isn't too out there given they create hyperspherical barriers for their planets:
| Conversion Pod: A type of Forerunner energy-harvesting system that exploits quantum fluctuations in surrounding space-time. Captured primordial black holes and muon-catalyzed fusion cores were often paired with conversion pods for specialised applications. | ||
~ Halo Warfleet; pg. 90. |
| Clench: Forerunner strategy that utilised slipspace travel, nonlinear causality, and probability manipulation to conduct interstellar combat operations. | ||
~ Halo Warfleet; pg. 90 |
| ''FIVE ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS: BATTLE TACTICS OF THE WARRIOR CIRCLE [TT: The timing and location of these battles have not been established. "Sphere" in this context is a hypersphere made up of complexes of two and three-D surfaces, or membranes, shortened in this translation to "branes," extending into higher dimensions that combine vectors of transit, but also scalar tactical probabilities—a difficult concept to grasp, but essential to understanding Forerunner warfare. The idea of combining what amount to many-dimensional maps with scalars describing outcomes, and adjusting both as outcomes are determined, is peculiarly adapted to interstellar engagements involving slipspace travel.] FRAGMENT 1 Having escorted the last Forerunners to safety, we have repositioned the last of our fleets, including those that protected Path Kural. Their tactics have proven effective in skirmishes on the Lines of the Jat-Krula sphere. The Falchion, former defender of the Orion complex, is one of the nine commanders trained during the Didact's exile. For nine hundred years the Falchion worked with the Builders, but remained inwardly loyal to Warrior-Servants and the Didact, unlike many of his colleagues. The Falchion is in command of our first clench. Four themas stand in peril of total infection. Warrior-Servants stand ready across nineteen systems formerly linked by star roads. Engaged in the clench: twelve fully capable Fortress-class battle stations, of limited mobility due to space-time debt, which will act as apex control for seven hundred thousand more nimble Harrier-class vessels. Opposing them: over one hundred thousand captured and infected Forerunner ships, most powerful in this context likely being four hundred dreadnoughts. The first flex of the membrane, leading to the clench, begins at the extreme interior margins of Path Terrulian in the 78th Thema, a cold, pre-stellar dust cloud fringed with cooling, iron-hearted stars and vast numbers of stony and icy planets and asteroids.'' | ||
~ Halo Silentium; ch. 25 |
| Forerunner strategic dominance in naval combat is dictated by their mature understanding of slipspace technology; whereas the UNSC and the Covenant (along with numerous attendant species) utilised slipspace to re-engage in realspace interstellar combat, the Forerunners adjusted their strategic throughput via clenches. This allowed them to wage widescale battles with the use of hundreds of thousands of ships across hyper-dimensional branes (dynamic objects which can propagate through spacetime and numerous dimensions) to constantly observe scalars that allowed for nonlinear or possibly collinear observation of ongoing events. This effectively allowed them to adjust the probabilities of an ongoing conflict to suit their own needs. To define the latter component, the movement of feedback is a central characteristic of nonlinear causation in a dynamic events. Instead of events happening in isolation of causation they instead feedback to effect their source. Thus nonlinear causality in the prism of a linear relationship can have the characteristic of being self-perpetuating and self-referential, thus allowing Forerunners to possibly adjust their actions based on observed effects, thus adjusting their probabilities in due part to observing and thus eliminating the numerous potential dynamic outcomes of an action. | ||
Higher dimensional manipulation isn't too out there given they create hyperspherical barriers for their planets:
| I was all too familiar with Jat-Krula. During one of our interminable civil wars, half a million years before my birth, Jat-Krula had been a formidable strategy of fortified defense, designed to control frequently traversed manifolds in the Orion complex. Key to Jat-Krula was vigilance over all conceivable slip-space entries and portals— the necessary and most efficient avenues of slipspace travel. Millions of fixed fortifications had been spread like beaded curtains between hundreds of systems, standing vigil over a collective of jump solutions, protecting historic routes that supported trade as well as offensive and counter-offensive maneuvers. Any major assault force, it was reasoned, must pass through this hyper-spherical boundary. And the boundary, so planners insisted, could at a moment's notice be rendered impassable, solid - impregnable. | ||
~ Halo Silentium; ch 7. |
