Talk:Warper/@comment-71.163.45.239-20170714155411

I highly suspect that the biological component of Warper cyborgs is actual Precursors. Think about it.

1) No available biological archetypes to draw from in memory banks

2) No genetic crossover identified with other local lifeforms

3) Larger than a human (most precursor stuff is too big for humans to use comfortably)

4) Large skull cavity to accomodate a large brain (it is an assumption of mine that you need a large brain for any form of telepathy)

5) If you were to sew the back flaps of the head down around the neck, and sew two 'tentacles' each around the blue legs, then finally sew the chest closed, you would get a complete body with no innards showing, a large head, and two long tentacle/leg stalks, likely capable of walking on land. (note: I doubt the scythe arms are natural, the original hands were probably removed and replaced with the scythes to give it a higher killing capacity.)

6) We know that Precursors were able to ditch their bodies, and placed an extremely high value on quarantine integrity

7) Precursors were in the process of making Warpers when they abandoned the bases, meaning they did not have them ready-made

8) It is a fairly common trope that intelligent creatures make many of their creations 'in their image.' What better way than to use their own bodies?

All of this leads me to conclude that most of the Precursors who were stationed on the planet downloaded their minds into the systems, while a few of them stayed in their bodies to fabricate the warpers out of the now-empty bodies. We do not know if there are many warpers or if there are several that keep teleporting all over the place, making their numbers seem large. This also does not explain the 'grave' style setups that you find in the caches. The still-living precursors did have ~5 weeks time in which I suppose they may have performed whatever rites they had and then continued making warpers.

Either way, this is the best theory I can come up with for what the Precursors looked like.