Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1.144.97.43-20170110230458/@comment-31334947-20180722224623

BippityBop wrote: Warpers were almost certainly created before they even isolated the Emperor as a potential cure. Also you interpretation of how the Precursors considered the Sea Emperors seems off to me. Most things we know about them would imply they were pretty cold and unfeeling. We don't know if the carvings on their bases are ceremonial either. There are some implications that they are perhaps a practical feature rather than purely cosmetic. Precursors being cold? Precursors in Arctic DLC confirmed. Jokes aside, yes, the more I think about it, Warpers were probably created a few years prior to the discovery of the Sea Emperor's potential. But I'm not sure it's valid to call them cold and unfeeling. They were probably afraid because their entire civilization was on the verge of collapse because of the Kharaa. If you're referring to their forceful opening of the Sea Emperor's eggs, they probably didn't even know it was sentient. It might have just been another fish to them. And I can't see any practical feature for the carvings other than maybe climbing them like a spider, which might actually not be that bad. There could be wires under it, or the Precursor equivelant of it, but that could really just be done under it. Take the PCF's Moonpool floor carvings for example. Completely symmetrical. That suggests more decorative/ceremonial purposes than anything practical. I have to speculate alot, because without more info, we won't get anywhere. It's like string theory. It might be completely wrong, but atleast it gives the ability to get the right answer from something in the longer term.