Talk:Carar/@comment-72.168.177.134-20161204175251/@comment-68.238.222.254-20161211201411

It makes sense up to a point. If the precursors had just dumped Carar on 4546B (using the planet as a biohaz dump site, effectively), why go to the trouble of creating Warpers to keep it under control? If it were a bioweapon, the available evidence would point to the Precursors themselves being the creators of Carar and using 4546B as a weapons lab and/or test site. Warpers keep the bug contained while the Precursors work on it, improve it, and tailor it. It also helps explain the Gun - they're defending their weapons lab. But Carar gets out into the wider biosphere, the planet's contaminated. Precursors cut their losses, set the AAA gun on "destroy everything" to keep any would-be foes away from acquiring Carar themselves, and bugged out. As for 4546B...collateral damage. A planetary-scale write-off. Then along come the humans who know nothing about any of this, they investigate the planet, come within range of the Gun, and poof. Now they've crashed into a biohazard sea.

If I had to guess, I'd say the Precursors ended up re-enacting the beginning of Stephen King's The Stand. They were working on something nasty and lost control of it. If so, it kind of makes the Precursors bad guys. (Definitely not good guys.)