: After Mr. Loftus updated his scale charts I noticed the talk of the Harvester
: being much larger than I realised. So I got to reading up about it, and
: found this on Halopedia: "Throughout the Halo 4: Official Game
: Guide's digital Spartan Ops walkthrough, the Harvester is constantly
: referred to as being a Forerunner construct."
: http://www.halopedia.org/Harvester

: I thought this hard to believe, so when I looked at the images Halopedia has
: for the Harvester I realised I had forgotten how insectoid it was:
: http://www.halopedia.org/File:Harvester_Sculpt.jpg

: It definitely doesn't seem like your classic Covenant architecture; being in
: my eyes even more of a departure than the Scarab. In fact, it reminds me
: of the description of the Timeless One: The Primordial was massive in
: size; the mold encapsulating the being on Charum Hakkor outlined a being
: approximately fifteen meters tall and eleven meters wide. When first
: witnessed by the Didact on Charum Hakkor, the creature was described as
: possessing an insectoid head, four arms, and two degenerate legs. A long,
: segmented "tail" was attached to the base of the skull, tipped
: with a two meter-long barb. Each hand had three fingers and a central
: opposable thumb. The face of the Captive has been likened to that of a
: eurypterid, or "sea scorpion," a creature that the Precursors
: had allegedly seeded on a number of planets. Its head was flattened, with
: oval compound eyes and insect-like mouthparts.
: Later, aboard Installation 07, the creature was described as having a large
: number of legs which it held in a curled-up position similar to a spider.
: The creature's torso was described as "grossly fat," and its
: skin was covered in a glassy, crystalline coating; a fine powder often
: fell from its body, perhaps Flood spores or the same powder responsible
: for the original Flood outbreak. As a Gravemind, the Primordial was
: capable of shifting its physical form to an extent, such as rearranging
: its limbs.
: http://www.halopedia.org/Primordial#Appearance

: Visualised courtesy of Postmortem, TDSpiral and Hedgemony here:
: http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive39.pl?read=1168369

: So, could the Harvester in fact be more Precursor than anything else? It
: definitely doesn't look Forerunner to me, and only Covenant in passing.

I thought this was Precursor in the teasers we got for SpOps pt. 2. It was disappointing to me that it's not, primarily because I think this would have been a very good visual aesthetic for Precursor tech. It's hard to imagine what they might use in its place if the Precursors ever do make their way into the games.