- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
So you want a story?? Ok, I have about 20 minutes until I have my next smoke break and go home...
First off, the forerunners were like us, curious and always expanding thinking up new ideas and creating what they thought was best for their civilization. They were one of the first races in this part of the universe to have achieved space flight and their level of advanced technology, actually the only ones...
They have studied hundreds of planets, traveled hundreds of thousands of light years and found nothing. Of course, even an intellectually advanced race becomes bored and needs to know the anwser to every sentient beings question, where did we come from. They studied these worlds with massive rings hovering over them to watch and see how these planets formed liife, after a thousand years of watching and waiting and seeing that no sentient life was to come from any of these planets, they tried to make their own. They prepared for the worst possibilities of which they began their studies on... Xenoform viral infectious matter.
They realized that it would take millions of years to create a new, sentient, race. So they created these xenoforms that took over small rodents and other non-sentient life, they saw that it merely killed these animals as food and were not evolving. They began to introduce some of their own DNA, the very blueprints of the most advanced sentient life in the galaxy... and it took! These forms began to understand their life cycle, that there was in fact death for them and that they were created by these things...
Obviously, as any sentient being would be, as these xenoforms had become, they were pissed at the fact they were created, held captive only to be studied and dissected then discarded as waste. They went after their captors as only a virus would know how. They ate, consumed, infected and became more deadly with each passing moment. The forerunners had thought of the possibility that this virus would be harmful to themselves and within the rings, setup the defensive measure to make sure that no-one would leave the ring while infected.
Of course, the forerunners being as advanced as they were, they easily dealt with the flood at first, but the flood continually grew and infected the forerunners. The flood after a a few years of hiding as virus's do and now being sentient, were even more deadly, because now they were methodical in their destruction. Taking this area, to take this ship, to get here so they can do what all virus's do... Spread!
The forerunners soon realized the doom and peril they had put themselves in and realized that if the flood were to become loose in the universe no sentient life would ever again exist. So in their final stands they devised a way to combine the strength of each Halo to kill make their galaxy void of all sentient life to include that of the sentient flood, all that would be left would be the viral infections themselves.
But before, they would destroy themselves they would try to make sure that civilization lived on, that others would survive and in them they would as well... so they sent away two arks. One to each side of the galaxy, each containing their a part of their DNA. One contained the knowledge of their technology and innovation, the other containing thier ability to find what once was, these forms would turn into Human and Covenant....
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Of course this is just a story, but at least it sticks to the facts we know, and then you will ask but the Halo's destroy all sentient life.. yeah but it doesn't destroy dna, and yes the flood that would have been on the ships would have been sentient, bugs and virus's don't pilot things... and I would put more in here but I am trying as hard as possible not ruin the game for people that haven't played yet because you know that you are still not allowed to post spoilers, all information herein is just speculation based on halo 1 and the 3 books.
oh and by the way...
Beat YA!
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