- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Nice topic Tartarus... very nice. Been a way for a while and I miss out and this huge theory thread imagine that. Anyway I might as wekk state my opinion on all of this (there is some refrence to the Halo books... sorry for those of you who haven't read)
Ok the back bone of my theory relies on the fact the Forerunner were trying to create the perfect race. Hear me out, sine we know that there are at least four Halo installations that means that Forerunner have tried at least 4 times to create the perfect species to carry on for the Forerunner. Their fouth attempt was obviously a failure (The Flood) and addapted to fast and broke loose. But since the first halo that they have created there has been fail safes incase any of the species rebelled and got free (more on that later) in this case it would wipe out the Flood's food. Now keeping in mind that 343 GS stated that specimens of the Flood were kept on Halo 04 for study since the last catostrphic outbreak. This means that the Flood have gotten out before and so the Forerunners had triggered Halo whipping out all living organisms that were "edible" how ever many million years ago (perhaps the cause of the extinciton of the dinosaurs on Earth).
But as the Forerunner learned from a trial and error process they became increasingly close to creating a perfect race, which could be used for carrying on the Forerunners ways, thoughts and technology (worried that they would be facing extinction themselves). So I'm guessing probably around Halo Installation 08 they had succeeded in making a species known as the Prophets. The Forerunners told the Prophets every ounce of history, beliefs, ways and technologies that they were a customed to. Then the Forerunners had created the Elite race that were meant for war and protection of the more intelligent Prophets. The Forerunners gave them armor branded with their ancient symols and tought them the ways of fighting. The Elites were soon given weapons and the Prophets grew smarter everyday. Soon the new races started to learn more quickly and uncontrollably and like their predecessors The Flood they rebelled against their former creators. The Prophets promised the Elites freedom and their own civilisation, they soon drove the Forerunners off the Halo installation and stole their technology and ships. The Elites and Prophets soon brang the fight to the Forerunner over a perioed of anywhere from 10 to 10,000 years until soon, only 900,000 years ago infact (more on that later), they cornered the remaing Forerunner on a distant battle ground and ahnillated them. The new forged alliance between the Prophet and Elites began to sugre forward taking over worlds and integrating them into their own species and forged the now known Covenant.... but the first of the Elites and Prophets began to die out until there were none left exept for only a few ancient Prophets but before they died however they passed down the ways of the Forerunners down to the next generation. The decendants of these oringal however were led by the few remaing greedy Prophets that had lost their cause. They began to push across the galaxy killing anything and everything they came across. That is until they came across an ancient Forerunner artifact. The artifact was brought back to the original Prophets and they decided to locate and collect every last artifact seeing it as a message.
Now your probably wondering where I pulles this 900,000 years ago from. But if you recall on the Halo 2 Documentary a certain Bungie employee stated something about a 900,000 year old battle ground. Now in Halo: First Strike in the epolouge it says it is the Ninth Age of Recamation which I take that as it has been 900,00 years (Age being 100,000 years) that the Prophets have been trying to Reclaim their past, or even Reclaim their past power. The Elites however begin to think that the Prophets are sending them on a wild goose chase to find these so called "Great Ones, as put in First Strike, and begin to become agrivated with their "Leaders" and challenge that the Elites themselve should be in control, which would explain the so called "Bump" that the Elites and Prophets experience.
Never the less that's where I belive Halo 2 will take us, with the ancient Prophets reaching that 900,000 battle ground that the very first of the Covenant species had fought the Forerunners... and won. But over the thousands of years however, the Covenant, with the exeption of the select few ancient Prophets or "High Prophets", have forgetton about the anicient war between their own species and their creators, The Forerunner. Upon arrival however the Prophets realize what had happened in the battle 900,000 years ago and Reclaim the power and leadership of the Forerunners for themselves, not sharing with the Elites who had actually fought and won the battle, which would also explain another possible "Eump" in the Elite, Prophet relationship.
That's my orignal theory that I have had since the beginning, I know that was probably hard reading for you guys that read it.
But from the recent posts here I have began to think up a new theory (unlikely but possibly) maybe the humans were infact created by the Forerunner, probably on Halo 06. The humans created however were probably a much more primitave Human, they either escaped from their Halo Installation or were released because the Forerunners knowing they wold not be a threat and would certainly not be intellegent enough to learn the way of the Forerunners.
We crashed on Earth and being human, naturally, we reproduced like rabits and began to inhabbit our big blue panet. Ever since we have not known our history and have been fighting and killing each other ever since, simply because we are in fact... human.
Well I hope yall read that, that one took a lot. Nice topic again Tartarus, best one I've seen for a while.