- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
i have a theory on the forerunners and if they still exist and what happened to them etc. it's probably a little retarded and doesnt make a whole lot of sense, but i made it like a year ago, so...here it goes!
A LONG time ago, there were these guys named the forerunners. They started doing experiments, and all of the sudden they somehow made the flood. They were intrigued by them. They continued to do experiments on their home planet until one day, the flood got loose and caused a hell of a lot of damage to their planet. Once they got them contained again, they were so fascinated that they wanted to continue to do experiments, but they didn't want to risk them getting loose on their planet again. So they went out in space and started building these huge structures to house the flood, and if need be, destroy them. Obviously, if they were going to invest this much time, effort, and probably cost into experimentation of the flood, they had some kind of possible use (maybe biological warfare to the Nth degree).
So they finished their experiments and decided that the flood were too dangerous to use for anything so they locked them up and set up the GS343 and sentinels to make sure that they didn't get out.
As for what happened to the Forerunners, I think that they still exist, but just not in this galaxy. If you think about it, it's totally logical. Why would you build a structure that would ultimately kill you if you wanted to stop the flood? I think that they traveled from another galaxy to ours and experimented here. When they got done with their experiments, some of them decided that they wanted to stay in our quaint little galaxy, so they made a colony or two on some planets. Meanwhile, the covenant are running around recruiting and pillaging and they find these forerunner guy's colony. The forerunners resist joining the covenant, so the covenant blows the hell out of them. They then start to go through their history and this thing about 7 ring shaped planets that house a deadly and uncontrollable weapon keeps coming up. The covies, having the huge heads that they do, think, "Well these retarded forerunners couldn't control this weapon, but we can. We're the best that have ever been!" So the search begins for these ring structures.