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who do you think the forerunner are? I know noone knows but what do you think they are? Do you think they will help the covies or us? What do you think they look like? please don't flame on this thread and sorry if this was done before.

  • 06.09.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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I think they killed themselves with the creation of the flood, or the release of the Flood, or the capture of the flood. Something to do with the Flood, or maybe not... Maybe they contained the flood, and the ancestors of the Prophets killed them. Or maybe they're not dead, just in a galaxy far far away......

  • 06.09.2004 12:46 PM PDT
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Well the Covie gut all this uberstuff cuase they found it all, all the stuff is junk left behind by the forrerunners. Im not sure who they would side with. maybe us?

  • 06.09.2004 12:48 PM PDT
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I think that both, humans and covanent, are the decendants of the forerunners.

I also belive that the covanent are pissed at humans for one of these two reason

1)humans dont acnoladge the forerunners as a god
2) the forerunners relics all say that humans are the superiour race and the covenent want to prove that they are worthy

  • 06.09.2004 12:52 PM PDT
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The Forerunner are shrouded in mystery. Although their cyclopean architecture still remains, they have long been absent from their own creations. What little we know of them is explained vicariously through their machinery and their automatons. Clearly, they were technologically superior to both Humanity and the Covenant. Their empire spanned at least this galaxy, encompassing both Einsteinian reality and Slipspace.

At one point in the Forerunner's history, they encountered the Flood. For whatever reason, they felt it was necessary to contain and study the Flood, in colossal facilities capable of omitting sentient life from the entire galaxy, rather than destroy them outright. Their allowance of the Flood's perpetuation could be considered an inexcusable lack of foresight for such an advanced civilization, though without knowing their precise reasoning, the passing of judgement is problematic.

The Forerunner had abandoned this Halo, Installation 04, some time ago, leaving their robotic compatriots behind to defend and monitor the installation. Seeing the Master Chief and Cortana breach protocol and refuse to activate Halo upon the Flood's release, 343 Guilty Spark turns Halo's only known internal defensive system on them: the Sentinels. The Sentinels are floating Mantis-like machines, using what is presumably Forerunner weapon and shield technology. Unlike the the Human and Covenant arsenal, the Sentinels used some sort of controlled stream of energy. Deadly and precise, they appear to be more like surgical cutting tools than offensive weaponry, and while effective against the Flood's lower forms, are easily overcome by the Warrior class.

Their relics are not restricted to Halo 04. The Aztec-esque stones of C'ort Azur, the arches and weathered inscriptions of Sigma Octanus, the intricate caverns and 3km holographic dome beneath ONI's Reach complex, the ancient stepping-stones of the Grunt's homeworld, and the Prophet's own claim to have evolved on an abandoned Forerunner planet, not to mention the countless installations undoubtedly pilfered to allow the Covenant to have achieved their current levels of technology, all give testament to this galaxy's permeation.

Taken from here.

[Edited on 6/9/2004 12:53:50 PM]

  • 06.09.2004 12:53 PM PDT
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well said!

  • 06.09.2004 12:55 PM PDT
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Why is it, whenever I think of the Artifacts, and one day uniting them, they will actually make us a recipe for cookies.

  • 06.09.2004 1:03 PM PDT
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Great, I wanted my thread to prosper. Oh well, I believe they will side with us due to the covies stealing their technology and humans have more advanced ground battle technology, if it weren't for locklear and those two suicidal guys, we could have gotten much better space technology. I mean, they could have gone suicidal with that human ship instead of the covie one.

  • 06.09.2004 1:09 PM PDT
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My theory: We will never see the forerunner.

Why?

It would be sooo cheesy to have the forerunner save us humans from ultimate doom.

Come on it would be soo cheesy admit it. You are master cheif and bungie wants YOU to save the earth, NOT the forerunner.

  • 06.09.2004 1:16 PM PDT
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You have only one planet left. (I think) the covies have thousands probobly, they launch a full assault on your last planet. 1 Spartan will save us. Yeah right, in the end the covies will prolly be real close to destroying us, then the fore runner come back to earth crashing into the covie space vessel. Lol no I'm kidding I don't know what will probobly happen

  • 06.09.2004 1:20 PM PDT