- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I really think Humans are the forerunners. The weird thing about the theory of Evolution is that humans just appear at a certain point and get rid of the cavemen. Perhaps the cavemen where the seeds planeted by the Halo of Earth and this is when the Forerunners emerged from their bunker.
The Covenant could be from a corner of the Galaxy where the Halo was not yet completed and thus did not fire. I imagine this is why the Prophets know and fear humanity for they know that humans are the Forerunner.
What I wonder is if the Forerunner created the Covenant race as servitors. To do things where automatons were just not quite as useful. The Prophers were those that passed on the wishes of the forerunner to the Covenant. The Grunts were for mining, Hunters for use on high gravity worlds, Elites for defending the Forerunner. They might have been in production when the Halos fired and evolved under the care of the Prophets.