- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The forerunners created the Halos to stop the Flood getting out and going rampent again...guess it must of happened sometime in the past. They kept a few back as samples though, I guess for study purposes.
As for the Forerunners hmm, will we get to meet them in H2, or not...only Bungie will know on that one but I'm going for a not yet theory. Seems too soon to be going to the Forerunners yet. As if they are really as old as we think, and created such amazing things as the Halos, then having them show up is kinda like God showing up and going what you want fixin? They will be so far ahead of us all technically its not like we could fight them, let alone even if they wanted to fight. They can make things on an immense scale, something we (in this time line) can't. Our biggest vessals are the mobile docks and Marathan-class colony ships. And compared to a section of Halo they are tiny. The Covenant are making large ships, and stations which utterly dwarf anything we can make...but still in comparison to Halo they are tiny. Now, if there was a threat out there which the Forerunners were fighting, and maybe needed help on, maybe would exchange there equipment with someone who could use it...then maybe, one day we could be working with the Forerunners.
But currently its all speculation. We know they made the Halos. We know they left odd Artifact things all around the universe which seem to do wierd things. What and how things will progress with them is kinda a big unknown for all of us liking to guess. Roll on Nov 9th so the guessing can end :)