- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I've already posted this on HBO, but I thought some of you guys here could be interested.
Imagine the Forerunners, their culture and their society. A race that uses extremely advanced technology and has colonies all around the galaxy, and possibly on other galaxies. Now lets look at them handling the "flood" situation, thousands of worlds contaminated, they can take care of them using their advanced technology and weaponry, but there's just too many of them, and for every "flood" infected forerunner they kill, two forerunners are infected in some part of the galaxy. Loss seems inevitable. In a desperate measure, some scientists propose the construction of the massive rings to contain the flood and to wipe out all existing life with enough biomass to sustain the flood. Now suppose that the forerunner society is based upon democracy, like ours. Surely there is no democratic society in which everyone has the same opinion about any subject, and some groups would pronounce themselves saying that the Haloes would also wipe them all out because against that type of weapons there is no physical protection to keep them safe, and would eventually oppose to the construction of such weapons, but the situation requires these desperate measures, so the Haloes are started due to the larger cuantity of votes that approve their construction.
The opposing groups realize that their own technology is going to be used to destroy their race, and decide to start a colony in the outer rim of the galaxy, far away from flood infection forms and from the Haloes. This colony would be very special because everything on it would be placed specifically to avoid the settlers from dicovering their real origins and from being corrupted by technology. There would be false evidence of evolution from apes and lots more of false evidence lying around.
Finally, the Haloes would be triggered, and the Forerunner race would be practicaly extinct, excepting the "human" colony and a small bunch of survivors from the triggering of the Haloes. These last ones would hate themselves for being so blind, and in their madness they would blame the opposing groups because they didn't try hard enough to stop the Forerunner leaders from using the Haloes. In order to survive they would create their own species of alien beings to serve them, and the Forerunners would become the gods of those species that would eventually unite forming The Covenant. The Forerunners, using their alien "tools" would discover evidence of the "human" settlers created by the opposing groups on other planets, and their madness would rise again, sending their Covenant "tools" against the "humans" in the most ferocious of wars.
If you see any mistakes and errors or you just want some further explanations, I beg you to reply with your questions. Thanks.