- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: lordxanatos666
Posted by: Tartarus
The truth is, Humans could be the forerunners. Here is my proof/ theory:
Forerunners had time travel capabilites. The proof is the crystal found on Reach. Now what if the humans use the crystal to go back in time far beyond the appearence of humans on earth. They then continue to improve their technology more and more until they reach the level of the forerunners. they create all this stuff we know as forerunner, including the halo ring for whatever reasons. Then, something happens and all the humans from the future (that are in the past) disappear. Time then passes on and humans evolve from apes again and so on and so on until the time of the master cheif comes along. The crystal is found and time repeats itself all over again.
So yes, humans could be the forerunners.
one problem. the forerunner had no real method of time travel. thiswas never stated or proved. i nko what ur talking about, but i seriously doubt the forerruners had the ability to travel in time. just seems too unlikely. i also see no connection with the death of all the forerunner in the distant past and the reevolution of the human race(from, as u seem to say, nothing). this leaves no real connection between the human race and the forerunner in the distant past, or future, or any sort of time travel-y date. unfortunately i seem to have misread this and realize that now. it makes more sense this way, but still, u, nor can i, or anyone, comprehend the ripples potentially created by time travel, and you do sort of have a time-loop set up, so that nothing ever began but always was instead, which really cant seem to be so. perhaps that is too human and mortal a standpoint, but its all humans can really understand so dont blame me. anyway, back to the main point. the forerunner did not have time travel. they may have, but i doubt it. ur proof the crystal is false. it could just be a very strange shaw-fujikara splipspace drive anomaly, or a wormhole of some sort, or anything really. all the crystal shows, if it is related(And i will give u that, it doesnt seem like coincidence the way the books put it) is that the forerunner, or at least this specially crystal that they found, has the ability to manilpulate to flow of time and space. not nessessarily the same thing as time travel.
It looks like you kinda understood what i was saying mid way through your post. I was kinda setting up a loop. all of it was a simple hypothesis to prove that humans could be the forerunners. Its foundation was the crystal. And that is where you question me from what I read. you are right. i can't say exactly if the crystal allows for time travel. however, I can say what it does and i do have a theory on what it can do. Please read on.
The crystal was a forerunner artifact that was found on Reach. correct? We also know from reading First Strike that the crytal in slip space allowed for greater distances to be traveled in shorter amounts of time (even better than the abilities of the covies). correct? Well aren't you manipulating time if somethhing takes less time than it really should? Let me talk some space and time theory with you as the two are connected. here is my hypothesis: could you use the crystal in an opposite way? Instead of bending space and folding two points together, thus shortening the distance which in turn shortens the travel time, stay in one place and use the crystal to bend time? Then you could go forward or backwards through time while staying in the same place.