- Shai Hulud
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- Exalted Mythic Member
With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.
Having not completely read the Bible (only what they make me in school), I can't comment much upon relations between Halo and it (but I do know what you're talking about, just not in-depth).
But I don't think the Forerunners are gone, nor do I think they are just ancient humans. I think that Bungie will intorduce them in Halo 2 or 3 (if there will be a 3), which may disprove the human-Forerunner relation. The way I see, it, the Covenant must've made the connection if there was a connection (although, yes, the Covenant can be stupid... but I highly doubt the Prophets are stupid). If the Forerunners were wiped out, then they can't be ancient humans either.
But there is a lot of ecveidence that shows otherwise:
1.) Striking resemblence between Forerunner technology and 2552 human technology (may just be a coincidense, but the way the structures look on Halo hints at it a little bit).
2.) Spartan familiarity with Forerunner technology
3.) 343 using humans (yes, thats plural, because he used more than one) as "reclaimers."
4.) 343's "lost time" speech (although I still trust it).
and much more.
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Here's a little something, though, said by 343 Guilty Spark:
"The Flood are already hard at work repairing your vessel"
This may have several meanings and let-ons:
1.) The Flood are repairing a vessel to escape the ring.
2.) Perhaps the Flood were used to control races enslaved by the Forerunners? It makes more sense than some would think, although there are contradictions. Maybe the Forerunners used the Flood as mind-control (in warrior forms, since they can be contained, like Pvt. Jenkins, and even perhaps manipulated eventually), and only kept infection forms in captivity so they wouldn't pose a severly dangerous threat to society. As a fail-safe, the Halos were constructed in order to kill the Flood (indirectly) if there was an outbreak of infection forms. That may be a little far-fetched, however (considering the contradictory statements made by 343 Guilty Spark regarding the Flood)... I don't necessarily think that this particular theory is true.
3.) 343 Guilty Spark doesn't exactly know what the Master Chief and humanity are, or is confused on what ships they use... He said that the Flood are already repairing the Chief's ship. At that point in the story, the Flood hadn't found the Pillar of Autumn, according to dates represented in the book (or if they had, they couldn't have begun repairs yet, since the Covenant were defending it). The Truth and Reconciliation is the only ship described being threatened by the Flood at that time. Perhaps 343 thought that, since there was no human presence at the PoA site at the time, it was actually a Covenant ship (but he would've realized later on that this wasn't true, due to the "lost time" quote... see below). He also may have thought that the Truth and Reconciliation was a human ship, since Captain Keyes and a few other humans were brought there by the Flood (I say other humans because in the "control blob," you could see the legs of others that weren't Covenant).
In regards to the "lost time," perhaps 343 never realized his error in ship identification (if there was an error). I doubt that he got the history from computer memory of consoles in the PoA. Its more accurate (and to some, more obvious) that he tapped into Cortana and hacked the information out of her (since she says, "He's in my databases.").
Just my thoughts. More soon.