- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Terran Grunt
Actually, they could be humans. I'm surprised you didn't see this; it is possible that Earth isn't actually a human planet, and that it was a Forerunner colony terraformed into the habitable environment we occupy today. After all, being human does not necessarily mean your ancestors had to be Terrans. That's part of my theory - Halo was fired before (as evidenced by 343 Guilty Spark's comments in the intro to level 8), and killed every sentient being in the galaxy, but the Forerunner had already planned for this. So, they set up "seed stations" on some of the planets that they controlled that would restructure the indigenous creatures' genes so that they would evolve into sentient beings. Therefore, humans would not be perfect copies of the Forerunner, but rather genetically similar versions whose evolution from primates was urged along by the Forerunner "genetic sentience virus." There is strong evidence for this in one of the Cortana letters, which tells about 4 OTHER WORLDS WITH PRIMITIVE HUMAN ARTIFACTS. Anyways, that's my theory, don't blame me for repeating anything others have said - you wouldn't want to read 16 pages of posts, either.
Oh, and all you people arguing about God, put a sock in it. This is a forum for a science-fiction based first-person-shooter, not religion. Most of you would classify me as an atheist, but my beliefs lie closest to those of Buddhism.
terraforming--i like it.
but if halos been fired off already, it would mean that the forerunners took themselves out (unless theyre somehow immune). that would explain my earlier question ("instead of trapping them, why didnt the fr's just kill the flood?")--the forerunners build a bunch of halos as safe-haven things (maybe their home planets are overrun already) but with an self-destruct style device (the big setient-life flyswatter of doom device) which they fired off when the flood infiltrated the halos. then the auto-seeding facilities restore the evolutionary paths of all the planets AFTER 343 and the sentineils trap the flood in the halo structures. this sound reasonable to anyone?
thanx to terran grunt for sparking this thought process