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I think I know the story by piecing things together like a puzzle. MAJOR POSSIBLE SPOILERS.

The Forerunner existed millennias ago, created the Flood, the Halos, and super-advanced technology. The Forerunner were humans, and the races of the Covenant also existed. At the time, the Covenant had no knowledge whatsoever on this Forerunner race and they never knew about them or what they look like. Then an unfortunate Flood outbreak led to a massive war. The Covenant alien world(s) were also plagued by the Flood escaping from Halo(probably by a Forerunner spacecraft)and thus the Covenant's long history with the Flood as we came to know. One Forerunner(with the aid of 343 Guilty Spark) fired the Halos, destroyed everything in the galaxy(some sentient life may have survived the pulse). The Flood were contained again, the remaining Forerunner either 1.Died off 2.Colonized another world 3.Preserved themselves(e.g an advanced cryo-freeze) 4.Any combinations of the above. 343GS was left behind to guard the Halo. Later, the Index re-seeded the galaxy of life(hence the above second definition of 'Library'). The Forerunner later descended into humans. Over the years of isolation and being on Halo for eons, 343GS went insane. Now, machines cannot go insane unless they are sentient-which 343GS is(note his random humming, muttering are not his robotic AI voice, it is the voice of a cloned Forerunner brain, much like Dr. Halsey and Cortana). 343GS' Forerunner brain cannot die so it's like you're shut in a box forever and you can't do anything about it. Also post-activation of the Halos, the Forerunner or Halo scattered rocks with the coordinates to each of the Halos to random planets in the galaxy so their descendents can reclaim what is rightfully theirs. One happen to be on Earth, the Forerunner descendants' first starting planet. The Covenant were techologically advanced than the humans so they found a Halo(s) and stripped it of its technology and stuff left behind(ex. Halo 04). The Covenant thinks the technology is god-like(not the Forerunner, the technology)and believe its purpose is for them to be the greatest power in the universe(hence "Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument). Technology seems to fit that category, as one would not function without the other. So to say, the Covenant's holy war is unholy. For the humans, they took things one baby-step at a time and still managed to replicate Forerunner technology and some even more advanced than the Forerunner(MJOLNIR). The Covenant's war upon humans are to search for these Forerunner rock artifacts-they can easily glass planets without suffering casualties but no, they launch ground assaults. If they find what they're looking for, they leave and glass the planet afterward. If they can't then they just glass it anyway. Reach was an example of such motives as it was not completely glassed-the Covenant are still searching for it. The battle is just to distract resistance from their objective. The first Forerunner artifact was recovered on Sigma Octanus 4 by the humans in the museum, and thus Halo 04, the Alpha Halo is discovered. Halo 04 might not have been found by the Covenant with the help of the rock-but perhaps it was randomly found. The adventure begins on Halo...MC finds 343GS, who knows the MC and the Marines are the Forerunner. That's why he only selects humans to be the reclaimer(he would rather select Sgt. Mobuto than some bad ass Elite) of the Index-because humans are the rightful owner of Halo. The Index is the key to Halo, the Index IS Halo. The Control center is a mainframe of massive data-probably within it the history of the Forerunner and what they look like. The human forces have successfully kept the Covenant from seizing the control center. If this is so, then the Covenant never learned what was in the core..maybe even the truth.

The Forerunner and the humans must have had a similar design to the Spartan's armor suit or 343GS would not have recognized you and the armor. 343GS thinks MC is the Forerunner of the past who fired the Halo-which he's not. 343GS says like it's possible for a person to live for tens of thousands of years-and the signs do not tip in the favor that the Forerunner are invincible beings. Whoever MC looked like in the past must have 'preserved himself'. Then the Flood was released again by the Covenant, and 343GS thinks you are his old companion awaken to fight the Flood again. That's the only logical explanation, I think.

Halo 2...The Covenant finds Earth, the only place they haven't searched for what they're looking for. I believe a Forerunner artifact will be discovered here, and that's how we find the second Halo. Maybe the technological remnants are undisturbed...

That theory fits well with everything of what 343 Guilty Spark said that could mean the humans are the Forerunner, why Halo and the Forerunner infrastrutural remnants have so much in common to human technology, etc. I do hope Bungie doesn't come after me for saying all this...

[Edited on 6/24/2004 12:08:36 PM]

  • 06.24.2004 12:00 PM PDT
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You registered just to say all of this...?

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Not necessarily.

That was just one of my many brilliant theories.

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Ok you have alot of the same theories I do but I disagree with you on couple of things. I do not think that Halo was ever activated. If you remember, in the Control Room the Monitor says "Last time you asked me if it were my choice would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query my answer has not changed." I agree with you that the Forerunners are Humans but I think that Halo was some sort of new world for the humans of the future. If you read the Halo books and have read First Strike you'll know that (stop here if you haven't read them) on Reach there was a crystal that had extraordinary powers to play with time in Slipspace. The Humans of the future tried to create an artificial world like Halo after the exploits of the MC and Cortana and ended up creating Halo. They didn't want the project being interfered with so they built them back in time to protect it with the intention of bring them forward in time when they were completed and tested, but they never finished, if you remember in the game in AOTCR Cortana comments on how the ring's environment seems natural and NOT artificial. This is because the Forerunners were using Halo to test on. The Library was the area where the Forerunners were trying to create bioengineered animals to populate these new worlds. However something went wrong with their experiments and the Forerunners ended up creating the Flood. Well they most likely kept the Flood and studied them until something happend. Some sort of accident caused Halo to be abandoned and while the occupants of Halo fled through time, the Reclaimer, a future Spartan was given the task of activating Halo with the Monitor (that's why the Monitor recognizes the chief and his armor), a smart AI (kind of ironic since he acts so stupid), to help him. The two go up into the Library to get the Index and when they get there the Spartan hesitates and reconsiders what he is about to do, asks the Monitor if it were his choice would he do and then the Flood get him. The Library goes in Emergency Lockdown. No one however makes it out of the Library alive, the Flood ge them all, that's why there are so many in teh Library. Now you may be asking "what about Halo control room and everything?" Well I have a theory about that too, all of the rings were designed with the old Cole Protocol in mind, once turned on they wiped out all electronic data within a specified radius. They could be activated individually or all at once by the flagship of these new worlds, Halo, once the Flood were created, the Field generators on the rings were just modified to contain teh Flood. Were they to still be activated they would most likely wipe out all electronic data as well. These are my theories, I'm not saying mine are right and your's are worng or that mine are wrong or your's are right, this is just what I think.

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Hmm..I heard of the time travel theory, it was the most confusing one in my opinion. I think the Halos were fired before hence: 343GS-"Why would you hesistate to do what you have already done?". There were also other stuff but that quote sums it up. He asks "Last time you asked me, would I do it? Having considerable time to ponder your query, my answer had not changed". The Forerunner 'Spartan look-alike' must've asked 343GS this before he pressed the button. 343GS, by this quote, practically said Forerunner did indeed descend into humans. The weather and climate is natural on Halo because the Flood alters the atmosphere, as 343GS said. Even Cortana was wondering if the Halo was malfunctioning.
If the Forerunner did indeed use time travel, how would the crystal end up on Reach-I think the crystal was just a scientific find(anything can happen in a sci-fi universe). Halo's pulse is meant to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy, not a memory purge. As for the Flood in the Library, I don't think it has anything to do with anything in the past. In the Library, you see all these weird looking blue screens. Maybe it is a super computer database like bookshelves of information in a real Library. Personally I think the Flood are meant to be instruments of war or an expeirment failure(like you said)of the creation of life.

These are my theories, I'm not saying mine are right and your's are worng or that mine are wrong or your's are right, this is just what I think.

Yeah, same here.

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First of all, there are some obvious things that are being missed here. The Chiefs suit was not more advanced, as The Monitor told the Chief that he only had a class two suit, where he should have at least a class 12. And the covenant did not know about the flood until Halo, as proven by the intro of the Keyes level. Obviously, at one point the flood had been a problem and the reason why the forerunners were gone was because of a prior activation of Halo. But the descendants of the forerunners turned out to be humankind, as proven by The Monitors demeanor, as well as the Spartans naturally being able to understand the forerunners symbols, even if they don't know they do. And most importanly is the fact that the classified information that Dr. Halsey finds out that Colonal Ackerson had hid was more forerunner coordinates, except instead of another forerunner ring world, they were the coordinates of earth. The covenant don't know that the humans were descended from the forerunners, but find them an offense because they view them as pagan, since they don't worship forerunner technology. A lot of important info can easily be missed in the library level, such as when The Monitor mentions he is glad to see that there were some humans who survived to reproduce. But anyways, the covenant are thinking that one of the greatest forerunner finds is on earth. As for all that stuff in the future, we will just have to be content with what Bungie decides to eventually make up. As a side note, the book the Flood was a vomitous mass of toilet paper. It does not accurately reflect what happened on halo, nor does it accurately reflect the Master Chiefs character. If I were Bungie, I would yank that as soon as I could, before too many people read it. And if I was Nylund, I would probably be pretty mad at that guy for killing off characters that Nylund created, and probably wanted to use in First strike. How much you want to bet that Nylund had to create Lt. Haverson because the guy he had intended for his spot in the story, Ensign Lovell, had been rather offhandedly killed by Dietz? Of course, non of this really matters too much, because this is a fictitional universe that was created in the mind of Bungie. Maybe some day they'll make some sort of History book revealing the full story and reasons behind everything.

  • 06.24.2004 6:02 PM PDT