- Shai Hulud
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- Exalted Mythic Member
With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.
I think the Forerunners were just an advanced alien race that left behind Halos, machines, and ruins on both Human and Covenant-occupied worlds (be for humanity and the Covenant races evolved). Humans never found out about the ones on their planets, because the were buried too deep (but they did know about the ones on Reach (or at least they only knew about the faintly luminous geometric patterns in the rocks deep in the Titanium mines)... they just couldn't get into them). The Covenant have more knowledge about the Forerunner (obviously), and have copied their technology and claimed it as their own,... which is inferior to the real deal.
Prophets claim to have evolved on a planet previously occupied by the Forerunner (says this in The Flood). I think that they used the technology to take over other the other Covenant races, then bent them to their will.
I've gone deeper than this, but at the moment I don't have it organized anymore, so I won't go further.
This is just what I think.