- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Yes, another Forerunner topic. So what? I find the discussion interesting.
After reading many, many debates about the Forerunner, here is what I think they are, and their purpose.
The Forerunners, in Halo, are supposed to be God. But they are not God, they are merely a species, like Humans or the Covenant Aliens, that are very, very smart.
Instead of being a long time ago, I think that the Forerunners are actually in the future. Firstly, perhaps they did not create the Flood. The Flood is a virus. It could have evolved. So say the Flood evolved, eh?
Well then, they evolve sometime a long way into our future, and the Forerunners have to deal with it. They create Ring Worlds, the Halos, to destroy all sentient life so that the Flood will die out. Now, who activates the Ring?
A soldier similar to Master Chief, of course.
Think about it. 343 thinks that MC has activated the Ring before. However, 343 is an A.I construct. I believe that if he went back in time, he would not even realize the difference, and instead think that time was continuing on.
What is all this talk about back in time?
The Forerunners have an artifact that will let them go back in time, or put things back in time. What if the Covenant are all crazy and worship some Species that doesn't exist... yet?
But yet, they do exist. For while they have not yet evolved, they have evolved in the future and gone back in time. So the Covenant are worshipping a Species that has not yet evolved, yet exists at the same time.
So, the Forerunners exist in the future, but they create the Ring Worlds to use as a temporary place to store the Flood. But then they realise that the Flood are much, much to dangerous, so they send The Ring Worlds back in time. However, the Ring Worlds were activated before being sent back in time. But 343 doesn't know he was sent back in time, so he thinks that Halo is being activated for the second time, when in reality, it is the first time. Confusing eh?
I just thought I'd throw that out there. And I labelled the topic clearly, so no flaming because I "posted another Forerunner topic" ;)
- Yolegoman