- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: THE CHIEF 87
the humans and covenant 'stumbled' on halo at around the same time i think, after all it was discovered by the humans accidentally in an attempt to lure the covenant away from earth... but there is some evidence that would suggest the covenant had been there a bit longer, like how they were set up on halo and how they found, and i guess explored, the 'compund' in 343 GS, and also the contol room and silent cartographer. so i have to wonder if they r just out to rule the universe, not find some forerunner technology on earth... they had been attacking human colonies throughout the galaxy and were probably getting pissed off that they just kept coming so they wanted to take out the 'mother' planet, but they may find something interesting during their attack? who knows? oh and has anyone ever noticed how in 343 GS there are symbol thingies in the walls? im not certain, but that was a forerunner compound, and the symbols share a close resemblance to the symbols found on some of the elites throughout the game....so maybe the covenant are somesort of decendant of the forerunners, but 343 and the sentinels are assumed to be forerunner, so maybe they were robots of some sort?!? i dunno!? also, in the first little movie where the chief jumps out of the airlock thingy, it is obviously not the bomber that they used to escape halo, it seems alot bigger, it has an elevator...it has to be big!!! so some time must have elapsed between their return to earth and the covenants attack?! i dunno, if the books mention anything to clarify my questions let me know, cuz i havnt read them....yet.... oh and great theories, they are really good to read. if halo 2 doesnt use em, i suggest copywriting them and making some money....but its sad cuz if HALO 2....god forbid....doesnt have a storyline as good as the ones u guys have thought of, theres gonna be alot of dissapointed ppl out there!!! but i recon halo 2 will be the best game ever regardless of storyline!
the reason there are forerunner symbols on some covenant stuff is because they worship the forerunners, and salvage what they find, get engineers to study and fix it and then use it as thier own, taking them on as gifts from thier "gods". Hope that explains what you may have missedi n halo (it IS explained in halo) but is even more in depthyly explained in the novels.