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Maybe the forerunners tried to kill of the covenant at one point in time

  • 07.05.2004 10:47 AM PDT
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That's a possibility. Although, if I remember right, the Forerunners don't use weapons so I'm not sure how. It's a possibility though.

  • 07.05.2004 10:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: BlitzFalle
If you ask me, this whole theory isnt very likely for a few reasons:

A: If the covies had been to earth so long ago, why the hell would they have been unable to find it for so long durig the war?

B: I dont think Bungie would throw something like the pyramids into the game, since they have a real life explanation and that would just make the game seem silly... The pyramids were made fpr pharoas so that they would be remembered, and they were built by slaves, and the calculations to design them are actually quite simple. There is so much evidence that the pyramids were built by humans, alone, that to claim otherwise in the story would just annoy a lot of people.

C:Why, exactly, would the forerunners need big piles of rock to point at the halos? Can't they remember were they left them by themselves?


First of all, We never once! implyed in the original theory that the covenant where on earth, not once has that been said since i started the thread. I dont know WHERE you got that, but before you say something, try making sure you know what your talking about. Why would the forerunners leave maps to wherever it is they are pointing to, well a few reasons, to let people know where they are if the forerunners ever pass out of existance. I mean its not like weve remembered everything we made thousands of years ago now is it? plus the Covenant are on some quest for "paradise" and i beleive the covenant are following a trail from planet to planet that the forerunners left for them. I mean every artifact they have found has contained star maps to another planet with more forerunner stuff and more star maps, like the one they found on signus whatever and the one on reach from what ive heard (havent read the third book yet) so i mean whats not to say they found one leading them to earth, and earth is the final waypoint on thier quest for this "paradise" and it just so happens to be our home planet too so they are sort of killing two birds with one stone. anyway yes its very easy to plan out the pyramids, but using the tools they used back then? very hard to get them THAT precise, to lift those huge Blocks, would be impossible, granite or marble or whatever it was they used, was VERY VERY heavy, and blocks that big would take thousands just to move one. Now Bungie knowing this could easily apply it to a story and fill in the mysterys with the fiction of thier story, halo, by explaininf in thier FICTIONAL! story that it was the forerunners who helped create them as a way point, but didnt make them so advanced like thier technology, because they dont want us, the humans, getting thier, they want another more advanced species, the covenant, to get thier. blah blha blah, etc etc.

  • 07.05.2004 10:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: Krash
Maybe the forerunners tried to kill of the covenant at one point in time


if i remember correctly the covenant have never met the forerunners neither, just found artifacts etc of them, and see them as thier creators and thier gods. as most foolish religions beleive on earth (im not a religious man at all and find them all bogus, if you follow a religion you might not find the bogus beleifs of the covenant, as bogus as i do ha ha)

  • 07.05.2004 11:01 AM PDT
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if the forerunner don't use weapons then who is supposed to use halo against the flood n the first place

hey, maybe the forerunner tried to use the halo a long time ago to wipe out the flood and were killed by the halos

[Edited on 7/5/2004 11:06:56 AM]

  • 07.05.2004 11:06 AM PDT
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their own creations where their own undoing, it is a nice little storyline thing, but its too obvious, i thought thats what happened when i first played halo and met the mointor (343gs)

But its a bit too obvious and hes been done SOOOOO many times in games and film.

  • 07.05.2004 11:08 AM PDT
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I think the forerunners didn't wan't to destroy the flood just contain them. Halo was some sort of galactic zoo. Maybe the flood was some sort of experiment that went wrong and the forerunners kept them for further study.

  • 07.05.2004 11:10 AM PDT
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I gues so

  • 07.05.2004 11:12 AM PDT
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maybe all the covenant are forerunner creations except the prophets and the prophets freed them from their respective halos

  • 07.05.2004 11:14 AM PDT
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this thread kicksass, thx for startin it RedLeader, and Shifty :P

  • 07.05.2004 11:19 AM PDT
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maybe, the forerunner created halos not only to destroy the flood but other adverse races, assuming the forerunners are as ancient as they say they could have already activated the halos in the past, thus the lack of forerunner on the surface of the galaxy, maby a first attempt to destroy the flood didnt quite work perhaps the flood can survive without thier food, perhaps the forerunner were wrong in thier theory about destroying the flood by destroying their food and they only managed to supress the flood that were outside halo

  • 07.05.2004 11:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: the cat
maybe, the forerunner created halos not only to destroy the flood but other adverse races, assuming the forerunners are as ancient as they say they could have already activated the halos in the past, thus the lack of forerunner on the surface of the galaxy, maby a first attempt to destroy the flood didnt quite work perhaps the flood can survive without thier food, perhaps the forerunner were wrong in thier theory about destroying the flood by destroying their food and they only managed to supress the flood that were outside halo

That's what I said

  • 07.05.2004 11:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: RollMaster
this thread kicksass, thx for startin it RedLeader, and Shifty :P


hey if anyone gets the credit its you, and everyone else whos kept it alive, and the real thanks goes out to my team of reserchers and theoryists, theyve done more than i have, so dont juts thank me thank cool_cow, duel wieldingfreak, jared, and shifty (this is in order of thier positng on my thread :P)

  • 07.05.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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has any one here red the halo books?

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  • 07.05.2004 11:40 AM PDT
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yup a good few of us have read the halo books, novels if you will (sounds more classy that way :P)

  • 07.05.2004 11:41 AM PDT
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what about other mythological places for example atlantis, stone henge, piramids in south america, avalon or mount olympus

  • 07.05.2004 11:55 AM PDT
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well beleive it or not the mythical "Labyrinth" in crete was a large cicrular maze, with numerous levels that contained demons in its lower levels. people where condemned here by king mimus i think ... not sure, anyway and if they made it out of the labyrinth they where free, now the labyrinth was circular in shape and at the center of each lavel, a large circular room, that would then lead to the next level of the maze etc etc. Remind you of oh say... the library? :P :P :P

  • 07.05.2004 12:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Krash
[quote]Posted by: the cat
maybe, the forerunner created halos not only to destroy the flood but other adverse races, assuming the forerunners are as ancient as they say they could have already activated the halos in the past, thus the lack of forerunner on the surface of the galaxy, maby a first attempt to destroy the flood didnt quite work perhaps the flood can survive without thier food, perhaps the forerunner were wrong in thier theory about destroying the flood by destroying their food and they only managed to supress the flood that were outside halo


We already know that the flood can survive without their food source (the fact that the flood was there and then managed to infect so many covenant/humans, plus the fact that I don't think that that many flood could have been produced in the small amount of time between the covenant releasing them and the mass that swarmed out at you the first time we meet the flood). The egyptian theory is good (and props to whoever figured out the distance from zanzibar to the haven of peace), especially since MC recognized the fore-runner's symbols as if he had seen them before (maybe in his study of ancient egyptian waarfare or something)... i don't know how much of this has been said (i tried to read through all of the pages, but it was alot...) ( :

keep the theories rolling...

  • 07.05.2004 12:21 PM PDT
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I was so impressed with this thread i thot i'd join up an throw in my 2cents worth. i like the pyramid thing and for the doubters there are still some mysteries about how they were made! did u know that some of the mummies tombs were saturated with radiation, its what killed a load of people when they found tutenkhamun an they thot it was some kind of curse! as for pyramids pointin to stars thats true, there are openings in some of them from the place where the body lies(the burial room if u will) which line up with certain stars. i think the idea is its a route for the soul to travel into the stars where they beleived their king,a god, had come from in the first place. maybe this has something to do with the forerunners and their origins. perhaps the kings were some kind of servants to them like 343gs is meant to be on halo. and perhaps they are less advanced than the halo because there were people on the planet and they didn't want to give away their presence by building anything too far ahead, maybe they used the planet for something that they neither needed or wanted us to klnow about! the only thing that worries me is that there aren't any pyramids in kenya or tanzania(where heaven of space is) but what is there is the site of a huge crater it's about 25 miles across it's reckoned its an old asteriod impact maybe bungie has decided its something else. another thing that area is conspicous for is human remains, some of the oldest, as in thousands of years, human bones are from round that area like the tan-baby so called cos it was found at a lake(tanganyika) bordering tanzania which is like the second oldest human remains ever found could be something in that but i reckon the pyramids will feature heavily, wasn't the structure that the control room was in a pyramid only a little more advanced u know the one were u can stand above an the music changes! anyway ,think that's enuff rubbish for my first post

  • 07.05.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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Hey Ive been reading this thread for a while and I was just thinking. In the video where MC jumps from the airlock you can see hes jumping on to a covie cruiser. This got me thinking, why would MC be jumping on to this one out of all they have, maybe it was getting ready to glass earth so he had to stop it, I dunno. I just thought it strange that they sent MC alone to this one cruiser, it clearly has to have some relevance

  • 07.05.2004 12:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: the cat
maybe, the forerunner created halos not only to destroy the flood but other adverse races, assuming the forerunners are as ancient as they say they could have already activated the halos in the past, thus the lack of forerunner on the surface of the galaxy, maby a first attempt to destroy the flood didnt quite work perhaps the flood can survive without thier food, perhaps the forerunner were wrong in thier theory about destroying the flood by destroying their food and they only managed to supress the flood that were outside halo


You saying theis sparked something in my brain. What if the first time one of the Halo's was activated it didn't destroy Earth, but destroyed the Forerunner themselves? Or possibly (A very long shot) the dinosaurs?

  • 07.05.2004 12:44 PM PDT
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You people need to stop speculating!

  • 07.05.2004 12:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Jnice
You people need to stop speculating!


What else is there to do? Halo 2 aint out yet.

  • 07.05.2004 12:49 PM PDT
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Someone said that the covie had followed different artifacts to Reatch then eventualy Earth and that the Forerunners maybe had made some kind of map for them to follow then maybe it's possible that the maps lead to more advanced forms of life Lets say that there were some lesser advanced creatures before the Flood on an other Halo and that they counts as Failed experiments. Then if one of the Maps leads to Earth then maybe Humanity is the succses of all the other Failed lifeforms. So Humans may be created by the Forerunners.

Do you get my point?

  • 07.05.2004 12:55 PM PDT
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wow, i really didn't mean to flame, i was just saying that i didn't quite understand the theory, i wasn't trying to ruin your fun of anything... You people seemed to be taking it pretty seriusly and i was just wondering why it would be like that...

  • 07.05.2004 12:56 PM PDT