- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
my theories are partly based on my brothers theories. i think that the forerunner are humans. they were outcasts because of their intelligence so they left. i think that is why the covenant hate humans and want to destroy them, because we threw the forerunner aside. i dont think that the forerunner created any species of their own, but just found the flood on a planet, took some to study, but they got out of control and they made ring-worlds to hold them. the covenant worship the forerunner because they gave them everything. they gave them their technology. the books say that the covenant are imitative, not inovative. but somehow, and i havent thought of it yet, the forerunner died off. maybe in an attempt to stop the flood outburst. in halo 2 you will visit the covenant homeworld, another ring-world, and earth. maybe you go to the grunt homeworld, or maybe you see them unmasked because you enter one of their methane tents at a covenant camp.
i dont think africa has any really big significance in halo2. new mombasa was the first ground force strike point, and thats why its the demo level. i think my theory about how the forerunner were humans explains why the covenant want to collect artifacts on human worlds, and why they wont glass earth, they didnt glass a part of reach because it had the artifact, but im sure earth has much more, so they wont take chances. since they worship the forerunners, they want to learn as much about them as possible, and this fuels their quest to visit the human worlds.
shifty, in your theory you said that the covenant want these crystals to find the location of the next planet. in the books it says that a covenant probe attatches itself onto captain keyes' ship as he leaves the sigma octanus battle i believe. thats how they found reach. and they had already found earth before they found the fragments of the reach crystal.
bottom line is, halo2 will kick ass, and ill like it no matter what the story turns out to be. my only hope is that the flood dont come back, because they get annoying. i hope we just beat the crap out of covenant only.