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Subject: Theory on the Forerunners' fate...
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Isn't it obvious? The Forerunners are gone because they had to activate the Halo system in the past, thus wiping them all out, along with the Flood and anyone else who was around at the time. That's why their technology is still around and being picked up and worshipped by the Covenant. The Halo system destroyed all Flood-possessable life, but left the technology still there.

It's possible that Forerunners = humans. They could have plotted out the course of evolution that created them, and restarted it on some planet (Earth) before they activated the Halo system. Then again, the Forerunners could be any existing race now. Or they might not have even re-seeded themselves (though I doubt that).

Now, about the technology they left behind, I bet you're going to ask why we don't see Forerunner and Flood starships laying around... well, I postulate that the Forerunners really WERE losing the war, and that their fleets were utterly devastated by the Flood... maybe a small handful left, that were mostly destroyed in the last strike to get to one of the Halo installations. The Flood ships, I hypothesize, were biological in origin, and thus qualifying as large-enough biomass, were destroyed by the Halo system's effect.

But, regardless, that's what wiped out the Forerunners. They were losing the war against the Flood, and they seeded a bunch of races around the galaxy before they activated the Halo's, thus destroying themselves and the Flood, and left the galaxy to evolve a new set of races to populate it, possibly including themselves.

  • 07.10.2004 11:02 AM PDT
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[color=gold]I wonder if a being could survive the Halo deathblast if it were in Slipspace. Seeing as it's another dimension, I think the Forerunner could have sent a spaceship into slipspace, one holding many of their kind, so they wouldn't be entirely wiped out...just a crazy thought.[/color]

[Edited on 7/10/2004 11:08:57 AM]

  • 07.10.2004 11:07 AM PDT
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That's what I've been trying to tell people for years... Maybe they'll listen to a new avatar?

Oh, and I believe that the Forerunner never really died out, but the Flood presence in this galaxy was so strong and so advanced (gained enough biomass to create a Hive mind, new modifications and technology) that they simply did the human thing and quarantined the galaxy, leaving the Monitors to finish the job and creating (!) the Covenant with instructions to protect all of their abandoned technology to prevent the Flood from learning more. Either that or they simply became so advanced that they transcended the physical world and became like ghosts, living on the astral plane.

  • 07.10.2004 11:09 AM PDT