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This is probably better suited under the "Are the Forunners Extinct?" thread but this sorta relates...
Interesting you should bring this 343 GS quote up. I've been dreaming way too much about Halo and Halo 2 and the whole Halo universe for that matter -and when i woke up this morning a couple of in-game-quotes plus some stuff from the books (especially from 'First Strike") really started to take some sorta shape.
First, there is the 343 GS qote on 'The Maw' when he's tapped into Cortana's data array and says something like "...look at all these records of OUR lost time. Human history is it?... ". Second, there is the 343 GS reference to the Master Cheifs armor not being of a high enough class to handle the Flood, that he has a class 2 or 3 and he needs atleast a class 12.
Third, there are tidbits in the book "First Strike" that will help tie together what I'm getting at.
When Cortana strips to pieces the Covenant AI aboard the captured Covenant ship, she gets to the core of the code and it looks stangely familiar infact it looks alot like hersefl but she doesn't have time to pursue the matter or something. This is also a lot like all the strange familiarities that the Spartans have with Covenant technology and i think some Marines and Dr. Halsey experince this too. When Cortana de-bugs the Covie ship she is able to translate Covie speak a lot better. She then hears the Covenant talk about "the Giant's crystal" on Reach and how the "infidels will not taint it's shine..." or something like that (sorry the quotes may not be exact). This obviously all pretains to the rescue mission and escape with the strange crystal (all in the book "First Strike").
Now as far as some of the "Are the Forunners Extinct?" theories that involved time travel, I was a bit skeptical cause i never heard before of time travel in the Halo universe but when going back over "First Strike" and this mysterious crystal there is some confusion between Dr.Halsey and Cortana about how much time had elapsed during the Master Cheifs little stint on Halo (a tale which we all know and love deeply I'm sure) and how much time from the Fall of Reach and the rescue in "First Strike". In short, they conclude that the crystal has some weird time altering property and that might be why the Covenant had wanted it so bad.
So, how does all this relate to the Master Cheif's level 12 and up MJLONIR? Well suppose the Forunners are Human, maybe not exactly -blam!--sapien but some distant relative race. Suppose they had enough time to develope further armor classes strong enough to deal with their future threats (i.e. The Flood). Suppose the armor wasn't exactly armor but more like a Mech Suit (think of it? what could be 10 times more advacnced than the MJLONIR II?) that is tapped into the pseudo-human so that they are essentially "wearing" the Mech. These Mech-Suits could do all sorts of things. Like kick some serious Flood around the galaxy, construct super ring-worlds to maintain the flood and send them back in time, or to preserve them for eons to come or at the very least make the Forunners seem like Giants!!! The ovbvious inclination to tie the Forruners and their stolen-by-the-Covenant technology to humans stems from the nagging familiarity that humans have with it, and the overtly obvious statment by 343 Guilty Spark --the keeper of Halo and servant of the Forunners "...of our lost time..."
[Edited on 4/25/2004 6:31:42 PM]