- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Look, I know that everyone and their brother has written some kind of theory that either prooves or disprooves a Human-Forerunner connection, but I promise, this one's different.
Now, I believe that the Humans are the Forerunner to start it off, I believe the evidence supporting such a connection is overwhelming. I'll be reffering to the Covenant aliens as 'the Covies' so try not to get confused.
10s of 1000s of years ago the Forerunner were probably conducting experiments onboard the Halos on a life form known as the Flood. Some how, the Flood escaped and destroyed all life in the galaxy, leaving but a few Forerunner who resided in the Halos which were then used to hold captured Flood samples and mop up the rest of the Flood. So, the dying Forerunner species went out to do two things, make a group of beings who could combat and contain the Flood in the future (the Covies) and replicas of themselves to ensure the survival of the species (Humans). Basically like the biblical story of the flood: God (Forerunner) unleashes a flood (Flood) upon the world (Galaxy) and it purges it of all life except for the species aboard the ark (Halo or Halos). He then made a promise to those created in his image (the Humans) never to do it again by creating a covenant (Covenant) with the humans.
So, anyways, jump to the Human-Covie war. The Prophets learn that Humanity is the direct decendents of the Forerunners (their gods) and realize that if the rest of the Covies get wise of this, the Prophets will loose their power. So, they decide order their forces to destroy the Humans, the very species that they worship and are bound to protect. In the mean time, they are in search of the arks, the peak of Forerunner technology, and discover coordinates for one, intentionally left for Humans by the Forerunner, on a Human world. So anyways, the Covies get there along with the MC and break the Forerunner-Human Covenant by releasing the Flood. So now it's up to the MC, a decendent of the Forerunner, to restore the Covenant (destroy Halo). Now to incorporate 343 GS. 343 GS, after being abandoned for 10,000 years, starts to get pretty pissed at the Forerunner and when he mistakens the MC for a Forerunner, he sees his chance to exact his revenge. So he tempts the MC with destroying the Flood, as a Forerunner might also have been tempted, while really wanting the MC kill everything and leave him alone. This fits in with the Fall from Eden in the bible perfectly. Genisis, Book 3, verses 3-4 tells of the snake's (343 GS if you couldn't figure out) deception of man into biting the fruit from the tree of knowledge (learning how to destroy the Flood) and thus expelling man from Eden (Halo). This of course is a breach of the original Covenant made with the Humans so Eden is destroyed.
Now, the Humans have to destroy the Covies after they attacked the Humans, breaching their side of the Covenant. Thus, Halo 2.
There we go, we're all one big, happy, biblical interplanetary family.