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Subject: How Did Prophets get Forerunner Technology?
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Ive been reading all of these theories lately and there all great, but they sometimes tend to lead up to the prophets having forerunner technology which they give to the covies to use against humans. So....did the forerunners just give this technology to the prophets or was the technology just lying around for the prophets to use as they please>?

  • 07.13.2004 11:54 PM PDT
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I believe that they found it, though it never specifies exactly how they got all of that technology.

  • 07.13.2004 11:55 PM PDT
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I think all of the cov's technology is from the for runners

  • 07.13.2004 11:59 PM PDT
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hhmm, the forerunners you say!? well then that brings up the whole Human+forerunner thing again AAHHHHH too confusing, i think ill just wait until halo 2, and ill just let chaplain and eagle dook it out

  • 07.14.2004 12:15 AM PDT
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agreed. but lets assume for now most of the covenant technology is based on fore-runner tech.

  • 07.14.2004 12:17 AM PDT

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AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
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Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
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They find it, and copy it. It's shown in the books and also been told by Bungie back when Halo came out how the Covenant are more imitators then inventors. In the books, mainly TF, they speak of how they get some of their technology from the 'Gods'. I say some because they are only speaking about the Jackal's shield and that of the Elites.

Achilles

  • 07.14.2004 2:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: Magji
I think all of the cov's technology is from the for runners

it is . ALL of it

  • 07.14.2004 7:17 AM PDT
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yeah, we would be winning the war if they had their technology.

  • 07.14.2004 7:19 AM PDT
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I believe that the Prophets as intellengent as they are deciphered the Forerunner language, and found out many things about their history because they located a abandoned Forerunner world. From there the Prophets gathered all this technology that the Forerunners left plans to by mistake I would believe, that helped them build their energy weapons, shields, armor, and ships. After that the Prophets started attacking and taking over races with this technology, and I believe that all the Covies except maybe the Brutes were once good before the Prophets made them fight for him, but thats just a theory I came up with when I went through this question in my head.

  • 07.14.2004 7:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: Wra7hofAchilles
They find it, and copy it. It's shown in the books and also been told by Bungie back when Halo came out how the Covenant are more imitators then inventors. In the books, mainly TF, they speak of how they get some of their technology from the 'Gods'. I say some because they are only speaking about the Jackal's shield and that of the Elites.

Achilles


Exactly right, also, Engineers home on to the technolgy, which enables the covenant to extract it.

  • 07.14.2004 7:43 AM PDT
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If I remember correctly, the Prophets homeworld was also one of the Forerunner homeworlds long ago - this is why they are revered by the rest of the Covenant.

It's quite possible that they got some kind of space-travel tech from the excavation of their own homeworld and then went off into space and found the Elites or possibly the Engineers - after that, the rest is history.

  • 07.14.2004 8:52 AM PDT

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They didn't tell us what it was it could have been anything. Frankie gets scared easy incase you didn't know.

-BH-

Been here 6 years, been blacklisted 6 times, that's why I'm not Mythic.

ok the prophets were supposedly the only remaining forerunner on a forerunner planet. using the technology that was on the planet they started a lets say empire conquering the other covenant worlds threatening them with the old forerunner technology. they are the highest in the hierarchy because they are said to be direct ancestors to the forerunners. then finding other frerunner planets copied that technology and as they copied the forerunner tech they became more "advanced". if the covenant never found all of that forerunner tech there would be no war because the covie would be to weaak and cornie because they cant creaate

  • 07.14.2004 9:21 AM PDT