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Subject: ...but what are the forerunners?
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Even though ive been playin this game for 'MONTHS' my knoledge of the history of halo, the covenant 'nd there relationship with earth is a little thin. also any info on the flood, where they came from and their purpose, iff they have one...
HOWEVER MY MaIN QUESTION, aND THE aCTULY SUBJECT IS; "WHT aRE THE FORERUNNERS?"

even guess work/speculation is welcomed as i just stvrted to wonder about it and i cant think of much,

cheers <<bighairypig>>



  • 07.14.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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Well "bighairypig", just a couple of facts.

The Forerunner are an ancient species (intensely debated issue) that once inhabited our galaxy and built many objects and installations (one being Halo, the place most of the game takes place on). They are rumored to be the ancestors of humans, and some people think the ancestors of the covenant. Still others think they are alive in some remote place. However, the Covenant "worship" the forerunner and seek to find every object made by them. People say that that is why they are so advanced, by using Forerunner technology.

Halo is an installation to house the flood, and perform research on them. Also, should the flood get out of hand, Halo can be activated to wipe the galaxy (well, a large part of it) clean of life, thus destroying the flood's food.

At the present I am too lazy to answer any of your other questions.

[Edited on 7/14/2004 6:04:05 PM]

  • 07.14.2004 6:03 PM PDT
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didnt read that, but forerunner are human.

  • 07.14.2004 7:47 PM PDT
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There is no evidence what so ever that the forerunners were human.

If the foreruners were human, wouldn't the covies worship us?

  • 07.14.2004 8:02 PM PDT
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yea heres that example of intense debate coming into play

  • 07.14.2004 8:51 PM PDT
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ur right dude

  • 07.14.2004 9:01 PM PDT
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...another debats? YES! I LOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEE debates.

forerunner are human. i don feel like typing ALL THE BIG reasons why. i hav no reason because im not debating yet. many of guilty sparks quotes prove it.

OR. maybe just the spartans are forerunner,it makes scince.

the marines SUCK and useing covie weapons and vehicles. but MC and spartans in book can use them easily.

MC knows just how to use forerunner tech. (buttons n' stuff. rad the books)

many of the forerunner places are HUMAN planets (read the books again)

  • 07.15.2004 6:57 AM PDT
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there ancent aliens ok. and as fore what they look like only bungie knows fore sure if the've put thought into decideing that.

  • 07.15.2004 3:25 PM PDT
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If forerunners where humans, shouldn't we know about them?

  • 07.15.2004 3:33 PM PDT
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In response to the fact that the Spartans can use the enemy weapons and vehicles well, that I think comes from one of several things, but first a side note.

The Spartans (as you know) are just humans with nano augmentations, like micofibril muscle enhancements, bone hardening enhancements, nervous system upgrades and such so really the would be more akin to true cyborgs. As such they are capable of living longer in a fight and thus will gain more chances to get experience using the Covenant weapons. Marines and Navy personnel generally die before they get the chance to pass on and develop technique and ability to use much of the equipment.

Also, there is no guarantee that the equipment is "Forerunner". I think I remember The Fall of Reach saying something about the fact that the Covenant take technologies and use them to thier own means. So the plasma rifle might not have started out as the plasma rifle. It could have been a plasma engine that was adapted and changed to be a weapon. Heck, the Humans do the same thing. They took the shields that they found on Covenant, and integrated them into the Mjolnir armor, and then improved on it.

There is also a good chance that, while not Human, the Forerunner race was similar in that they preferred the same general planet types (M class for those Star Trek fans). Thus Halo was built with an oxygen atmosphere. Reach was undoubtedly a Forerunner colony or controlled world.

Forerunner might be precursors of Humans, but I would like to think otherwise. And in so far as the Covenant "worship" the Forerunner, religion has been used for centuries as a justification for war so that those in power can expand thier domain.

I would certinaly like to hear what you have to say about 343 Guilty Sparks "proving" remarks.

Chewie

  • 07.15.2004 3:38 PM PDT