- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Thanks Wing_Zero, but I wouldnt have looked more into if it wasnt for Chapaine, in the Mote series, the Humans meet these Aliens, and the aliens keep getting into wars, and like practically blast themselves back to the stone age, but they have built big "museums" before most of them die out, and the surviors of the war, reproduce, and seek out these "museums" so that their technology can advance much faster, and give them power. But see, so many of them died out in each war, there arent really enough to keep advancing and such to stay technologically advanced, so these survivors seek to "RECLAIM" their lost technology, but through generations and generations, they forget, and they eventually find these things, and have no clue what they are, or who built them.
And it is very possible, that with the Humans, they could have almost died out in a battle with the Flood, but before hand, they built big Halos to contain the Flood, and the humans that were left on the Halos were contaminated, leaving only the humans that werent on the Halos, to reproduce, and eventually they forget they were the forerunners. They could have built 343 GS to protect and monitor the Halo (installation 04). But after all the humans died out, he was left there, for 100,000 years. So when Master Chief, gets to the Halo, 343 believes that he has come back to "RECLAIM" Halo, hence, why 343 calls him RECLAIMER.
ALSO, 343 never calls them the "Forerunners" which Eagal 117 pointed out, which is why 343 says "To have a record of all of OUR lost time... Human history is it?" hes is suprised cause he never knew them as humans, he knew them as what they called themselves before they were practically wiped out. So they called themselves "Humans" sence they forgot what they were through the generations.
BUT, in the Mote series, the Motes have a caste system, much like the covenant, they are composed of a bunch of races... BUT in the game 343 calls MC the "RECLAIMER" and "OUR" lost time "Human history", it seems Bungie has kinda switched it around abit. Making the Covenant like the Motes, but the Humans are the ones blasting themselves back to the stone age.
[Edited on 7/16/2004 4:07:35 PM]