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Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: flamedude
Well the first one would be..... Forerunners would probably recognise Precursors if they encountered them. We also don't know what constitutes a Precursor or even a Forerunner, we just don't know enough, they could be individual species like Humans or could be a group of advanced races like the Covenant. And as far as we've seen there are no Precursor artifacts on Earth, so far anyway.
Well there would be Precursor artifacts on Earth, but we'd think them to be human artifacts. And the whole point of this theory is that the Forerunners did recognise the humans to be Precursors, hence their importance. As for the idea that they could be a group of conjoined races, I'm not sure about that.
Saying that the Forerunners did recognise the humans to be Precursors is a big leap based on one line of text. The fact is they never once called humans Precursors (Sentinels or Forerunner AIs), they called them Reclaimers. 343 Guilty Spark, 2401 Penitent Tangent, Mendicant Bias all call the Master Chief "Reclaimer". I simply think the Forerunner saw great potential in the Human species and that because they were "beyond the line" would be safe from the Halo effect and so the Librarian embued Humans with Forerunner DNA hence the Spartan-Forerunner link to allow them to become the Forerunners Reclaimers. I personally believe that not every human is a Forerunner as suggested by Halsey's strict genetic profiling, the Spartans bizarre intuition with Covenant technology and the Onyx sentinels encounter with the S-IIIs.
If Forerunners are the successor to the Precursors and Humans are the successors to Forerunner then in a hereditary fashion humans could be viewed as Precursor, but thats as much as I'd ever say could be considered.
But as with almost every single major aspect of Halo we just don't know enough about Precursor, Forerunner or Reclaimer. We just have snippets of information.
[Edited on 08.31.2009 3:04 PM PDT]