- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: frolnoc
Anyone notice something? I did. The Prophets are looking for Foreeunner technologies, right? That seems to be thier only and main ambition. Why then would they go out of their way to send a whole armada to attack Earth, when they know the humans are only a minor threat, especially after they destroyed Reach. I think its because they are looking for something. They are looking for Forerunner tech on Earth. Remember when 343GS called the Chief "reclaimer", thinking he was a forerunner? Well, what if the humans are the descendants of the forerunner, and Earth is like their homeworld or something. Damnit I'm good.
Lets not forget that their main reason for attacking Reach in the first place was to gain access to the Forerunner space/slipspace warping artifact. It stands to reason that Earth would have some Forerunner artifacts present especially, if Humans are the descendants of the Forerunners, then it, as you rightly said, stands to reason that Earth is a Forerunner world, if not the Forerunner homeworld due to our genetic similiarty to the other species present on it.
Of course we may of forgotten our past due to the last activation of the Halo system obliterating the Floods food, but maybe the Forerunners preserved Earth as a sort of sanctuary for themselves, not realizing that they would forget their past, or in fact intentionally making them forget their past, to stop the sins of the past being repeated. However its usally best to remember those sins to stop them being repeated :)
But that said the Covenant have basically been told, or duped, into believing that they have a "holy" war on their hands and that we "the infidels" must be destroyed to defend the purity of the Forerunners holy artifacts.
And please don't forget that your conclusions about Humans being descendants of the Forerunners have been discussed previously in this thread, let alone in other countless places in other forums on the internet. :)