- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Oppiten
A human ancestor were Forerunner, he finally has the history of the in-between stage, he calls chief reclaimer because he is A. Human, B. Has the Armor most likley to be used to combat the flood.
Being human and combatting the Flood having nothing to do with the reclamation process 343 was talking about. He was referring to the Master Chief assisting him in gaining control back over Halo's operational systems against the Covenant, a mutual enemy. He reclaimed The Index which is a key that activates Halo's defense systems, and destroys the Flood, as well as everything else alive in the galaxy.
As to the message that 343 gave Master Chief and to who he was referring to could be left up to conjecture and discussion. It could be that he had a record of humanity before he was inserted into the installation and retrieved the rest from Master Chief's mind or armor. It could be that the human's relationship to Halo is much more powerful then previously assumed, as in the Forerunners have a hand in humanity's history or that the Forerunners are humans from another dimension or time.
When he refers to "us" he is more than likely referring to him and Halo's entire defense system (the Sentinels, the self-destruct mechanism). He was apparently engineered to activate this when the Flood was released, if ever. The Covenant and the Marines participated in this and 343 assumes that the Master Chief is someone fit of reclaiming the index, and having him activate Halo's defense systems. Lucky Cortana's smarter than John, or they would have been all dead two levels before the end of the game.