- Traxus 04
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- Honorable Member
There is the small possibility that the Assembly simply IS what remains of the Forerunner.
After the rings fired, the Forerunners began their 'great journey' ie. their minds left their bodies and entered 'the Domain.' Here they remained, watching over us, like angels (fits in with the whole Christian link). Eventually humanity gained enough tech to build AIs, at which point the Assembly could start interacting (because the AIs were able to access the Domain through neural physics, although they didn't realise it perhaps) once again. So the Assembly manipulated events by feeding information to humanity through their computer networks, and then when Halsey figured out how to map an AI onto a human brain, they realised they could once more return to the physical world, through the Spartans.
There's some problems though - like how the Assembly don;t seem to really understand anything that the Forerunners would have.
Here's another possibility though: the minority is human AI, and the majority is Forerunner minds (or vice versa). Both are part of the assembly and watch over humanity - but don't share all their knowledge. If some parts sound 'un-Forerunnerish' then maybe it's the minority speaking, not the whole Assembly (it would be possible to check this). Remember there is also some stuff in the pads about the minority hiding information from the majority, or vice versa.
Anyway it's a nice theory because it brings yet another element of Christianity - the idea of guardian angels (Christians believe we are constantly surrounded by angels who we can't see but who occassionally step in to help) - into the fray.