- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Posted by: sgt ubergrunt
Posted by: GameJunkieJim
An Elaboration of ARK theory.
Well I want to look at it this way. If said Halo was fired how ever many years ago - then it stands to logic that the others fired too. Now we have the Prophets, the Brutes, Elites, Hunters, Jackals, Grunts, Engineers, and Humans. All in similar stages of progress, just built better for certain tasks. My thoughts are to the Halos housing all of them. The Halo that we already visited had an Earth Similar atmosphere and gravity.Now think about this - What are the odds of a "random" object having an Earth similar gravity? How about an Earth similar Atmoshpere? Well What are the odds of both happening? If it was intended to be like Earth - then the odds are pretty good. If it really is a random object, then nada - Wouldn't happen. So we can assume with relative certainty that the Halo was created to contain something that lived on the Earth. As blossoming sentient races- The Forerunner decided to study the humans , Prophets, etc... and created the Halos as a place of study and experiment -
Enter the Flood -- For whatever reason - the Flood threaten the sentient life on the galaxy. The Forerunner capture a few and quickly learn the basic nature of the Flood - They also realize how they work - and decide that they don't want a Prophet Flood combat form, and a brute would be frightening as well, So they put it with the least threatening race that still has the cognitive capability of supporting Flood - The Forerunner are scientists after all. So they were going to run experiments maybe. (I don't think the grunt has quite enough capability - at least I never saw a Grunt Combat Form.)
So human nature being as volitile as it is, we of course get pissed off. We revolt, and accidentally release the Flood (The first outbreak) The Forerunner put it down and as a punishment to us - makes our race the Reclaimers. Wearing combat suits, we have to make it through the Library as a test of our worth. If it wasn't a test - the Monitor would have simply teleported us to the index. This was a punishment as it would have forced the Humans to see the damage they did in releasing the flood. If they had the Forerunner issued class 12 armor - then it probably would have been no sweat. Well the other races put down the humans, and it builds over the 100,000 years until the Covenant find us. Anyway that's a tangent I just ran off on - and My theories suck so I'll catch you later -- Hurricane Charlie's coming for me...
If you add it up, there are seven total races: Brutes, Prophets, Hunters, Grunts, Elites, Jackals and Humans. Seeing as it takes 7 Halo rings to wipe the Milky Way clean of life, maybe each ring is suited to a different race. If this is correct, we've already blown up our ring. I believe the rings have more purpose than Cortana or Guilty Spark suggest. Good work again Jim, very nice.
Thanks - but there are 8 races -You forgot Engineers
But I'm sure some share Halos...
Unless the Engineers were descended from the Forerunner -- It would explain why they can fix everything...
Just realized that...oopsie. Anyway, I'm still thinking GS doesn't know as much as he thinks. Maybe the Forerunners hid some secrets of Halo from him...
I mean, you saw how hellbent he was on activating the Installation, who knows what he'd do if he knew everything?