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Subject: Why cant the Prophet of truth light halo himself?

So guys I've always been wondering this hoping you could help me out. In halo 3 and 2 the prophet was going to MAKE the humans light the rings... Why cant he do this himself?

  • 10.31.2010 6:11 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Humans were given the Mantle by the Forerunners because the Librarian saw them as "special", this makes them Reclaimers and the only ones capable of using Forerunner technology (like the Halo Rings).

The Covenant are not Reclaimers, they misinterpreted a Glyph on the Luminary that they thought meant Reclamation for Forerunner Artefacts when it actually meant Reclaimer and identifies humans.

  • 10.31.2010 6:16 AM PDT

Nah ... long pointy fingers kept breaking the match ;)

  • 10.31.2010 6:28 AM PDT

LOL ROFOLCOPTER

cause hes a wussie

  • 11.13.2010 7:02 PM PDT

He's not human :) humans are the only acknowledged reclaimers for forerrunner technollogy.

  • 11.13.2010 8:00 PM PDT

well... i think based on the books humans are foreunners but many many times evolved to the point that they dont know it any more, and this is possible since no one knows what a foreunner looks like

  • 11.13.2010 10:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: carls murder
well... i think based on the books humans are foreunners but many many times evolved to the point that they dont know it any more, and this is possible since no one knows what a foreunner looks like

Wrong. Read the summary of the Forerunner book that's to be released soon, it mentions Forerunners and humans meeting. They are not the same.
We do know what they look like--Watch Halo Legends.


Other than that, posts are correct. Only Reclaimers (humans) can activate the Halo Array. (which is why Miranda was going to kill herself and Johnson in H3--so Truth couldn't make them activate Halo)

[Edited on 11.13.2010 10:53 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2010 10:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: ShadowVegan

Posted by: carls murder
well... i think based on the books humans are foreunners but many many times evolved to the point that they dont know it any more, and this is possible since no one knows what a foreunner looks like

Wrong. Read the summary of the Forerunner book that's to be released soon, it mentions Forerunners and humans meeting. They are not the same.
We do know what they look like--Watch Halo Legends.


Other than that, posts are correct. Only Reclaimers (humans) can activate the Halo Array. (which is why Miranda was going to kill herself and Johnson in H3--so Truth couldn't make them activate Halo)

In the Terminals it mentins that the librarian selects humans as the race to carry the torch
And in "Origins" Cortana is vergeing on rampancy, so nothing she says can be taken as true

  • 11.14.2010 5:08 AM PDT

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  • 11.14.2010 5:16 AM PDT

Posted by: TK129
And in "Origins" Cortana is vergeing on rampancy, so nothing she says can be taken as true
Mmm, I don't think you quite know what effects rampancy has on an AI. It doesn't make them liars. It makes them so smart they they begin to analyze themselves, the process of which completely destroys them.
Cortana could very well be past her 7 year mark (7 years is the expected lifespan of any Smart AI). But there are theories that she has SURPASSED rampancy apparently. But regardless of those theories- it seems to be that in the state she was in, she shouldn't be seen as lying. Rather she was more sane than she had ever been otherwise.

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  • 11.14.2010 5:34 AM PDT

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Only humans can light the rings, because the Forerunner chose us as their predecessors

  • 11.14.2010 5:59 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: MegaMuffin16
Only humans can light the rings, because the Forerunner chose us as their predecessors


Successors, not predecessors. A predecessor is "one that came before", not after.

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Posted by: burritosenior
Posted by: TK129
And in "Origins" Cortana is vergeing on rampancy, so nothing she says can be taken as true
Mmm, I don't think you quite know what effects rampancy has on an AI. It doesn't make them liars. It makes them so smart they they begin to analyze themselves, the process of which completely destroys them.
Cortana could very well be past her 7 year mark (7 years is the expected lifespan of any Smart AI). But there are theories that she has SURPASSED rampancy apparently. But regardless of those theories- it seems to be that in the state she was in, she shouldn't be seen as lying. Rather she was more sane than she had ever been otherwise.

...Spooky.
>.>


Not entirely true. Cortana is trying to fill in the gaps where she wasn't present by making up her own interpretation of it, Frankie said not to take everything she says as gospel because she's going mad. I mean, the Gravemind did not simply hand her back to John.

[Edited on 11.14.2010 6:49 AM PST]

  • 11.14.2010 6:47 AM PDT

Posted by: carls murder
well... i think based on the books humans are foreunners but many many times evolved to the point that they dont know it any more, and this is possible since no one knows what a foreunner looks like



Wrong. Read the summary of the Forerunner book that's to be released soon, it mentions Forerunners and humans meeting. They are not the same.
We do know what they look like--Watch Halo Legends.





No you're wrong, Carls Murder is accurate we do not know what the forunners look like. Wow humans and forerunners meeting is not possible unless you can bring back the dead, that's ridiculous, even for someone like you. YES we are the same.

[Edited on 11.14.2010 8:51 AM PST]

  • 11.14.2010 8:48 AM PDT

Forerunners and humans are not the same. In legends those forerunners are what cortana thinks they look like that is not what they truly look like. the forerunners gave the mantle to humans so they are reclaimers. But the forerunners and humans have met and they probably mated cause some humans to have stronger DNA which if you read the fall of reach that is how the Spartan-IIs were chosen and if you remember in halo 3 when 343 guilty spark saws to master chief he says you are forerunner so the forerunners and humans have mated cause humans to have stronger DNA. and the prophet cant light the ring cause the forerunners didn't leave them or any other species the mantle only the humans cause they are special like the Librian said in the termainels

  • 11.14.2010 1:20 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: codyhf91
Forerunners and humans are not the same. In legends those forerunners are what cortana thinks they look like that is not what they truly look like. the forerunners gave the mantle to humans so they are reclaimers. But the forerunners and humans have met and they probably mated cause some humans to have stronger DNA which if you read the fall of reach that is how the Spartan-IIs were chosen and if you remember in halo 3 when 343 guilty spark saws to master chief he says you are forerunner so the forerunners and humans have mated cause humans to have stronger DNA. and the prophet cant light the ring cause the forerunners didn't leave them or any other species the mantle only the humans cause they are special like the Librian said in the termainels


Spark is rampant, he cannot tell a Forerunner and Reclaimer apart because he identifies them as the same thing. Forerunners and human never mated, the Librarian was the only Forerunner on Earth.

Spartan-II candidates are chosen because they have superior genes to others, there's nothing remotely Forerunner-related abotu that. The Prophets do the same for mating with their concubines, to carry on the strongest genes.

  • 11.14.2010 1:30 PM PDT


Posted by: DeadeyePanda117
Posted by: carls murder
well... i think based on the books humans are foreunners but many many times evolved to the point that they dont know it any more, and this is possible since no one knows what a foreunner looks like



Wrong. Read the summary of the Forerunner book that's to be released soon, it mentions Forerunners and humans meeting. They are not the same.
We do know what they look like--Watch Halo Legends.





No you're wrong, Carls Murder is accurate we do not know what the forunners look like. Wow humans and forerunners meeting is not possible unless you can bring back the dead, that's ridiculous, even for someone like you. YES we are the same.


thank you

  • 11.15.2010 12:08 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: carls murder
Posted by: DeadeyePanda117
Posted by: carls murder
well... i think based on the books humans are foreunners but many many times evolved to the point that they dont know it any more, and this is possible since no one knows what a foreunner looks like



Wrong. Read the summary of the Forerunner book that's to be released soon, it mentions Forerunners and humans meeting. They are not the same.
We do know what they look like--Watch Halo Legends.





No you're wrong, Carls Murder is accurate we do not know what the forunners look like. Wow humans and forerunners meeting is not possible unless you can bring back the dead, that's ridiculous, even for someone like you. YES we are the same.


thank you


The Forerunners didn't die. They reseeded the galaxy after the Flood lay dormant, passed down the Mantle to humanity and then exiled themselves from the Orion Arm of the Milky Way for failing to uphold the Mantle.

[Edited on 11.15.2010 12:44 PM PST]

  • 11.15.2010 12:43 PM PDT

lets just end the topic with a, because he cant :)

  • 11.15.2010 12:59 PM PDT