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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/exclusive-book-excer pt-halo-cryptum/11819

Gonna start reading know....

  • 12.22.2010 11:45 AM PDT

:D

  • 12.22.2010 12:17 PM PDT

Sweet Jesus that's awesome. Too bad I've still got to finish Ghost of Onyx and up before I read any new ones.

  • 12.22.2010 12:17 PM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

I'm now reading through chapter one,chapter 2=finished

Very intresting...

  • 12.22.2010 12:20 PM PDT

Wow, this is amazing! The humans know of the Forerunners, and talk with them!

Some things are supporting my theory too, already. I'll keep reading.

Edit: Wait, Forerunner-human war?!

WHAT.

[Edited on 12.22.2010 12:27 PM PST]

  • 12.22.2010 12:22 PM PDT

"devolved and exiled"
Interesting...
If you need me, I'll be having a nervous breakdown.

  • 12.22.2010 12:33 PM PDT

I havent time to read whole text but very interesting indeed.
Forerunner-human war uh-huh? I wanna know moar!!!

[Edited on 12.22.2010 12:39 PM PST]

  • 12.22.2010 12:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: PhoenixSniperX
Sweet Jesus that's awesome. Too bad I've still got to finish Ghost of Onyx and up before I read any new ones.
I've hot the one after Contact Harvest, and up to go.

  • 12.22.2010 12:39 PM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact


Posted by: Wolverfrog
Wow, this is amazing! The humans know of the Forerunners, and talk with them!

Some things are supporting my theory too, already. I'll keep reading.

Edit: Wait, Forerunner-human war?!

WHAT.


And we have lost and we were an interstellar civilisation????

*mind blown*

  • 12.22.2010 12:40 PM PDT

Oh my, this has changed everything.

Humans seem to have once been at war with the Forerunners, but the Forerunners won and devolved humanity before exiling them to Earth. A Lifeworker named the Librarian has been charged with preserving them as specimens to study. Forerunners seem to view the humans as lowly, worthless scum for the most part, but the main character appears to realise that they are not so different.

Well, I was certainly wrong. Although it is still possible that the humans are Precursors, and I got the devolving on Earth thing right, even if the specifics are a little wrong.

These genetic commands are interesting too. Do you think the Forerunners might have been pulling the strings of what happens in the main trilogy? What if John is part of a genetic line which was designed to save us? These "genas" could be the reason why only some humans were suitable to become Spartans.

[Edited on 12.22.2010 12:46 PM PST]

  • 12.22.2010 12:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: Wolverfrog
Oh my, this has changed everything.

Humans seem to have once been at war with the Forerunners, but the Forerunners won and devolved humanity before exiling them to Earth. A Lifeworker named the Librarian has been charged with preserving them as specimens to study. Forerunners seem to view the humans as lowly, worthless scum for the most part, but the main character appears to realise that they are not so different.

Well, I was certainly wrong. Although it is still possible that the humans are Precursors, and I got the devolving on Earth thing right, even if the specifics are a little wrong.

These genetic commands are interesting too. Do you think the Forerunners might have been pulling the strings of what happens in the main trilogy? What if John is part of a genetic line which was designed to save us? These "genas" could be the reason why only some humans were suitable to become Spartans.
Holy shi- *Head asplodes*

  • 12.22.2010 1:04 PM PDT
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Woah, Human-Forerunner war, devolving, didn't see that coming. Would someone mind providing a summary of chapter 1? It won't let me register on Tor.

  • 12.22.2010 1:05 PM PDT

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Thanks for the link, I plan on purchasing the book when it comes out. (But I guess a head start wouldn't hurt)

  • 12.22.2010 1:14 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

My head just exploded, so much at once.

How does the Flood Adjunct factor into this? The Librarian apparently has no idea who has tampered with Earth and Humanity according to that.

What of the Terminals as well? Earth now has been known for at least 9000 years.

Confused. :/

  • 12.22.2010 1:22 PM PDT

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  • 12.22.2010 1:27 PM PDT

I don't know or care, since this is far more awesome.

  • 12.22.2010 1:28 PM PDT

Dude, awesome. I have a good feeling about Halo again. Renewed interest!

  • 12.22.2010 1:33 PM PDT

HOLY -blam!-!!!!!!! HUMAN-FORERUNNER WARS?????????????

  • 12.22.2010 1:51 PM PDT


Posted by: Xyzzva
Woah, Human-Forerunner war, devolving, didn't see that coming. Would someone mind providing a summary of chapter 1? It won't let me register on Tor.


it looks like all those theories could be right so far.

good job so far Wolverfrog and co.

  • 12.22.2010 1:57 PM PDT

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What I'm thinking is that Humans are actually Forerunner, we were just a sect of them who either didn't believe in the rate system or worshiped the Precursors instead of holding the Mantle. Thus the Forerunners fought us and destroyed us.

  • 12.22.2010 2:59 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Maybe the Librarian discovered something within Humanity in those last years of the Flood war, rather than the discovery of Earth and Humans themselves like what was once thought? It is mentioned in Chapter 1 that to the best of Forerunner records, Humans did in fact originate on Earth and then spread out before being mostly destroyed by the Forerunner. So maybe the "artifice" (Mentioned in the Flood re-release) that the Librarian speaks of with respect to Earth is the discovery, made at the end of the war?

Could only imagine what the Covenant races would do if they found out about this war.

  • 12.22.2010 3:16 PM PDT

I put the laughter in manslaughter

forerunners love hats?
Proof then that TF2 is forerunner combat simulations.

  • 12.22.2010 3:24 PM PDT

Hoooooooooooolyyyyyyyy -blam!-.

  • 12.22.2010 3:34 PM PDT


Posted by: ZachUSAman
forerunners love hats?
Proof then that TF2 is forerunner combat simulations.


LOL.

On the other hand am i the only one thinking that the ruins in the babysitter were human ones? Does someone have a copy for the first chapter because i'm not sure if i can't register due probably Tor being american based and requiring an USA address.

[Edited on 12.22.2010 3:49 PM PST]

  • 12.22.2010 3:48 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

From Chapter 1:

My fate, the fate of a foolish Forerunner, was joined one night with the fates of two humans and the long world-line of a great military leader . . . that night on which I put in motion the circumstances that triggered the final wave of the hideous Flood.
Sounds like he is responsible in some way for the Flood invasion.

  • 12.22.2010 3:59 PM PDT