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Due to the fact it's 1 in the morning, I'll keep this relatively simple.
Added Canon due to the Cryptum chapters being released--
If you read the chapters, you'll note a forerunner-Human war. That's right folks, war between the two, 10 thousand years before the start of the book. Humanity was a pretty high-tech race, expanding over several star systems, however they were no match for the forerunners. It was mentioned that the forerunners are a fair race, however when pushed show absolutely no mercy. Humanity was crushed, reduced to one planet, and devolved to a state of near-barbarianism.
In Halo Legends *Baby Sitter* there were ruins that weren't forerunner, yet looked extremely similar. This could very well have been the old 'Human' ruins, before the war.
Also, Remember 343 guilty spark? He mentioned several different combat skins. However, a misconception that's always been made was that 343 was referring to a FORERUNNER CS, when forerunners were different than humans. Perhaps 343 was thinking of the human combat skin? That Human evolution brought combat skins up several levels beyond Master Chief's current armor system, which indicates future innovation towards armor.
If you go on the halo wikia, you'll find the tiers of evolution/technology. This lists the requirements required to reach a certain 'tier' of advancement. This suggests to me a certain type of 'predetermination' such as that no matter what happens, we humanity will follow a path no matter what, assuming we don't die out in the process. Strictly speaking of technological advancements, there's only a certain direction you can go towards, which brings me to another idea.
The time old adage states that History repeats itself. Who is to say this isn't true? There's this time travel theory that states you can do what you want to change or delay an event, but it will inevitably happen. An example of this is that you could kill Hitler, or Stalin, however there would just be others to take his place. Where I'm going with this is that while Humanity reached great heights, and then got crushed by the Forerunners and consequentially devolved, with time history continues/repeats itself, and humanity once again starts to travel down the same path it did before. You could try and stop Humanity's advancement, or delay it, but inevitably we will rise up given the opportunity.
Interesting concept, is it not? To think that we might be heading down a path held by our ancestors so long ago?
So now, what lies ahead is what has occurred before. To reach new planets, evolve technologically, and explore the galaxy. The Combat Suits could very well point towards the fact that we are (in retrospect to the halo universe and current time in that universe, which would be approx. 2552) close to our ancestors benfore.
I'm sure that the new Cryptum book will hold more answers to our insatiable questions about Humanity's past, and its future as well. What do you guys think?
EDIT: a bunch of people are assuming that the forerunners hate humanity. To clear this up, they dont actually 'hate' them, it's more of a respect and dignity issue. They're thought of being 'lesser' beings, not actually hated. As for why they are 'reclaimers,' well, is anyone's guess until the books come out. Personally I think it could either be that they helped with the flood, that they were the most closely related, or that they were the most advanced at the time. Hopefully this upcoming book helps explain it..
Also, about the combat skins, perhaps you're right. However I personally find it hard to believe that Spark mixed up forerunner skins with a human one that was independently designed.
WAIT! Maybe when the flood attacked, they recruited humans and made them their own suits? Because if spark calls him reclaimer during normal thinking. It's only when he turns Rampant that he calls John forerunner. Thus the combat skins were for humans, yet made by forerunners for the flood war which explains how Spark already knew of the level skin it was. Also, this would explain why forerunners made humanity reclaimers. Maybe they proved themselves 'worthy' of inheriting the galaxy?
[Edited on 12.25.2010 6:21 PM PST]