- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think that the Fore runners began to dabble in genetic science and the flood where the first se of experiments. when the FR discovered what they had done they quarintined the flood on the various Halos. Then using improved technology and techniques, the FR created the various covenant races (i.e. the prophets would serve as administartion officials, the elites as guards, and the grunts as various slaves just to name a few) then (possibly) the FR society began to fracture with civil wars raging and what not, a few members of the goverment hoped to keep their once peacefull way of life intact and sent a ship of colonists to a remote planet, Earth, these colonists crash landed on the planet and where forced to live off the land like cavemen because their ship had crashed and over time thier advanced technology had broken down and they where unable to fix it. thus humans are the rightful heirs to the FR. the covenant prophets are aware that they are "bastard offspring" if you will of the FR and in a hope to be justified as the actual heirs of the FR they are attempting to exterminate the human race. In short it is the classic tale of the father dying and haveing written his will for his legitimate son, but the sonhe had with his secretary finds out and attempts to kill/descredit the rightfull heir.