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Posted by: Levian Nher
I think you must have missed the fact that humans were highly intelligent before the Forerunners devolved them, and before they were devolved is when the humans and San 'Shyuum held an alliance.


Pretty much this. The concept of deevolution implies boligocal deevolution as well, a possible indicator we, at the time, were using 100% of our brain power rather then just 10%.

And we were as advanced as the Forerunners, so there's that...

Note: the Forerunners forced us into cavemen, by a combonation of blowing us back several thousand years and most likely genetic manipulation that caused us to degredate into the cavemen we knew. They erased all of our society on the world they made our home again (Earth) and basically isolated us from the rest of the galaxy, under carefuly scrutiny by the Librarian.

The Prophets hate us because they lost all of their history as well, when the Forerunners eviscerated their two quarentine worlds. As far as we're concerned, the Prophets and humans never knew each other.

But at the end of Halo 3, we're slowly starting to regain our link with the past, though we're unaware of it.

[Edited on 03.09.2011 2:49 PM PST]

  • 03.09.2011 2:37 PM PDT

The Forerunner, the Great Journey, and Heaven Theory

[Announcement Trailer] Halo: Forerunner

Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

I'm slowly dying inside...

  • 03.09.2011 2:40 PM PDT

I wake up to find myself
After all these years
And where all the time has gone
Still seems so unclear

100000 BC is AFTER 110000 BC.

Lrn2timeframe.

  • 03.09.2011 2:42 PM PDT

When the forerunner fired the halo rings, every single race hadto essentially restart, whether they liked it or not. The prophets didn't really have a choice in the matter.

  • 03.09.2011 2:52 PM PDT

Sangheili Major: "Brute ships. Staggered line! Shipmaster, they outnumber us, three-to-one!"

Rtas 'Vadum: "Then it is an even fight. All Cruisers, fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides!"

Posted by: Wazooty
When the forerunner fired the halo rings, every single race hadto essentially restart, whether they liked it or not. The prophets didn't really have a choice in the matter.

This happens after the devolution of humanity. Humanity was returned to the Stone Age before this, and so were still a little...ehh, dumb at this point.

[Edited on 03.09.2011 3:12 PM PST]

  • 03.09.2011 3:10 PM PDT

"I Prefer Warm Halo, Sauted in Awesomesauce"

Meanwhile....

  • 03.09.2011 4:01 PM PDT
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I just play for fun. MLG can kiss my ass.


Posted by: Wazooty
Indeed, humanity used to be a spacefaring colony which was almost as advanced as the forerunners themselves.

We were fighting a war with the flood. THe forerunner, not realizing this, thought that when we were expanding to their territory (running from the flood) it was an act of war and obliterated us in our weakened state so hard we lost our technology and lost thousands of years of advancement.

After that the forerunner discovered the flood themselves. Turns out the humans they had just wrongly obliterated had developed a cure for the flood.

So the forerunner choosing the humans to continue their legacy was partially an apology and partially because if the flood came back the humans might be able to make a cure again. Humanity had to sacrifice 2/3 of their population to fight the flood and develop a cure, so they had the pure gall needed to combat such a menace.


1/3 of their population.

  • 03.09.2011 6:59 PM PDT


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Posted by: OrderedComa

Are you interpreting details and events from Halo according to the timing presented in the Theory of Evolution?


That's exactly what he's doing. It all makes sense in the book. Shocking when I read it, but it makes sense.


He does not seem that smart then =P
I'm not entirely sure how Halo explains the universe coming into being, but it certainly does not literally follow the Theory of Evolution's timeline, it obviously borrows from it a bit, but I think it's kinda borrowed from a lot of things, it's not advocating one specific worldview, at least I don't think it is.

  • 03.09.2011 7:55 PM PDT


Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Pretty much this. The concept of deevolution implies boligocal deevolution as well, a possible indicator we, at the time, were using 100% of our brain power rather then just 10%.
This statement is biologically incorrect. We use almost the entireity of our brain. It's just that only sections of it are used to perform certain tasks.

  • 03.09.2011 7:58 PM PDT

I put the laughter in manslaughter

devolving is easy..
take human newborn and put them in the jungle, away from technology and knowledge, bam instant dumb.

  • 03.09.2011 8:15 PM PDT
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I just play for fun. MLG can kiss my ass.

^

Pessimistic, aren't you?

  • 03.09.2011 8:59 PM PDT

Wake me,....When you need me....

well humans were as smart as the forunners but the forunners were A-holes and wanted to rule the galaxy and they took us down

  • 03.09.2011 9:20 PM PDT

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humans had an empire before we were knocked... quite literally to the stone age by the forerunner war.

  • 03.09.2011 9:21 PM PDT

Wake me,....When you need me....


Posted by: DeBleserMike
i think i found it!
but how can you take all the technology back?
even if you destroy all the cities you will not become dumb again mate


Early civilization and regression

Humanity achieved an advanced state early in its history, achieving a high level of technological sophistication and expanding outward along the Orion Arm to escape Forerunner control thousands of years before the activation of the Halo Array. At one point, humanity formed an alliance with the San 'Shyuum and later warred against the nascent Flood. While humanity managed to drive the Flood off the galaxy for the next several millennia, the conflict led to a war with the Forerunners, a war which humanity lost. As punishment, the humans were stripped of their technology, their civilizations smashed, and the remnants exiled to their homeworld, reduced to a pre-technological state from which they would be forced to start again.

http://www.halopedian.com/Human
SEE THE FORUNNER ARE A-HOLES

[Edited on 03.09.2011 9:25 PM PST]

  • 03.09.2011 9:25 PM PDT

Epic troll. Keep feeding, guys

  • 03.09.2011 9:42 PM PDT

Posted by: Ushan
Because Muslims surgically implant organic bombs in their testicles, which in turn will be injected into women during sex, which will grow into BABY BOMBS!

Read Cryptum please.

  • 03.10.2011 12:42 AM PDT


Posted by: Plasma3150

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Pretty much this. The concept of deevolution implies boligocal deevolution as well, a possible indicator we, at the time, were using 100% of our brain power rather then just 10%.
This statement is biologically incorrect. We use almost the entireity of our brain. It's just that only sections of it are used to perform certain tasks.


This is indeed correct. However, we
A) have little to no idea HOW the brain works. For all we know, while using 100% we may only be using it at a fraction of what it is capable of.

Think of it as a computer, if I limit the CPU to only 50% of it total processing power, i'm still using all of it, but only at half power. Bad example I know but meh.

B) We may have learned how to use it in a different manner. Humans are all about seeing things in a "new light", or using something in a way that was previously thought impossible or just plain stupid, to do amazing things.

  • 03.10.2011 12:56 AM PDT

Here's the deal.

Forerunner-Human war = Humans were an advanced spacefaring species with technology capable of taking on the Forerunner military. We were allied with the San-Shyuum, who were also a technologically advanced race.

After the Forerunner-Human war = Humans and San-Shyuum lost after getting backsides kicked. As punishment, the Forerunner artificially de-evolved both species to less-advanced states and quarantine their worlds. Humans are more willing to fight to the death than the San-Shyuum and fight harder, and so are dealt greater punishment.

Halo: Cryptum = Humans have re-evolved, into both the modern variety and another, retarded variety that is about a foot tall, speaks funny, has twitchy ears, and is the most stupid thing ever written by an author. Technology appears to have progressed to an early/mid-nineteenth century level judging by the steam-powered ship seen early in the book.

[Edited on 03.10.2011 5:51 AM PST]

  • 03.10.2011 5:50 AM PDT

Ok devolution took place 110 thousand years ago, halo array fired roughly 100 thousand years ago.

Earth and the majority of its species were automatically repopulated from samples obtained by the Librarian after all sentient life was obliterated by the firing of teh HALOz

  • 03.10.2011 8:00 AM PDT

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