- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
IMO, the forerunners cannot be anything other than human ancestors. The bungie team left lots of clues in both games, espescially in Halo 1. In Halo 1, when you're finally introduced to 343 guilty spark, listen carefully to what he has to say in when you get inside of the library. As you make your way through the library he says a few things that got me to thinking. For instance, assuming that guilty spark was smart enough to figure out that humanity was fighting a losing battle against the covenant, who, by the way, already held the ring in high regard, why would he not chose one of the covenant to activate halo? Doesn't anyone else find a bit odd that he just chose master chief, no questions asked, as if somehow that was his purpose? Not to mention the fact that guilty spark spoke english right off the bat and that he labeled master chief the reclaimer. Actually, in both Halos 1 and 2 only the humans were called the reclaimers and were given the task of activating the ring, even though there were plenty of covenant around who's goal in life was to do just that. The humans were trying to stop this from happening but yet they still seemed to be the only valid candidates. Here are some other clues that I found:
"Puzzling...you brought such ineffective weapons to combat the flood, despite decontainment protocols."
( This is the first clue because this was the first time the master chief had been to halo, so there was no way that he could have been aware of such protocols. Apparantly guilty spark expected master chief to show up on halo to carry out the necessary procedures to contain the flood once again.
"Your environment suit should serve you well when the flood begins to alter the atmosphere, you are a good planner."
emphasis on planner
"This installation was specifically built to study and contain the flood, their survival as a race depended upon it, I am gratefull to see that some of them survived to reproduce."
I'm assuming he's not talking about the flood here, because I don't see how the survival of the flood depended on being studied and contained. I also don't see how he could be referring to the convenant because he says their survival as "a race," which means one race, and the covenant is a collection of different races.
"... last time you asked me, if it were my choice would I do it..."
last time...hmmm...
I think the forerunners' overall plan was to seek refuge inside of the ark, activate the rings from inside of the ark, and after the rings did their thing, they would climb out of the ark and eventually repopulate the galaxy. If the forerunners were smart enough to build the rings then I would certainly think that they were smart enough to come up with a better plan than, "in order to get rid of this one race, lets get rid of all of the races, including our own." It just wouldn't make any sense.