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Subject: The Forerunners
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Poll: What are the forerunners?  [closed]
Humans going back in time:  33%
(11 Votes)
Covenant heretics:  3%
(1 Votes)
Other weird aliens:  52%
(17 Votes)
Any covenant race ancestor:  12%
(4 Votes)
Total Votes: 33

Any idea what the forerunners are?

  • 02.10.2006 5:41 AM PDT
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It is unknown for us and the Covenant. They are the creators of the Halos, weapons made to kill The Flood's food. Speculations of many fans say that they may be ancestors of us Humans. Is that true? Who knows about that. We'll have to make some more research to find at least a little bit of them.

  • 04.01.2006 3:40 PM PDT
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It is unknown for us and the Covenant. They are the creators of the Halos, weapons made to kill The Flood's food. Speculations of many fans say that they may be ancestors of us Humans. Is that true? Who knows about that. We'll have to make some more research to find at least a little bit of them.


Well yeah i think bungie should tell us in halo3 or at least let someone find a forerunner frozen in a temp. heated ice block lol

  • 04.15.2006 6:24 PM PDT
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Carrots.

The Forerunners, as what we know about them, are some other aliens, not the Covenant, Flood or humans.
The Forerunners created the Halo's, or in theory, the flood was harmless, until they tampered with them, but we do not know if this is true or not.
They created the Halos to contain the flood, and they created the Sentinels to keep the flood under control. Of course, they could no longer contain the flood any more, and activated the Halos, of course, they knew that the flood where still on other Halos, so before they did so, they made the monitors (343 Guilty Spark, and in Halo 2, 2401 Penitant Tangent, and there is one monitor for every Halo) to make sure that the rest of the flood where destroyed. Now, the Covenant found the Halos, and they use it as a religious tool. They of course, do not realise that what they are doing, activating Halo, is not what the they think, they think that they will activate Halo, and be sent to a great paradise, they reffer to this as "The Great Journey". They do not realise that the Halo's aren't built to send them to a great paradise they call "Great Journey", it actualy is suposed to kill anything within 20-30 light years that the flood can consume.

I hope that cleared some stuff up.

[Edited on 4/15/2006]

  • 04.15.2006 7:01 PM PDT
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Many believe that it is earth which is the ark leading to the idea that humans where the forunner millions of years ago but in the special edition and though the recording found on ilovebees.com i have concluded that chorral is the true setting of the arc which is a planet mostly made of water with high concentrations of Aquatic life sudjesting that the forunner may have been aquatic in nature. Now if chorral is indeed that ark which would sudjest that the forunner may still indeed exist due to the biblical idea that the ark was the salvation of man to start anew meaning that the forerunners may not be as ancient as they seem.

Though if i go on the basis that Humans are the forrunner due to them being reclaimers and the only ones able to activate the halos also the Flood may be an evelutionary step from what is know as homosapiens or a genetic defunct from our current states like a disease or epidemic which changed the generic make up of humans which is why they tried to contain the flood like a quaranteen of such. Or they may have been a man made organisum which got out of control.

  • 04.16.2006 9:54 PM PDT
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i personally believe tht the forerunners are aliens, but are humanoids, so they have human features so i do believe tht they in the halo games were the first human like beings in the halo universe, o and incase ne here hasnt figured it out the place where all the halos can be activated simultaniously is EARTH. Tht is why the covenant wanted to find earth so badly was because they will use earth to activate all their halos and start """THE GREAT JOURNEY""" so to get to the point i believe tht the covenant want to kill all humans because they kno tht the humans are the ancestors to the forerunners and they fear tht if the humans become as advanced as the forerunners, then the humans would be unstoppable. So they hate humans because they fear humans. Also maybe the covenant also want to wipeout humans because they kno tht the forerunners were the humans ancestors and since the forerunners wanted to wipe themselves out to escape and control the flood. The covenant thnk tht to wipe out all traces of the forerunners they must wipeout the forerunners ancestors. US. The humans. (REMEMBER THIS IS ALL A THEORY)

  • 04.18.2006 6:01 PM PDT
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The Forerunners kept humans in cryo like chambers for actvating the Halos. When the Master Chief is captured by the Gravemind, 2401 Penenant Tangent only calls Master Chief a "Reclaimer". He does not call the Arbiter one. 343 Guilty Spark also calls the Master Chief, Commander Miranda Keys, and Sargent Johnson "Reclaimers".

[Edited on 4/18/2006]

  • 04.18.2006 6:23 PM PDT
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There is so much information to take in and accont for. Being reclaimers were we chosen to reclaim the galaxy after the flood died( this is my theory on why called reclaimers but i havent heard anyone else say it) , or being a reclaimer used to fire the halos? Are we forerunners and being such should we all have been taken into salvation, and that is why were called an affront to the gods and must be wiped out? There is a lot of questions and not a lot of answers. And what is Gravemind, flood??? is this maybe the queen or king of the flood, or maybe just the mind put together by the flood, and are they just trying to survive feed, keep themselves alive and be part of the galaxy too. is humanitys sole purpose to continually after teh mutation of flood into what they are now, to come reclaim the index and kill all life int eh galaxy so the flood dont spread to other oens?? just so much ith ink i need to read the books and cant wait for halo 3 or forerunner or whatever it is called,

Also i just recently got into the halo story and went to ilovebees.com and got really really lost since its been around for so long does someon have a thread in here to explain or could someone expalin that to me?

  • 04.19.2006 12:37 AM PDT
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The forerunners are linked to the humans.

  • 04.19.2006 6:19 AM PDT
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Jjaro.

  • 04.19.2006 9:46 AM PDT
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Maybe the Forerunners were not one race, but many, kinda like the Covenant is now. And each race, I'm guessing seven total, were in charge of a different Halo. That could explain the slight architechtural differences between Installation 04 and Delta Halo. Maybe They also came to Earth and Primitive man saw them as what would later be the Norse, Egyptian, and Greek gods. I guess.

  • 04.19.2006 11:41 AM PDT

I seem to be the only 1 to say they are the Covenent Heretics. I can't find the Halo books anywhere so I can't read them. I think they are the Heretics bcoz on the level the Arbiter you have to get in a FORERUNNER FACILITY. So, if the Heretics are there then they must be the Forerunners.

  • 05.01.2006 3:10 AM PDT
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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.


  • 05.12.2006 3:11 PM PDT
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i think the forruners were a mix of covvies and humans and that earth is the ark on account of the big artafact in the halo 3 trailer.

  • 05.13.2006 9:35 AM PDT