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Subject: Forerunner Theory... what's yours?
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So, I've been made aware now of the novel Halo Cryptum, but here was the original post anyway:



The 'Forerunners' were human.

I've thought this out very carefully, but to save from writing an essay, I'll open it to opinions and questions. It just seems logical, and possibly the ULTIMATE twist to Halo.

But I'll point out the main thing sparked my theory, a statement made by 343 Guilty Spark in Halo CE, while playing The Library: "The Forerunners built this place to study and contain the Flood: their survival as a race depended on it. ...I am glad to see that some of them survived and reproduced."

At first, I just assumed he was crazy [as you do] and was talking about the Floood. But, what if the race he was referring to wasn't the flood, but the Forerunners? He uses both terms 'Flood' and 'Forerunner' preceding "their survival as a race depended on it". And he's glad to some of them survived to reproduce? This things been the monitor of Delta for hundreds of thousands of years, and he says this as if it's new information, as if he only just found out! Humans arrive on Delta Halo, and he announces "I am glad to see that some of them survived and reproduced." Coincidence??

Like I said, I have thought more on this, considered all sources of information, but I don't want to turn this into an essay. Wondering what people might think on the matter.

[Edited on 06.11.2011 3:25 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2011 12:43 AM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Sorry, you're theory is wrong.

  • 06.11.2011 1:02 AM PDT

Nope. Read Halo Cryptum.

[Edited on 06.11.2011 1:04 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2011 1:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sniffy66
Nope. Read Halo Cryptum.


I just looked it up. Didn't have this information to consider :p

Aww, I thought I had a good thing going then. Do you reckon it might have been their original intention, though? I mean, from the beginning, but it changed over time as the story developed?

  • 06.11.2011 1:12 AM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Not to ruin your day even more, but you aren't the first to make this connection.

  • 06.11.2011 1:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Not to ruin your day even more, but you aren't the first to make this connection.


I don't expect I would have been, I've just never heard it offered. Searched the forums for a while, but couldn't find anything. Also, all you're doing is effectively calling me an idiot. "Sorry, your theory is wrong" without pointing me in the right direction, and "you aren't the first to make this connection" is really condescending.

I haven't read those books... now I have a rundown on how they go, thanks to Sniffy66. So, I'm going to ignore you now and wait and see if anyone has something INTELLIGENT to say in response to my previous question.

  • 06.11.2011 1:34 AM PDT

READ IT.

I won the Star. With this on Week 18.

I believe Forerunner are their OWN KIND. A book on the Forerunners came out thisyear, called Cryptum (I think thats right) that is about the Forerunner-Human War before the Forerunner-Flood war. Humans used to be super advanced, and were at war with the Forerunners.

They had similar technologies, and that is why humans could use it.

Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Sorry, you're theory is wrong.

your*

  • 06.11.2011 2:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: Alex the Awesome
I believe Forerunner are their OWN KIND. A book on the Forerunners came out thisyear, called Cryptum (I think thats right) that is about the Forerunner-Human War before the Forerunner-Flood war. Humans used to be super advanced, and were at war with the Forerunners.

They had similar technologies, and that is why humans could use it.


yeah i gathered as much from what i read on Halo Nation. I haven't read the book yet... didn't even know there was one. I've got the basics (except evolutions) and i go book shopping a lot but i haven't seen that.

gotta find myself a new bookshop :)

  • 06.11.2011 3:12 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

Halo Cryptum

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  • 06.11.2011 3:13 AM PDT
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That's nice... kinda not really what I was looking for, considering I hadn't heard of it til about 2 hours ago. Did you read any of the conversation?

[Edited on 06.11.2011 3:22 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2011 3:20 AM PDT