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John117 is Galactus
Galactus is God
Posted by: raindoc
I only started reading cryptum, but what i noticed so far: Bornstellar refers to his species as forerunners too.
Why? Forerunners was the name given to them by the covenant, because they "ran before" the cov was around. they wouldn't call themselves Forerunners, would they? the ancient greeks certainly didn't refer to themselves as ancient...
so why did Bear (the author) not come up with a new, the real name of that species? the term "forerunner" might be iconic by now, but so are "elites", "brutes", "grunts" etc. - you get the point: humanity is still going to call them forerunners, even if they'd show up now (in the halo universe).
so why are they the only species that is featured heavily in the games, that still got no name of their own, despite having books written about them?
do you think this might be another hint to a forerunner-focused halo 4, that they'll reveal such info in the game and don't want to spoil the big stuff?
What would happen if we encountered the forerunners during Halo 4? How would we know they were forerunners if they referred to themselves as something else? How would they react if we called them forerunners?
They probably just didn't want to have to worry about these questions. Just remember, this is a game. I'm sure that if we encountered aliens in real life, they wouldn't refer to us as humans. Yet the covenant referred to us as humans. Also.. the covenant spoke english, some things are just not to be discussed b/c this is in fact fiction.There are some stuff we can discuss such as slipspace.
I'm sure you get my point. Otherwise.. nice observation.