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Posted by: Spartan1065
Posted by: StealthSlasher2
The short story, Petra, in the reissued First Strike adjunct seems to indicate that the term Forerunner was out there, but according to the narrator who is a journalist she indicates that the majority of the population more likely than not has no clue as to what the word means or if it was a "person, place, or thing".
So it seems the majority of that information is hushed up still from the average joe that doesn't bother looking into things. Though from humanities' perspective even those in the know don't have much to go on other than the Forerunners were an advanced race that is composed of none of the Covenant races and left several artifacts behind.
Of note it seems that information like the slipspace portal, the Ark, and the Halos is within Petra's grasp through her contacts, so that should say something about the extent of security surrounding that information if she, a mere civilian journalist, can dig up that information independently with nothing more but a little persistence.I don't remember this from First Strike. Granted it's been a while, but was this added in the re issue? I refuse to rebuy the books.
"in the reissued First Strike adjunct"
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Posted by: Dredwerkz
My interpretation was that by the end of Halo 3 there was no public. We;d been hit so hard as a species the only ones remaining were military.
There were still at least a dozen populated inner colonies that the Covenant completely bypassed when they made a beeline for Reach, aside from New Jeruselum and Onyx (the latter housing only military personnel), the Covenant proceeded to focus on Earth. Then the war ended before any other worlds could be attacked. In Captain Keyes' words "they bypassed a dozen Inner Colony worlds to get [to Reach]" Pg. 326 of the reissued version.
The short story I mentioned earlier at the end of the reissued First Strike takes place on a colony called Forseti. One such world that the Covenant never touched. Another that was mentioned being untouched was Lenapi.
So there's still a significant civilian population remaining.
[Edited on 06.22.2011 1:35 PM PDT]