- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
So here is what is going on in the HALO series. Im surprised that I haven't heard anyone else come at it so simply.
Here is the story. Humans ARE the Forrunners. Originally, the humans were faced with the Flood. They built the Halos, and the Ark. The Ark is on earth. When the situation with the flood grew too dire they activated the halos. Some humans survived inside "the Ark", (possibly infants tended by some AI who do not have the bio-mass or neural capacity needed by the flood and so are spared by design when the halos fire). Humans emerge back onto earth, repopulate planet but forget technological past(even more likely if only infants spared in firing). Legend about a "Flood" and humans being saved by an "Ark" persists. See genesis.
Ok, first, Humans=forrunners=humans
-in halo 1 when guilty spark first greets MC he recognizes him immediatly as a "reclaimer"
-"be careful this reclaimer is delicate" as the brutes roughly handle Miranda at the very end of Halo2
-numerous other references to humans as reclaimers, im sure everyone can come up with more
-obviously the oracles have a long history with humans and recognize them on site
-the floating lightbulbs treat humans as something special--reclaimers-- most likely what the oracles refer to the forunners as
-Guilty Spark specically says to MC in Halo 1. "I am happy to see that some of you(reclaimers) survived(the first firing of the halos) to reproduce"
-humans are needed to activate the halos, no other race will do. why else do the brutes need to force miranda to put the index in at the end of Halo 2, why not do it themselves.
-guilty spark ask chief specifically, why do you hesitate to do what you have done before? hes not refering to MC in particular but to a generic human/forrunner
The Ark is on earth.
-Halo three trailer, that huge structure opening up= the ark. Its been established that the planet we see is earth, and now we see a huge forrunner structure on earth in of all places africa (where humans emerged)
-In halo 2 the covenant forces came to earth but they didn't expect humans to be there, so why did they come. Probably following some other clue as to the location of an important forrunner artifact. And they go to, of all places, africa, where now we know that a huge forrunner stucture exists.
-at the end of Halo three the creative cutting of the sequences gives away some clues. Back at the control center of halo Miranda and The Arbiter ask where you can go to fire the other halos, the oracle replies, "why the Ark, of course." then we immediately cut to MC back at earth, implying that perhaps the ark is there. Perhaps this is just coincidence but it adds up