- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Maybe Forerunners are humans. They built a great Empire, and settled on Earth. They had amazing technology everything. So by accident, the flood is created. That is the Forerunners "mistake." So they built rings to contain the flood, but they had to activate the rings, from the Ark, on Earth, wiping out their existence, and probally radically changing the face of the Earth. A little while later, more humans are there ( the descendants of the Forerunners), please don't ask me how, I don't want a debate over religion vs. science. But I am christian and stick to my beliefs (sniff). The Covanent is formed and they become addicted to the tech. Earth is in the way of their "Great Journey", and they house Forerunner artifacts, so they become the race to wipe out. Cheif is human, a descendant of the forerunner, so he is dubbed the reclaimer, as he must fix the mistake of his ancestors the Forerunners. The mistake being the creation of the flood.