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This will be the third transition of my inital post.
First it was made 1 month after Halo 2's release at the now under new management Sector 7.
Then I posted it about 1 year ago on RvB.
Now here.
This is the most famous theory on the RvB website, so I'd love to see what you guys think. (quoted word for word)
http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/forum/viewTopic.php?id=2166006
"The following is a theory I posted on the website Sector 7. I posted this about one month after Halo 2's release, but I thought I'd run it by you guys again. My origional post can be found in a link at the bottom, but I ask you to please read this version first.
After thousands of careful calculations (well, really just staring at the blank screen after I beat Halo 2, in betrayal) I've come to the following conclusion. Humans are, or were the forerunners. I've sort of thought this ever since I read the Halo books, and beat the original halo, but now I have great proof from beating Halo 2.
In no real order, just as I remember them, this is my proof...
A: In the first Halo, if you read the book, it says how Master Chief could, and still can find out the right button to push on the control panels of Halo, just from knowing, but not understanding why.
B: Humans have developed self sufficient AI, stuff on par with the forerunners, and in some ways, very similar. Like how Guilty Spark is so whimsical, and joking towards the beginning, like Cortana, both of them exhibit human characteristics, but unlike the only Covenant AI we ever see.
C: When the first Halo was going to be fired, Guilty Spark had to choose a reclaimer, however, THE ONLY TWO RECLAIMERS HE CHOOSE WERE HUMANS. Why no Elites?
D: The second biggest planet that we inhabited was Reach, which just happened to have a VERY important Forerunner artifact on it.
E: When the Covenant came to earth, they sent a VERY small fleet, only about 14 ships. They said it in the game themselves; THEY DIDN'T EXPECT US TO BE THERE.
F: They sent a HIGH PROPHET to retrieve what they thought could be on earth, that shows that earth was a VERY IMPORTANT Forerunners spot, and guess what? That’s where are HOME PLANET is.
G: They only landed ground troops in one spot in the entire world, this one spot also just happens to be the cradle of man kind, Africa.
H: When the index was being retrieved by the Arbiter, Tarturus, three or so brutes, and Keys's daughter, Guilty Spark asked ONLY THE HUMAN, if she was the reclaimer or not.
EI: When asked where the ultimate firing room for the Halos was, it immediately cut into a picture of earth.
MY BEST POINT: The firing device is called The Ark. In the bible, Noah's Ark is what saved all the animals in the world, from extinction, and what continued their species. In fact, the very definition of the word has some interesting tie-ins.
Pronunciation: 'ärk
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English arc, from Latin arca chest; akin to Latin arcEre to hold off, defend, Greek arkein, Hittite hark- to have, hold
1 a : a boat or ship held to resemble that in which Noah and his family were preserved from the Flood b : something that affords protection and safety
2 a : the sacred chest representing to the Hebrews the presence of God among them b : a repository traditionally in or against the wall of a synagogue for the scrolls of the Torah
The definition of the word implies that it was also some kind of protection, and safety vessel. Also notice how the ark from the bible was used to preserve Noah from the FLOOD, just a coincidence?
Guilty Spark said Halo was fired once, and the Forerunners were killed when it went off. But, there is an Ark, which is supposedly on earth. So we can pretty surely presume that this ark is what the Covenant were looking for. They were looking for it in Africa. Again, where man kind started.
My theory is that this ark had two purposes, to keep the Forerunner race alive (save them from complete extinction), and to have a uni-trigger for all Halos
My first post."
Ignore the hyper links.
[Edited on 5/10/2006]