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“Perhaps that's the reason the Prophets are so intent on destroying humanity, if the rest of the Covenant were to find out, their radical religious training would cause them to follow Humanity instead of the Prophets, and they would lose their power. After Truth's display of rampant disregard for the lives of the other Prophet (Mercy was it?), its quite clear that they are interested in the power they hold, much more so than the lives of their comrades.”
I think I have the answer to this. Think of this from the Prophets point of view. Most of the forerunners were wiped out when the first “Great Journey” happened. However, some of us weren’t killed, we were left behind. The Prophets probably think of us a infidels, because we were passed over by the great journey.
“i already had a feeling that Humans were...descendants of the Forerunners. however. the Ark is a remote activation for the Halo's...so...does this mean that the people on Earth were far enough away to survive the blast from the Halo's? that would only make sense to say, because the we are the descendants of the Forerunners that dwelt here on Earth. and with that said...if the Covenant are coming here to use the remote activation? Why would they? it wouildnt make sense, if we survived the first blast from being far enough away, what's not to say that the Human race, and the Covanent that are on Earth at the time of remote activation [if the ends up happening] won't survive the blast. i can picture it now. the prophet activates the Ark, holds up his hands in some sort of religious acceptance. waiting for the end...and it never comes. because he is too far away from the blasts.”
Look at the definition of Ark.
“a boat or ship held to resemble that in which Noah and his family were preserved from the Flood”
I think the Ark not only fires the Halos, but also grants protection to things inside of it.
“Also, what would cause humanity to forget their Forerunner descent? Why would the Forerunner's want to forget the Flood if it were so dangerous, as well as Halo, and the technology to stop it? Maybe they didn't have a choice as to whether or not they'd lose their technology, but the memories?”
I've always thought it was possible that the Arc was programmed to not let us use its technology once we landed.
That way, humans would have to start from scratch; building up our technology over thousands of years, ensuring our race would have acceptable numbers before we risked space flight again.
“First, it could be a spaceship that could take us so far away so fast that we would escape the blast radius of the detonating Halos. This would allow the Forerunners to escape the Flood and still survive.”
The ark is probably one of several things. It could be Earth itself, it could also be a constructed facility on Earth, or it could be a ship that landed on earth. Right now I think it was a pre-fabricated structure by the forerunners.
“It's a good theory, but I am holding with the argument that the human animal is far too flawed to be this super race, the forerunners... That, and we evolved from apes. =)
Just because the forerunners were more advanced than humans, does not mean they didn’t have the same humble beginnings.
“The forerunner = human postulation seems to be where Bungie is taking the story, but it overlooks some pretty elementary science. There are no significant gaps in the fossil record from Australopithecus to modern humans. It spells out a clear chronology, with no room for a godlike technologically advanced civilization to develop in between. That said, humans are definately and obviously a product of terrestrial evolution, so humans couldn't be Forerunner derivatives merely placed on Earth to safeguard the Ark (or something along those lines). I know it's science *fiction*, but the "science" half implies that there has to be some factual plausibility. What if, merely out of suggestion, the story dictates that the Forerunner placed the Ark on Earth after they concluded that another race of sentient animals was on the rise, and that race would summarily bury the artifact with their own civilization? In this tradition, maybe 343 Guilty Spark recognized the Master Cheif as an agent of the Forerunner because of his origins on the planet where the Forerunner placed such a vital tool, and not because he thought that the humans *were* Forerunners.”
I think your taking this way too factually. One has to suspend disbelief a certain amount with any game. Sure pistols wouldn’t be able to stop tanks, sure the military wouldn’t make a 4 round sniper rifle, sure women wouldn’t be able to run faster than men, SURE THERE WOULD NOT BE A 3 MILE WIDE STRUCTURE IN AFRICA.
My point is that not everything about Halo is realistic, so I don’t expect the monkey thing to come into play.
“That isn't a bad theory, but only 1 problem. In H1 343 guilty spark (i think thats the 1 in H1) goes through the big human cruiser reading from its libraries, saying all of the information is fascinating and new meaning hes never seen/heard it before. That means that humans can't be forerunners because the forerunners created him therefore he would have to have knowledge of humans. Also if the humans were the forerunners, than that has to be the best kept secret ever, even more so than halo 3, lol! cuz why would no one know about it, i mean don't u think its a bit important.
But thats just what i think.”
Dude, you could not be more wrong if you tried. You didn’t even get Sparks quotes rite. This scene is one of the BEST for my theory.
"To think you would destroy this wealth of knowledge, not to mention the records of all of OUR lost time. I shall enjoy every moment of its categorization. Human history, is it? Fascinating."
OUR lost time?
[Edited on 5/11/2006]