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Subject: Some thoughts on the Forerunners...
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Okay, I have read a couple other people's posts on theories and all that jaz and it got me thinking... What are the Forerunners, where are they, and most importantly why did they really build the Halo rings?

First of all I seriously do not think the Forerunners were/are Humans. If they are then why didn't they leave themselves more technology? They knew that the flood would still be around since they survived on the Halo rings and they probably knew about the other races in the galaxy... ie the grunts, elites, and all of the coveant, why would they leave themselves with nothing? Also, a more logical thing to do would be to freeze yourselves and wake up a lot later, after the flood are gone. Maybe even leave your a guard like Humans, but then why leave your guards unarmed? I think they are probably a different race that for some reason left and decided to leave the Humans in charge, but something went wrong and other races beat the humans to it. OR maybe the Forerunners created Humans in hope of them one day controlled what they controlled.

Second, Where are they? There is no way a highly advanced race couldn't just move to a new planet and just forgot about the planets the flood are on since flood cannot build spaceships and/or fly them. Why would they blow themselves up? It doesn't make any sense. The more likely theory is they got fed up and left the galaxy. One thing I am not sure of is, have they found Forerunner remains? Surely there should be some left, they don't just disappear along with EVERYTHING they had, like cities and space stations and space ships, where did they all go? The Halos couldn't have destroyed them otherwise there would be nothing left.

Lastly,the Halos. How are they still working after all these years? Out of all the remains of the Forerunners, there just happens to be 7 gaint rings just floating around in space for how ever long the Forerunners have been gone that work as soon as the covenant flip the on switch. But the main thing that has been eating me up is... WHY INVENT A GAINT RING TO DESTROY ALL LIFE AND IF YOU ARE GOING TO DESTROY ALL LIFE THEN WHY KEEP THE FLOOD ALIVE!?!?!?? Why not just blow up the planets that have the flood on them? Why not make a cure, or a viruss that targets flood? The only explaination is that the Forerunners have been around for a LONG time and they killed the flood a couple of times, yet they keep coming back because the universe doesn't like life, and they left the flood alive so another race could find them and study them.

[Edited on 5/11/2006]

  • 05.11.2006 2:00 PM PDT