- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
This is much less a theory and more of a collection of different "facts" to present an easy to understand story of the halo trilligy. These points are somewhat opionated but overall, factual. I would like any responses to be intellectual, if you don't have something smart to say don't say it. Thank you. (I'm a typo maniac so bare with me)
Our story begins with a race of super intellgent beings known as the fourunners. They, as a species litterally conqueor the gallaxy. They exist at every edge, every corner, every turn and bend, they are everywhere, they are everything. There technology is flawless, their power great, they are the pinicle of evolution, the will of god. For endless time they roam the galaxy, learning, sharpning their minds, and for a long time, they are invincible. As life moves on they discover something, unlike any animal they have ever seen, unlike anything the universe had ever seen. They had stumbled onto the parasitc lifeform that would one day be called, the flood. As quickly as it appeared it spread. Like a plauge, planets were litterly infested with flood in mere hours. Whole systems were wiped away from a single outbreak. The fourunners, had no way to counter this flood. By the time they could collectivly grasp what was going on, it was too late. Stocked with ships, the parasitic lifeform bondbarded planets. All it took, was one, just one of those things to get onto a planet and it was alleready over. Fighting these things was something the fourunners couldn't realisticly do. For each fourunner soilder that went down, it was another flood combat form that took its place. The fournners, in the last years of the war, built the setinal army. The machines could self produce whole armies quickly, causulties were replaced as quickly as the machine hit the ground. Still the effitantcy of the mechanical army was limited, and in the end the could only dely the inetible.
The fourunners, slowly, were being pushed, inward, as the flood surounded them from all sides. There was one last resort. One last way for gods redemption. The fourunners bulit the seven halos. Their power all together could wipe the galexy clean of all life that could suport the flood. There was no way to compleatly kill the flood, the next best thing was to starve them. Each halo held a libary of sorts, it contained the dna of all animals, these were the firing solutions, so instead of a massive one shot, one chance fire, each induvidual species was targeted and destroyed. The ark was built, on the forunners home planet. It was both a failsafe, incase the rings didn't fire, and a place were all the dna of all things in the universe was stored. In the bible, Naoh, all whom held the word of god and a male and female of every animal was alowed abourd the ark. The ark is a symbol of redemption. The fourunner ark, cointained the dna of all animals that the fournners had recorded. In thus when the halos fired and wiped the galexy clean, the ark simply reseeded the universe, and life could be reborn. Each halo was gaurded by a army of sentinals, and a moniter, or gaurdian to assist further genrations in the activation of halo, if infact the flood returned. Now imagine, as many planets as you can, each a rolling sea of flood forms, countless ships, ablazed, the galexy almost burning, the last of the setinal ships catching fire and spining out of control. Everywhere, fourunners lay, and only the juggernaught known as the flood stood up. In the control room of instillation 04, stands a fourunner, and the moniter 343 gulty spark. The fourunner stands, with the index in hand. The hands of the unverse, lies in his hands. He is "god". He looks up, and ask the moniter, "if this was your, choice, would you do it?" The moniter, looks at him, and he looks, back. And god wills the fourunner to light the galaxy with his will. As the index slides into place, the key turns. And the fournner closes his eyes, and he begs for gods mercy, he begs for redemption. The light bends time its self. It rushes through every vein in his existance. Everything, and everything alive is wiped away from the face of the universe, and for the first time, since the dawn of time itself, the universe goes quiet.
The sentinals, exacute their final objective, destroy the remaining flood forms. Without food or soiders to sustane their numbers the flood slowly are pushed back. This prosses does take time, aprox. 100,000 years but in geological time, its a blink of an eye. The few flood left are forced into each halo instalation. Remember the flood can't be compleatly destroyed, so a samples were kept to study, and hopfully one day destroy the flood. In this time, each planet is reseeded. And life begins a new. This is the conflicting part, wether the fourunners are humans or not. In the long run, it really, really, really, dosen't matter. It changes the story little. I can't stress enough how little signifigants it truly plays in the halo story. Anyway, the huaman race, begins to learn. They learn alot infact. How to fly airplanes, how to go around the world, how to go to space, how to live on other planets. The human race expans, outward, just like the fourunners had did once before. However mankind, faces something the fourunners hadn't, the covenant. One may thing time is repeatative. That if for ex. a ball is bounced once and it bounces 3 feet, the next time it will do the same. However life, is not repeatitive, life is chotic, theres no way that two things can be reapeated the same way ever. So in theory, the human race should have never encoutered the covenant, and should have prosepred as the fourunners had once, but since time can't redo its self, the human race encoutered a very diffrent path then the fourunners had.
At first there was two, the elites, and the prophets, they were both, huminoid and intelligent beings, locked in an endless war over many things. Something may have happend over one of their skirmishes. Posiblly a fourunner stucture unearth its self, or something of that sort. They began to work together. The prophets, decisphered the structures as the elites discovered them. Soon they had guns, ships and a goal, to light the sacread rings and clense the universe of all heritics and non-belivers. Ultimitly as the religion evolved the prophets made a pact with the elites, they would lead the religous propaganda and allow the elites to lead the armies. This suited both parties and made a "i scratch your back, you scratch mine" relationship. Like all however, it slowly became, "you scratch my back and i stab yours". The covenant grew over the centuries, with each alian race concured, they were forced to pledge alligence to the covenant. And soon, the covenant swepted the galexy, and gained technollgy to fuel their numbers.
It was only a matter of time till the covenant, and human race bumped heads while heading through space, the covenant, decreded holy war. The unsc fought hard, for 32 years, with several key wins, mostly thanks to the fighting marines, naval captians and a unit of spec ops spartan II, but it, like the fourunner and flood war was a battle that had already decided its victor. The last strong, stronghold, planet reach, fell without much effort. And earth, the final frontier had about 2 weeks, till it too fell. The unsc, however manged to destroy instillation 04 and prevent the univerese from meating the same fate it had before. The covenant, had takin a blow. But nothing too severve, there was still six rings left. Great news had come from a fleet. The ark of the fourunners had been found, their the holy ones, (the prophets) would lead the rest of the covenant into the great journy. A fleet, was to be sent there and secure one of the final steps of the covenant. However the master cheif, and his spartans foiled the covenants plan, and desimated the fleet, before they jumped to earth. (ta da, the earths the ark) The new fleet, lead directly by the prophet of regreat, was building up. The young and foolish prophet of regreat, rushed in (no one knew earth was human held) and almost ruined the great journy in doing so. The covenant, finaly knowing the last frontiar prepared to leave to earth... Meanwhile high chairty, moves to instilation 05, where the flood is relesed and the great journy is about to be undertakin. With several descive moves the prophet of truth achives main power of the covenant and the covenant spillts in two. Lets take a pause to see a very important moment in the game. I belive its at the end of the level high charity. The prophet of mecry has just been double crossed by his brother, and the covenant. There is a moment were he looks up at MC, which is a demon in his eyes and says "to start the great journy, and this time none of you will be left behind." Why is this important, well one it shows that in the covenant eyes, mankind, and all of the covenant were left behind last time halo was activated, but more importantly, it shows, how the covenant is willing to forgive tho souls of the forsaken, and in the end they want redemption for all. Anyway back to the story. A civil war is erupted. The brutes procede with the plan, they apply the index to the control room, but are eventully foiled by the elites. The prophet of
truth takes the "arks key" as we will call it and heads to the ark. The weight of the galaxy rest on his shoulders. The mis-activation allows the ark to remotely activate, the remaining halos if for any reson, the firing sequence is delayed. The end of halo 2 puts not just us, humanity in a tight spot, but the etire universe. We have earth in ruins, no huamn resistance is really left in the universe. The covenat is spilit down the middle, with ships going down allover the place, the sentinals are dealing with the flood allover high charity, and to make it worse the fate of the universe is in the hands of a crazed alien....halo 3...its gonna be one hellava game. Thanks all.