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This thread has inspired me to join... I thought about doing so a while back, when I first realized that Bungie.net had such an efficacious forum design and aesthetic appeal that attracted me to join, but was discouraged. Well, here I am. I want to first start off by saying, wow. Congrats, fellows. Many of you have obviously been thinking very deeply about this - and I am with you brothers, I am eager to get this story solved, to get to the bottom of the mystery, and have all questions answered...
Way back when I was a halo CE fanboy roaming the forums of some popular fan site at the time (which I have forgotten - may ye rest in peace, oh relic of my mingled past...), I sat down and typed up my theory, drawing on various theories being thrown around based on our limited intelligence base (specifically, CE... and maybe nothing else. I forget when First Strike was published...). Now, since this is a relic of bygone days (years ago), I dredge up an old quote and seem to remember it being said somewhere that the MJOLNIR suits were based loosely on something from Greek mythology. Looking back, I realize this is odd, what with Mjolnir being an integral part of Norse mythology... anywho, here's my gander - do with it what ye will.
Mayhaps what we are seeing here links to High Charity, the half-planetoid homeworld of the Covenant, ruled over by the Prophets, who live on the Forerunner homeworld... I do not think it is entirely justified to rule out Forerunner technology being spread out throughout the Earth, given that the level of chaos and intermingling substances immediately below the 'relatively thin' crust of this planet would make any thorough scan of the interior quite... frustrating. "But, this is five hundred years in the future..." yes, but, the ONI facility (which, correct me if I am wrong, is like the CIA's database of International Artifacts and Relics buried somewhere under the Plains that contains everything from the Spear of Truth to the Mason's Fortune, or, i.e., top-of-the-line, best-that-money-can-by, government tech.) is only a few hundred miles under a mountain. Not very ground-breaking (pun intended, hah...) if you ask me, which is evidence to me that no Deep-Crust facilities or research has been really sponsored and forwarded.
So, in all, Earth could quite possibly be something Artifical. It was either from an official source, or just our crazy minds, but back-when, it was agreed-upon that the races of the Covenant had been significantly altered by the Forerunner. Forerunners step in, make mindless herbivores intelligent, the Prophets, Elites, and whatnot are formed... dinosaurs disappear on Earth... Whatever. This thread is about forerunner tech being underground, right? High Charity. Forerunner Homeworld? Very likely. Dead world? Completely. Older than Earth? Well, going from your Homeworld to the dying throes of your race, forced to build an Arc to survive... Earth would be significantly younger than the forerunner world. Very much so.