- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: sir eatalot
For those of You who don"t know Ringworld was a book written in the 1980's about an expedition to explore a giant ring world. Up untill now the only similarities between halo and Ringworld is the fact that they both have Ring worlds in them, but the big forunner structure on earth hints to a more ringworld inspired plot line. In Ringworlds sequal "Ringworld Engineres" They find out that the Ring World was built by a species called The Pak, in our case the forunner. Another book in the series called "Protector" says that the Pak are the ancesters of humans and colinated earth millions of years ago (explaining the big structure in the big structure in Africa.) now your'e thinking why there aren't any records of the forruner living on earth. well the pak lived in three stages, child, breeder and protector. pak aren't inteligent untill they reach the protector stage (around 40 years old) The protectors needed a special crop in order to stay alive, but it wouldn't grow on earth, so they all died out. breeders also needed the crop to asend into protectorship so only the unintelligent breeders remained. The book also suggests that the pak colony was in africa wich is why thats where the structure is, Knoowing all this I have come up with a possible plot for halo 3. The covenent discover that humans are whats left of the forruner, but the profits say that the evidence is just the humans trying to get thecovent to stop trying to kill them. This further divides th covenent leaving only brutes and prophets. The rest of the game is a race to get to the ark. believe it or not the ark is also in ringworld. in the book the ark is the ringworld from seen below. knowing this I think that when guilty spark said that the ark wasn't on halo he actually ment the ark wasn't in the building they were in. as for the gravmind, I have no idea how he fits in if any body has any ideas please post them.
Bungie said they were verry effected by Dyson Spheres in their Sci-Fi work. Halo is simply a ring formation of a Dyson Sphere thats compeletely conected, and not around a sun/star. The relic. IMHO, is sortof like a Dyson Spere, just compacted...
I've posted this elsewhere anyway on another fourm, and cant be botehred going into depth here but meh. Thats basicaly what I think.
Also, Halo is filled with Biblical references. The ark is said to be in Africa or there abouts. Basically most things are links to the Bible. *Think*.