- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Everything on the Rings including the rings were sent back intime, still containing the flood and gravemind, They were sent back intime when the human race did not have the capability to fly, therefor starving and killing the Flood. But that did not happen. Everything that wasn't on the ring did not travel through time, think of it as a machine, you step inside of it and only what is inside goes back in time.
The Prophets find these rings and claim that they were left for them, The Forerunners (Future humans) Left clues for the late humans to discover what it really was, hence why the chief knows how to work his way around the control panels of it because they are familiar with that type of technology, and the prophets tried to study the rings mistaking that this is a time travel over great distances , they realize travel is like a journey and great distances they dont think of it as time but as distance, THE GREAT JOURNEY, But again dont believe me and i just hope when this is all explained to you through the game and the soon to be released books, and you see that it is all time travel. that you think of me. and what a big smile i will have on my face.