- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I like this thread, here's my two cents:
Anybody familiar with the movie Galaxy Quest? Or the Mighty Max cartoon? Both of these have something very much in common with the idea of time anomolies. In Galaxy Quest, the super secret Omega 13 weapon (or something to that effect) was a temporal bomb that would rewind time for a few seconds, kinda like instant replay. That is how you got to see all the main characters get killed, but then saved when time was rewound and the killer was stopped in time. Similar to the Mighty Max cartoon, the very last episode had Max fighting the main villain after he'd killed Max's friends, and his magic hat (or something) sent him back to the very fist episode, except now with the memories of the previous run-through, suggesting he would use all he would already know would happen to change the outcome of the future.
I'm guessing the idea is similar here, maybe the Halo's main weapon or something else by the Forerunners was devised to rewind time, but still retain the knowledge of what transpired before, perhaps because the one thing the Forerunners didn't have was a future.