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Subject: Stupid Ark, stoopid speculation
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  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

OK, DON'T FLAME ME! Just saying what I think is going on. First off, anybody that looks at that sketch, and then the artifact in the teaser, and doesn't see SOME similiarity is just in denial. It may not be the Ark, but the concept art sure does make me wonder if it is. I think that the humans are the Forerunners. They didn't have to originate in this system, there's a billion ways an advanced civilization could travel many light-years to relocate or whatever. But "Reclaimer" doesn't sound like a title you'd give to any other species/race/armor-clad man. It sounds like the Forerunners knew this would happen eventually, and they already had a title for one of theirs that would eventually regain control and knowledge from their installations. 343 GS obviously wasn't surprised to see a bipedal creature encased in metal suddenly appear on one of the seven Halo rings. Then there's the comment he made about "lost history", or something of the like. I think Bungie's trying to spin one heck of a tale here, and from all the evidence, conspicuous and inconspicuous alike, they seem to be hinting that the Forerunners were human. I mean, think about in terms of a good story; Race becomes very powerful, explores cosmos, finds a species more powerful than themselves. They have to devize a way to save the cosmos because they're noble, so they sacrifice themselves and stay the Flood, for a while. Many millenia later, another alien race stumbles across forerunner technology, builds a religion around it. Now, the few Forerunners who escaped, or survived, or saved their DNA, WHATEVER, inadvertedly planted the seed of a new race, HUMANS, whome eventually travel through space and stumble across the Covenant. War, war, blah blah. Oh look! A ring! Let's unleash these little nasties and then run in fear. Looks like it's time for the Forerunners(Humans) to save the cosmos once again! One big cycle, and a doozy of a story.

  • 05.15.2006 1:55 PM PDT