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I think it's pretty obvious that "the ark" mentioned in Halo 2 is supposed to be Noah's ark. Why else would the flood be called the flood? There are tons of theories flying around about how humans had visited the Halos long before the PoA had crashed in Halo 1, but I'd take it a step further and say humans built the halo rings. Who were the forerunners? Humans of course.
Clues from the game:
-Why else would Guilty Spark recognize Master Chief as a reclaimer, but not any of the covenant? He expects a human. He mentions other reclaimers who were not strong enough to fulfill their mission, and all you see are dead marines.
-Why couldn't the Brutes use the index to activate Halo on their own? The video clearly shows Tartaurus forcing Keyes to hold the index and activate halo. Answer- it would only recognize a human's hand.
-The fact that the ark is on earth. The covenant find the location of the ark and go to get it and are surprised to find humans there. Is it coincidence that the key to all of the halos is on the human home world and humans have an ancient legend about the destruction of mankind by a flood and the salvation of a few in an ark. No way.
-The "Heretics" the Arbiter is sent to destroy obviously found this out, which is why they lost faith in their prophets. They said they had learned something from their "oracle," but we never found out what because tartaurus takes it away. I think we're left to assume that they find out that Halo kills everything, but that doesn't cut it for me. They'd all kill themselves if they thought it would take them to their gods. It had to be a something that made them lose faith in their gods ex: they weren't really gods and the great journey never happened.
(The Lengthy Breakdown.) The flood infected the humans and threatened to destroy all life in the galaxy, so the humans build the halos to destroy all sentient life and an ark which somehow allows a small group of humans to survive. Halo was activated and all life in the universe perished, and the flood contained. The only survivors are are a small band of humans who land on planet earth, and not just any place, Africa, which is the undisputed cradle of mankind (oldest human fossil record by far). Because the numbers are greatly diminished the species has to start all over technologically, and of course if you don't know what space is, it's hard to tell a story about gallactic destruction. So over the centuries the interstellar story of the "infectious flood" morphs into the classical story in the bible of God's judgement, destruction by a literal flood and the "ark" in which just a few souls were saved.
It's water tight, literally, can anyone disagree now that it's broken down into paragraphs for the less literate? Besides won't it be the ultimate irony when the covenenant discover that the gods they have been worshipping are the very "heretic humans" they are trying to destroy? Do you agree?
[Edited on 5/16/2006]