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Subject: HALO = Last Resort (Containment)
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I just thought of something that might make a bit of sense. And please, add in your thoughts if you think otherwise. This is just my opinion on the matter:

The Flood Project
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A while ago, the Forerunners created the Flood, but at the current time, they weren't labled as that. They were originally designed as parasitic lifeforms true, but specifically designed to rearrange human/forerunner DNA in a positive way. Cure disease for example (as Sargent Johnson, who resisted infection, now has regenerative powers and a resistance to disease I believe). While creating the flood organism (the spore form), their results were not as they desired. They realized the potential infection ratio, process, and spread such an organism could create if let out of the facility.

They were contained on multiple halo platforms that were created and studied in hopes of refining them so that they could be better used to advance the forerunner race.

The Forerunner are Humans? (tangent)
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The halo rings were built as a last resort containment option. 343, an AI robot, was created to guide a forerunner through the "containment proceedure". 343 was unable to become infected because he is simply a machine. His original programming would also contain protocol for starting up Halo in an effort to kill the flood, and stop their spread across the galaxy. This is strictly a human idea, as a machine would have no care for humans otherwise.

You will notice that 343 is rather pleased to see that the Flood are still alive (as they dont live forever) so that future studies could be done on them, but becomes rather scared when MC no longer wishes to activate halo. In fact, 343 claims that he found "all our lost history" when he stops Cortana from blowing up the ship. Lost history, possibly from the last time the rings were activated? In other words, Lost History = all time in which there was no life in the galaxy. Which could also mean that the forerunners were in fact human.

Back to the Flood Project/Containment
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Besides that point, it would seem that Halo's functions include study of the flood lifeform, and containment should any specimen escape. It would seem that in Halo's past, there was a considerable outbreak that could not be contained on a small scale. Halo was activated stopping the outbreak, and containing the remaining flood spores.

It wasn't until the covenant, and humans arrived back on Halo and opened the chambers, that the flood began to take over the dead bodies of Covenant and Human alike. And as you can see, simply from Halo 1, the flood spread rapidly. VERY rapidly, thus it was probably not very long before the rings were activated.

Post Activation (end game proceedure)
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When the first ring was activated, the signal was sent to the Arc to prepare for remote activation, and then activate all other rings. It is possible, and not unlikely, that some of the forerunners went to the Arc for shelter (Noah's Ark theory) and then activated the rings. If this is in fact the case, that means the forerunners were indeed human, as they wouldn't have time to plant a device into a foreign planet.

Since then, life has evolved again, life is restored in the galaxy, and we make our expanses into space yet again.

Edits: Spelling, typos, clarification of ideas, and other general changes.

Edit Also: I will bump this thread for the day people, since I work during the graveshift, and that's when this was created.

[Edited on 5/17/2006]

  • 05.17.2006 4:40 AM PDT
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so how does gravemind fit in? he makes me think that something much weirder is going to happen in halo 3. especially since the end of h2 made it seem like he and cortana were going to have plenty of time to get acquainted.

  • 05.17.2006 5:09 AM PDT
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bump for day people

  • 05.17.2006 7:10 AM PDT

Halo 3 ---- Whoo Hooo!!!!

Yeah it all sounds good. The only thing is I think the 'flood' where not created by the forerunners but probably discovered. They may have discovered the creature knows as gravemind and experemented on it. Discovered it had some pretty interesting properties and then went about trying to create some way for us/them to make use of these advantages and created the infection form flood.

  • 05.17.2006 7:26 AM PDT
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Damn... page 12 in one day, anyways...

I'm fairly certain that in the books, and maybe even in halo 1, it said that the forerunner created Halo to study the flood... I really dont remember if it said they created them or not.. I could have sworn it did :\

As far as gravemind is concerned... I can honestly say, I have no idea where he fits in :(

  • 05.17.2006 10:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Major Payn
Yeah it all sounds good. The only thing is I think the 'flood' where not created by the forerunners but probably discovered. They may have discovered the creature knows as gravemind and experemented on it. Discovered it had some pretty interesting properties and then went about trying to create some way for us/them to make use of these advantages and created the infection form flood.

I like that idea, but like everything else, it's only an idea. As for the origanil topic, I think that either the Forerunners were incrediblely fast builders, or it was preconcieved. Why they would do something like study the flood when they knew the risk, I don't know. I can specualte, and ponder that the recuring theme of acrifice for a greater good might play a role. Perhaps the forerunners were threatened by the same type of thing that precipitated the creation of the Spartan project, and they made the exact same choice as Hasley. Except with them the risk and reward factor was a lot higher, and their lot fell on risk rather then reward. It would be an ironic mirror, and a very good answer as to the past, but it, like verything else, is only an idea without ground or basis.

  • 05.17.2006 10:11 PM PDT

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In this theory Gravemind still exists. Gravemind is a Human. A severly infected one. Infected Human=Gravemind.... Human=Forerunner.

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  • 05.17.2006 10:14 PM PDT
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0.o!

Nice! like when keys was that really ugly blob in H1?

  • 05.18.2006 4:04 AM PDT
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Honestaly this is one of the best theorys or stories (witch ever you want to call it) that I have heard so far great job coming up with that.

  • 05.18.2006 4:49 AM PDT