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Ok, just a theory about the forerunners based on the information located in the games/trailer and some other ideas from the books.

My theory? That the Forerunners were Human. Now for how I came to this conclusion.

Halo the game: 343 GuiltySpark has the line, "Why would you hesitate to do what you have already done?" and "Last time you asked me if it were my choice would I do it. Having had considerable to time to ponder your query my answer has not changed."

With as intelligent and intellectually precise as 343GS is when it comes to information, why would he confuse John with a being from millions of years ago?

Halo the books: The Master Chief "knows" what the various symbols in the Covenent controls (and the controls of Halo, see the energy bridge in the level Halo) do without knowing what they mean.

Genetic memory is my explanation for this. Same with his (and other humans') "recognition" of the symbols/coordinates from the various stones/crystals found.

Halo 2 the game: Information reguarding the location of Delta Halo (and presumably other Halos) is located on Earth. The Ark, apparenly, is also located on Earth.

I believe that the entire transmission in the Halo 3 trailer is the Gravemind using Cortana. From that perspective it makes perfect sense.

"I have defied gods and demons." The Gravemind obviously grew beyond the power of the Forerunners (and their enemy?).

"I am your shield, I am your SWORD." If the Forerunners created the Flood in defense of an attack from an enemy, the sword/shield analogy makes perfect sense.

"I know you, your past, your future." The Gravemind recognizes the similarities between the Forerunners and current civilization. Hence the "you". If my theory is correct, the Gravemind also knows "past" and "future" based on the events that it witnessed surrounding the firing of the Halos all those years ago. History repeats itself.

"This is the way the world ends." He saw it happen once. The Flood was released and there was nothing the Forerunners could do to stop it. Why should this time be different?

What do you think? Fairly logical theory or crackpot idea?

  • 05.17.2006 4:58 PM PDT
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Sorry bud, this ain't "your" theory as about twenty billion other posts have been made on this same subject saying the same thing minus the information.

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THE PROPHET OF TRUTH KNEW ABOUT THE PARASIT EGUYS MY GOD
THE FORERUNNERS were humans who created the flood to fight the covenenant but then they activated halo and hid in teh ark truth knows all this and thats why he is truth check my halo 3 plot for more info its a topic

  • 05.17.2006 5:05 PM PDT
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I have heard this theory many times but you explained and supported it the best. Well done.
And TheDeadGuy, chill out dude. Go into every single thread with a person claiming that the theory is theirs and give them a hard time almost none of the threads on this forum anymore are orginal or at least recycled so chill.

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  • 05.17.2006 5:12 PM PDT
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THE PROPHET OF TRUTH KNEW ABOUT THE PARASIT EGUYS MY GOD
THE FORERUNNERS were humans who created the flood to fight the covenenant but then they activated halo and hid in teh ark truth knows all this and thats why he is truth check my halo 3 plot for more info its a topic


I could be wrong but didnt the covenant start after the first halo activation.....

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no they were around way before

  • 05.17.2006 5:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: LoneWolf42
no they were around way before


Who?

  • 05.17.2006 5:18 PM PDT
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Ya know, that is a good question... exactly WHEN was the covenant founded?

  • 05.17.2006 5:19 PM PDT
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Did anyone even buy or watch the special edition of Halo 2

Problems:
1. If they were around before halo was activated then they would be dead. They would have to have made intergalactical travel which ment they were sentiant. If they didn't have intergalactic travel then the forerunners wouldn't have consided them a treat.

2. In the bonus disk it tells of their beginnings. The prophets and elites were at war till they discovered a forerunner instalation.

  • 05.17.2006 5:29 PM PDT
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Forerunner don't inhabit our galaxy. Humans do.

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Ok, I've posted this a looong time ago, and I've searched for it (Google...) but couldn't find it, but I did find another copy of it that I'd posted in another thread.

So here's my theory on the Halo Universe Storyline:



First of all, the Forerunner race is us, only from a long, long, time ago (in a galaxy far, far away). They aka we were very advanced, but then we got in a battle with another race (the "gods" sent to punish the forerunners, as they came to think after the flood). The war raged on for a long time. Then, hoping to kill us all off, the other race developed a lifeform able to take over their bodies, so that that race could take over the forerunners and use them as slaves, etc. Only thing is, their experiment went horribly wrong and the flood, as it was called, killed off their own race. Then the flood found their way to the forerunners.

The forerunners, in a last hopeful act, developed the halos, in hoping of stopping the flood. So they set it off, but left an ark (like the one in the Bible) with a few forerunners, aka humans, onboard (noah and his family). [the ark then saves those forerunners in it from the flood as the Ark in the Bible saved Noah]

So after the halos stop and everyone is wiped out, their planets are now in ruins because of the war and then also the flood. So what the remaining humans have to do is find a new planet and totally start their civilization over again, without any of their resources for building their old technologies. But, they purposely left guilty spark, the other oracles, and the sentials, so that if the population of the galaxy got too large, and it was in danger of being taken over by the flood, then the humans would be told to set the halos off again, just like they did so long before. Then the remaining humans onboard the ark would start anew. This process keeps going, and we may never know how long it has been going on for. [probably has only been done one other time: by the forerunners, b/c it was said by someone (I'm pretty sure it was Guilty Spark) that delta halo was only activate 1 other time]

But now, in our time, another war has broken out, this time with the covenant (who may even be the same race with whom we had the anchient war and who first created the flood). Guilty Spark wants MC to set it off so badly because he was programmed to do just that - tell them when it is time to start anew - and also knows the flood might take over the galaxy.

This story would explain a lot of things, such as why MC feels so familiar with the forerunner controls (in Halo 1) and also why only humans can set it off, and why guilty spark is so familiar with us humans (because he may have been through this cycle of starting all over again countless times).


Note: Things in brackets [..] are things I've just added now. I know that I had more in my original post, but again I can't find it so here's the step-down version. I included a lot more about the Covenant possibly being the race the Forerunners fought. The Covenant could've escaped and traveled far away, escaping the halo's blast (unlikely, but then again the halos I'm sure took a long while to build, giving the Cov. plenty of time to escape). And then with what you said about the Prophets/Elites at war: They could've been in another civil war over what to do, and then suddenly the found the Forerunner ruins and wanted to find out what happened to the Forerunners/Flood, and wondered if they could once again try and use the flood.

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  • 05.17.2006 5:30 PM PDT
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As it is a good theroy there are a few thing that I think are illogical. I think the ark wasn't a ship because it would be way to risky to fly in space. When you play the first Halo you see that the flood more relies on another sense then vision so if you flew a ship the flood would detect sentiants and not go into hibernation and track the remaining forerunners down

  • 05.17.2006 5:39 PM PDT