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The Forerunner disappeared from existence about 100,000 years ago, but the relics of their existence still remain. The Covenant worship the Forerunner as gods in hopes of finding the same "salvation" they had. It is believed that this "salvation" refers to the Flood. At one point in time, the Flood are either discovered or created by the Forerunner. They contained and studied it within several Halo Installations. To guard access to the Flood, the Forerunner built and left several Monitors and Sentinels to guard and contain the Flood.

Then, they mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again. The proof of their existence and advanced technology lies in the structures of the Halos, the many artifacts collected by the Covenant, and the supposed Ark on Earth, the key to activate all the Halos. It has been speculated that the Forerunner may actually be the direct ancestor of both the Prophets and Humans. The Prophets claim they evolved from an abandoned planet of the Forerunner, and their insignia are found throughout the Covenant structures and uniforms. For Humans, the Monitors are unusually familiar with mankind, and the idea of the Ark being on Earth is quite a coincidence.

Flood

The Flood is a species with virus-like behavior. They're only goal is survival, and survival is only achieved by infecting the bodies of a living organism of sufficient biomass. The Flood infect life forms by attaching fairly large parasites and injecting their genetic material. The virus spreads throughout the body focusing on the nervous system. After overcoming the nervous system, the Flood uses the body for its own purposes. Ironically, within the body of an organism, it has great control and a form of "intelligence". This can be seen as Flood forms are able to utilize the host's technology.

Monitors and Sentinels

Monitors (343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent) are the caretakers of the Halo Installation and guardians of the Flood. They are a form of AI and were created by the Forerunner in order to ensure the Flood are not released throughout the galaxy. If the Flood breaches containment (as done by the Covenant at Installation 04), then the Monitors' protocol forces them to activate the ring which will destroy all sentient life (Humans, Covenant, or anything) to prevent the spread of the virus. However, Monitors are inhibited to activate the rings themselves. Instead, they must use a "Reclaimer" such as Master Chief or any other human to accomplish that task.

  • 05.18.2006 2:28 PM PDT
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I found pretty interesting

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nice post

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The forerunners didn't mysteriously disappear. The forerunners couldn't contain the flood so they had no choice but to activate the rings.

  • 05.18.2006 3:47 PM PDT
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another way you can tell the forerunners used to be humans, is that the land of the halo rings look similar to the landscape of earth and somehow has oxygen so the marines can survive.

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I'd also like to say that I think that the Ark is not in earth, yet IS earth. Mwah, I like to associate it with the story of Noah's ark. The Ark being away for 'chosen' to survive the flood.

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In one of the information booklets, it states that teh Flood were found by the Forerunner; they were not created.

When the Flood got out of control ~100,000 years ago, the Forerunners activated the Halos, which killed them as well as any other Flood-food.

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but some of them survived on earth, because of the ark (noah's ark)
(thats why we know the ark is near the earth)
humanity restarted
2500 years later mastercheif comes along...
life is good

was there a forrunner named noah?

  • 05.18.2006 4:07 PM PDT