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I was wondering if it is possible that the forerunners could have created the covenant - bound by strict religous rules to safegaurd their race against the flood. I could be entirely possible that the humans were also bound by the covenant (but for whatever reason broke off).

I say this only because i have noted many similarities between covenant and forerunner tech (which is why 9 times outa 10 hummies have their arses handed to em in space combat).

I wonder if the forerunners united the races (who may have already been at each others throats) to unite and create a force strong enough to combat the flood. Because the covenant failed and the halo's were activated - All sentient life in the radius was terminated.

This may have lead to mass extinction of races bound to the covenant. Allowing the prophets to take over the covenant.

Just a thought - what do you think

[Edited on 5/19/2006]

  • 05.19.2006 5:21 PM PDT
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or..maybe, just maybe, the covenant are imitative and they stole Forerunner tech

  • 05.19.2006 5:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan117atHalo
or..maybe, just maybe, the covenant are imitative and they stole Forerunner tech


Just maybe.....

  • 05.19.2006 5:27 PM PDT
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Forerunner tech? The only forerunner tech left would have been on the sentinals besed on the halos and neither of them are activated unless there was a containment breach.

where did the get their shield tech from if they had no access to it?

cmon man - it was given to them

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  • 05.19.2006 5:27 PM PDT

^ he's right, they steal their advanced technologies from forerunner tech and imitate it, plus if they were bound by the forerunners to protect them from the flood then how come they released the flood out of ignorance on alpha halo

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or maybe (i know this is wild but...) what if, since the tech is in africa on earth, we (humans) are actually the forerunners and we had a technological fallout? wild but maybe possible. or we were indeed taken by the forerunners as a partner race or even slaves and thats how it got here. whatever, just thoughts...

  • 05.19.2006 5:28 PM PDT
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because they are ignorant..... They are no longer led by the Forerunner but of the prophets. Time has made all of what the covenant stand stale and the prophets now control the covenant (not as the forerunners did) telling stories of the 'great journey' and how it will burn their way to the divine beyound...

Well to some extent they tell the truth lol.

  • 05.19.2006 5:31 PM PDT
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It says in the books that the covenant got there technology from what was left over of the forrunners tech.

it even mentions it in the game. when cortana first sees the forrunner ship on high charity she says


"I knew the covenant were experianced in converting forrunner technology... but this is amazing.."

  • 05.19.2006 5:33 PM PDT
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>>But the true question is, who stuck their wee-wee in who's hoo-hoo- dilly?

  • 05.19.2006 5:35 PM PDT

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I don't know, but I've heard that the Forerunners are humans.


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key word there - amazing... LOL

Bah its just what i thought... I just never thought that a rabble of dumbass races (apart from the elites and prophets) were able to build technologies from a civilisation that died eons ago.

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That's my theory too, since the Ark is on Earth. Perhaps a separate group of humans left and colonized whatever planet the book said the Forerunners were on. But I have a question: How the heck did no one notice the Ark sitting there for how ever many freaking years it's been there? I mean, they have thermal imaging and seismic technology, surely they must've picked up something weird right around that area eventually...

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Exactly what I was thinking ever since the trailer came out, I asked in all the forumns I could (on my other account), how the hell the Ark was never discovered under New Mambosa, it wasn't even that deep in the ground.

  • 05.19.2006 5:49 PM PDT