- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
As I'm sure most people are aware by now, in the H3 trailer, MC has an old-style assault rifle, and parts of his suit have changed (most notably the gloves). I may have a reason for this. I'm not claiming it's true, but it is at least possible, and raises some questions.
I seem to remember numerous people attesting that they heard 343 Guilty Spark mention something about your suit during The Library, back in H1. Apparently, he asks you why you are using a Mk V suit, when you could have a Mk XII. This ties in with this theory on what happened to the Forerunners, and who the Reclaimers are. That theory states that the Forerunners left microbes that would someday evolve back into Forerunners on a planet called Earth, and that these organisms had the Forerunners' knowledge encoded into them, so that they would follow the same tecnological path as well. This explains why MC always knew which button to press when using Forerunner tech (remember the bit with the light bridge in The Flood?). It also suggests that all (or at least most) human inventions were invented by the Forerunners at some point - including the MJOLNIR suit.
At the end of H2, MC was on a Forerunner ship, headed for Earth. In the trailer, he's on Earth. So what happened on the ship?
I think that MC found a Forerunner armoury on board that ship, and in it were Forerunner weapons and suits. I think he's now wearing a MJOLNIR suit that the Forerunners made, one that humanity is due to invent in a few years time.
Any thoughts?