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Posted by: Hybrid
First off, I assume you are all familiar with the theory that the Human race is descended from the Forerunners. This theory is enforced by many events in the books and games, such as how 343 Guilty Spark and the other monitor only ever call humans by the name ‘reclaimer’ and how 343 called the information he gained from the POA’s databanks ‘our lost history’.
Also, it seems the Covenant know this. How is this shown? It is shown at the end of Halo 2 with the Brutes attempting to get Ms. Keys to activate Halo 2.0.
So, why would the Covenant (namely the Prophets) declare a war on the decedents of the race that they worship? Well, in the Covenant religion, the activation of the ‘Holy Rings’ will activate a sort of ‘tidal wave’ which will carry all those that are worthy into heaven. They assume that the Forerunners are ascended beings that achieved their ‘ascension’ through the activation of the Halos...
This leaves us to ponder ‘those left behind’. What does that mean? That means that you are not ‘worthy’ of the ‘Great Journey’ and will be left on this plane of existence.
My theory is that the Covenant stumbled upon the human race while seeking Forerunner technology, and somehow figured out that we are descended from the ‘holy race’. For a while, I assume they where confused as to how we could exist if all of the Forerunner where swept away by the ‘Great Journey’. They must have come to the conclusion that we where ‘unworthy’ or ‘unholy’ traitors to the Forerunners, and the Covenant declared a holy war to purge the ‘enemy of the holy race’ from the face of the galaxy.
This would also explain why the human race was not offered asylum among the races of the Covenant, like all others before them.
This may also explain why they constantly refer to the Master Chief as ‘Devil’ or ‘Demon’.
I've been thinking that for a while but oh well, you posted it first. If you go to the level High Charity, and listen to what Mercy says after Master Chief ask where his pal was going, he responds, "Earth, to finish what we started, and this time, none of you shall be left behind." Unless, when he said that, all he meant was that all the humans that haven't been killed yet (Left Behind), will be finished.
And I juts noticed, I already replyed to this thread before. I thought it died too.
[Edited on 6/1/2006]