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"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't"
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Lets Speak French!!!

lets not and say we did

Posted by: Fr4gNiNj4
(note to self: join Apple's team always, as he is a god)

This is one theory that could actually be possible but also a theory that will probably never be answered.

  • 05.27.2006 10:47 AM PDT
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I dont think the covies know we are the gods (They obviously never have seen Chuck Norris)

Because in FoR:Your destruction is the will of the Gods. And we are their instrument.


Prophets are not gods. They speak for the gods. I know this because I just went over this is history yesterday.

  • 05.27.2006 10:56 AM PDT

I think that the forruners did destroy themselves since all the moniters(like 343 Guilty spark) said they did, but they left some humans to repopulate the earth and reactivate the halos.

  • 05.27.2006 10:59 AM PDT
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Wow, i just read this whole thing, and hybrid, great job. along my lines of thinking. y'know logic and stuff. One of two theories that i have liked.

Anyway, I think that Truth knows the Truth. I also think that MC knows way more than any of us think.

Remember at the VERY end of H2, after the credits, Gravemind askes cortana some questions. About what? Well, probably earth, how to get there, stuff like that. Cortana denied it, Gravemind got pissed, and tried to purge her or hold her "hostage" and send out some obscure message to the Chief, who gets confusd and goes on a covenan genocide killing spree.

Those are my thoughts on it!!

  • 05.27.2006 11:16 AM PDT
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how do we know the elites cant be reclaimers as well? the first index was taken by the humans before the elites had a chance. In quarentine zone, you play as the arbiter and are attempting to beat the humans to the sacred icon(index). but again, the humans beat you to it(but then you catch them and the brutes catch you and...yeah)



The Arbiter could have taken the index if he wanted to, but only a Reclaimer could have activated it.

  • 05.27.2006 11:26 AM PDT
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wow, I thought this thread died a week ago! ^_^ woot for me!

  • 06.01.2006 9:36 PM PDT
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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]

  • 06.01.2006 9:42 PM PDT

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