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The forerunners were humans. The modern humans in the halo story are descended from the forerunners. The forerunners lived thousands (maybe millions) of years before the dawn of modern human civilization. They were around when the flood existed and they created the rings to combat the flood. THEY ALSO CREATED THE ARK. If you recall biblical history, the ark was used after the world was destroyed by God. Only Noah, his family, and the animals survived to start over on the earth after its decimation. Likewise, a select few of the forerunners (or ancient humans who foreran modern humans) hid in the ark while they activated the rings which destroyed all life, including the forerunners outside of the ark and the flood. Then, the survivors left the ark and started modern human civilization from scratch after the first end of the world. The knowledge of the rings and the ark was passed on as knowledge, then a history, then a theology, then a legend, then a myth, and finally forgotten. Now, the ark and the rings are artifacts left over from an ancient human past that the modern humans and covenant have discovered. The second end of the world will occur as the humans will destroy the flood and all life outside of the ark again.