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Subject: Were the Forerunners humans?
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A few months ago I was replaying Halo and Halo 2, when a thought struck me. Were the Forerunners humans? It may sound crazy, but I’ll explain my reasoning. In Halo, in the last level, the Maw, if you get to the part where the Chief and Cortana are about to remotely make the Autumn’s engines go critical from the bridge, you hear 343 Guilty sparks voice. At one point he says this, “… how exciting it is to have a record of all of OUR lost time.” OUR time. Guilty Spark was made by the Forerunners. So why is he saying our lost time, which would mean that the humans were the Forerunners? Except the Forerunners destroyed themselves, right… Also, in the Halo book “First Strike”, when the SPARTANS are in a series of giant caverns in the planet Reach, one of them, Fred, notices a bunch of Forerunner symbols look nearly exactly like ancient Aztec symbols, which are found on earth. The next thing is this: why are humans the only beings who can be used as reclaimers? Why not one of the thousands of Covenant walking around? And what are reclaimers supposed to reclaim, anyway? Well, if you’re using the humans=forerunners theory, it makes sense. Humans could only be the reclaimers because Monitors would recognize them as the only species capable of using Forerunner tech (even though Covenant can use it too). Reclaimers are probably supposed to reclaim the galaxy from the flood by depriving it of its only natural food source. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the grande finale: At the conclusion of Halo 2 we learn that there is a primary firing center, a place that could remotely activate all the rings, which were built by the forerunners. This place is earth, where humans live. The E3 trailer of Halo 3 confirmed that there is indeed such a place, and this place looks exactly like the firing centers for all of the rings, which were built by the Forerunners. In my opinion, Forerunner tech on earth can only mean one thing: that the Forerunners were humans. The only problem with that is that the Forerunners were presumably wiped out, but humans are a very adaptable species, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they somehow survived. I also think that what Dr.Halsey found had something to do with this, and that that is the reason she ran off with Kelly.

P.S. If this were true, that means that all the Covenant would end up worshipping humans... cool.
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  • 05.22.2006 8:27 PM PDT
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idk, the answer lies within the 5 threads per page trying to prove exactly what u just said

  • 05.22.2006 8:28 PM PDT
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No.

  • 05.22.2006 8:30 PM PDT

No they were the creatures that built the 7 halo rings so they could wipe out the flood. They became extict

  • 05.22.2006 8:31 PM PDT
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although i doubt the humans were forerunners, i cant say for sure.

  • 05.22.2006 8:33 PM PDT
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you people are all behind. everyone already knows that the forerunners were humans and the ark is earth. (sorry if you didn't want to know that) 343 Guily Spark repeatedly referred to MC and Miranda as "reclaimer." and as Insane ODST said, Guilty Spark did say "our lost time". my best guess is that some of the forerunners escaped the range of the halos on a ship and came to earth

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  • 05.22.2006 8:33 PM PDT
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i cant wait untill halo3 rolls out and they prove you wrong :)

  • 05.22.2006 8:37 PM PDT
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me?

  • 05.22.2006 8:39 PM PDT
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I can't wait until Halo 3 comes out and it proves you wrong, you person who obviously doesn't pay much attention to detail.

  • 05.22.2006 8:42 PM PDT
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paying attention to detail, and making up my own crap so i look smart, are two different things

  • 05.22.2006 8:45 PM PDT
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And the fact that you can't make any crap has nothing to do with it, right?

  • 05.22.2006 8:48 PM PDT
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And why couldn't they be? I see it to be utterly plausible that we are the decendants of the Forerunners. What was the purpose of the Ark? To protect the survivors of The Flood. I personally belive that the Forerunner ship itself is the Ark and that the Earth is analagous to the Ararat mountians (I do belive that is what they were called) where the Ark landed. After the activation of the Halo network, the surviving Forerunner carried out their lives on the Earth. No doubt along the way the Forerunner forgot their roots and became what we are today, Humans.

  • 05.22.2006 8:49 PM PDT
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if that were true, why wernt more forerunner saved?

  • 05.22.2006 8:50 PM PDT
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Because, idiot, ONLY SO MANY PEOPLE CAN FIT ABOARD A SHIP!

  • 05.22.2006 8:54 PM PDT
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JUST ONE? WOW, NO WONDER WE ARE SO STUPID! THE FORERUNNER BUILT ONE SHIP AND ALL THE IDIOTS MADE IT ABOARD!

  • 05.22.2006 8:55 PM PDT
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Ever considered the idea that maybe they only had enough time to build just one before the flood got them all?

  • 05.22.2006 8:58 PM PDT
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This sounds plausible. However, weren't the Forerunners supposed to have been wiped out 100,000 years ago, or something like that? We were barely above monkeys by then, scratching our asses in some cave. The Forerunners can't be the humans that existed back then. There has to be some missing link in there. Any ideas?

  • 05.22.2006 9:01 PM PDT
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maybe they did a reverse planet of the apes? :)

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Crap comes out your ass.

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My idea would be this: Halo is a fictional story, not real. I do see what you mean though, but somehow I don't think bungie considered how evolved we were back then when they made Halo.

  • 05.22.2006 9:04 PM PDT
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and your mouth...according to southpark :)

  • 05.22.2006 9:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: masterchiefloser
you people are all behind. everyone already knows that the forerunners were humans and the ark is earth. (sorry if you didn't want to know that) 343 Guily Spark repeatedly referred to MC and Miranda as "reclaimer." and as Insane ODST said, Guilty Spark did say "our lost time". my best guess is that some of the forerunners escaped the range of the halos on a ship and came to earth


That doesn't proove that humans are Forerunner

  • 05.22.2006 9:05 PM PDT
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Ah, and about the concept of the one ship. Saying my concept about that ship being the Ark, whose to say that only one was constructed? One could perceive that another ship rest inside the structure seen on the Halo 3 announcment trailer. To me it looks alot like a hangar. You can see the center of the structure decending down into the earth, and it most certainly can fit a ship inside. But what evidence do we have that what the Forerunner did here on Earth was done only here. It is always in your best interest to have a backup plan. The Covenant obviously found there on. Wouldn't it just suck to save yourselves from the Flood, and to all of a sudden have your planet of salvation explode or something. Just really ruins your day, y'know?

  • 05.22.2006 9:05 PM PDT
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Well first of all, this has been covered in at least 5 threads that I know about.

I dont know why this is still being talked about. Essentially, Halo 3 will reveal what's going on with the forerunners, or it wont. Eitherway there's nothing we can really debate or understand at this point. Of course, other than the fact that they built all the Halos and the Ark.

  • 05.22.2006 9:07 PM PDT
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Southpark is stupid.

  • 05.22.2006 9:08 PM PDT

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