- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Insane ODST
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.
-dv321
here is more to your theory if you read the books you know the only creatures that devolpe thier own teck in this war is humans now if we apply this knowledge to the forerunner/human theory and imprvise a little we can renew this theory wich follows
what if the forerunners were the current day covies and humans were there leaders we would design the teck (knowing were the only ones who desgin thier own teck) and pass it through the ranks what if the profets grew jelus and wanted our status as the leaders, then the flood appered humans and profets were were commaders and the rest were infantry as the battle progrossed more and more live were lost and humans jioned the infantry each race was weakend so the profets and the rest fled,
humans built the rings as there last hope then we built the ark and had to hide there and remote actavate the rings the civies were sent to the ark when the humans were all but gone they activated the rings each race exept the profets (only race not in battle) had to start anew the profets traked down every race (exept humans who they hate) and UNLEASHED them on us using our old teck