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where'd the covies come from? Let's say it's fairly logical to argue the forerunners are human or something like them and the ark is biblical of sorts that protected and repopulated humans after the key was turned the first time... Where'd the covies come from? Another galaxy?

I remember reading somewhere the rings killed off everything within a certain distance to the core of the galaxy. Is that right? If so, then the core areas were left 'uncleansed' but isnt the intense radiation too high for life to exist there?

One more synaptic misfire, if the rings fire and you're in slipspace, are you immune to the effects of the ring? That's a possible impression/explanation I get when truth split from tartarus when he tried to activate the rings and headed to earth. Why not stick around and be 'propelled on the great journey' rather than go to earth and fight the humans? Besides, if you fire one ring, dont all the others auto-fire w/o a reclaimer needing to be present?

And that's another riddle. Is there a difference between reclaimer and forerunner?

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  • 05.27.2006 1:31 AM PDT
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According to 343 Guilty Spark, the Halos will destroy all sentient life within 3 radii of the galactic center. This means things like plants and trees will be left alive, and possible some types of animals, depending on how the definition of sentience is interpreted. Other than that, we don't know what happens.

We don't know what exactly happens when the Halos fire, so we don't know if anything within 3 galactic radii could be considered "safe," whether they are in normal space, slipspace, or some other dimesion that exists within the "space" around our galaxy. Nor do we know if the Ark is a means to protect certain beings from the Halos effects or not.

So far, we don't have any definitive proof whether there is a connection between "Reclaimers" and the Forerunners, besides 343 Guilty Spark calling the Master Chief and Miranda Keyes Reclaimers.

  • 05.27.2006 1:43 AM PDT

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I have a theory. The forerunners and the humans are exactly the same. Which is why the oracles refer to us as reclaimers. We are here to reclaim the rights of the forerunners, which are early humans.

With the trailer. It is in Africa, and what ancient civilisation do we know lived in africa. The Egyptians. They were sent to earth to keep the forerunners alive. But when they set foot out of the escape pod their memories were wiped. So they built up a civilisation from the materials they had at there disposal.

Which brings me to the Arc. It has been on earth since its creation. The forereunners came to earth and placed the arc under its crust at a certain point under Egypt as we know today.

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I don't think when your in the Ark you survive the rings going off
its just a remote
according to 343 guilty spark

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If you arnt protected, then where are the humans coming from? I'm beginning to think that if the ark isnt of biblical Noah's Ark of sorts that protect you when the key is turned then we are talking about opening the doors to a lot of time travel which is probably the last thing that'd explain it all.

Otherwise you have very few possibilities.

1.) The covenant and humans were all in slipspace at the time the rings were activated which is unaffected when the rings go off.

Or

2.) They were both from the galactic center inside the 3 radii of the rings effective range and were unaffected.

Or

3.) The covenant and humans arnt from this galaxy and just happened to show up somehow after the rigs killed the forerunners and the humans by chance, happened to settle on earth where the ark is, whatever it is... The forerunners are dead and in fact are distinctly alien and we just think they are humans... Mb the monitors see some sort of resemblance in humans to what they think atre reclaimers.

Anyone have any other ideas than...

3.) Time travel. But there are a cpl of problems here...

a.) if you time travel to the past before the forerunners built the rings and change the past you can get a paradox that could destroy the rings. So this one wont work.

b.) if you time travel to the future, there is hope here that it could all fit. Despite the rings being fired 100k yrs ago, it's in fact a billion years in the future because the rings 'time traveled' there... and now everyone has time to evolve.

c.) if the rings are built, then any time jumping creates alternative realities... And now with infinite realities ANYTHING is possible, but that amounts to a weak storyline.

d.) Think Star Trek First Contact. Despite the Earth being assimilated in the past, the Enterprise E was still built and made it to the past along with the Borg ship that started it all. The Enterprise E was unaffected by the timeline change because it was protected in the time warp wake when it traveled to the past or some mumbo jumbo excuse Data came up with.

  • 05.27.2006 7:10 PM PDT