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Subject: More speculation about the Forerunner...

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Obviously, everyone has their own views on the Halo Universe. I too have mine. I am just wondering if any of these ideas make sense to any of you.

Okay, we all know that people believe that Forerunner=Humans. But I have a slightly different idea in mind. Suppose, for one instant, that Forerunners are not neccessarily human. I belive that the Forerunner were instead a collective of many alien races. The reasoning I hold is thus:

343 never refers to John as "Forerunner." He instead uses the term "Reclaimer," which I believe is the name for the (ancient) human race. I think that the Forerunner were much like the Covenant: a group of several different alien races which all hold similar religious (or other) beliefs. Possibly, the ancient Covenant and Humans (and others, perhaps) could have been united in a democracy, the society and civilization that "paved the way" for the future and benefit of all races. This society may have been called the Forerunner.

Any other ideas?

  • 05.29.2006 7:31 PM PDT

Halo CE......(sigh) the good ol' days......

“Go, stranger, and to Lacedaemon tell that here, obeying her behests, we fell.”

hmmm maybe, its entirely possible, but then again there is no real proof of it....

  • 05.29.2006 7:33 PM PDT

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Hey, it's speculation, one of society's foundations of belief.

  • 05.29.2006 7:34 PM PDT
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Maybe. No proof, but possibly. Just one question: why didn't the Prophets know about the Forerunners until they were fighting the Elites?
Prophets and Elites were at war, prophets found evidence of Forerunner "great journey", founded the Covenenant with the Elites.
Watch the bonus DVD in the H2 Limited Edition.
You could be right about a collective forerunner civilization though...

  • 05.29.2006 7:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: Rakdos
Just one question: why didn't the Prophets know about the Forerunners until they were fighting the Elites?


The Forerunner were obviously destroyed (maybe not entirely, though) after the first activation of the rings. Perhaps the history of the Forerunner was lost with age. Then again, this is all open to ideas, and all of this is just a hypothesis with no supporting information at the moment.

  • 05.29.2006 7:43 PM PDT
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Eh?

Yes...but if someone called you a reclaimer...it makes much more sense thinking that you are "reclaiming" something, something that may have at one point been yours, or someone else's of your family/race or whatever.

  • 05.29.2006 7:49 PM PDT
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""Reclaimer," which I believe is the name for the (ancient) human race"

this is the kind of ignorance that i mention in my thread. reclaimer, just like forerunner, are generic descriptive terms. you don't call a dog a dog because it 'dogs'. forerunner, reclaimer, those are names of ROLES. roles that could be filled by different beings.
"Reclaimer" is the current role of humans. That's pretty freakin obvious.

  • 05.29.2006 8:05 PM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

cortana calls the forerunners forerunners though. that's what they're officially called. whether it is a role is the plot not their name.
you may be right about reclaimers

  • 05.30.2006 7:45 AM PDT