- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Okay. I will make this abit more fluent and coherant tomorrow as I am abit tired.
After just reading the Cortana letters and some general around reading I thought of an explantation to it all.
(I am taking the cortana letters to be relevant as the Halo bible was already written when these were sent out so the outcome was already known)
Okay, here we go.
The letters frequently speak of an "unending chain" supposing a beggining and an end that subsequently starts off that chain again. This is why I believe that Halo has the ability to revert all sentient (free thinking) creatures back to their roots so that there would be no knowledge of what has occured or that time is simply repeating itself.
The only evidence we have about Halo come from machines. Objects that (if taken that Halo only damages sentient beings) would survive what Halo causes. They speak of the flood originally. We are led to believe that Halo didnt call all of them off and that this is still part of the same cycle. What I am proposing though is that The flood were destroyed by halo. Everything died, bar all AI. So for AI it would be just the universe continuing but for humanity and all other free thinking creatures it would be the start of life all over again.
This happens again and again, in hope that an alternate method would be reached to try and stop the flood that would not result in the restarting of time.
As for Cortana, What always seemed interesting to me was herline on high charity "For a covernant construct it is unussualy formidable". Suppose that this infirnet regress takes place for humanity but not for AI. Suppose that this AI she came up against was the Cortana from the past cycle. IN her letter Cortana mentions that she is "trapped with another entity" I believe that to be another AI as she refers to it as been "in the system". I believe that the Cortana eventually overcomes this past cortana that is more powerful and then so becomes the new cortana. Doomed to live in highcharity.
The forunner artifacts found are simly evidence of the last civilization.
The war between the covenant and the humans takes place in every cycle accept the first. The first cycle was simply one race. The forerunners and the flood. And as the cycle begins again this gives more chance for different speicies in hope that they can discover another means of destroying the flood.
More to come at a later date when I am more awake. Feel free to comment now but hold your flames till I can put it better ^^
[Edited on 6/1/2006]