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We can all agree that the forerunners were a by far a more superior race then both the humans and covenant.
The covenant have adapted forerunner technology to there own, but seem to have little of there own technical advances. They seem to be a small amount more technologically advanced then the humans, but only in adapting forerunner technology have they been able to do this.
The rings that the forerunners built are epic in size and are spread throughout the galaxy. Not only could nether the humans or covenant have built such large and "operational" tools, and if they could, how would they have gotten them spread apart so far? Did the Forerunners drag them to there locations? Think of how much time that would have taken. Pull them through slip space maybe? Perhaps, but that is also something I doubt ether the humans or covies could do or the covenant would have tried already after the destruction of the first ring. Maybe each ring has its own propulsion system, that part of the story has not yet been shown us. However, the simple fact that these rings are so large and so spaced apart is a good sign that they (the forerunners) are/were much more advanced then either of the two species that we know.
That established these are some of my thoughts on the forerunners, some things that I have theorized over the last few weeks, (and to the large number of you that have PMed me saying your still waiting this is a portion of what I have come to believe, and thank you my finger is feeling much better haha)
We have to ask why the forerunners went to such extremes to sanitize the galaxy, and why they made the flood in the first place. This advanced civilization made a parasite, a virus we'll say for what reason? We don’t know. What we do know is that they built the rings to sanitize the flood. So my question is this, why make a parasite in the first place? For war? Was there another civilization the forerunners where trying to wipe out? Or was it a way for the forerunners to be more efficient on the battle field? Could they have done this to themselves so that even after death they continued the fight? We don’t yet know. Could it have been a mistake, scientist working on something in a lab and there was an outbreak? That could have been a possibility too.
For whatever reason they built it (the flood), for some reason they decided that it was more important to destroy all life in the galaxy then to let the flood spread. This seems like an extremely desperate attempt; however the rings seem to lead us to think that the forerunners had lots of time and man power to build the Halos. If the Halos are only for wiping the galaxy clean of sentient life, then this seems unlikely a last resort attempt to win a battle doesn’t it? And how would that be winning a battle if all lives were lost? The Forerunners knew that "some day" a civilization (in our case, only the humans) would come across the rings, seen as its only humans that can activate them.
How could they have known this? That in some time in the distant future humans may need to activate the rings again?
I’m a gunna go coma cozy on you guys now.
What if, this ark that the forerunners built is not a ship, but a time machine? From the novels we know that the forerunners had crystals that would warp time, the humans found this to be true while in slip space with one of the crystals. What if the forerunners could control this ability to some extent, and did not die or get wiped out when the halos were activated the last time? What if they are somewhere else in time? GS tells the chief "Last time you asked me if I thought it was a good idea, my answer was yes, having considerable time to ponder your question, my answer has not changed." (Conversation to the MC on activating Halo - H:ce ) or along those lines... is it possible that when the MC gets to the arc that he travels back? This theory might even be agreed by those who see the similarities between the arc and the flood, and the ark and the flood theories. The arc being what actually "saved" this civilization, the forerunners.
This theory would also set the stage for Kelly to return in H3 or perhaps in a later novel.
This would also explain why Dr.H stole Kelly in the first place, if she knew the secrets to Halo, she would know what needed to be done to ensure the humans survived. We have to assume that Dr.H was briefed by Cortana on the files she took from Halo. This would also explain why Cortona knows that "this is the way the world ends" and says, she knows the chiefs future, "I know your past, I know your future," in the trailer.
So is it possible that the forerunners traveled back in time (to start over) trying to escape the flood only to die out at a later time, (but before we came along), or did the forerunners simply forget over time and we are their descendants? Could this war between the humans and covenant be the same war the Forerunners were fighting, the reason they built the flood…discuss.
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