- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Alright, I’m back. I want to thank several of you for your thoughts and adding to this already existing theory.
I understand that some of you have not read the books, and that’s fine. However the books are kind of like the filling that binds the story together in a way so I suggest you read them, there great if you love the story. I think that Bungie could add parts to there story that don’t necessarily make since to those who don’t know the "whole" story. This doesn’t mean that H3 wont make any sense, I’m sure Bungie will do it in a way (probably in cinematic movies within the game to explain much of what I have wrote.
Some of you are wondering how this is possible, the in's and outs of why they did it, why the Forerunners did what they did and there reasoning. And for the purpose of not making my theory run on for hours I summarized it the best I could. As someone wrote after my opening post, there are other parts of the story (from the games) that would fit very nicely with my theory.
However, most of you that disagree on the time travel thought, here is a rough time line of what could have happened and what is a likely plot.
The Forerunners built the flood for whatever reason, they may have even encountered the flood although the flood does seem like a virus because it seem unlikely that the flood have produced them selves or even evolved from something else. (I will point out that when we first encounter the flood on Halo, it is nether human or covenant, the first flood there must be descendents of something, or someone else right, the ones that were saved for study, the "mistake" as GS refers to them...just something else to ponder though.)
-100000 years ago there is a crisis in the galaxy.
-For whatever reason the flood get out of control
-The Forerunners build the halos and an arc
-As a last resort the forerunners activate the rings and wipe out the galaxy
-Not having sufficient food to survive on there own, the flood die out and the galaxy is void of life. The flood has no hosts to infect and they die out.
-The arc, which could be a time traveling ship, goes back into the past makes a few stops and crashes.
This is the part of the timeline that we don’t yet know what exactly happened.
We will call this time line B
The universe is devoid of life at this point. All that is left are the halos and unanswered questions.
Back to the timeline. We will call this one time line A
-The Forerunners land/crash in the past, 100000 years ago and for whatever reason do not have the means to time travel again; they do not have the means to leave wherever they went (which is in our area, what would become our colonies). They use what they can and live in our time (accept 100000 years ago) and slowly evolve into what we are now. They forget what happened, they evolve over time but not for the best, but are a more primitive species without their technology. This would make for what seemed to be an advanced civilization being here on earth in an early stage of our existence, an Atlantis like civilization that slowly forgets where they are from or from what time. (which is the future)
-The arc, which is still on earth, is buried, not by the forerunners but perhaps partially from a crash landing or by natural disaster, and is also forgotten. Think of the Atlantis story...a city with an advanced civilization that somehow disappears bla bla bla.
Think of time line A and B as two totally separate time lines, because that’s what would happen if one were to travel back in time right? The place/time in which the persons left from, say in the year 100000, that place would continue in that time and the persons that left and went back to the year 0 would be in a totally different place, and who knows how that effected the time line in the future.
We have the first time line that we have never seen, the future time line that the forerunners traveled from.
And we have a new time line created when the forerunners make once traveling back into the past. 100000 years go by and here we are with the MC. The reclamer. (Yes I understand all humans are "reclamers") He is the one that is to "reclame" what the Forerunners lost, he has the means to make things right (and do what the forerunners had planned to do), because he has the ability to get the lost keys. (the crystals that for some reason got spread out within the human colonies. Again, perhaps the Arc made several stops before crashing on earth and the keys were separated.) Now that the MC can activate the arc, he has the ability to travel back to the future after the flood died out, or starved them self’s out. It doesn’t matter that he is going to activate the rings, because the rings have already been activated in the future and he’s going past the point of where the Forerunners left from, a time where the flood is all gone and there are no other species.
So in the end, now I’m guessing Bungies ending will be epic, The MC will have the choice. He can stay in this time activate the rings and travel back to the future where there is no longer a threat. Or activate the rings and kill everything including himself (which would mean no life left in ether time line unfortunately…very sad.)
Personally, I would like to see the MC, Kelly and the Arbiter (and maybe his chosen one who knows) get on the arc and go to the future, that leaves us with a descent ending. That would also explain why GM said the journey would make them brothers.
Thoughts?
[Edited on 6/2/2006]