- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Forerunners are dead..no one can survive in a room a few miles wide for a hundred thousand years. Don't even say "But there can be a Halo under Earth!!11". No there can't.
I think we will see what we used to look like from some monitor in the Ark...or maybe just a flashback of the Ark's Monitor explaining to us who the Forerunners were..his voice would be come a voice over as some of the struggles are revealded..
5th novel? It's the 4th.
But what if the Forrunners never died off? What if they are humans? It is very possible since all sentient life in the galaxy was destroyed besides the inhabitants within the Halo rings. They could have taken off in their last ship to an alien world where they could start over.
Startin over in a new world would make it extremely difficult to continue the history of your race. OR, maybe the forrunner didn't want to keep the history of their own race, and in doing so- the humans (formaly forrunner) have no idea of their true origins. Instead, one of the forrunner could have stated they are the son of God, and given their race on a new world a new set of rules to start completely over. This could explain revelations (assuming the bible and what-not exists in the Halo universe) being correct as the future progresses into history.
OR MAYBE
Only one installation actually fired loooong ago, and the other installations didn't fire because the controllers (other 343 guilty sparks) prime objective was keeping their creators alive, so when they got the order to fire, the order didn't make sense, making them choose between their first rule of life - or a strange new order.