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Posted by: MoodKill
I think the forerunners planted bacturia (crap I can't spell) on earth knowing that we would evolve from it and they did it so we would provide a basic defence for the arc.

A quick timescale for you all, 100,000 years is how long it took us to develop our face structure, not enought time to do some serious evolving.

That is of course, normal evolution ;)

  • 06.13.2006 2:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spike12
About the whole Covenant part,I wouldn't be suprised if the Covenant formed in a different galaxy, then migrated to our own.

As far as we have seen the Covenant do not have the technology for Inter-Galactic travel. Remember the Prophets lived on a world that used to be a Forerunner planet, so they both come from the same Galaxy.

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Everyone's all saying the Ark is on Earth. Is it possible the Ark IS Earth? As it was stated in a theory a few posts above, Earth could have been uninfected by the flood. Since there's no flood, life is safe on Earth, and the "forerunners" left behind their technolical devices in remote desolate places that future life would not expect to look in such places, if the situation ever arose; such as Africa, and maybe even Antarctica or such ( only hypothesis ), which would send the chief in different locations on Earth to uncover more answers and deliver a twist in the plot?

  • 06.13.2006 2:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: GEO14
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Or maybe the reclaimers are known as the Spartans, maybe we are the Forerunners, or mabye we aren't.


the spartans r just regular humans, just modified in ways.

The Spartans were selected using Genetic profiling (or something like that). The short of it is, that they have groovy genes, and would have been remarkable individuals anyway.

However, also remember that Miranda Keyes is also given the title 'Reclaimer'


Yea, which would go back to my theory that we were allies of the Forerunners.

If the Forerunners had the technology to save themselves from the Halo network, then where are they now? Why give this technology to their allies and not themselves.
This is assuming that the Forerunners invented this technology.
The Forerunners could also have used this technology, and then gone off to a different part of the Galaxy (possibly Universe), but if we were allies, then why have the Covenant or us not found any remnants or our Empire?
Or maybe they have? If we were indeed allies then our cultures would have become similar indeed, especially over the years and years the battle with the Flood took.

[Edited on 6/13/2006]

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wow why do you noobs keep saying that the ark is the device that kills all sentient life? The ark is an installation that can remote detonate the Halos in case of an emergency, miss-firing, etc. Its not the device that sends out the nice little blue wave of death, thats the Halos. Get it right.

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Posted by: Gunmetal84
Everyone's all saying the Ark is on Earth. Is it possible the Ark IS Earth? As it was stated in a theory a few posts above, Earth could have been uninfected by the flood. Since there's no flood, life is safe on Earth, and the "forerunners" left behind their technolical devices in remote desolate places that future life would not expect to look in such places, if the situation ever arose; such as Africa, and maybe even Antarctica or such ( only hypothesis ), which would send the chief in different locations on Earth to uncover more answers and deliver a twist in the plot?

Interesting, leaving technologyin places where life is unlikely to develop, and therefore look for it.
They would have needed to take into account Climate change, otherwise their ice-cap couls suddenly turn into a sub-tropical island :)

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By Azra
wow why do you noobs keep saying that the ark is the device that kills all sentient life? The ark is an installation that can remote detonate the Halos in case of an emergency, miss-firing, etc. Its not the device that sends out the nice little blue wave of death, thats the Halos. Get it right.

Is the Ark confined to simply correcting a mis-fire?

(I'm inclined to believe that it is, and cannot remotely activate the Halo network from scratch. I'm just asking tho :) )

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Posted by: GEO14
Ok, bottomline, the Forerunners aren't humans, because if we were, then the monitor would have straight out called us the Forerunners, rather then "reclaimers", which would probably mean that we were once allies to the Forerunners, because when Halo activated, we are the only race that survived, cause all the Halo rings can only be activated by the Ark, which is on Earth, it would make sense that the Ark killed everything in the Galaxy, except Earth, because the Ark was activated from there.Which would mean that anyone who is on Earth, is safe from the activation, which is why the Covenant only want to conquer Earth, not destroy it.Or maybe the reclaimers are known as the Spartans, maybe we are the Forerunners, or mabye we aren't.


Your last 9 words sum it up best.

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But I don't wanna :'(

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Cause the spartans are just humans read the first halo novel now its possible that the forrunners looked like spartans but then again that would mean he would call them forrunners

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The life and world you see is just a cheery toped and sugar coated version. You know nothing of Hell. Unknown to you and everyone around you is that there is a war going on that you can't see. Now that you know, you are part of it. And if you are going to survive, your going to need to learn to pull the trigger.

sorry, but i didn't read it.

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Not true. what about the ark? Thats one freaking huge piece of evidence that just happened to be on earths back doorstep. if thats not enough evidence for u then youre pretty hard to conveince. as for not remembering humans probably dont remember because humans could have been descendants of forerunners who were left here on earth to look after the ark and after decades of no use it could have been abandoned and the knowledge could have been lost to the ages.

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Posted by: Guscon
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wow why do you noobs keep saying that the ark is the device that kills all sentient life? The ark is an installation that can remote detonate the Halos in case of an emergency, miss-firing, etc. Its not the device that sends out the nice little blue wave of death, thats the Halos. Get it right.

Is the Ark confined to simply correcting a mis-fire?

(I'm inclined to believe that it is, and cannot remotely activate the Halo network from scratch. I'm just asking tho :) )


Uh I'm not sure. I no for a fact that it is the place for a remote detonation (ie: not putting the index into the control room comp) incase of a mis-fire (ie the end of halo where miranda pulled the key out right before it fired). I'm leaning towards that it isn't just confined for a misfire. I think this becuase of some theorys floating around, basically that were (humans) are somehow connected to the forerunners even if we are just living around their technology. I believe that the ark is a safe haven of sorts to remote detonate all of the halos without it affecting those people inside the ark.

But anyway, it is atleast a place to remote detonation incase of a misfire or some sort of problem, becaue remember at the end of halo 2, miranda pulled the key out, halo didn't fire, and then gulity spark dude, was like, "oh the halos are communicating at super light speed, becuase of a firing malfunction, and then the arbiters like what are they doing, and gs is like getting ready for remote detonation form the ark, and then johnson or someone is like where is the ark, and then gs is like u dumbass where u think? and then mc floats on the forerunner ship to earth right after that (coincidence?) + we learn 99% in the trailer that the structure is the ark and that it is for a fact on earth.

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This is old but hey...
According to a cross reference of the book and the movie in "Two Betrayals" 343 states that Masterchief once activated halo before. That is true. But I believe that Guilty Spark mistook him for another person. After all the person who activated halo would obviously have been killed... :(

Oh by the way, Halo does not kill everything in the galaxy/universe, only within a certain limit. Listen to Guilty Spark. He says stuff like "it destroys all sentient life within blah-blah radius.

So we know the forerunners could still be on earth either way... but the covenant would not have died because they came across Halo just as a surprise as Keyes did. It was a coincidental find. Truth talks about it in his little movies. "For years we had searched for such a ring... but then it was destroyed." obviously explains that he never knew where it was to start. So the covenant couldn't have been destroyed by it in the past...

First Strike gave very vague details about the creation of Halo. It had something to do with the caves and crystal of reach. They were similair, Halo and those caves, and to me it proved that the creators of Halo lived on reach. In a time of need Halo could have been activated from earth (the ark, by now all of us know it) in a time of need. Who knows what would have happened. But the covenant were a brand-spanking new threat in Fall of Reach so they didn't worry humans or forerunners.

If it apears ive rambled, I have. If anyone finds any decent info from this, congratulations. My ideas are strange but dont criticize them please...

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Posted by: Guscon
Posted by: GEO14
Posted by: Guscon
Posted by: WINCHESTER
Posted by: GEO14
Or maybe the reclaimers are known as the Spartans, maybe we are the Forerunners, or mabye we aren't.


the spartans r just regular humans, just modified in ways.

The Spartans were selected using Genetic profiling (or something like that). The short of it is, that they have groovy genes, and would have been remarkable individuals anyway.

However, also remember that Miranda Keyes is also given the title 'Reclaimer'


Yea, which would go back to my theory that we were allies of the Forerunners.

If the Forerunners had the technology to save themselves from the Halo network, then where are they now? Why give this technology to their allies and not themselves.
This is assuming that the Forerunners invented this technology.
The Forerunners could also have used this technology, and then gone off to a different part of the Galaxy (possibly Universe), but if we were allies, then why have the Covenant or us not found any remnants or our Empire?
Or maybe they have? If we were indeed allies then our cultures would have become similar indeed, especially over the years and years the battle with the Flood took.


Maybe they were under attack from flood and wanted to make sure they couldn't multiply. I dunno just a guess. They became desparate and activated halo...

  • 06.13.2006 3:56 PM PDT

I put on pants for this?

i dont think anyone said this yet but maybe the ancestors of humans were a race selected by the forerunners to reclaim the index hence any A.I.s still existing from that timewould recognize humans by the name the forerunners gave us. also, since the reclaimers would have to go thru peril to reach the index they created an armor system for us to protect us. the humans in present day halo might have found the plans for one of the lower models and took the shield plans from the covenant which also came from the forerunners. this could be a theory all by itself, please leave comments.

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