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I have a theory.... this is how it ends:
At the end of it all I see (enter Cutscene) Cortana coming out of the structure’s computer… finally free from GM and stopping MC and Arbiter just in the nick of time… Again. She explains to them that GM had been trying to get them to activate the rings all along, that he was actually the Forerunner who created the flood, a sort of mad-scientist who sought to make himself immortal. But obviously his plan backfired, the flood were created and in the end he got his wish, but destroyed all that he loved in the act and became one of his own creations. But then Cortana flickers, at first the thought nothing of it and continued to listen as she told of how GM wanted to destroy all life and again become the most powerful being in the galaxy. But something was wrong, things didn’t add up. Why would an immortal being go to so much trouble to stop them from starting the rings on Delta Halo without the proper keys, then make them retrieve the keys and take them to the Ark on Earth only to go and set off the rings anyway? Then he heard GM in his head saying that Cortana was lying, that she was corrupt. But what did GM mean by Corrupt? And then he knew. Cortana was rampant, she was now over (7 years?) old. In that instant MC looked at the Arbiter and knew that GM had whispered to him too. As one they activated the two crystals (requires and elite and a Reclaimer, the Arbiter being directly descended from the Forerunners and the “Reclaimers” being their servants and powerful allies of old.) The Rings activate and perform their true duty, the thing they were actually made for, to destroy the flood. Over the thousands of years they were active the monitors had become corrupted in such a way that the ones that didn’t simply shut down decided that their masters, the forerunners and Reclaimers, had meant for the rings to destroy all life. But GM knew for after realizing what he had done he had sought repentance by helping to Create the rings. Shortly before they were activated he was consumed by the flood and the Forerunners, not knowing any better, not realizing they needed the two indexes activated the rings from the Ark on earth and sealed the fate of their entire race. But GM, foreseeing the self-inflicted demise was able to harvest DNA from both the Reclaimers, the Forerunners, and Several other intelligent life forms and spread them on many planets after the rings were set off. Meanwhile the Forerunners, thinking they had been betrayed by Gravemind, blamed themselves for being so foolish and in the pits of despair drank poison. The Reclaimers however, fought on againsht the flood, and the last with his dying breath, locked the flood into the bowels of Alpha Halo, Until that fateful day when the forerunner’s progeny released them and set into motion the events of Halo
the whole theory is linked below.
[Edited on 6/20/2006]