- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Ok, after you kill all the boarders at Cairo Station, the ship In Amber Clad takes you to New Mombasa, a city in Africa which was the only spot that the Covenant wanted to land at. In the Halo 3 trailer, it is revealed that near New Mombasa is the location of a huge structure that is Forerunner in origin. The Forerunner were talked about in Halo 1, but briefly. This species created the Halos, the Ark, Sentinels, Monitors, and the like. The Forerunners activated the Halos because of the Flood. All or most of them died. Some people believe that the Forerunners are humans because the Forerunner object in the Halo 3 trailer appears to be the "Ark" which will fire all halos at once. The object in the Halo 3 trailer is close to New Mombasa, which is also very close to the Great Rift Valley, where it is supposed (in reality) that humanity originated, hence the "humans are forerunner" theory...some believe that the survivors of the Halo firing were present in the Ark and reproduced, and the Ark and all technology was used up and forgotten.