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Subject: Forerunners (again)
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Ok everyone has their own theory on the forerunners and mine is probably the same as a few others. I think the humans are forerunners. They designed the Halo rings to destroy that flood. I think thats why it seems only then can activate them. (Tartarus makes Miranda activate one and Guilty Spark tries to get the Master Chief do another) Also Guilty Spark says "why would you not do what you have already done" , some people take this literally as meaning MC but I think he means "you" in a very general sense meaning humans.
Also he is called a Reclaimer , and a Reclaimer is sort machine that sorts things that you want from what you don't so perhaps it could mean he sorts the floor from the humans (who built the Ark to protect themselves.
Another reason is what Guilty Spark says when Cortona tells MC what the rings really do which was something like "but you knew all that" I think he meant that because he was a human he would know what the rings did seeing as he built them.

Any comments would be appreciated.

  • 06.28.2006 9:51 AM PDT
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oooooo, another forerunner thread :-)

yeah, humans are pretty much descendants

if only we can figure out where the flood comes from

  • 06.28.2006 9:52 AM PDT

I'm blue da ba di da ba dai!

He said you knew that cause MC was helping GS containing the outbreak.

  • 06.28.2006 9:54 AM PDT
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I reckon the flood are an accident when humans tried to improve themselves e.g extended life etc.
I mean the flood are sort of human and they did live longer so experiment gone wrong?

  • 06.28.2006 9:56 AM PDT
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Hah, the Covenant worship Forerunners , Forerunners = Human, Covenant worship Humans? Covenant slaughter humans! How unfair! I reckon MC is gonna be a decedent of a forerunner king or something and when he takes off his helmet, Truth recognises him from depictions of thing and starts kissing his shiny shoes.

  • 06.28.2006 10:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ye Olde Knight
Hah, the Covenant worship Forerunners , Forerunners = Human, Covenant worship Humans? Covenant slaughter humans! How unfair! I reckon MC is gonna be a decedent of a forerunner king or something and when he takes off his helmet, Truth recognises him from depictions of thing and starts kissing his shiny shoes.


The Covenant slay the humans because of the way they inhabited various forerunner worlds. ie, reach. The covenant do not realize that humans are decendnts of the forerunners. They kill us because we inhbited worlds previously inhabited by the forerunners. We "desecrated" the worlds, so the covie bastards want to kill us for revenge.

  • 06.28.2006 11:05 AM PDT
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Surely the Covenant would realise? Or perhaps they don't really BELIEVE and Truth KNOWS what he is doing , right down to the last detail.

  • 06.28.2006 11:12 AM PDT
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its a good idea, but i dont think that the humans were the forrunners.
why? Because if the humans activated the ring, there wouldnt be any humans left.
they would all be dead.

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I also think Humans are Forunners because that building in the Teaser was the Ark and the Ark is on earth so that's why I think so.

  • 06.28.2006 9:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
if only we can figure out where the flood comes from


They were first discovered on Threshold.

I think thats why it seems only then can activate them

Humans can activate the Halos becuase the Forerunner choose them as Reclaimers.

why would you not do what you have already done"

He is talking about John. John has already activated Halo, but the activation was stopped by Cortana. 343 is asking why the Master Chief will not activate Halo now when he did a minute or so before.

but you knew all that

The Forerunner believed that the race they choose to reclaim the rings would know about there function. They were wrong.

[Edited on 6/28/2006]

  • 06.28.2006 9:02 PM PDT