- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GanGreenn
I agree, and believe that the Humans are the forerunners because...
*deep breath*
First, the Halo rings are rigged to mimic exactly the conditions of earth, right down to atmosphere and weather. The structures on Halo are also the right size for humans (doors, etc.). As the thread-starter stated, the Master Chief had a strange instinct that guided him to activate the light bridge and other things.
Zooming ahead, 343 needed a human to activate the rings. In the novel there was actually a rather badassed marine that died in the attempt. As 343 is muttering happily to you in the library, he hints of a previous reclaimer that was similar to the Master Chief, whom actually went through with it the first time the rings were activated ("when you asked me last time, would I do it?" last time? What last time?). The brutes also needed a human to activate Delta Halo.
343 on the Pillar of Autumn says while tapping into the human's database "Finally, to have a record of all of our lost time! Human history is it?"
Now the ark. We know that it is located on earth. The forerunner ship that launched after the remote activation started was heading to earth, and at the end of the game when 343 mentions the ark, the Arbiter asks "and where, Oracle, is that?" It then immediately (as if answering the question) cuts to the Master Chief riding the forerunner ship to earth.
Considering all of these, I have come up with this theory:
The forerunners built the rings to contain and study the flood. When the flood escaped, they were forced to activate them, but spared a few forerunners (humans) in the ark (the one place safe from the rings' destruction) on earth. These remote activated the rings, then, using the stuff preserved in the ark, rebuilt the race on earth. Do you see the symbolism of the Bible? The "Ark" used to escape the "Flood" and so on and so forth. It seems that in the Halo universe, Noah and the Ark originated from the aforementioned theory. The story of Noah and the Ark is a history of ancient humans, not aliens.
One argument is that the humans were a secondary species whose purpose was to be the declaimers, not the forerunners themselves. For the sake of argument, this doesn’t make a lick ‘a since.
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Just to add to this, we probably did'nt keep all this technology because Earth didn't have the resources and types of minerals to support such technology, and being disconected from the rest of the race we were forced to learn everything all over again.