- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think it's possible the Forerunner could still exist. Methinks any surviving Forerunner is in cryo-freeze. Possibly on the Forerunner Ship(which I believe to be the Ark), the Ark(well, we don't know yet, do we?), or on Earth.
If not in cryo-freeze, then it could be possible the Forerunner is existent in another place in the universe or realm. Just like God resides in Heaven. Since the Prophets want to find the Forerunners' means of transcendence, it's likely the structure they found on Earth is a portal to the Great Journey. There's numerous references that the "Great Journey" is a pathway to "heaven" throughout Halo 2. Maybe the Prophets aren't completely lying, if they claim to have interpreted the Forerunner's inscriptions. Perhaps there is a way to reach the Forerunner's realm, at the cost of the former galaxy passing away through activation of Halo(strangely, I thought of this while watching Titanic, as the priest recites prayers on the sloping deck. "No pain, no sorrow, for the former world has passed away").