- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Let me just start off saying that I know there are very VERY many fan-based theories out there about who or what the Forerunners are. My theory hasn't had much thought put into it and it's more just coming to me as I go, I am also going on what i remember from the Halo games and books. I hope you take the time to read it, post on it, blow it to bits, whatever you want.
You might think it is stupid but could the Flood be the Forerunners? Maybe the sentinals and 343 GS aren't linked to the Forerunners in a good way at all. Think about the Humans and the Covenant, they have been waging war for some time now and it seems that they are somewhat of a perfect match for fighting all in all. Now if you look at the Flood and the Sentinals, they are a pretty good match all in all. Maybe the flood have evolved to jump so high as a way to combat the flying capabilities of Sentinals. Also maybe the flood not really having areas of residence like you would think something like Forerunners would have is because the Sentinals have captured them hence why the flood are in holding cells. Covenant, being primative at the time, somehow picked up strange radio signals or computer languages, on primative computers or radios, the Sentinals were broad-casting out through the reaches of space to reach maybe now their machine driven homeworld. The Ark could have been somehow built by Forerunners/Flood as a way of preserving the only food that the Halo's could not reach. Which brings me to the Halo's. We have all thought that flood are bad and the only way to really destroy them is to activate the Halo's and destroy every living thing including humanity. What if the flood really aren't bad and they really aren't stupid, maybe just confused. Confused and thinking that us Humans and Covenant in our battle armours look very robotic and Sentinal like to the ever natural living Forerunners/Flood. Now speaking of the floods intelligence has lead me to think of Gravemind. Gravemind I believe as well as many others, is the leader of the flood and knows all about the devious lies of the so called "Oracle" 343 GS. From my understanding and relating to my theory Gravemind is the almighty captured leader of the Forerunners/Flood. After many years of listening to the Sentinals lie to the covenant, he finally has three major components of the war to listen to him for a change, Master Chief (Human) Arbiter (Covenant) and Cortana (Machine/A.I.). What a lucky find for Gravemind... Or was it so lucky? He seems to have randomly picked MC great potential power over humanity, an Arbiter also great potential power over the covenant, and he has Cortana so far known as the most "smart" A.I. in the universe. Gravemind gathering these specific three all into a group seems to have resulted in him having great intelligence and hearing! in knowing of these three and their potential powers. He would now proceed into telling them the truth about who is who in this war. Saying all of this however has made me think about the idea of the Ark having to be something more than a way of just "preserving food" for themselves. Any ideas on that relating to my theory would be nice to hear. Oh and i don't know if anyone will link this but the Sentinals have noticed the total religious beliefs of the Covenant and are using their naive thoughts on the concept to activate the Halo's and destroy all living things known to them.
Before you start posting and you still think the flood are bad and are out to just consume. Think about the theory of maybe a form of parasitic life known as the Flood (Forerunners) have evolved past all odds and beat out the evolutions of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and all other classes of animals, and have risen up dominant as we humans/mammals have over our forms of bacteria today. This is my theory on the whole shroud of mystery known as The Halo Universe. Again I encourage any sort of feedback you may have whether it be good or bad. Hope you enjoyed my thoughts! Remember, always root for the under-dog!