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*Thx to Kumar, a classmate in my school :)
This will be updated from time to time. These are THEORIES ONLY. Don't blame me.

Part A. Forerunners

i) Forerunners DO exist

"Near the end of Halo 2, 343 Guilty Spark explains that the Forerunners destroyed themselves along with other sentient life within three radii of the galactic center by activating the rings of Halo because of the spreading threat of the flood." From Wikipedia: Forerunners.

Forerunners "destroyed" the flood as well as themselves. Currently flood still exist. So that means the Halo did not do what it suppose to do. So what than, you may ask. That means if Halo cannot achieve what it suppose to do, which is DESTROYING the FLOOD by the way of DESTROYING everything, then the whole statement is not true. That can indicates that THE HALOS FAILED TO DESTROY THE FLOOD, plus THE HALOS FAILED TO DESTROY EVERYTHING, and that can mean Forerunners did not die. There are still some of them. So where are they? Who they are now? These will be discussed later on.

ii) (Some RACES, or) Forerunners CREATED the flood

I know this have been mentioned before, but still I can put some of my opinion on it.
Why Forerunners created the flood then? This is the main point. I suggest that Flood may be a very powerful weapon (Sorry, but this is also my thoughts) to outwipe some races. So what races could possibly be there for them to OUTWIPE then? I do not know. As Wikipedia said that Forerunners are advanced and powerful, why did they need to do this any more? Either this is wrong, or there is another story behind this.

Another suggestion is this. Some races have created the flood, at the time of forerunners. This is to do with their power. As forerunners dominates, others must find a way to stop them. So they created the flood.

No matter what, Forerunners created the thing to stop the flood, and clearly, the flood is getting out of their control. This is why Forerunners are willing to activate the halos to destroy everything. (To be discussed later on.)

Part B. Relationships between Forerunners and other races.

i) Forerunners as Humans
This has been posted for quite a long time already. So read others!

ii) Forerunners as Covenants
Sounds new right? So what's up with Forerunners and Covenants?

"The alien alliance known as "The Covenant" exalts the Forerunners, even considering them demigods, but it is not known whether this is an earnest belief or simply religious propaganda spread by the Covenant's High Prophets. In the novel "Halo: The Flood", it is revealed that the Covenant received much of their technology from the Forerunners. Indeed, the High Prophets, who are part of the alien federation's leader caste, evolved on a planet formerly inhabited by the Forerunners." From Wikipedia: Forerunner

So first point: Covenants, although from the above passage, may indicates that these two are not the same races. But let me tell you a little bit more. An example read from somewhere, forgotten, "If monkeys start fighting each other, will human sit here, just watching, without doing anything?" The case is this, the Forerunners would not like to see the Covenants doing badly, so they decided to give them a hand to let them become advanced.

Second point. Halo: Combat Evolved have given a clue. The building that contain the flood. That building really looks like the Covenant buildings, but containing the flood. Either this building is created by the Covenant, or by the Forerunners (Maybe the original place where they kept the Flood). So this indicates that there are some kind of close relationship between the two races.

Third point. Covenants worship Forerunners. Look at the culture of China, there are loads of people worshipping the ancient people. They have some close relationships. Like father and sons.

iii) Forerunners as Flood
...Sounds stupid? Not really.

"The lifecycle of the Flood begins at Infection form as a small, frail, gas-bloated creature that leaps upon a host and attempts to drive in three barbed tentacles (although the small spores that some Flood are seen to release are also used to infect, as 343 Guilty Spark explains over the din of The Library level in the first game). From here, the host is paralysed and loses consciousness. The infection form gores itself deep into its host, usually in the chest. For a while it plays with its new body, and over time it mutates it by changing hormones and replacing the host's nervous system with its own tentacles. The host is never fed, and is carelessly treated. Often limbs become infected and begin to rot. Vital organs are liquified and the neck is broken. The disused head of the victim eventually falls off. If the host is of suitable size eg. Human or Elite, long whip like tentacles emerge from the arms as weapons. If not of suitable size, then the next stage of mutation occurs early. The body becomes so bloated and rotten that it may no longer be used as a Combat form. Smaller Infection forms grow within the ball of flesh, as it swells with gas and juice. Eventually the Carrier form falls over (or simply gives up) and explodes. Roughly 4-9 infection forms are emitted and continue the cycle." From Wikipedia: The Flood.

So what is indicated here is that the flood can infect lives, and then make that life become a member of flood. Can it possible that some Forerunners get infected by the flood, and exist till now? No one knows.

iv) Forerunners as Forerunners
That means Forerunners ARE Forerunners, without any evolve or relationship with others. This is possible. As I said before Forerunners may survive due to the reason that I typed at the beginning.

Part C. Cortana

The really puzzled part. Cortana is believed to be appeared in the trailer. So someone said that she is not she.

i) Cortana is CORTANA
Cortana is CORTANA. No need to say so much. Cheers!

ii) Cortana is affected by Flood
Seems impossible. Can flood affect A.I.? No one knows. It is certainly not a pleasant guessing, but still possible.

iii) Cortana is affected by Gravemind, or other sorts of powerful creature.
Only powerful creatures can handle Cortana. So Cortana maybe already affected.

Part D. Cortana's transmission

i) I have defied Gods and Demons.

a) Gods as Forerunners, Demons as Flood
Only one word here: Duh.

b) Gods as some races, Demons as HUMAN
Sounds weird right?
Remember. Cortana is not a Human, so she has the right to say that DEMONS as HUMAN.
Why Human is demons then? They are greedy, things like that. They are trying to stop Covenant, which is trying to stop the flood. Demons? Yes.
Many truth depends on which point of view you are taking.

c) Gods and Demons are suns and stars.
You can consider them as a weird thing. Nothing more to say. Can be applied in any situation.

ii) I am your shield, I am your sword.
Kumar told me these are the words happened in the Fantasy, saying that they are willing to serve someone, protect someone, and fight for them. Thx.

a) Cortana is BACK!!!
I am your shield, I am your sword. Trying to serve MasterChief then? That may indicates she is BACK!!! HURRAY!

b) Cortana is changed, but willing to serve MC
Something weird must have happened. Maybe that one who affected Cortana needs MC's help to do something strange. Sounds weird anyway.

c) Cortana reproclaimed which side she is helping
Duh. This is one of the possibility.

iii) I know you. Your past. Your future.

Weird. FUTURE? No one knows about the future.

a) Cortana knows the destiny is certain
As I have said in previous posts, they will die. DEATH OF EVERYTHING IS THE MOST POSSIBLE IF THE DESTINY IS CERTAIN.

b) Cortana refers "FUTURE" as things that Gravemind is going to do.
As she is captured, she may know what is going on in Gravemind's mind. So she knows that they are planning to attack, and whatsoever. So what happened is Cortana told MC about his "FUTURE".

c) More to type later on.

More to type later on.

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  • 07.07.2006 2:17 AM PDT
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Pointless much?

  • 07.07.2006 2:26 AM PDT

To the topic creator - fix your -blam!- sig.

  • 07.07.2006 2:47 AM PDT