- DonVinzone1
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I was thinking about this whole Saul story yesterday, and about how it could be connected in someway to the Ark. It might be wrong (most likely hehehe xD), but I dont really care.
Ok, so if I am right, what we said about Saul comes down to the following:
The story of the Arbiter is a sci-fi version of a Biblical story. In the Bible, you had the leaders of the Jews. They saw the new Christian religion as a thread to theirs. We know what they did to Jesus for that. But, after Jesus' death, they send a man named Saul to find and stop the Christians. Saul was then converted by God to be a christian.
In Halo terms this is:
The Prophets came to know the Humans. They saw them as a thread to their religion. In an attempt to kill an important human "leader" (MC) they send an Arbiter to kill him. BUT, this Arbiter was converted and saw the mistakes of his previous believes.
Now, expanding on this.
Christianity and the Jewish believes come from one same believe (Jewish). They are both originally the same people, all ascendants from Adam and Eve.
Somewhere in time, there was the Great Flood. It killed all live on Earth. But God had made sure that of all species 2 would survive in the Ark. After that, ist took hundreds of years before the new people would split up.
In Halo terms:
Humanity and Covenant have different believes. The can be ascendants from the same ancestors: The Forerunner. Somewhere in the past of the Halo Universe, there had been a break-out of The Flood. It killed all sentient live in the galaxy, except for some survivers who sought shelter in the Ark. After that, they split and evolved into different groups, who came to hate each other.
Role of Gravemind.
In the Bible, God uses the Great Flood to clean the Earth of all that disobeyed his commandements. (Hinduism also speaks of a Great Flood, and a boat that saved some of the people/gods)
Now, Gravemind is "a monument to all our sins" right? The sins refer to the disobeying of the religion of the Forerunner. Both Covenant and Human stepped away from it (Covenant now do not know the true purpose of the Rings anymore, and the Humans forgot about them fully). There has been a great Flood once cleaning the galaxy, followed by the activation of the Halos to stop the Flood (from destroying everything???) If this is right, than I draw the following conclusion.
the Forerunner had an original religion. Somewhere they, or any other species did something that was against their religion. This refers to the sins. It possibly (most likely) had something to do with the Flood. Anyways, it was followed by the Flood breaking out, and eventually by it consuming most of the sentient live, before being stopped by the devine powers of the Halos.
After that, some survived in the Ark (probably on Earth)
What does this mean? Simply that if you devy the powers of the Halo's and Forerunners. If you dont believe their real purpose; a Flood will come to clean the Galaxy of your ignorence. This flood is lead by something that resembles the punishment for your ignorence. And it comes in the shape of Gravemind leading the Flood.
And the Ark? It is most likely a save haven on Earth. The only place in the Galaxy that saves you from the wrath of the Forerunner (who see themselfs as Gods maybe???)
I know this theory leaves much to answer, and it isnt complete at many points. But I think it is interesting at some points. Altough it might be completely wrong, who knows.