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could the forrunner be just a big lie. what if they aren't the guys who protected the universe form the flood. I was wondering is it possible that the Flood built the halos. It just occured to me while eating lunch, why did the forrunner build something that killed everything BUT the flood? They are still alive and kicking, so i was wondering what if the forrunner were the bad guys. They were liek the covvies takign over the universe at a time. but the flood used to be a proper alien race, but then turned into parasites just to survive the onslaught of the forrunner. They saw a halo built by the forrunner for some other purpose, and then somehow manipulated the forrunner to think that the flood had to be killed only by starving them. Thus the halos would kill everything, apart form the flood for a while. If this theory si correct, then it means that halo is a weapon, a weapon fro the flood to kill everything and then starve themselves out. I think that gravemind has a aprt in this too.. He seems smart enough to manipulate the arbiter and chief and lie. he says in halo 2
"this ring will make us brothers" brothers as in, flood, he was intending on taking high charity right? if he was made of enemies, there must be some forerunner, thus meaning he had info on foreunner ships..possibly. Grab the ship on high charity and take off to the ark and activate all the Halos again..? THIS IS JUST A THEORY, yet to be proven so i'm gonna go get soem evidence, meanwhile Discuss.
PART 2
After many a discussion with my freidns on bungie.net forums i have come to a new conclusion:
The forrunner were an onlslaught like the coveneant, then the flood stepped in, they abolished the forunner slowly, the forunner were then forced to stop them, they faught and faught till the flood became so scarce they evolved into a parasite. Showing no mercy the flood manipulated the forrunner to mould there already made prison made "halo" which was used to hold rampant forrunner, to hold the flood, while they figured a way to kill them. This was the part wen GS343 said "after finiding all other methods had failed" or something liek that they activated the halos, but what i think happened is..:
-The flood knew they coudl survive for hundreds of thousands of years, and as they were a mere species trying to survive they wished to be left alone
-From what we know of gravemind he is very knowledgable, so i reckon he was many of the "higher" flood, who sued to be at the top of the heirachy, and commanded the flood.
-Gravemind and others like him asked the flood to be resilient while in halo(which they allowed the fourrunner to take them there) so that they were nto defeated, But how can you be resilient against new inventions?
-Now this is were part 2 kiks off properly, as gravemind and the flood are very manipulative I think that he managed to get one of the forerunner scientists to pass him information..how? by infecting him ofcourse, but not disfiguring him or anything.
-now that the flood can survive most things the forunner chuck at them, slowly gravemind made the forerunner coem to think that the only way to kill the flood is to starve them, and so halo went from a prison and research facility to a an intergalactic system for chaos.
-After the halos were fitted to destroy all sentient..balalala, the flood attacked, gathering as much calcium rich hosts as possible, before the forerunner activated the halos and thus the flood slept, till covies came and woke them. Gravemind was able to communicate with the other "sentient" one on isntallation 04, which we never see.. via the system that delta halo sends a signal to the toher halos to go to standby mode.
-once the sentient one was awoken on 04, he awoke all the others and thus gravemind was awake along with his 7 other brothers.
[Edited on 7/12/2006]