- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
after about twenty otherwise useless hours spent trolling the forums here on Bungie.net, I couldn't help but notice the same Halo 3 theories being posted over and over:
HUMANS=FORERUNNERS!
Over and over and over and over and over........ : (
One of the things that everyone kept bringing up in these threads was the whole "Noah's Ark = The Ark!" idea. i never liked it, firstly because I Absolutely hate the idea of humans being the forerunners, secondly because it never really made sense to me. If the humans had been the forerunners, and had used the ark as some sort of "lifeboat" to survive the activation of the Halo rings, wouldn't there have been evidence of their preexisting society, say, maybe... THE SHIPS THEY USED TO BUILD THE STUPID RINGS? And before you say that the rings would have destroyed the ships, remember that the rings only harm sentient life.
Also, if humans were forerunners, and the ark was "noah's Ark," how come it took humanity a million years to evolve to the point where we could even get to the moon? If the ark was a lifeboat, then it would've taken more like ten years after emerging from said lifeboat to get back to the moon. And don't give me any of that "Teh humenz wooduv 4got10 all that stuffz aftur beyin lockd in teh Ark 4 dat long" crap, first of all because I absolutely despise people who type like that. It simply screams "Hey, look at me! I'm a whiny thirteen year old -BLAM!-tard who pretends to be older and smarter than I actually am, but I forgot to learn to spell, so I started to use this nerd slang so i didn't have to!" Secondly, a race as adavanced as the forerunners would have put their smartest people in the ark, first of all, and since the halo blast is instantaneous and isn't radioactive (radioactivity would harm all life except roaches, not just the sentient life, and it would also kill flood), it's safe to assume that they wouldn't be stuck in the ark for that long. Maybe a day.
Even if the forerunners were stuck in the ark that long, they would bring in enough of them to effectively reproduce, and they would obviously teach their offspring everything they knew. Let's face it. The Humans ARE NOT the forerunners.