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Edited Post, as I read the rest of this thread:
Okay, yeah. No point in me repeating it. I agree with the Keyes theory, though I doubt he just "teleported", I tend to believe Gravemind isn't just an evolved flood like keyes was, I think he's one in the same.
Posted by: Folvex
Oh and by the way the guy above me is right the Forerunners created the Flood. The flood is a virus they made. And they made the Ark and all that to kill the Flood if it ever got out of hand. Learn your HALOOOOO man.
Okay, first off... The Halo's were created to kill everything but the flood, effectively causing them to have no food. They would then de-evolve into their passive state that you originally found them on Halo and go into hibernation. The halo's actually had NO EFFECT on the Flood directly whatsoever and cannot cause their direct extinction.
I'm also going to tell you my theory on the Ark now. Take it with a grain of salt if you'd like, it's my opinion though:
The Arks name alone suggests it is a way to survive the Halos. The Forerunners, as Gravemind said, knew what they wrought when they created the Halos. They also created the flood, as I think most of us have all realized at this point. This is key, but I'll go back to that later.
The Forerunners were clearly a massively technologically advanced race. Think to the Halo novels at this point and do you remember the crystal that bent space and time? That was a small portable crystal that managed to accomplish that. It proves the Forerunners had knowledge of bending, perhaps even breaking, the laws of time. I'm going to take a big leap of faith here and say that the crystal was probably not the only one that existed, I'm sure they made other devices simular and I'm going to have to assume some of these devices were even more high tech than the one we've seen.
Back to the Ark: In the biblical sense, it was a way to survive. I believe it's the same here, the Ark isn't just a control device - it's a way to survive the Halos. But the fact is: Everything was DEAD after Halo's went off, so how did they survive? The Forerunners are gone, if the Ark let them survive where are they? The answer, I believe, lies in the crystal. I think the Ark did the same thing the crystal does to a bigger degree. I think it sent those inside to another time. You can't very well be wiped out by an explosion of sorts if you're in another time, can you?
I dont think the forerunners, whatever and whoever they are, were inhiliated by Halo. I think it's true what the forerunners AI said, that the galaxy was wiped out, but at that TIME the Forerunners wern't in it.
So whether the Forerunners are a race we've seen (Prophets, for example) - or humans that have simply forgotten the origins, I doubt it. I think they're something entirely different. Will we see them? I have no idea, they could pop back into existence. Hell, when the Ark (as I believe it is) turns on in the trailer, our old friends may be sitting inside waiting.
Now, going along with my theory we have another problem: Why would they create the Flood and the Halos in the first place. The devices would kill everybody else but never really eliminate the flood threat permanently, it would be a cycle that would effectively never end. And besides, why would they keep them on the Halos? A race that technologically advanced could have easily inhiliated the things after they went into their passive least-evolved state, one would think.
I think they wanted the Flood to infect everything. I have no idea WHY, unless they -ARE- some kind of Flood origin. Or perhaps it ensures that when they return from their little time-travel trip, they are the dominant force in the Galaxy. It's quite possible the flood are no immediate threat to them (Sgt Johnson, as we learned from the books, was immune to flood infection - maybe they designed the flood so they too are immune to them). That would explain the flood, I suppose, but why they needed to create the Halos and why they wanted to wipe out the universe in the first place, I have no idea. Maybe they WERNT the dominant force in the universe ;).
That's my speculation, but it starts to go off onto speculation ontop of speculation, so I doubt its all even close to accurate. But that's what I think on the whole flood/ark thing. I think the crystal was too important of an artifact to be left out of the entire ordeal - and I dont think the Forerunners, with all their advanced technology, would ever allow themselves to be inhiliated by their own creations - especially if they have the means to generate the kind of power it would take to inhiliate the galaxy ON TOP of knowledge of time manipulation. Seems like I'd just get the hell out of dodge. :)
[Edited on 7/22/2006]