- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I'm going to shorten my theory here, so heres the dumbed down version:
I think Truth is a pawn. He may not know he's a pawn, but I think things were put into motion for him to believe in this "Great Journey" by forces much greater than his own.
To explain who would be treating him as "pawn", I have to go back and explain my theory. Dumbed down version is simple: The Forerunners had time-bending technology (books, read about the crystal). The ark is made to protect you from the devistation of Halo (or so the name would suggest). Halo was designed not to destroy structures or worlds, but to destroy sentient life only. This seems like an important fact of its design. Seems to me the Ark transports you to another time using the same time-bending technology the crystal used.
I don't wanna go into sub-theories and explain what the Forerunners would have planning, as thats basing theory off theory and it starts to become a guessing game, but I believe the Forerunners at least INTENDED to survive Halo by using the Ark to 'bend' time and transfer them to a time after the first actual firing of the Halos. I'm not sure where Truth would fall into all this, but knowing Bungie hes playing right into their hands. I just fail to believe a race that technologically advanced that could create time-bending technology and weapons that would obliderate all life (other than their very own created Flood, which I think may be intentional since they created BOTH - or so it seems -, but why?) wouldn't have come up with a way to survive it. And if I had the ability to bend time and an in an instant destroy all life in the galaxy, I'd just make sure I didnt exist in the galaxy at that moment in time. :)
The whole thing that fits frighteningly into all of this though is the Flood more so than the Covenant. I think the Covenant is just a byproduct of time and civilization, as were the humans. I dont think they have any direct relation to these events whatsoever other than civilizations whom have evolved.
The Flood appear to have been created by the Forerunners, or at least harvested and controlled. What bothers me about this is that the rings were designed to destroy everything BUT them (to starve them, but not inhiliate them, just to put them back into submission). I'm not sure for what purpose this would be, but it reminds me of StarCraft (Or Aliens if you're not zerg-knowledable). But now were getting into that theory based on a theory crap. /ramble
Edit: Also know this is based off alot of knowledge from the books. When I read about the crystal, that's what I started to think. But I still believe the Ark would be in some shape or form a way to save those who use Halo. It's quite possible the flood somehow had gotten inside and inhiliated the forerunner race, but if the Ark does what it would suggest it does (and I believe it, uh, does) there has to be a reason we havent seen the Forerunners yet. I don't believe it was Halo that wiped them out. It could have been the Flood. Or it could have done something entirely different to them. I don't really know, but the best explination I could come up with as to why the ark would save them but we havent seen them is .. time bending crystal from the novels. They coulda very well been exterminated, it's quite possible. Or even more frightening, the Prophets could be direct descendants of the Forerunners and know exactly what they're doing. Who knows, I'm going to stop speculating and wait for the game now.
[Edited on 7/26/2006]