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this was most likely posted before, but just in case any1 hasnt seen it...

anyways i was playing through halo1 today, and on the library level 343 said something that made me pounder. he was talking about the last outbreak of the flood and the activation of halo, then the last thing he said was "im glad some of my creaters survived to reproduce".

well if that is true, then that leaves 3 options: the human are forerunners, or the covenant are, or the forerunners are another race that just havent been introduced yet in the game.

now ive seen the many many threads about "humans are forerunners" and i myself was one of the people calling them stupid. but after hearing that from 343 it made me wonder...im not saying that humans ARE forerunners, but im saying its a possibility maybe?

  • 07.25.2006 1:09 PM PDT

I'm blue da ba di da ba dai!

He said im glad some of them survived to repreduce he is talking about the flood.

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Hmm, there is much debate to this subject.

One thing that contradicts this is something that Guilty Spark says in The Great Journey..

"After exhausting every other strategic option, my creators activated the rings. They, and all additional sentient life in three radii of the galactic center, died ...as planned"

Though not every monitor is permitted to know everything now.. is it?

  • 07.25.2006 1:12 PM PDT

Posted by: halo04
He said im glad some of them survived to repreduce he is talking about the flood.


He says "Their survival as a race was dependent on it. I am glad some of them survived to reproduce." I think, somehow, that he is saying the FORERUNNERS survival was dependant on the FLOOD.

  • 07.25.2006 1:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: Teh Cubed
Hmm, there is much debate to this subject.

One thing that contradicts this is something that Guilty Spark says in The Great Journey..

"After exhausting every other strategic option, my creators activated the rings. They, and all additional sentient life in three radii of the galactic center, died ...as planned"

Though not every monitor is permitted to know everything now.. is it?


yea but if EVERY! was wiped out, how did humans and covenant survive?

  • 07.25.2006 1:15 PM PDT
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Well.. seeing as speculation is all the rage now, how about this..?

What proof do we REALLY have the Forerunners created 343?


And no, I didn't mean that.

  • 07.25.2006 1:16 PM PDT

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Arbiter ask what appened to the forerunner and 343 answers my creator in 3 radi of a galactic center died as planed.

[Edited on 7/25/2006]

  • 07.25.2006 1:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nemesis2252
Posted by: Teh Cubed
Hmm, there is much debate to this subject.

One thing that contradicts this is something that Guilty Spark says in The Great Journey..

"After exhausting every other strategic option, my creators activated the rings. They, and all additional sentient life in three radii of the galactic center, died ...as planned"

Though not every monitor is permitted to know everything now.. is it?


yea but if EVERY! was wiped out, how did humans and covenant survive?


I'm not going to lie, I can't answer this question without my opinions.

I believe that the Humans may have been.. well some sort of clone.. or hybrid species of the Forerunner? Maybe an experiment. Seeing as they weren't yet alive... the Forerunners might have left them on Earth to evolve and grow shortly before they activated the Halos? Maybe.

The Covenant with their scheming little ways could have been very very far away from the "blast radius" of the Halo's at the time. Again, maybe.

Theres alot of theories and speculation for this.. let it run wild.

  • 07.25.2006 1:21 PM PDT
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Yeah but when 1 ring is activated didn't he say they would all be activated as a fail safe or something and destroy all sentient life in a 25,000 lightyear radias.

  • 07.25.2006 1:23 PM PDT

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arguement towards the humans are forerunners is: why are we so un-advanced when the forerunners had amazing technology, could even make artificial; weather and atmosphere and everything

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Posted by: Pheonix 117
Yeah but when 1 ring is activated didn't he say they would all be activated as a fail safe or something and destroy all sentient life in a 25,000 lightyear radias.


Yeah.. I'll sleep on this one.. maybe I'll have more.. um, speculation in the morning.

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Nobody notice how he said "perhaps we will have time to meet the maker!"?

[Edited on 7/25/2006]

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Posted by: Nemesis2252
arguement towards the humans are forerunners is: why are we so un-advanced when the forerunners had amazing technology, could even make artificial; weather and atmosphere and everything


Maybe the fact that the human race can be incredibly ignorant and blasphemous.. (Fancy words, zomg)

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Posted by: Jimmy01
Nobody notice how he said "perhaps we will have time to meet the maker!"?


I didn't notice that.. but perhaps its more of a cultural reference that anything else.
You know the saying "Time to meet your maker" etc..

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Posted by: Teh Cubed
Posted by: Jimmy01
Nobody notice how he said "perhaps we will have time to meet the maker!"?


I didn't notice that.. but perhaps its more of a cultural reference that anything else.
You know the saying "Time to meet your maker" etc..


Probably, it was hard listening to him with all that Flood and gunfire.

However, he sounded far too chirpy to sound evil, even after he/you betrayed you/him, even in Halo 2 he still seemed relatively happy, but then again I don't recall the Chief meeting with him again. Ultimately, you could just assume he was off his rocker.

  • 07.25.2006 1:35 PM PDT

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lol when i shot 343, one of his reponces was "please stop being human"

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Posted by: halo04
He said im glad some of them survived to repreduce he is talking about the flood.


Sentinels protect Halo from the flood. Why would a sentinel AI want them to reproduce, and that wouldn't be a pretty site.

  • 07.25.2006 1:39 PM PDT
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“To say more would spoil be it’s overall its a game that needs to be played.” - Aristotle

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Posted by: halo04
He said im glad some of them survived to repreduce he is talking about the flood.


He says "Their survival as a race was dependent on it. I am glad some of them survived to reproduce." I think, somehow, that he is saying the FORERUNNERS survival was dependant on the FLOOD.


Methinks he said something about 'I'm glad my predicessors servived to reproduce'. See now... this is why me and JMH have to get our project started...

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in the silent cartographer, on one of the walls, there is a picture ingraved on the wall...and it looks like a human...possible that humans are some sort of offspring of forerunners?

  • 07.26.2006 12:52 PM PDT
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I think some of the Forerunners might be in Cryo Stasis inside of the Ark.

  • 07.26.2006 12:55 PM PDT