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{Feel free too skip these first two paragraphs}
Before I say anything, I want everyone to know that I might not be here 24/7. Meaning that there might have been thousands of posts, theories, and speculation about who the Forerunner was, but I am not going to go searching down page after page and useless thread after thread in attempt to make sure whatever I type wasn't said before. Also, please don't say I put this in the wrong forum, because this is BUNGIE GENERAL DISCUSSION. So, please, don't flame. I just want to talk about the forerunner. Thank you.
As many know, there have been many theories about who the forerunner are. The most popular I think is the Humans are Forerunner theory. Very plausible, but I also want to hear other theories you have about them. There are only a few resources to back up theories. The game and the books. You don't have to backup your theory, but please, when you attempt to prove someone's theory wrong, please have a good reason.
I have a theory of my own. I have no idea if someone has already proposed this idea, but I know I thought of it all by myself.
THEORY: There are three groups of sentient life in the galaxy. One, named the Forerunner, one named the Covenant, and one named Human. Each group is not equal however. The Forerunner are the most intelligent of the three. Next smartest is the Covenant. And coming in last is the Humans. Now, need I remind you, The Human group does not just consist of us. It also includes all life on Earth (lions, fish, dogs, birds...). Human Beings are the smartest in the group. As for the Covenant, the smartest there would be Prophets. And there is most likely a massively equivalent smartest creature for the forerunner. So, the Forerunner are off on their planet being all wise and stuff, and inventing things, while we are over on Earth sitting on a log and looking for food. The Covenant is probably somewhere in between. Anyway, fast foward a few thousand years and here the forerunner are, creating huge exotic artifacts while we are learning how to talk and create civilazations. Present day. The forerunner are a hugely expanded group spread on the outer reaches of the galaxy, and might have already migrated to other galaxies. They have created artifacts everywhere, and have even done stuff to other planets that we might civilasize (spelling) one day. Why aren't they on these planets when we got there? Left for some reason. Who knows. Maybe they all migrated and left (like I said before) to a different galaxy so they wouldn't interfere with our learning. There are unlimited possibilities. I mean. They are smarter than us you know. Meanwhile the Covenant are pretty smart and stuff and have got light speed travel through space and a bunch of other cool stuff. They discover things and artifacts from the Forerunner, and realize they are superior to them. What do they do? Well, they steal all there technology and start worshiping them of course! They also learned about us and how there were three groups that started out in the Milky Way Galaxy. They say to themselves...
"Hmm, Jimbob, we are in the middle of the classes. The Forerunner are superior to us and they are neat. But what about these so called 'Humans'. They sound pretty stupid. What do we do with them, Joe?"
"Well, lets see... we have reports of the holy races artifacts on several of there planets. And they are stupid. What do you say we exterminate those petty creatures? We ARE better than them."
With the help of the Forerunners technology, they are wittling us down all the way to our last planet:Earth. What will happen in Halo 2? Will we see the Forerunner come back and tell the Covenant to stop pushing us around? Will the Covenant then wage war on the Forerunner? Or will we just kill them all with secret weapon:Spartans? Who knows. We don't even know if the Forerunner are still alive. Maybe when they migrated to other galaxies, and they had three groups too and all of them got killed by that galaxies superior group. Or not. Maybe there just still alive.
Oh, one last thing. About the Forerunner being 'ancient'. Maybe there just as ancient as us. They just started off on a stronger foot. We don't know how old we have been here and we don't know how long the Forerunner have been here. By saying 'ancient' means only that they have had records of living and actually doing stuff before us. Like I said somewhere up above, that while they are out in about in space, we still think the Earth is flat and that Earth is the center of the universe. You see what I mean? So don't go around saying Forerunner are more 'ancient' than us without a good reason. Like, to fit in with this theory, I could say that the Forerunner were alive 2000 years before us and 1000 years before the Covenant. Pretty much anything is possible.
Remember, this is just a wildly imaginitive guess. I could be totally wrong. But then I might not be so wrong. Well just have to see. Please post feedback and maybe even your theory about the Forerunner. And by the way, sorry for the length. I get carried away with my creativeness.
[Edited on 10/17/2004 9:05:27 PM]