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Subject: The Forerunners death perhaps?

­"You have to aim above the head, but then a little lower so you actually get it."

-John Mayer

"Why would you hesitate do do what you have already done?"

Explains how the Forerunner on Halo could have died, wiped themselves out to stop the flood, and this particular sentance nearly proves that theory:

"Why naturally the Flood is simply too dangerous to release, and mass sterilization protocols may again need to be enacted. Of course, samples were kept here after the last catastrophic outbreak...for study. It seems... that decision may have been an error. "

and this:
"Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years. But, once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or at least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the flood. "

would be why you might hear birds chirping on blood gulch, it wouldnt kill the birds, only the Forerunner.

but: "Last time, you asked me, if it was my choice, would I do it? Having considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. "

Means there was a forerunner that asked 343 something, "last time", meaning the last catastrophic outbreak, but what?

  • 10.25.2004 5:41 PM PDT
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yea, ive heard all this before on HBO, and it really is quite intresting. i wonder if we'll ever find out?

  • 10.25.2004 5:47 PM PDT

­"You have to aim above the head, but then a little lower so you actually get it."

-John Mayer

Yeah the quotes are from HBO, but ive never really heard someone say the forerunner did this

  • 10.25.2004 5:49 PM PDT
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i think that the human race is the forerunner.

Why?

Guilty spark states something about all of "our" lost history while it is scanning through the pillar of autumn's file system. If the forerunners built halo and guilty spark then it's possible that guilty spark was subetly implying that we are the remaining forerunners.

This would be incredible and ironic.

Why?

The covenant worship the forerunner civilization and have adapted some of its technology.

So... the question is: What are the prophets reallly up to?

  • 10.25.2004 7:21 PM PDT
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The interesting thing about the Monitor's comment: "Why would you hesitate to do what you have already done?" and "Last time you asked me, if it were my choice would I do it?--" He uses the word you. This indicates that the Monitor either believes you to be a Forerunner being yourself, or that you are in fact the Forerunner being that the Monitor last aided in activating the Halos some hundred thousand years prior to your encounter with the monitor. This and other evidence leads me to believe that the Forerunner are very similar to or are themselves, human. So I concur, Pitbull.

  • 10.25.2004 7:43 PM PDT
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the prophets saw the human race and got scared. they were scared and saw that if they wanted to stay in control, they had to kill us while they were still superior. they also had to keep the covenant populace as a whole in the dark about what we really were or else there would be civil strife and the prophets would lose their power as leaders because the "forunners" (us) would have returned and the rest of the covenant society would revear us instead of the prophets. course, we could just be decended from the forunner but we dont live up to there expectations of what the forunner should be so they feel the need to kill us because we are soiling the forunners image.

  • 10.25.2004 7:59 PM PDT
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Intriguing. Would you mind telling me what HBO is?

  • 10.25.2004 9:18 PM PDT
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http://halo.bungie.org/
Thats what HBO is.

  • 10.26.2004 1:46 AM PDT
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and here I was thinking you meant the movie channel :(

  • 10.26.2004 2:20 AM PDT