- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I believe the keys to our puzzle would be first, wether or not the Covenant attacked us first, or we attacked them first. Next, frikin carbon date the damn symbols on the rocks, that'll give ya a better idea about the whole time things. Finally, we need to get on the Covenant and/or the old Forerunner homeworld.
What if the Forerunners were ethereal, so they made us to fight off the Prophet(s), who were made to build the Halos to keep the Flood in. GS knows about later generations of SPARTANs because of the various time control devices and such that I'm sure are scattered all over the galaxy. The Prophets are now imploying other races to fight us, because they can't do it themselves. That's why GS calls the Covenant the "other races" and calls that marine and MC the reclaimer. We're there to reclaim all that space that the Covenant (who were never supposed to take over anything) held and all the "unknown" space that the Forerunners used to hold. The Prophet(s) use various techniques to keep the other races believing in their supremecy and godlike lineage, that way they can keep control over all the races who could overpower them. They are looking for these artifacts of power, that way they can become powerful enough to either become Forerunners themselves (unlikely) or to fight us. The Flood were one of the Forerunners first experiments with biological matter, and they were too powerful and destructive, thus the Prophets were created, etc...
[Edited on 6/15/2004 11:41:28 PM]