In Response To: ...and this time none of you will be left behind (Wado SG)
: In reference to last part of Michael's news item on the HSP (
: http://halosm.bungie.org/story/newssearch.html?newsitem=790 )...
: ...Here's where it gets crazy. What if "to finish what we started"
: is a reference to the first activation of the Halos over 100,000 years
: ago? Could a Prophet/Human (civil?) war have led to this? Remember that
: the 343 Guilty Spark was glad to see that some of us "survived to
: reproduce" in the Library...what if the Prophets messed up last time
: and some humans escaped the activation (by using the Ark?), but "THIS
: time" none of us will make it. A 100,000 year-old grudge would
: certainly explain why the Prophets hate us so much.
: So, Covenant religion just a cover for the Prophets to hunt down the remnants
: of humanity that survived the rings' activation? How do the Flood fit into
: this? Speculate/shoot down away.
: The sub-title "100 000 Year's War" does appear in one of the levels
: in Halo 2. The last time Halo's weapons were activated was just over
: 100,000 local (to Halo) years ago. This does seem too strong a coincidence
: to just ignore they may be related.
: I believe that Michael is correct in saying that the Prophets have a
: "grudge" against humanity. However, I don't think he quite put
: the motives together or the sequence of events.
: The Prophets did not activate (at least knowingly) the last firing of Halo. I
: am confident of this because Prophets are not reclaimers, nor are any of
: the other Covenant species. Only humans appear as reclaimers. Only humans
: can activate Halo.
: Another point is that 100,000 year war implies that the war has been going on
: for a long time, but more literally that the war started 100,000 years
: ago. I believe this to strongly imply that the war started with the last
: firing of Halo.
: Based on this, I conclude that humans activated Halo around 100,000 local
: years ago, took the ark with whatever else was to be saved and left
: everything else behind , including the Prophets. This started the 100,000
: year war and is the motive behind the contempt for humans demonstrated by
: the Prophets.
: As a personal note, I do not believe that humans are the Forerunners, the
: Forerunners are gone or sleeping. However, humans may have been created or
: heavily influenced by the Forerunners. I say this because of Biblical
: references of spirits that existed before man, however, Adam (man) was
: created in the image of God. Satan was jealous of man, Satan refused to
: bow down to Adam as his superior.
: Perhaps some similar story elements fall into the Halo Bible (why call it a
: Bible, by the way, unless you want to relate it to the Bible). The
: Prophets and other races could have existed, but somehow humans were
: created or rose to become the favorites to the Forerunner. The Prophets
: could have refused to bow down to the humans as their superiors (just like
: Satan and his followers did in the Bible). Then when the Flood outbreak
: came to "cleanse the galaxy", the humans were chosen to ride on
: the Ark. Humans were the only ones worthy enough in the eyes of the
: Forerunner to do so. The rest of the galaxy was left to rot, but somehow
: pockets of Prophets and other races survived, maybe blasted back
: effectively to the Stone Age, but survive they did, and remember they did.
: They somehow recorded what happened and remembered that they were left
: behind.
: The Prophets only want what they feel is rightfully theirs.
What he is referring to is most likely either: (A) the incident on reach when the covenant destroyed the spartan testing facility, or (B) they are just coming after humanity and master chief.
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