In Response To: Re: THIS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! (longWriter)
: therefore it
: I think you're dead right that the forerunners were human. I've read some of
: the suggested reasons why the Covenant hate us so much in this discussion,
: and they all seem to go back to our previous relationship with the
: Prophets or Forerunners, claiming that some grudge existed between us and
: them. My theory for why the prophets are sicking the Covenant forces on
: humanity is this: only a handful of Prophets know that we are the
: Forerunners, and they want to keep it that way. At the beginnings of their
: civilizations, they found Forerunner (ancient human) technology and
: believed that there was something supernatural about them. So the Covenant
: was struck up, and their races began allying with one another to seek the
: "Divine Beyond". But when it was discovered that we were the
: Forerunners, the handful of Prophets that knew it realized that, if word
: gets out that the humans only ever used the rings to fight the Flood---and
: that the "Divine Beyond" doesn't exist---they would quickly lose
: political power. So, they tell everyone to attack the humans and destroy
: their culture. (Remember, in the Jenkins playback in Halo 1, the sargeant
: mentioned that the Covenant were trying to destroy all human history.)
: That way, the various species of the Covenant would hate us instead of
: being curious about us. Also, for anyone who was curious, any evidence
: that we were the Forerunners would be destroyed by Covenant armies.
: There is more support for the theory that humans are Forerunners in what 343
: Guilty Spark says in Halo 1: he refers to human history as "our lost
: time".
: There would be even more support for the theory if, at some point, Prophets
: had other Prophets killed swiftly and without any time for them to speak:
: it makes some sense that one (or more than one) prophet would have the
: moral courage to tell the truth about the humans to the Covenant, and that
: the other prophets would try to stop him.
: There is one problem with the theory, though: if the records of what the
: Forerunners look like are available to everyone on Halo, that would seem
: to disprove or at least weaken the theory's standing: the secret would
: easily get out. Any one of the curious Grunts could start tapping buttons
: and bring up a picture of a Forerunner. And, as I haven't read the books,
: yet, and I can't tell from the other posts on account of ambiguity, I
: don't know whether there are pictures of what forerunners looked like in
: any Covenant records. But if there are, and they don't look like humans,
: this theory looks cold...
: Or does it? If my theory about the Covenant's reasons for attacking humanity
: are correct, then it seems reasonable that the Prophets would try to hack
: the Forerunner computers---every one they find---and erase or edit the
: data regarding the Forerunner race so that the idea that they are human
: won't occur to anyone who sees (or doesn't see) the data. The theory would
: find more support if it turns out that the Prophets have to dedicate or
: "cleanse" every piece of Forerunner technology with a memory
: bank before any other Covenant can see it. The fact that 343 was taken
: directly to the Prophets once the Covenant forces got it is an instance of
: such support. But only time will tell...or, perhaps, the books, if I ever
: find time to read them in my bust college life...if either theory is
: correct.
: ---the peace of Jesus Chirst be with you---
Perhapos humans are disgraced forerunners. Who does gravemind talk to when he says, "I am a monument to your sins?"
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