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A theroy written to entertain, not explain.
Posted By: Mr. Bill <mr_bill_jr_5@hotmail.com>Date: 4/6/02 5:44 p.m.

Lets just assume for a moment that the Forerunner have absolutely nothing to do with the Covenant, or the Humans, or the anything. Now lets assume, once more, that both the Humans, and the Covenant are very new additions to the galaxy, say maybe only a few hundred million years old. Now we know that the ‘Covs are a much more sophisticated collection of beings, with technology that far surpasses that of the Humans (Weather or not the ‘Covs are an older race then the humans we do not know, perhaps they are younger?). Right, now lets back up about four billion years. We’re talking birth of the stars here. The universe is still young, a vast endless plane of dust, and heat. Now we introduce the Forerunner. One does not have to consider them gods, or super intelligent, but simply as the first. How many of them? Who knows. Perhaps billions, perhaps only a dozen. The Forerunner, being the first, become the great builders, tasked with the duty of bringing existence into the otherwise empty galaxy- the ones to cast the galaxy in stone. Time goes on, they complete their task: the galaxy becomes physical. Planets were there was dust, stars were there was heat… How much time has passed? Perhaps only a few million years, perhaps several billion. Their task complete, the Forerunner look back upon what they have created. They have failed. For what reason I can only began to guess. Their great deeds sicken them. They strive to destroy what they have created, to eradicate the horror there construction has wrought. The tools which they once used to construct the galaxy, they turn to weapons; weapons capable of destroying the entire galaxy. But here they change heart, looking back once more, they begin to feel compassion for what they have done. They have brought light to the far reaches to the galaxy, given life to the ether. They realize that their time in this world has finished. They have been given a task, and they have finished it. Laying aside their tools, the Forerunner depart from the galaxy, leaving only a legacy of what they once had done. For billions of years their tools, turned weapons, lay at rest. Stars burn and die, planets form and grow. The legacy of the Forerunner lay dormant…. Until the day, billions of years later, a struggle between two young warring races stumbles, completely ignorant, upon one of the grand weapons…


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A theroy written to entertain, not explain.Mr. Bill 4/6/02 5:44 p.m.
     Re: A theroy written to entertain, not explain.Blaze 4/6/02 5:52 p.m.
           Re: A theroy written to entertain, not explain.Mr. Bill 4/6/02 8:08 p.m.
     Re: A theroy written to entertain, not explain.HALOMASTER 4/6/02 9:23 p.m.
           Re: A theroy written to entertain, not explain. *NM*HALOMASTER 4/6/02 9:23 p.m.



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