: Hmm, I find this odd to say, especially after Bungie has
: already stated is fallacy, but It now seems quite possible to connect the
: Jjaro with the Precursors, or maybe even a Civilization before them.
In ye olden days, the Jjaro were identical to the Forerunners. I find it most interesting that there are still hints in the Halo story of that old plot; the Forerunners' "ascension" or "great journey", as something apart from the activation of the Halos. See, originally (as in, in a much older version of the Halo story), the Forerunners/Jjaro passed through three stages: one was a form of biological humans, then only the digital/mechanized remains of their civilization, and then... something else even greater than that. That is how the Jjaro "disappeared from our galaxy millions of years ago" and then were still around a few thousand years ago at Lh'owon; the biological Jjaro vanished, but the AI form remained.
: I find it releasing to know that the Master Chief was the one to finally stop
: the Flood and end the cycle of the Rings activation.
Has he? There were Flood on both Halos we've been to so far; the Chief destroyed one infestation and most of another chased him to the Ark and got destroyed, but there could still be Flood on Delta Halo or on the others that we haven't yet seen.