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| The Forerunner (also posted on b.net) | |
| Posted By: Wintermute <durandal217@yahoo.com> | Date: 4/24/04 10:37 a.m. |
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Hey, I posted this on b.net this morning, but I know a good number of the people here wouldn't see it necessarily, so I thought I'd post it here. You know how the crowd is over there anyway. Here goes: Whoa. I think I just may have figured something out... In Niven's Motie series, the moties are a technologically advanced race but only because they have fortress/museums where they store their weapons and technology so that when they nuke each other back into the stone age, their technology stays safe and they can basically pick up where they left off instead of destroying themselves every couple thousand years and wasting all that time just to get back to where they were technologically. Now bear with me on this: The Forerunner are not a third race. They are humans, and I never really bought the whole "humans are forerunner thing" before, but now I think this may prove that the forerunner are humans. Humans are a much older race than we think. Maybe we nuked ourselves back into the stone age like, a million times, leaving abandoned testaments to our technological achievements scattered throughout the galaxy, and before tFoR we were just getting to the point in space where we were going to rediscover or reclaim some of our ancient technology. The Prophets found some of our ancient tech, and they basically created a religion around it so that all the other races in the covenant would hold it sacred. The Prophets probably know that we humans are these "gods" but they won't tell the rest of the Covenant because they want to stay in power. That's why they tell the lesser Covenant castes that their "gods" have willed our destruction. This is why they're technologically advanced but are behind on AI development, and don't have the best tactics in battle. They tend to be aggressive with their tactics to the point of being wasteful of troops and weapons platforms. Think of a kid with his dad's gun. All he knows is he's got power, but not the full extent of how to use it. This also explains why the Covenant keep from glassing certain planets of ours, because they know that there are clues pointing to caches of technology buried there and they don't want to destroy them. This also explains why all the Forerunner control panels seem familiar to the MC in the books, why 343 GS calls him reclaimer, why GS says lost history referring to human history, why GS refers to installation 04 as a Fortress World, even why the Forerunner are called the Forerunner in the first place. I bet that the ancient human race had a tangle with the Flood, and the Covenant learned about it through their discoveries of "Forerunner" technology, and that's why they fear them. Also, you'll remember that 343 GS tells the MC that he should upgrade to a class 12 protective suit to protect himself from the Flood in the Library. Maybe the corridors on Halo are so big because a class 12 armored suit is basically mechanized armor. That would mean the Forerunner could still posess human dimensions and still need the large corridoors. That would also allow the resident researchers that were to "study and contain the Flood" the ability to vent Halo's atmosphere or whatever else they needed to do in order to prevent the Flood from spreading on or escaping from Halo. Please look for flaws in this theory, because I think its pretty sound. Cheers! ~W
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| The Forerunner (also posted on b.net) | Wintermute | 4/24/04 10:37 a.m. |
| non-flawless | gspawn | 4/24/04 1:10 p.m. |
| Re: non-flawless | Wintermute | 4/24/04 2:04 p.m. |
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