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Before I start I just want to mention that the entire theory is so large, that it may not fit on 1 post.
And now, for the ultimate theory on just about everything in the halo universe. It has 5 parts, first is the theorized story/line of events of the activation of the halo and how the humans are really forerunner. Next is the Q&A for the Questions that I know would be bound to follow. After that comes counter-counter point where I put down the counters to some of the most common counter points to the human=forerunner theory. And lastly comes the Supporting Evidence to the main theory and the humans= forerunner theory. So buckle your seat belts, it starts off as a story.
The flood are everywhere, the sentinel armies have held them off long enough for the forerunner to build there last resort, Halo. Before the forerunner activate halo, they collect embryos of every species in the galaxy and put them on the ark two of every species, Noah?s ark, for the moment, I am going to say that our ark is a giant space ship (not truth?s ship) Since halo, targets and kills based on size, the embryos will survive because they are still just conceived (sperm and egg are both single cell) The forerunner activate the rings and the end of the flood begins.
After this point, everything is automated. The flood start to starve, and the preprogrammed sentinel armies sent out to destroy the flood the flying sentinel factory goes to a planet, and produces sentinels, the reason why the forerunner couldn't defeat the flood was because they multiplied too fast, and spread too quick, but know that the flood have no more hosts, they can?t multiply any more and so the sentinel can defeat them in war Once the flood have been wiped clean off of a planet and the sentinels give the okay, the ark flies to that planet and seeds it with the proper species. And so the ark makes this incredibly long journey to each and every planet.
To save time, instead of the ark landing on the planet, it launches a pod at the planet. This pod contains a breeding station, every embryo for that planet, and is fully mobile. Once it lands, the pod, moves to the nearest designated determined point on the planet. It sets up station, and begins to grow the embryos. the pod raises the first batch of embryos until the species can survive on its own, the pod then moves again to the next point on the planet and raise the organisms that belong there (a.k.a. desert life, then artic, then tropical, etc.) And the pod repeats this until every point on the planet is met and reseeding of the planet is finished. The pod then either destroys itself, or meets back up with the ark to get used for the next planet. And so this process is repeated for every planet. Any intelligent animals like elites and jackals, would have lost all there knowledge of prior technology because technology and knowledge have to be passed down by generation.
And so the ark visits every solar system that ever had life on it. Until a supposed error occurs. A data corruption leads to a pod and species misplacement and planet chart error. This results in the elites and prophets being put on the same pod, and set to the planet that the ark was supposed to land on and restart the forerunner race. Instead, the ark lands on earth and the breeding cycle for the forerunner begins.
Now here is where I need to explain a little, Technology and knowledge must be learned and pasted down from generation to generation. However, the activation of halo created a gap in the flow of knowledge, and the forerunner did not have enough time to learn everything the races knew so that they could teach it too them, only general survival, however, because each species lands on their own planet, there technology would be there waiting for them, they would just have to learn on there own what is was and how to use it.
However, due to this error, the elites and prophets were put on the planet the forerunner embryos were meant to go, therefore on this planet was vast forerunner technology and information that was supposed to educate the forerunners on there past. Instead, the prophets and elites grow up on this planet, and being extremely primitive, could not possibly figure out the forerunner technology to its full extent (like giving an toddler a computer and expecting it to figure it out) and so the prophets and elites, being more different from each other than blacks and whites, were destined to war each other and never see each other as equals. All until one day, by a stroke of luck the prophets figured out one of the records left behind that was a record of the halos, the ark, and what happened to the forerunner. But the prophets made many misinterpretations.
For Example: They confused {the journey of the Ark and how it was started by the destructive power of the halos and you are forerunner} with [the halos are the beginning to the path of the great journey, these gifts are blessings of the forerunner, etc..] And so the formation of the covenant and its religion are born. They figure out how to work the forerunner technology (but they don't understand the physics of it, which is why they never improve upon its design, they just copy it and call it forerunner magic.) and so on and so forth
But now we must go back to the ark and the forerunner. The ark lands on earth, a planet that had really been a forerunner wildlife preserve, so the forerunner never lived on earth, only studied animals on it so they never establish any buildings on earth or left and technology on it. So the final probe starts up for earth and its wildlife, with the forerunner embryos have accidentally being added to it. The ark meanwhile hides its self deep with the planet, far under the ocean to a place where only the technology of the forerunners could reach. And so the forerunner would emerge for the pods knowing nothing because the pods weren't programmed to educate them on everything. and with no forerunner technology on the planet other than the ark and the soon to self destruct pod, the forerunner race had to start from ground zero, and because they didn?t even know there names were forerunner, they ended up renaming themselves humans or the course of history. While the humans were still genetically identical to the minds of the galaxies smartest most advanced raced. They know nothing of there vast knowledge, but still had a brain capably of understanding and developing the technology they once made before.
However, during the forerunner breeding cycle in the pod, the pod was instructed to ingrain into the forerunners mind, a way to understand the information left on the planet the elites and prophets were now at and how to operate forerunner technology. This would explain how the master chief and other humans could sometimes operate something like the light bridge or covenant arsenal without really knowing how to though process wise. The Ark, lying dormant beneath the earths surface, would still have a transmission linking it to all of the halos (or at least the nearest one), but this transmission was so advanced that only forerunner technology would be able to pick it up and notice it. this transmission link is what connected the ark to the halos which would enable the ark to send out a signal to the halos for remote activation should some problem arise and the halo not go off. how the covenant found either was they found the transmission signal at the ruins of alpha halo, followed it to its source, earth, the location of the ark, and then from there followed the transmission again to delta halo. Without forerunner technology and records, we would have never found the transmission, or known what it was.
Additions
First Encounter
This section of the story starts before the rest. In fact, it could be placed as the beginning of the story. However, theory flows well with the beginning it has, but if you want to look into how the flood war started then keep reading
The forerunner control all reaches of the galaxy. They have explored and charted every part, and mastered there understanding of almost every thing that could be found in this galaxy. Till one day... The infection of the flood struck faster than a disease. The forerunners don?t now where it came from. But all of a sudden, the flood make there first appearance on a forerunner planet. According to art of halo, the flood was encountered. Not created or found but encountered. If the forerunner knew of the flood before the flood struck, then the forerunner would have none more about them and be better prepared. However, being such an advance civilization, I suspect that the only way the forerunner could collapse is if the foe were unknown, struck without warning, and the forerunner were unprepared. These are the three things that make the flood even more powerful and dangerous. Unprepared and confused, the forerunners lose control of the first planet in mere hours.
Before the other planets can figure out what has happened, flood filled ships from the first planet arrive at several planets and the still confused forerunner loss once again. By the time the forerunner as a whole figure out that they are under attack by something, a total of 20 solar systems have been taken over. More ships full of flood depart from every planet and land on a new. The flood even starts sending out new ships before even fully conquering a planet. The forerunner try to fight back, but they don't know what they are fighting and they keep making mistakes based upon the fact that they don't even know they are fighting a parasite.
For the forerunner, they had to learn about the flood, while being attacked by it. They did learn on thing quickly though, once an outbreak occurs on a planet, it is too late to save it. Not even glassing there own planets while they were under attack was working. In only 5 years the flood had taken over 1/20 of the galaxy (the galaxy is huge, 1/20 is a ton of solar systems) to the fact that they still had the element of surprise and chaos, the forerunner tried to change there tactics and isolate them selves for the flood and block of there own planets. But the flood then changed tactics and went after non forerunner life forms that could be used to host them. Highly plausible, the host doesn?t have to be technological advance to be useful to the flood. And by using other aliens, the forerunner would have a harder time restraining the flood. If the flood only had the forerunners to work with, then the forerunners could coordinate plans/protocol to cut off/reduce the floods food? Thusly making it possible for the forerunner to devise more plans for stopping the flood. At this point, the infection in the galaxy is permanent and impossible to ever be removed. With all the places flood could hide, and the large number of flood out there, to track them all down would be impossible. The forerunner then found a new way to bring back the offense against the flood. Using the Sentinels, they indirectly fought the flood, Look at the enforcers, these things are huge, and despite how easy they are to kill in the game, I figure in the halo universe they are really much tougher, built like tanks. (Remember, the games no fun if you can?t kill it) Look at the sentinel factories, they fly and are huge, which suggests they could maybe travel from planet to planet, and they mass produce sentinels. War is all about mass production of halos. If the sentinels propose was not to wage war in our place, why mass produce them in a flying building. The sentinels were designed to be front line solders, cannon folder. The individual sentinel doesn?t have to be powerful, it just has to be able to fight and be in great supply. The much tougher enforcer is for attacking flood that are using technology and vehicles. Guilty spark can fly in space. Now while I can?t prove the sentinels can too, if the sentinels could fly in space, all the more reason why they are solders made for fighting flood from planet to planet. But the flood multiplied too fast and spread too easily, the sentinels were able to significantly slow the flood down to the point where it took a year to get to the planet and another 5 years to capture it. (The numbers are just for visual, there is no way to calculate them, so I just say what sounds good) The sentinels could not stop the flood, only slow them down. So the forerunner began to create there last resort, halo.
The truth about the Prophet Truth
For those of you who are expecting me to reveal a logical plan for Truth?s conspiracy you will be sadly disappointed.
While the Prophet of Truth?s actions may seem suspicious to some, we are only looking from our stand point. The problem is, we can?t base a suspicious if we don?t know the normal course or pattern of the covenant society. Suspicion arises when something doesn?t quite fit. However, because only Bungie knows everything about the covenant culture, only they could see if something doesn?t fit. I am about to show you an example of how this can be true.
The entire covenant religion is based around the great journey. But what is it exactly. From most of the quotes we have heard, the great journey is religiously linked with death and halo. However, is the great journey really the covenant afterlife?
There is one famously important quote I would like to bring up.
?No, Arbiter! The Great Journey has begun! And the Brutes, not the Elites, shall be the Prophets' escort!?
Think for a minute. What is the title of this level? The Great Journey. What is Tartarus doing? Activating the ring. What is Truth doing? He is traveling to earth, (location of ark) on board a forerunner ship. What is another related word for travel? Journey. Lastly, Who do you think is piloting/on board this ship? Elites or Brutes? Brutes, due to recent events.
The covenant worship the forerunner, and they placed a Forerunner ship at the heart of there holiest city. This suggests that the forerunner ship had great meaning to the covenant. Let?s look back at the misinterpretation that leads to the beginning of the covenant.
Image the original forerunner phrase as After halo killed all life in the galaxy, the ark began its journey to reseed life in the galaxy. You must go out and reclaim all that we have lost. (remember, this message and planet was intended for humanity)
Well now here is my idea of how the prophets misread it. Halo kills all life and the journey of the ark turned into halo?s activation guides us in the great journey to the ark were life reborn (which turns to the great divine) ?I shall light this sacred ring, release it's cleansing flame, and burn a path into the divine beyond!? Halos activation is supposed to reveal a path to the divine beyond. Without this path, you can not get to the divine beyond. The divine beyond is the covenant afterlife/utopia. And reclaim everything turns to claim everything. But then what is the Great Journey?
The Great Journey is the act of traveling this path into the divine beyond. Spiritually, this path is burned so brightly that the souls of the dead can follow it into the divined beyond. Which is why when ever someone dies, they are referred to as beginning the great Journey. There soul has been placed onto the path, and now they just wait for it to be lit up so they can see and follow it. Also ?the weight of your heresy will stay your feet and you will be left behind.? This could be referring to that only faith allows on to move along the path and that heresy takes away your ability to move. Right now Truth is traveling in the great forerunner ship, being escorted by brutes. While one light up the path by activating the ring.
Now here is the interesting part. Since halo has only ever been activated once in its life time, no one other than the sentinels, monitors, and flood know what halo looks like when it goes off. Truth does not know that Tartarus has failed. In fact, the only covenant that know halo failed to go off are the ones who were standing in the control room. So only the few elites and few brutes know it failed. And soon the Spec Opts commander will be informed, and as well the brutes reinforcements surrounding the area. Meanwhile, that pretty light show will have convinced the rest of the covenant it has begun. But has happen? Due to halo failing to go off, a message was set to all other rings putting them into standby mode to await remote activation. Is it not probably that a message would also be set to the ark to prepare for remote activation. Or at least, a transmission link between the ark and rings created. And by a twist of cruel irony, Truth takes this transmission to the ark as the path to the divine beyond, and thusly follows it. So, Truth thinks the Tartarus has been successful because a path has appeared leading to a already religious spot (earth, which is religious to the covenant some how because that?s why Regret went there looking for more forerunner stuff, and also learned the location of delta halo there) The Prophet of Truth is really following the covenant religion blindly and to its fullest extent. And all because every thing is playing out to make it seem true.
Q & A
Q: why did the forerunner only plan to put themselves on one planet and not all of there planets?
A: The forerunner did not want to have different groups of forerunner grouping up on different planets because it would separate them and since they don't have full knowledge, when two of the groups come in contact with each other, there was a high possibility of war breaking out between them in battles for central control of the race, so the forerunner decide that in order to avoid war, they would only start one colony of forerunner and have them "Reclaim" all the other planets that once belonged to them.
Q: What exactly is the data error?
A: it could be one from a list of many things, a meteor shower, an electrical short out, god hated the forerunner, something, the point is, something happened which caused something unplanned for by the forerunners before halo activated. Every plan has its margin for error.
Q: why does guilty spark then call us reclaimers?
A: Because according to his understanding, we were supposed to be coming to reclaim the halo which rightfully belonged to our race. Since the plan was for the forerunners to be reborn on one planet and from there go out and reclaim all of our other planets and former belongings.
Q: Why do you think the sentinels were fighting the forerunners war with the flood, and why the purpose or using halo was to allow the sentinels to kill off the flood?
A: sort of a theory inside its self. Logically, fighting the flood with ground troops was highly ineffective and only helping the flood because every casualty you gained meant another solder for the flood, so as the battle went on, our numbers would decrease and the floods numbers would increase. As a way to indirectly fight the flood, the forerunner built robotic armies that couldn't be infected. This way the forerunner stood a better chance.
However, the flood were still too numerous, too powerful, and multiply too fast for the sentinels to possible stop them (multiply faster than the sentinels could kill them). So ultimately, the sentinels were used to slow the flood down. The sentinels would fight the increasing flood numbers as long as they could while the civilians on the other side of the planet evacuated. Once the flood reached a population, it was game over, so the forerunner would put the sentinels in between them and the flood to by time. This would make it take longer for the flood to completely take over a planet, and reduced the speed at which the flood multiplied and spread enough for the forerunners to build the halos. Because at this point, the forerunner could only buy time, so they used the time to make there last resort. Once halo went of and all hosts died, the flood couldn't multiply any more. The evidence I use is that the sentinel factory which flies could also possibly travel through space and that guilty spark can travel through space.
Q: Why did the forerunner keep the flood alive for study?
A: Because the attack on the forerunner was so sudden, and so quick, they have no clue where the flood came from. The first planet to fall had been colonized for centuries; the flood just appeared in one day and took everyone by surprise. Because the forerunner didn't know where the flood came from or how they got here, they were worried that even after halo, the flood could return and everything would crumble once again. Since killing all life in the galaxy was not something they wanted repeated, they made sure to have some of the sentinels collect flood and preserve them on halo for study so that a more practical method could be found for If and When the flood ever returned. Thinking the entire flood would be eliminated was too much of a risk (considering the forerunner didn?t know the true origin of the flood). and the forerunner wouldn't take it, even if it meant keeping samples that could escape and wreck as much havoc (a.k.a, the flood saved by the forerunner are possibly not the only flood left in existence)
Q: If the sentinels have been studying the found ever since, why haven?t they found a weakness to the found or a better way to beat them besides the halos?
A: The sentinels did study and record everything they know learned about the flood, however, even if they found a solution, they could not apply it because that was out side there programming, the forerunner couldn't trust an AI to know what was an acceptable solution and what wasn't, or even to think creatively enough as to know how to apply something they learned. So instead, everything the sentinels study is just waiting on records for someone to read it and shout "by god, it?s the answer." However, do to the error in the reseeding processes, the forerunners would not find halo for a long time, so long that another species could possibly find it first and bring about the flood by accident, and since the original plan was for the forerunner to know and reclaim everything quickly, they had left it so that only the forerunner could activate halo, since they never expected the error that would end up making this choice on of there worse. (The forerunner didn?t think they could trust another alien with the power of halo, so they didn't want them using it, but then that error happened and there plan quickly died)
Q: Why does Truth leave Mercy to die?
A: Truth already gave his answer. ?The great journey awaits no one.? Truth is in a rush because the great journey is about to start. Being the highest prophets, it is extremely important that the prophet be on time for the one most important event in all of the religion. (Imagine if the pope got tied up with waiting for coworkers while judgment day was about to start)
Counter-Counter Points
Guilty spark said all the forerunner died as planned in halo2, explain this?
There are two points I want to make, the first one useful, the other criticizing.
If you follow my story carefully, Halo did kill all the living, breathing, thinking, and forerunner at the time, as will as all living, breathing, thinking, life forms. But on board the Ark were unborn preserved embryos. These were not alive, if it makes you happy, we can say they weren't even embryos yet, but just a sperm and egg, Halo kills life according to size. And since micro organisms can't be infect. they were probably unaffected by halo, (hence, how the flood might have survived, since the flood spore is very very small) so technically all life did die, and then the seeds of life were replanted, just like how in the winter, all the flowers (the actual, green steam and roots flower) die, but then the seeds are planted later, but the currently living flowers did still all die during the activation of winter. And look, this doesn't even involve or require the ark to have any sort of shield.
And now for my second criticizing point. Yes guilty spark did say they all died. Guilty spark also said "There is no choice. We must activate the ring." ?The installation was well conceived. It is surely the only way to end the Flood threat." and yet, against what guilty spark said, we were able to stop the flood by blowing up the ring when he said we had to activate it to stop them. So guilty spark isn't always correct. Or at least, mention all possibilities.
But guilty spark clearly says reclaimers and forerunner separately of each other because they are different.
Except for that one time he said "why do you hesitate to do want you have already done" and then clearly states that the forerunners/his creators activated the ring and that according to penitent tangent the rings have only been fired once before. So if you as a reclaimers activated the ring before, and the forerunners activated the ring before, and the ring has only been fired once in its life time, then You the reclaimer must be a forerunner therefore Reclaimers=Forerunners, and the reason why GS tends to mention them separately must be because of something cultural of the forerunners.
If the humans are the forerunner, where is the technology?
This is not counter evidence, this is just an unanswered question, but being unanswered doesn't make something counter evidence. The fact that this current theory doesn't answer whether or not truth know the truth make this theory untrue. And as for the answer of how did the forerunner loss their technology. Did you read the theory, I clearly stated a reasonable and possible how, if you want if a little vaguer to be more open ended then here. Something happened that the forerunner weren't counting on that separated them from there technology.
Can you prove that the elites and prophets weren't supposed to be on the same planet,
No but that is unimportant. That specific error is irrelevant, what is relevant is that the prophets and elites ended up together on planet that the forerunners should have been put. For more evidence, see the evidence section.
With mercy?s dying words he said ?earth, to finish want was started, and this time none of you will be left behind.? That ?you? refers to/includes humans. So clearly this must be some conspiracy to kill of somebody.
Not if Mercy is true to his name, just like Regret is and how I support Truth is too. To finish what was started is referring to the quest to get into the divine beyond where the forerunners are. Yes, the you does refer/include humanity, but I think this is a general ?you? referring to everyone, humanity, elites, etc. Now you might think this just supports killing everyone even more but wait. ?And this time? means that this has to have happen before. Thusly I say he is referring to the activation of halo. However, remember, according to the covenant religion, what did the first activation of halo do. It brought the forerunner and all those worthy into the Divine Beyond. Thusly, that means, everyone else currently alive, the prophets, brutes, humans, grunts etc. were left behind during that first activation due to the fact that we are here and not in the divine beyond. And now, the Prophet of Mercy, being true to his name, is giving all races including humanity pardon and stating that they will not be left behind from the great journey and divine beyond. So despite the fact that master chief is the demon, always merciful Mercy is giving him pardon too. Thanks Mercy but I think I will pass on your offer.
My proof supporting this claim is in the name, Mercy, to say that Mercy is not saying mercy but instead, killing everyone for selfish cause goes against his name which isn?t just given to him for any reason.
Supporting Evidence
-The prophets and elites are on the planet that was supposed to be the forerunners. I support this on the fact that the prophets and elites had to be on a planet that was a jump start to forerunner tech 1-0-1. The covenant started with them, so they had to be somewhere with ships. And also, a planet meant to start up the forerunners on reclaimer there past could also start up another race on the path of claiming all the forerunner goods, which is what happened.
-As for the ark being a ship. Will as you can see, the ark being a ship that goes on a journey makes it into a passage that can more easily and understandably get changed into a misinterpretation of something with the words great journey. However, in this theory of my, you could substitute the ark as a ship for the ark as an installation and instead have it that the ark teleported to pods using the forerunners teleportation technology, to there proper location.
-Noah?s ark was a boat that carried two of every animal and protected it from the flood for forty days and forty nights. Well, my version of the ark; was a ship, contained and embryo of every life form, stored these embryos during the time of the flood and kept them safe from the flood until they were eliminated on every planet. And in the end, this lead to the birth of the covenant by accident (god makes covenant with man) god makes error which makes covenant.
-Halo kills based on size as according to GS which always for the loop hole of single cell organisms to survive without making any sort of shield against the ultimate weapon.
-Only humans have ever been called Reclaimers in the game and have been the only ones allowed to activate halo. Human = reclaimer
-"You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all of our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating." GS. Key word "our", possessive from of we, which means, someone + I. Being created by the forerunner, chances are that GS would respectively associate himself with the forerunner. Therefore, human history is supposed to be a record of the forerunners lost time. And it is lost time. And since Reclaimers = humans, this farther establishes that reclaimers = forerunner = human.
-It was suggested/ hinted that the ark is on or located near earth.
-"The Flood are already hard at work repairing your vessel. Its parasitic nature belies the Flood's intelligence." GS. the POA was labeled never going to be capable of flight ever again according to the semi cannon books, and plus you saw the thing was a wreck, it wasn't designed to land on planets, so I don't that even if fixed they wouldn't be able even get it to take off. The only ship being repaired of in fear of being repaired was a covenant ship. Covenant ships are based off of forerunner technology and ships. So GS must have labeled the Covenant ship as your ship (you the presumed forerunner).
-the arguable conclusion of my other theory one size fits all halos in which I stated the only way human and the covenant could exist is due to forerunner intervention. This is arguable, but this can only add additional supporting evidence, but taking it away does no harm to this current theory.
-All other pieces of evidence that support either humans = reclaimers or humans = forerunners or reclaimers = forerunner. There?s too much list them all, but you know them well.
-Questions, comments, and criticism are all appreciated. In fact, criticism and counter points help make the future versions even stronger because I learn from them. Some of my strongest points are formed and developed from reversed counter points.
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