Forerunner Discussion Thread

[English Mobster]

In response to the clusterfuck of posts in "The Best Pictures You've Seen" thread.

I'm not entirely sure their forerunner though.

There forerunner, definitely. Look at the design of most of the buildings. It's also by ensemble studio's, which just so happened to be making Halo Wars around those dates..

Mobster edit: There has been a severe mix-up of "Their" "there" in both these posts, and it made me facepalm. Guys, it's "they're". They are.

Ah, ok, I wasn't sure because it looked very similar to forerunner but the humans in the sketch threw me off.

Protip: Humans and Forerunners are related.

Actually, I believe the Forerunners found Humans while indexing the galaxy, and chose them to be the heirs of their technology. (much like the Precursors chose the Forerunners). At least I think, correct me if I'm wrong

I Believe, That forerunners are humans.

Forerunners are genetically identical to humans.

Read the books and you'll know this.

Forerunners have 6 fingers, thus they can't be genetically identical. The shape of the hand is oddly simular, but the forerunners have 2 thumbs instead of 1. Maybe the forerunners discovered human kind and decided to let them be able to access things like holo panels and such because humans were the only intelligent life forms that they trusted.

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or that panel can be used with either hand


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True, but your index finger isn't too simular to your pinky. Or they could of made it so that it reads both your index finger and pinky, which would make you right.

That holo-pad must be used with a "key"

...Or maybe that isn't supposed to represent a hand.

Forerunner's are human's; if you read the book the Phropets talk about how the humans are forerunner's and if the rest of the covenant found out, it would curropt them.

At the end of Halo 3, 343 Guilty Spark tells the Master Chief that he is Forerunner, same goes with Truth to Johnson when he tells him that he knows why they were "left behind"

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All Mendicant Bias says is that humans "represent" his makers. Take that to mean what you will, but I think he would have said it outright if humans were in fact the Forerunners.

Both of you are incorrect. GuiltySpark was speaking out of rampancy. Truth was speaking in theological context of the Forerunner leaving anyone behind they deemed "unworthy." I believe the Terminals indicate the Forerunner found humanity on Earth. In a long stretch the Forerunner MAY have seeded Earth with their DNA, resulting in the constantly mentioned with both being genetically identical, this could also explain how in Contact Harvest Mendicant Bias recognized Humanity as his "makers"

Humanity may not be the direct descendants, yes there is some evidence stating we are, but you must remember how cryptic Bungie can be.

Sorry for reviving the argument but I felt it needed my 2 cents in.

was my favourite too.

E: and even if the topic died, yeah, forerunners and humans are one and the same.
Hence the whole reclaimer speech with 343, when he goes to say "last time you asked me blablabla"

Personally, I find the entire subject rather interesting. While I don't believe the humans are Forerunners DIRECTLY (there was a Halo 3 Webcomic released just before H3 which showed humans watching Sentinels build the portal to the Ark), I do believe that the Forerunners modified human DNA somehow.
Please note how the disappearance of the Neanderthal coincides with Alpha Halo firing.
Also note how as soon as humans returned from the Ark (HOW did they return?) they began using tools.
It could be the Forerunners somehow "seeded" humans with Forerunner DNA, OR it could be the species interbred.
Just my 2 cents.