Where did all the Forerunner go Theory?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:02 pm
This post contains spoilers from GoO and the Halo campaign.
I originally posted this in another topic but I thought I wiil create my own now that AR has PM'd Froman.
One of the big mysteries in the Haloverse is why didnt the Forerunner survive, something obviously went terribly wrong as Dr Halsey said in GoO. I have been thinking about this the past couple of days and came up with many different ideas. My favourite is that the Forerunner AI's thought it was best to kill off all the Forerunners, this theory came to me while watching I Robot. If you remember VIKI thought it was best for the robots/AI to look after the human race, even if this meant killing some humans. This was because of the first law of robotics:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Because of war, disease and other nastiness present in the human race, VIKI thought it best to essentially Nanny the human race, thereby no wars would occur and humans would be safe from one another, as Sunny says 'Her logic is undeniable'(or something like that).
Bringing this back to the Halo universe, Guilty Spark and other monitors who are in charge of the Halo's and probably the ARK may have felt that logically it was best to kill off the Forerunner for the good of the galaxy. This would have been benificial for the galaxy as the AI constructs felt that when the Forerunners emerged from the Shield Worlds they would have started tampering with the Flood again, therefore making the possibilty of another outbreak higher and hence endangering all other life in the galaxy. This probability was so great that they thought it best to kill off all forerunner.
If all forerunner were destroyed then the rest of the life in the galaxy (protected somehow by the power of the ARK) would have a chance to evolve and live peacefully in the milky way not ever knowing about the Flood. Well until a life form stumbled upon it again --------> Yet probabilty wise this may have been lower.
Now with the advent of AR's cryptic messages of another being that outranks him it has led me to speculate further. Obviously AR is warning us about something/someone that is of great danger to us. I believe that this 'thing' is another forerunner construct who is similar to VIKI in I,Robot, and wants to fire the Halos again as he may feel the Covenant are becoming too pwerful and are close to discovering the Flood. He may have the power to activate the rings by himself without the need of a Reclaimer - remember Cortana says that Guilty Spark may find a way to set off the Halo's without the index or a Reclaimer in the level Two Betrayals hence you need to destroy the pulse generators. What if this other construct that AR refers to knows how to set off all Halo's from the ARK without an Index or Reclaimer?
Ah well you might say that the Halo's definitely needs a reclaimer to set off the Halo's. However, it will only take one Recalimer to hit the self destruct button, there must have been at least one Reclaimer who thought that this 'logic was undeniable' and whoosh destroyed the Forerunner.
I originally posted this in another topic but I thought I wiil create my own now that AR has PM'd Froman.
One of the big mysteries in the Haloverse is why didnt the Forerunner survive, something obviously went terribly wrong as Dr Halsey said in GoO. I have been thinking about this the past couple of days and came up with many different ideas. My favourite is that the Forerunner AI's thought it was best to kill off all the Forerunners, this theory came to me while watching I Robot. If you remember VIKI thought it was best for the robots/AI to look after the human race, even if this meant killing some humans. This was because of the first law of robotics:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Because of war, disease and other nastiness present in the human race, VIKI thought it best to essentially Nanny the human race, thereby no wars would occur and humans would be safe from one another, as Sunny says 'Her logic is undeniable'(or something like that).
Bringing this back to the Halo universe, Guilty Spark and other monitors who are in charge of the Halo's and probably the ARK may have felt that logically it was best to kill off the Forerunner for the good of the galaxy. This would have been benificial for the galaxy as the AI constructs felt that when the Forerunners emerged from the Shield Worlds they would have started tampering with the Flood again, therefore making the possibilty of another outbreak higher and hence endangering all other life in the galaxy. This probability was so great that they thought it best to kill off all forerunner.
If all forerunner were destroyed then the rest of the life in the galaxy (protected somehow by the power of the ARK) would have a chance to evolve and live peacefully in the milky way not ever knowing about the Flood. Well until a life form stumbled upon it again --------> Yet probabilty wise this may have been lower.
Now with the advent of AR's cryptic messages of another being that outranks him it has led me to speculate further. Obviously AR is warning us about something/someone that is of great danger to us. I believe that this 'thing' is another forerunner construct who is similar to VIKI in I,Robot, and wants to fire the Halos again as he may feel the Covenant are becoming too pwerful and are close to discovering the Flood. He may have the power to activate the rings by himself without the need of a Reclaimer - remember Cortana says that Guilty Spark may find a way to set off the Halo's without the index or a Reclaimer in the level Two Betrayals hence you need to destroy the pulse generators. What if this other construct that AR refers to knows how to set off all Halo's from the ARK without an Index or Reclaimer?
Ah well you might say that the Halo's definitely needs a reclaimer to set off the Halo's. However, it will only take one Recalimer to hit the self destruct button, there must have been at least one Reclaimer who thought that this 'logic was undeniable' and whoosh destroyed the Forerunner.