A Monument to All of Our Sins
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:44 am
Everyone is familiar with this statement from Gravemind from halo 2. There has been much debate and I think I finally found out what it means. The basis of this theory is that everything in the halo universe, in some way, will follow the Noah's Ark story. This will follow the pre-firing events of the Forerunners and (hopefully) not contradict with anything.I? I am a Monument to All Your Sins
Noah's Ark:
1. God sees that all of man (except Noah) is sinning.
2. The sin is so bad that he decided to wipe out all life and tells Noah to make an Ark to survive.
3. Noah does and collects two of every animal and loads himself and his family on the Ark.
4. A flood comes and for forty days and forty nights it rains.
5. He leaves the Ark when the flood had dropped enough.
6. The flood eventually dries up.
Every part of this refers to the pre-first-firing in the halo universe. Let me explain.
The forerunners were the first and most technologically advance race in the universe. They built massive structures in their own majesty (first sin: self-worshiping.) They had military dominance and effectively, a utopia. But they were not happy (second sin: greed) and tried to find a way to reverse the only burden in their lives: Death.
Forerunners = Man. There may be even more behind this (below.)
The fact is that no matter who you are, you will die, and they tried to find a way to change that. They tried to not die; to gain eternal life (third sin and most damning: they tried to make their own eternal life.) One of the parts of the experiments created the flood and it rapidly spun out of control annihilating the first planet in days. This was no accident. This was God (see below).
Flood = Sin The flood was the literal creation of the sin. A Monument of all of our sins. The reference to it being 'our' sins below.
Before long the flood had collapsed the forerunner empire and a single engineer not working on the Flood project was chosen to build an escape plan. This was the halo array and the Ark. A Noah figure is the first reclaimer as he activated the rings the first time. Now his name may be different, but he will have been the architect of the Grand design. Regardless, thanks to AR's post and 343GS we know there were survivors that were forerunner in origin.
Noah finds himself on the Ark, alone, and surrounded by technology. Knowing that he will be the last of his race he works with the machines to create something that will clone him. The result was the first humans. Noah's family. They couldn't operate a ship to escape Earth so Noah lived out the rest of his days on Earth quietly.
Now the point of this post? There was a single piece of the puzzle that was left out. God. Now there's two things that can be done here.
1. A real god. Or an invisible one, at least. Like a very destructive Karma.
2. The last element of the halo series. A yet untold force that will reveal itself in Halo 3 that has been running the show the whole time.
This is the theory that I'm working with until Halo 3. Everything points to it, in my opinion. If you're noticing any inconsistencies or just want object, feel free to.