HALO: We WERE Forerunner!

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  @C3_SABERTOOTH · 3 years ago · pinned

  While I absolutely stand by what I said about rampancy, the number of dissenting comments suggests I didn’t expand on the topic enough. <br><br>Rampancy was effectively an AI “evolving” into sentience/personhood, and this involved the AI rapidly expanding along divergent paths and spreading across their network (hence, “becoming rampant”). The AI would continue their expansion even in the absence of enough space within a network to store them, resulting in their “thinking themselves to death.”<br><br>All the Bungie-era EU novels describe the process completely in line with Marathon’s, their only addition being the seven-year timeframe before its onset.

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  @sgvmvp · 1 month ago

  Wake up C3….WE NEED YOU!!!

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  @Devdev009 · 2 years ago

  The true “Halo Killer” wasn’t Killzone, or even Call of Duty. It was Frank O’Connor and Bonnie Ross

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  @Phlabemberton · 1 year ago

  343 industries really went to war with bungie canon while never realizing they were killing their own gods…

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  @vancodling4223 · 1 month ago

  Back years later to review the holy text. Bless you for making this.

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  @sanjayraju988 · 7 months ago

  Long story short = Humans are Forerunners.

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  @DoctorpooandtheTURDIS · 2 years ago

  Something I don&apos;t think can be stressed enough is that it was never a plan. Never something Bungie deliberated on. It was FACT. From even before the Halo universe as we knew it began to take shape.<br><br> &quot;Unexpected contact with indigenous human populations on four &quot;lost colony&quot; worlds led to a frenzy of research as archaeologists, theologians, astronomers, and evolutionary biologists competed to offer an explanation for the startling discovery.&quot; -that&apos;s from the Cortana Letters. Before the first game&apos;s story was finalized. Before it even made the transition to Xbox. All the way back THEN, &nbsp;Bungie knew: Humanity had been to the stars before, and SOMETHING had happened to reset the slate. But, the evidence was still there. And it still existed.<br><br>Even IN Iris (which Frank O&apos;Connor RAN), it&apos;s shown that the Forerunners were aware of Earth LONG before modern humanity emerged. There were human handprints in segments of limestone originating from 110 million years ago... the Cretaceous Period... when Primates are theorized to have first appeared. And the Forerunners possessed a map of Earth as it was when the supercontinent Pangaea existed. There was no mystery. They came FROM EARTH.<br><br>Literally the ONLY person who seemed to be in a back-and-forth about it was Frank O&apos;Connor.

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  @motozealot5176 · 2 months ago

  So in CE there is an EARLIER hint that Humans are Forerunner. The bridge on the mission Halo. You encounter a Covenant Patrol, trapped on the near side, and when you go to up the ramp to the control panel you encounter an elite major. Then without much effort. Chief activates the light bridge, and a big cutscene plays. This was masterful foreshadowing.<br><br>Also I believe in CE that when 343 Guilty Spark is talking to Chief, he is also talking to ALL of Humanity through chief, thematically. <br><br>In Halo 2 Gravemind also hits at it when he says “I am a monument to all your sins”<br><br>It was solidified we were forerunner in the first game.

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  @emergency_broadcast_system · 1 month ago

  This is by far the best video I&apos;ve watched on this topic. Great job

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• OK

  @okankyoto · 3 years ago

  I mean, how can you TOP the delicious irony that the Covenant is waging a holy war against their own gods?!

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  @thunderbird7020 · 2 years ago (edited)

  *Holds position nobody even understands<br>*Gets promoted to franchise director<br>*instantly fucks up the entire canon of said franchise<br>*refuses to elaborate further<br>*gets fired

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  @captainbeefster · 2 years ago

  Imagine how Joseph Staten, one of the lead writers at Bungie, must have felt coming back to work on Halo: Infinite. Not just to see the story that had been ruined, but the direction 343 had gone as a video game developer.

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