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[TerribleTimbo]

[SPEC] Royal Bloodline Theory

[Joshy]

One thing I'm wondering is, how would the directors of the spartan program know to look for the particular "forerunner gene?" Unless it's associated with another desirable characteristic they were looking for spartans to possess.

Nice Theory, I like it.

[DM]

The only problem is, if the Forerunner had an immunity or resistance to the Flood, why would they create the Halo's to combat it?

[TerribleTimbo]

To Joshy incase others post-
Hmmm, I don't know really. Maybe they had knowledge of the special genes but never made it public. Maybe they had everyone's blood sampled at birth for diseases and such but the directors would look for the Forerunner parts instead. Then they might go and scope out their found subjects and decide whether or not they were suitable for the Spartan program. This could also mean that they know everyone with the Forerunner blood in them too, aka Keyes.

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Also, at this very time my brother has just pointed out to me that Sergent Johnson was in a program called Project ORION. This project seems to have been done by the same people that did the other Spartan programs, but as you may know they started on Spartan 2's, not one. So this first project could have created the first group of Spartan soldiers which would make Johnson a Spartan. If this is true then it would solidify that Spartans are immune to the Flood because he was able to survive. He was told that it was because of the some syndrome(I forget the name), but this syndrome could be the code name for the Forerunner blood.

[TerribleTimbo]

[Mr. Munchy]

I really like this theory. This also explains how Master Chief somehow knew exactly how to operate all the Forerunner machinery (like during the cutscene in Halo CE where he activates the light bride) -- he would have some sort of 'genetic memory'. When the Spartans were selected, they would have picked the absolute best genetic specimens -- and what better specimen than one with DNA from a far superior race?

This also really helps out with the monitors calling humans 'reclaimers'. It means that humanity wasn't created by the Forerunners, but was probably elevated from apes, about 100,000 years ago, when they first came to earth.

[gott_sei_dank]

This provides another angle for my theory that the information we are receiving now will be crucial for future events.Perhaps now that mankind has reached a level of understanding that we can manipulate genetic materials the Forerunners are providing us with the path to alter our DNA to ensure in the future there will be a Master Chief.

[Joshy]

On the part about Halos being giant labs:

1. I agree, because of the ecosystem on the ring. If it were solely a weapon, where is the need to have a functioning ecosystem at all?

2. Why make the rings a full fledged laboratory with a biosphere (and even varying systems between rings, possibly) if they are just a giant weapon?

Now I'm wondering, why have all these functions on a single ring? Since each purpose is fairly extreme (Creating and studying a new species or destroying all sentient life).

I hope this makes some degree of sense.

[TerribleTimbo]

[Hank Scorpio]

I like this theory also. Having first contact in 2007 will lead to our knowledge of the forerunners and over the next 500 years lead to a sequence of events involving the Spartan program and the events in the games to prevent another disaster. I think that even if the forerunners were immune themselves to the flood, they would have been concerned with the rest of the universe too and their responsibility for what they had done.

[Bauski]

lab/weapon weapon/lab?

[violentvixen]

Also, wasn't the only real lab that's been seen in the Halo universe that space station where the Heretic Leader was? The inside of the two Halos we've seen was VERY different from that lab. At least I think so.

I haven't read the books, so I might be wrong about the labs, I'm just going off of what I've seen in the games.

[HitsHerMark]

[Shiningfist]

I found something interesting in the Star Map thread(sorry i dont have the link) but there is an ineresting picture there http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=8656
Cephee is the constilation(sp?) Cepheus who was the King of Aethopia, mythogical Ethopia. Modern Ethopia borders modern Kenya. The way it ties in here is that Cepheus and his wife gave birth to the wife of the father of Perses and were the ancestors of the rulers of Mycenae.
If you replace Cepheus and his with Forerunners and there daughter and her husband with Master Chiefs parents and Perses with Master Chief and the ruler of Mycenae with the Forerunners than you may have a shortened version of Master Chief's bloodline.
Aethiopia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia_%28Mythology%29
please correct me if you see I'm wrong

[LorD BaZTArD]

Actually, he's not a cyborg. He's human with genetic tinkering. The reason he can put cortana in his head is twofold. The Mjolinir armor is multi-layered. There's enough computational devices in that suit to facilitate AI calculations. All the spartans had their neural interfaces upgraded for this reason, so that they could support AI data, the suit does enough work to offload most of the work.

I think also, that most humans in the UNSC have a very basic version of this too.