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[KIRBYTIME]

I dunno if this is important rush. But since you've been making some references to the bible in this case I would like to share this:

John the Baptist was also nicknamed as 'John the Forerunner' namely because he was considered to be the forerunner of Christ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist

Just my 2cents if you think so...

[rush]

[AshofPompei]

[shadeedge]

I think I disagree on your opinions of the Forerunners. Look at their naming system - Guilty Spark, Penitent Tangent. The video from Server 05. They're sorry they had to do this, to wipe out all life in the galaxy. D-com doesn't feel remorse - but that it questions whether it should feel it or not seems to suggest it does have morals. It recognises that this is a situation where it should feel bad; it doesn't, true, and humans could merely have taught it what is "bad", but I think it does feel some sense of wrongness. It does recognise that it's a pyhrric situation.

OTOH, the nature of the librarians does go towards your view. They might be named to suggest unhappiness with their job, but they approach their job with apparent relish. They don't themselves seem to care pressing the GRB. It could just be that that's a function of the fact they're AIs, but possibly they reflect the views of the Forerunners.

I think this answers the question of, if the Forerunners could hide humans, why didn't they just come out after the activation? Why didn't they hide also? I think perhaps they stayed out to be destroyed deliberately, in order to pay for their crimes of creating the Flood and then failing in every method except the Halo approach.

My own theory is that AR is on the Ark. Not as an overall AI in charge, but as a open-the-doors, say hello type of thing. Going from the name, it's the reflexive subordinate, the Forerunner equvalent of a pre-recorded menu when you phone a company. But the subordinate of who? Of the entity that's replaced it, I would guess, who possibly is the AI in charge of the Ark. Just as the pre-recorded message directs you to the person you need (well, in an ideal world), AR's replacement has taken over the conversation.

[rush]

[thebruce]

All AR's posts are catalogued on the wiki in the Outline page (and archived weeks), but there isn't a specific page lsiting only all his posts. I saw someone make a list on the bungie.net forums somewhere, but it's not all that necessary IMO. But yes, all his posts are on the wiki

[rush]

Ah, I see now. I didn't that was all of them.

[LorD BaZTArD]

going back to the Human/Flood thing, that was kind of my point. The flood was an unknown entity to the covenant. Something they had no-idea that existed, but they did know that there was something in the universe that was vermin. The covenant have mis-read things before so perhaps when they learned about the vermin they immediately assumed it was the first thing they found. Humans. Now that they have stumbled across the Halo's and the flood inside they are thinking "we have had no warnings of this"

My theory is that they did get the warnings, but blindly assumed the warning was talking about something else. Humans instead of flood.