Dragonfriend

Riddle me this shillcattle, what does Forerunner mean in both reality and the context of Halo? Forerunner is a real word. It means something that comes before another similar thing. In Bungie's Halo, the Forerunners aren't actually called the Forerunners. That is the name ascribed by The Covenant and adopted by the UNSC to the mysterious beings who came before us. It's descriptive. No one knows what they called themselves or even what they looked like. Bungie called them Forerunners with the intent from the begining that they came before us. Because that's what Forerunner means. And the dev full of well read men who put constant references to Mythology in Marathon and Myth didn't just put words in without thought like 343i does. As described in Staten's Contact Harvest novel, the Covenant discovered a strange race of aliens who happened to be the only ones who could use the tech of the beings they worshiped. Even worse for the Prophets, when they directly asked a functioning Forerunner AI. It showed them Forerunner lifesigns. Human lifesigns. The Reclaimers. The Prophets realised that these aliens were the remnants of the very beings they worshiped. So they waged a war of extermination to cover this up. This is implicitly the twist at the end of that book. Providing more context for something hinted at in Halo 1 and 2. And confirmed in Halo 3. Unfortunately for the shillcattle, words mean things. Bungie used those words with intent. Or they would've used other words. Their intent from Halo 1 based on Guilty Spark's words to Master Chief and his confusion was for the Forerunners to be human. The original ending of Halo 2 supports this. It makes sense without mental gymnastics, retcons, and gaslighting. 343 Guilty Spark was not senile. At best he was Bungie's definition of rampant which was carried on from Marathon. He had developed an ego. After scanning the Autumn's archive he finally understood that whilst these weren't the same culture as his masters, they were descendents of those people. "To have a record of all *our* lost time-human history, is it?" in his own words. He was no longer confused. He was never insane. He just assumed the people who looked like his creators and wore very similar if more primative armour were his creators. Even if he was insane, ow do you mix up two seperate races with completely different aesthetics and technology? You don't. Shillcattle are gaslighting using retcons. You cannot call yourself the Forerunner Empire because your badly written alien empire didn't know anything would come after them. Nor can you call the mortal enemy of your race Reclaimers because they didn't own anything of yours. That makes no sense to anyone who knows that words mean things. Your weird retcons can only reduce and take away from Halo. They make what was once so simple it was observable and taken for granted via a few sentences, to pages and pages of novels and wiki pages dedicated to resolving unneeded continuity errors bought about by retcons upon retcons. TLDR: Total 343i Death