So ancient humanity was at war with the Forerunners. We were looked at as a species that was too warlike and full of ourselves by most of the forerunners. When humanity lost the war with the forerunners we were de-evolved from our advanced state of tech back to Stone Age tech. It seems like only a handful of forerunners believed us to be the inheritors of the mantle. So why then does all forerunner tech respond to humans? It’s not like covie tech that anyone can access if they know how, none of the covenant species could activate forerunner tech, as evidenced by Halo2. With only a handful of forerunners believing in humanity, and the rest viewing us as a threat, if not an outright enemy, this makes no sense. The small group of the librarian’s supporters couldn’t have possibly changed every bit of forerunner tech to accept human control.
Halo 2 is an odd source for covenant tech rejecting humans, as there are plenty of times the arbiter activates forerunner buttons and doors.
It’s mostly just the halos that reject nonhumans
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> Halo 2 is an odd source for covenant tech rejecting humans, as there are plenty of times the arbiter activates forerunner buttons and doors.
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> It’s mostly just the halos that reject nonhumans
Sorry, by the Halo 2 reference I meant how Tartarus had to kidnap humans to try to activate the halo ring, since it wouldn’t respond to the covies.
The thing is the current set of halos were deployed by the group that worked with the librarian and the iso-didact.
Well, I would imagine that the Librarian, or Chant-to-Green, could have put a general geas on humanity that would allow them to access Forerunner technology in an easier fashion than other species. It wasn’t perfect of course as evident by the S-III Gammas being rejected as Reclaimers and some captured UNSC troops in Spartan Ops not successfully activating Forerunner tech after being captured by Jul’s Covenant.
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> Well, I would imagine that the Librarian, or Chant-to-Green, could have put a general geas on humanity that would allow them to access Forerunner technology in an easier fashion than other species. It wasn’t perfect of course as evident by the S-III Gammas being rejected as Reclaimers and some captured UNSC troops in Spartan Ops not successfully activating Forerunner tech after being captured by Jul’s Covenant.
Oh… I missed that. So then not all humans can access forerunner tech?
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> > Well, I would imagine that the Librarian, or Chant-to-Green, could have put a general geas on humanity that would allow them to access Forerunner technology in an easier fashion than other species. It wasn’t perfect of course as evident by the S-III Gammas being rejected as Reclaimers and some captured UNSC troops in Spartan Ops not successfully activating Forerunner tech after being captured by Jul’s Covenant.
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> Oh… I missed that. So then not all humans can access forerunner tech?
Maybe, maybe not. Specific things might be locked to certain individuals, but I think in general most humans could at least interact with most Forerunner systems. The two examples I mentioned make it hard to really pinpoint what the limits are. And of course you’ll have cases like with Intrepid Eye and 000 Tragic Solitude acting against humanity.
the humans in one theory could be the descendants of the forerunners and it makes sense if you dont keep the games made by 343i Canon, this, differing humans from forerunners in the newer lore seems to contradict with lots of older lore.
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> > Halo 2 is an odd source for covenant tech rejecting humans, as there are plenty of times the arbiter activates forerunner buttons and doors.
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> Sorry, by the Halo 2 reference I meant how Tartarus had to kidnap humans to try to activate the halo ring, since it wouldn’t respond to the covies.
UrbaneRocket495 seems be correct in saying that the inability to use Forerunner tech seems to be something mostly Halo specific. All through the Halo games and books we see Covenant accessing and utilizing Forerunner tech, although at times with greater difficulty.
As you said, only a handful of Forerunners accepted that humanity might be true inheritors of the Mantle, but by the end of the war with the Flood there were precious few Forerunners left besides that handful. The Forerunners knew that they were going to leave the newly seeded galaxy to itself without their interference, and the humans were the natural choice to trust the Mantle to.
The Forerunners never hated humanity, not the way one side of a war generally hates the other. They looked down on them out of a sense of superiority, and they hated how violent they were, but they also saw them as other living beings who were to be protected by the Forerunners’ Mantle. The Warrior Servants who you would most expect to loathe the humans even had some respect for them, most notably in the case of the Didact.
The relationship between the Forerunners and humanity seemed to be more like an elder and younger brother with a deep and sometimes ugly rivalry. The older brother generally thought the younger was just a little twirp, and the younger wanted to do his own thing and not live in his brother’s shadow. In the end, the elder brother trusted the responsibility he could no longer keep to his younger sibling, despite their past clashes and differences.