Talk:The Forerunner

Well for the theory of the combat skin i disagree with the idea that the Forerunners use life forms as battle suits, what i believe 343 is speaking of is John's armor. Remember the armor used by all of the spartans (both spartan 1's and 2's) is a copy of the armor used by the Elites in the Covenant. The armor used by the Covenant is re-purposed armor made by the Forerunners. Perhaps the Covenant aren't using the specific armor types based on flood fighting, but more on sewage (because the environmental systems are good enough for the flood atmosphere).

Pertaining to 343's comment when cortana stops the use of Halo; "Last time,...", maybe because he's a machine it doesn't see the difference between one human and the next, so maybe a marine asked 343 if he would have activated the ring before he was killed.

And finally on the subject of why the Chief knows how to use Forerunner tech, perhaps humans are a lost decendant of the Forerunners, and the electronics in thier bone structure and minds tapped into a sort of memory relaps like a second life. Of course the Covenant know how to use the technology by studying it, and humans do run training simulations and can learn to use these things as well. this is shown with the human hacking the door way on "343 Guilty Spark" and the fact that cortana can open a Covenant ship's door (also forerunner technology.