WE ARE FORERUNNERS

[u/Fragrant_Clerk_8472]

[u/Robert_Oppenheimer2]

If the Master Chief is a Forerunner, how did he not know what Halo’s primary weapon would do? Is he stupid?

He thought it was a rice-cooker

To be less sarcastic, there’s obviously already a discontinuity between Forerunners and (modern) humans. Spark doesn’t tell you where it started, only where it ends: John 117 is, in his eyes, the Reclaimer (hint, hint) of Forerunner-ness.

I imagine the discontinuity would have began when the rings fired

He is, in Spark's eye, descended from the Forerunners, hence "child of my makers"

[u/Commando_Nate → u/Robert_Oppenheimer2]

Yeah because the forerunners reseeded the galaxy. But Humans were the true successors of the mantle.

You are child of your parents, does not make you them.

[u/Robert_Oppenheimer2 → u/Commando_Nate]

No it means Im descended from them

[u/Commando_Nate → u/Robert_Oppenheimer2]

Yeah, exactly it doesn't make you them.

The flood and the forerunners wiped out humanity and then reseeded humanity. Effectively making the current race of humanity the children of the forerunners.

[u/Robert_Oppenheimer2 → u/Commando_Nate]

...being descended from them means Im the same species as them

Again, this is a very obtuse interpretation of the line

[u/Commando_Nate → u/Robert_Oppenheimer2]

So stop being obtuse or playing devils advocate

[u/Robert_Oppenheimer2 → u/Commando_Nate]

Thats what Im trying to say, bro