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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
===Production notes=== | ===Production notes=== | ||
*According to [[David Candland|Evil Otto]]<ref name="blam">[http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive36.pl?read=1070818 '''halo.bungie.org''': ''Re: Why retcons don't bother me anymore''] (Evil Otto: ''"One of the most striking retcons to me is the basic concept of whole role of humanity. Originally (back in Halo 1) the reason why humans weren't conquered and incorporated into the Covenant collective was because their presence defied Covenant religion. When the Covenant discovered humans, they knew they were forerunners, but their presence implied the "great journey" failed. They also weren't the all powerful gods they worshiped, so the Prophets wanted to "sweep them under the carpet," as it were."'')</ref>, the connection between humanity and Forerunner is that | *According to [[David Candland|Evil Otto]]<ref name="blam">[http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive36.pl?read=1070818 '''halo.bungie.org''': ''Re: Why retcons don't bother me anymore''] (Evil Otto: ''"One of the most striking retcons to me is the basic concept of whole role of humanity. Originally (back in Halo 1) the reason why humans weren't conquered and incorporated into the Covenant collective was because their presence defied Covenant religion. When the Covenant discovered humans, they knew they were forerunners, but their presence implied the "great journey" failed. They also weren't the all powerful gods they worshiped, so the Prophets wanted to "sweep them under the carpet," as it were."'')</ref>, Bungie's intentions for the connection between humanity and Forerunner is that were one and the same; this was hinted repeatedly throughout the [[Halo Trilogy]]<ref name="blam2">[http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive36.pl?read=1070818 '''halo.bungie.org''': ''Re: Why retcons don't bother me anymore''] (Evil Otto: ''"The plot lines in our games imply this everywhere - the chief being called reclaimer, only humans being able to retrieve and insert the index, Spark telling the chief, "you are forerunner." etc."'')</ref> and further explored in [[Joe Staten|Staten]]'s novel, ''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''. However, the release of the first two books of the Forerunner trilogy released by 343 Industries has revised this, establishing that the two species were related but distinct, and that the actual connection goes far further back than the events in the books, when both species had been created by the Precursors. | ||
===Miscellaneous=== | ===Miscellaneous=== | ||