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The [[Covenant]] venerate the Forerunners as gods and referred to them as the '''Ancients''', believing that the [[Halo Array]] elevated the Forerunner to godhood instead of killing them. As such, they have appropriated many Forerunner technologies and artifacts, and such searching led to the Covenant coming to Harvest in the first place, therefore beginning the Human-Covenant war. Also they dedicated a significant amount of time to the search for other "holy relics" such as the [[Halo Installations]], believing that they can follow the Forerunners into godhood. This is referred to as the "[[Great Journey]]" by the Covenant races. The [[Covenant]] believe that the Forerunner's ascension to godhood was finalized after the rings were fired.

*The Forerunners seem to be similar to the Silver Race of Greek mythology. Similarly, the Forerunners are very similar to the [[Wikipedia:Ancients (Stargate)|Ancients]] of the ''[[Wikipedia:Stargate|Stargate]]'' television series in that they both built technologically advanced rings as well as galactic scale weaponry, and are thought of as gods by aliens. They also went extinct thousands of years ago, and thought of humans as their children. They show some similarities (their highly advanced technology and the fact that they mysteriously vanished) to the [[Marathon (video game series)#The_Jjaro|Jjaro]], a race of aliens from a previous [[Bungie]] game, ''[[Marathon (video game series)|Marathon]]'', the Eloh from the MMORPG ''[[Wikipedia:Tabula Rasa (video game)|Tabula Rasa]]'', the [[Wikipedia:Old Ones (Warhammer 40,000)|Old Ones]] from [[Wikipedia:Warhammer 40,000|Warhammer 40,000]], the Protheans in ''[[Wikipedia:Mass Effect|Mass Effect]]'', the [[Wikipedia:Precursor (Star Control)|Precursors]] of ''[[Wikipedia::Star Control |Star Control]]'', the [[w:c:starwars:Rakata|Rakata or Builders]] of ''[[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]]'', the [[Wikipedia:Progenitors (Homeworld)|Progenitors]] of ''[[Wikipedia:Homeworld|Homeworld]]'', the Chozo and Alimbics of ''[[Wikipedia:Metroid|Metroid]]'', the "Preservers" species of Star Trek, the Xel'Naga in ''Starcraft'', the [http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/Great_Beings Great Beings] of ''[http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/BIONICLE Bionicle]'', the Time Lords, of "Doctor Who", and most especially, the Krell of the film Forbidden Planet. The concept of a highly advanced extinct race leaving technological relics behind is not a new concept and has appeared in several other media such as books and films like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Forerunner also bear a striking similarity to Larry Niven's Pak Protectors (''Ringworld'' Series), whom also built a Ring-like Station but disappeared, leaving the Ringworld to go off balance from its own sun.