: "My friend who was on the terminal writing team said they’re not a
: separate species, but a group of early humans who were uplifted by a more
: advanced civilization."

: Humans are Forerunner.

"One and the same, if I understand correctly. As in: Forerunners are evolved from a precursor selected group of ancient humans."

"A subset of humans, handpicked by the Precursors, as I understand it. "

"Not all humans were Forerunner but all Forerunner were human."

"A couple people on the terminal team told me that the precursors picked a group of sapiens to become forerunner."

So, in short, the Forerunner were intended by Bungie to be a separate species of Homo (like Neanderthals or Denisovans) that at some unknown point millions of years ago had their evolution changed or guided by the Precursors.

Now, I tuned out pretty quickly after H4 came out, but it's my understanding that this is exactly what 343 went with. So what's the argument here? They didn't change anything, just added to it. For better of worse...

He's also really trying to hammer home in many of his tweets that Bungie weren't really all that concerned with canon or consistency. So, there's that to consider when discussing their intentions.