: Apparently we were in the haloverse. Or at least the Forerunner humans were.

: Nope, we were Forerunners. Sparky said so, Joe Staten said so, John Candland
: said so, etc, etc, ad infinitum, adnauseum.

: No, we were Forerunners.

: But that's all pre 343.

: Now we are a separate species with a deep genetic similarity to Forerunners
: (whatever that means). The more primitive Forerunner condition is to have
: 5 fingers. And modern Forerunners were genetically modified and could
: mutate their bodies into different forms as they went through life.

Bungie always seemed to flip flop on that and make it up as they went along too though. Don't the terminals in H3 even contradict the case that humans are Forerunner as well? Then there are the human styled ruins on the Delta Halo, the control panels designed for the non human hands which. Also a the end of H2...

Arbiter: What happened to the forerunner?
Spark: They died as planned.

So I never bought into the "humans are forerunner" thousands of years later narrative.