Other Homeworld Theory

The Other Homeworld Theory was a fringe conspiracy theory that became popular during the Human-Covenant War. People who supported it were known as 'Other Homeworlders.'

Description
The theory's conceit was that Earth was not the ancestral birthplace of humanity and for many of its fauna species, which had instead arrived in the distant past from a planet within or beyond the Outer Colonies. It was created as a means to undermine the Terra Firma, a style of ideological thinking that projected Earth's influence over the Human Sphere. For obvious reasons, most of its supporters were from the Outer Colonies.

Some pieces of evidence that were used to support the theory was the similarity of much of Earth's fauna to those discovered on human colonies, theorizing that the species had been seeded here by ancient humans long ago; for example, they thought penguins originated on Alluvion or Harvest. These animals were propagated by being cloned en masse. They also theorized that the Covenant were an ancient enemy that forced them from their homeworld, as a way to explain their genocidal campaign against the species. Extreme believers even discredited the existence of the dinosaurs, instead assuming them to be a hoax.

Known proponents

 * H. Manchester

List of appearances

 * Other Homeworld Theory