User blog comment:Lordofmonsterisland/Covenant Females/@comment-26685181-20101027225721/@comment-26685181-20101027234525

Heh, that was a while ago! If I wrote it today, it would probably ten times as long, three times as funny, and brightly coloured and illustrated. And say exactly the same thing.

I do think that most of the lifeforms humanity has run into offworld are too similar to Earth life to be a coincidence. I could understand the Guta or the Sangheili and San'Shyuum being totally alien, but the bird-like Kig-yar, insectile Yanme'e, mammalian Jiralhanae, not to mention the Moas and (deleted) space porcupines and squirrels? That's not coincidence, thats just confirmation that somebody had a hand in "spreading" life from an early Earth. If it was the Precursors, then it had to have been a long time ago for the avian/reptillian Kig-yar, at least in the millions of years. And why choose Earth specificially if you intend to seed a galaxy with life? The Precursors had to start somewhere, so why not use their own life? Unless that's exactly what they did...