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===Human-Forerunner war=== | ===Human-Forerunner war=== | ||
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Around 110,000 BCE, the Forerunners went to [[Human-Forerunner war|war]] with humanity's [[Prehistoric human civilization|interstellar empire]], in response to a perceived invasion of worlds where the Forerunners had relocated other species.<ref name="Cryptum 25">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 25''</ref> This invasion was thought to be caused by both human resentment at Forerunner expansionism during the previous fifty years and by the rapid growth of human populations.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 112, 130''</ref> After the war, a small number of Forerunners discovered the true cause of the invasion: a desperate human migration away from a extragalactic parasite known as the [[Flood]]. Desperate for new, uninfected worlds to replace the ones lost to the Flood, humanity invaded the worlds of other civilizations, bringing them into direct conflict with the Forerunners, who saw themselves as protectors of the Mantle. | Around 110,000 BCE, the Forerunners went to [[Human-Forerunner war|war]] with humanity's [[Prehistoric human civilization|interstellar empire]], in response to a perceived invasion of worlds where the Forerunners had relocated other species.<ref name="Cryptum 25">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 25''</ref> This invasion was thought to be caused by both human resentment at Forerunner expansionism during the previous fifty years and by the rapid growth of human populations.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 112, 130''</ref> After the war, a small number of Forerunners discovered the true cause of the invasion: a desperate human migration away from a extragalactic parasite known as the [[Flood]]. Desperate for new, uninfected worlds to replace the ones lost to the Flood, humanity invaded the worlds of other civilizations, bringing them into direct conflict with the Forerunners, who saw themselves as protectors of the Mantle.{{fact}} | ||
The Forerunners perceived humanity's actions to be a threat to the principles of the Mantle, and therefore waged a decisive war against humans, subjugating every human-controlled world and wiping them clean of all traces of human civilization.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 267 - 273''</ref> As punishment, humanity was stripped of its empire and technology and was exiled to its homeworld, [[Earth|Erde-Tyrene]]. There, humanity was devolved, splintered among its collective species and forced to begin anew.<ref name="Cryptum 25"/><ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 127 and 188''</ref> The Flood, meanwhile, had been pushed beyond the edge of the galaxy by humanity's military efforts, and all traces of its existence vanished. | The Forerunners perceived humanity's actions to be a threat to the principles of the Mantle, and therefore waged a decisive war against humans, subjugating every human-controlled world and wiping them clean of all traces of human civilization.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 267 - 273''</ref> As punishment, humanity was stripped of its empire and technology and was exiled to its homeworld, [[Earth|Erde-Tyrene]]. There, humanity was devolved, splintered among its collective species and forced to begin anew.<ref name="Cryptum 25"/><ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 127 and 188''</ref> The Flood, meanwhile, had been pushed beyond the edge of the galaxy by humanity's military efforts, and all traces of its existence vanished.{{fact}} | ||
Following the events of the war with humanity, a select group of [[Councilor (Forerunner)|Councilors]] and other elite Forerunners turned their attention to the possibility that the Flood would return. The [[Didact]] advocated a policy of watchfulness and military readiness, and proposed the construction of a series of [[Shield World]]s to provide quick military support should the Flood reappear. However, this plan was overruled by the council in favor of one put forward by a faction of Forerunner Builders, who proposed the construction of an array of galaxy-sterilizing [[Halo Array|super weapons]] as the ultimate defense against such a threat. These proposed weapons would be designed to starve the Flood to death by killing all sentient life in the galaxy with enough biomass to sustain them.<ref>''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', 343 Guilty Spark</ref> | Following the events of the war with humanity, a select group of [[Councilor (Forerunner)|Councilors]] and other elite Forerunners turned their attention to the possibility that the Flood would return. The [[Didact]] advocated a policy of watchfulness and military readiness, and proposed the construction of a series of [[Shield World]]s to provide quick military support should the Flood reappear. However, this plan was overruled by the council in favor of one put forward by a faction of Forerunner Builders, who proposed the construction of an array of galaxy-sterilizing [[Halo Array|super weapons]] as the ultimate defense against such a threat. These proposed weapons would be designed to starve the Flood to death by killing all sentient life in the galaxy with enough biomass to sustain them.<ref>''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', 343 Guilty Spark</ref> | ||
The Council's acceptance of this plan caused the [[Librarian]], a prominent Forerunner [[Lifeworker]] and the wife of the Didact, to speak out in condemnation of the Builders' proposal of mass genocide, and as a result she and other Lifeworkers were permitted to work on the project as well, integrating their own measures for preserving the galaxy's life into the plan. The plan, the [[Conservation Measure]], resulted in the Lifeworkers gaining biological preserves on the Builders' installations, including two [[Ark]]s and a network of massive ring-shaped superweapons known collectively as the Halo Array. Meanwhile, the Didact and the other [[Promethean]]s who had supported his cause were removed from the council and executed or exiled. The entire [[Warrior-Servant]] rate would be marginalized over the next thousand years, with their fleets and armies disbanded, leaving the Forerunners ill-prepared when the Flood would re-emerge. | The Council's acceptance of this plan caused the [[Librarian]], a prominent Forerunner [[Lifeworker]] and the wife of the Didact, to speak out in condemnation of the Builders' proposal of mass genocide, and as a result she and other Lifeworkers were permitted to work on the project as well, integrating their own measures for preserving the galaxy's life into the plan. The plan, the [[Conservation Measure]], resulted in the Lifeworkers gaining biological preserves on the Builders' installations, including two [[Ark]]s and a network of massive ring-shaped superweapons known collectively as the Halo Array. Meanwhile, the Didact and the other [[Promethean]]s who had supported his cause were removed from the council and executed or exiled. The entire [[Warrior-Servant]] rate would be marginalized over the next thousand years, with their fleets and armies disbanded, leaving the Forerunners ill-prepared when the Flood would re-emerge.{{fact}} | ||
===Forerunner-Flood war=== | ===Forerunner-Flood war=== | ||