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[[Image:Halo-7-coverage.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Optimal projection of the area covered by [[The Halo Array|the Halo Array.]]]]Prior to approximately the year 97,448 BC (Human years), the previous galactic community was dominated by the [[Forerunners]], a mysterious and now extinct species that possessed extremely advanced technology and an empire that spanned a significant portion of the galaxy. However, encounters with a parasitic sentient species, the [[Flood]], led to the [[Forerunner-Flood War]], with the Flood consuming or killing the great majority of the galaxy's sentient species as the Forerunners first studied them, and then tried to stop them. Eventually, the Forerunners were forced to construct the ultimate weapon, the [[Halo Array]], in order to stop them - at the same time, killing its builders. The Forerunners built safe havens, including the [[Shield World]]s and the [[Installation 00|Ark]], to save the remaining sentient species, before activating it, scouring the galaxy of all sentient lifeforms and killing the Flood except for samples kept of the [[Halo]]'s, then releasing the saved species from their havens to their homeworlds.