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The defeat was disastrous for both humanity and the San'Shyuum. The victorious Forerunners decided to dismantle human civilization, causing the species to regress to [[Erde-Tyrene civilization|a pre-technological state]].{{Ref/Reuse|cryptum}} Remnants of the human species were gathered from across the galaxy by the Forerunners and their subject species,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 156''</ref> to be exiled to their homeworld and forced through a process of biological devolution.{{Ref/Reuse|s34}}
The defeat was disastrous for both humanity and the San'Shyuum. The victorious Forerunners decided to dismantle human civilization, causing the species to regress to [[Erde-Tyrene civilization|a pre-technological state]].{{Ref/Reuse|cryptum}} Remnants of the human species were gathered from across the galaxy by the Forerunners and their subject species,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 156''</ref> to be exiled to their homeworld and forced through a process of biological devolution.{{Ref/Reuse|s34}}


Due to the Flood's sudden retreat in the final stages of the war, the Forerunner leadership had come to believe that humanity had found a cure for the parasite.{{Ref/Reuse|c270}} This achievement spared humanity from extinction, a fate that had fallen on many species that challenged Forerunner control over the ages. Although herself skeptical of the existence of a cure, the [[Librarian]] appealed to the [[Ecumene Council]] so that humanity would be spared, as only with humanity's culture and civilization-wide exchange intact the Forerunners could hope to unlock the cure to the Flood. The Council agreed, but only in part: as opposed to maintaining the humans in their organic forms, numerous humans on Charum Hakkor had their [[Mind transfer|minds extracted]] via [[Composer]]s and subsequently cycled through a rate of interrogation for thousands of years. Copies of these memories were also implanted by the Librarian in the genetic material of future human generations, designed to awaken when the right circumstances were met as part of her own plans.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 234-235''</ref> However, the Librarian and her Lifeworkers remained highly skeptical of whether a cure really existed. Their projections showed that the Flood should have been able to completely overrun the galaxy in several centuries, and suspected that there was something else at play with regard to the Flood's retreat.{{Ref/Reuse|s34}} It was later discovered that not only had humanity not found a cure for the Flood, but that the Flood's retreat had been a feint, undertaken both for the purpose of preserving humanity from destruction at the Forerunners' hands, and for the purpose of wasting Forerunner time and resources on a dead-end hunt for a Flood cure that had never existed.
Due to the Flood's sudden retreat in the final stages of the war, the Forerunner leadership had come to believe that humanity had found a cure for the parasite.{{Ref/Reuse|c270}} This achievement spared humanity from extinction, a fate that had fallen on many species that challenged Forerunner control over the ages. Although herself skeptical of the existence of a cure, the [[Librarian]] appealed to the [[Ecumene Council]] so that humanity would be spared, as only with humanity's culture and civilization-wide exchange intact the Forerunners could hope to unlock the cure to the Flood. The Council agreed, but only in part: as opposed to maintaining the humans in their organic forms, numerous humans on Charum Hakkor had their [[Mind transfer|minds extracted]] via [[Composer]]s and subsequently cycled through a rote of interrogation for thousands of years. Copies of these memories were also implanted by the Librarian in the genetic material of future human generations, designed to awaken when the right circumstances were met as part of her own plans.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 234-235''</ref> However, the Librarian and her Lifeworkers remained highly skeptical of whether a cure really existed. Their projections showed that the Flood should have been able to completely overrun the galaxy in several centuries, and suspected that there was something else at play with regard to the Flood's retreat.{{Ref/Reuse|s34}} It was later discovered that not only had humanity not found a cure for the Flood, but that the Flood's retreat had been a feint, undertaken both for the purpose of preserving humanity from destruction at the Forerunners' hands, and for the purpose of wasting Forerunner time and resources on a dead-end hunt for a Flood cure that had never existed.  


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