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 ==History==
-A local dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, Path Kethona, also known as the Large Magellanic Cloud to modern day humans, was once the site of [[Precursor]] activity. One local system was home to a network of [[star road]]s unlike anything seen in the parent galaxy. After the Forerunners [[Forerunner-Precursor war|rebelled against the Precursors]], around [[10,000,000 BCE|ten million years BCE]], and began a genocidal campaign to root out their creators, the Precursors eventually retreated to Path Kethona. However, the Forerunners followed with an enormous fleet of warships, constructing a series of [[probability mirror]]s to [[reconciliation|reconcile]] the massive causal breaches caused by the transit. All but a few Precursors were exterminated; a small number survived by entering suspended animation or reducing themselves to molecular powder programmed to reconstitute their forms at a later time. Ships bearing the powder were sent on their way toward the Milky Way, some eventually crashing on worlds in the galactic margins.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 268-270''</ref> Millions of years later, the Precursor molecules—corrupted over the eons—would spawn a virulent parasitic lifeform: the [[Flood]].<ref name="sil35">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 35''</ref>
+A local dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, Path Kethona was once the site of [[Precursor]] activity. One local system was home to a network of [[star road]]s unlike anything seen in the parent galaxy. After the Forerunners [[Forerunner-Precursor war|rebelled against the Precursors]], around [[10,000,000 BCE|ten million years BCE]], and began a genocidal campaign to root out their creators, the Precursors eventually retreated to Path Kethona. However, the Forerunners followed with an enormous fleet of warships, constructing a series of [[probability mirror]]s to [[reconciliation|reconcile]] the massive causal breaches caused by the transit. All but a few Precursors were exterminated; a small number survived by entering suspended animation or reducing themselves to molecular powder programmed to reconstitute their forms at a later time. Ships bearing the powder were sent on their way toward the Milky Way, some eventually crashing on worlds in the galactic margins.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 268-270''</ref> Millions of years later, the Precursor molecules—corrupted over the eons—would spawn a virulent parasitic lifeform: the [[Flood]].<ref name="sil35">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 35''</ref>
 During the war, some Forerunners serving aboard the fleets sent to Path Kethona began to object to the complete genocide of the Precursors as a crime against the [[Mantle]]. Many of these dissidents were summarily executed, while some were exiled on a barren world within a stellar group known as the [[Wikipedia:Tarantula Nebula|Spider nebula]]. An artificial ecosystem was constructed entirely from Forerunner genetics to sustain [[Path Kethona Forerunner|the Forerunners on the planet]], who would come to adopt a primitive lifestyle and undergo divergent evolution from the mainline Forerunners, resulting in several physiological differences between them. Ironically, the marooned Forerunners would outlive their former compatriots who finished the genocide, the latter never returning to the [[ecumene]] out of immense guilt over their actions.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 10''</ref>