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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 nebular region known as [[Tarantula Nebula|the Spider]]. 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> | 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 nebular region known as [[Tarantula Nebula|the Spider]]. 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> | ||
Meanwhile, the truth about the passing of the Precursors faded into legend and was eventually forgotten over the eons. According to the ancient myths of the latter-day Forerunner civilization, prehistoric Forerunners had conducted a great scientific expedition to Path Kethona more than ten million years earlier, a distorted version of the final phase of the genocide of the Precursors. In addition, prevailing theories held that the satellite galaxy was the point of origin of the Flood.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 58''</ref> Several millennia after the Flood's first emergence, around [[ | Meanwhile, the truth about the passing of the Precursors faded into legend and was eventually forgotten over the eons. According to the ancient myths of the latter-day Forerunner civilization, prehistoric Forerunners had conducted a great scientific expedition to Path Kethona more than ten million years earlier, a distorted version of the final phase of the genocide of the Precursors. In addition, prevailing theories held that the satellite galaxy was the point of origin of the Flood.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 58''</ref> Several millennia after the Flood's first emergence, around [[98,395 BCE]], the [[Librarian]] organized and led an expedition to Path Kethona with the intent of examining the origins of the Flood as well as the veracity of the legendary Forerunner expedition. Aboard the ship ''[[Audacity]]'', the Librarian and her crew of seven traveled to Path Kethona. Initial scans found the galaxy seemingly devoid of technological civilizations—or any life at all.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 4''</ref> In one system, however, the crew of ''Audacity'' discovered an impressive network of Precursor artifacts—as well as a fleet of ancient Forerunner warships and the probability mirrors used to reconcile their arrival millions of years earlier.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 8''</ref> | ||
Further scans revealed a single planet orbiting an orange star with a possibility of supporting life.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 8''</ref> Traveling to the planet, the Librarian and her crew discovered the primitive Forerunners and the planet's peculiar ecosystem. The Librarian was taken by a [[Glow-of-Old-Suns|local female]] to a moss-like growth which had adapted to record the locals' history. It was through this repository of knowledge that the Librarian learned the origin of the locals, as well as the true nature of the prehistoric Forerunner expedition to Path Kethona: while ancient Forerunners had indeed traveled to Path Kethona, the journey had not been for the purposes of exploration, but to eradicate the last of their creators. Deeply distraught, the Librarian and her crew subsequently returned to the galaxy; she did not reveal what she had learned to anyone, until her testimony to [[Catalog]] over 900 years later.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 11''</ref> | Further scans revealed a single planet orbiting an orange star with a possibility of supporting life.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 8''</ref> Traveling to the planet, the Librarian and her crew discovered the primitive Forerunners and the planet's peculiar ecosystem. The Librarian was taken by a [[Glow-of-Old-Suns|local female]] to a moss-like growth which had adapted to record the locals' history. It was through this repository of knowledge that the Librarian learned the origin of the locals, as well as the true nature of the prehistoric Forerunner expedition to Path Kethona: while ancient Forerunners had indeed traveled to Path Kethona, the journey had not been for the purposes of exploration, but to eradicate the last of their creators. Deeply distraught, the Librarian and her crew subsequently returned to the galaxy; she did not reveal what she had learned to anyone, until her testimony to [[Catalog]] over 900 years later.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 11''</ref> | ||
All life and Precursor architecture in Path Kethona was wiped out when [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]] fired [[Omega Halo]]'s directed pulse toward the satellite galaxy during the [[Battle of the greater Ark]] in the last days of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] | All life and Precursor architecture in Path Kethona was wiped out when [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]] fired [[Omega Halo]]'s directed pulse toward the satellite galaxy during the [[Battle of the greater Ark]] in the last days of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] in [[97,445 BCE]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 273''</ref> | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||