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The '''Forerunners''' (Latin ''Primoris prognatus'', meaning "Firstborn")<ref name="waypoint forerunner">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/forerunners '''Halo Waypoint - Universe''': ''Forerunners'']</ref> were an ancient species of [[Technological Achievement Tiers#Tier 1: World Builders|technologically advanced]] beings whose empire—known as the [[ecumene]]—encompassed three million fertile worlds in the [[Milky Way|Milky Way Galaxy]].<ref name="cryptum">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 9''</ref> The Forerunners reigned for millennia as the ascendant civilization in the galaxy until the [[Great Purification|activation]] of the [[Halo Array]], their Pyrrhic solution to halt the [[Flood]], in [[97,445 BCE]]. Although they themselves are essentially extinct, evidence of their existence remained, spread across the galaxy in the form of numerous creations, installations and artifacts. They were worshipped by the Covenant. | The '''Forerunners''' (Latin ''Primoris prognatus'', meaning "Firstborn")<ref name="waypoint forerunner">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/forerunners '''Halo Waypoint - Universe''': ''Forerunners'']</ref> were an ancient species of [[Technological Achievement Tiers#Tier 1: World Builders|technologically advanced]] beings whose empire—known as the [[ecumene]]—encompassed three million fertile worlds in the [[Milky Way|Milky Way Galaxy]].<ref name="cryptum">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 9''</ref> The Forerunners reigned for millennia as the ascendant civilization in the galaxy until the [[Great Purification|activation]] of the [[Halo Array]], their Pyrrhic solution to halt the [[Flood]], in [[97,445 BCE]]. Although they themselves are essentially extinct, evidence of their existence remained, spread across the galaxy in the form of numerous creations, installations and artifacts. They were worshipped by the Covenant. | ||
The Forerunners took upon themselves the role of caretakers of the galaxy, and believed that this "[[Mantle]]" had been passed down to them by the [[Precursor]]s, an even more powerful race that preceded the Forerunner civilization.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''Epilogue''</ref> "Forerunner" is a literal translation of the species' name for themselves; they identified themselves as such because they believed that they held an impermanent place in the universe's [[Living Time]], though, in time, they too would be succeeded by other, superior races.<ref> '''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 31''</ref> Before their disappearance from the galaxy, the Forerunners would name [[human]]ity their successors, identifying them with the title "[[Reclaimer]]". | The Forerunners took upon themselves the role of caretakers of the galaxy, and believed that this "[[Mantle]]" had been passed down to them by the [[Precursor]]s, an even more powerful race that preceded the Forerunner civilization itself.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''Epilogue''</ref> "Forerunner" is a literal translation of the species' name for themselves; they identified themselves as such because they believed that they held an impermanent place in the universe's [[Living Time]], though, in time, they too would be succeeded by other, superior races.<ref> '''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 31''</ref> Before their disappearance from the galaxy, the Forerunners would name [[human]]ity their successors, identifying them with the title "[[Reclaimer]]". | ||
In modern history, the alien hegemony known as the [[Covenant]] revered the Forerunners as gods, deriving much of their own technology from Forerunner artifacts found throughout the galaxy, and held that any who defaced these relics were [[heretic]]s. | In modern history, the alien hegemony known as the [[Covenant]] revered the Forerunners as gods, deriving much of their own technology from Forerunner artifacts found throughout the galaxy, and held that any who defaced these relics were [[heretic]]s. | ||