Human-Forerunner wars: Difference between revisions

Although Humanity was a far younger race than the Forerunners, they had always held Forerunner interference with contempt. Looking to escape from Forerunner control, humanity expanded throughout the Orion arm, and eventually began building an impressive empire consisting of hundreds of worlds. Before the war, humanity had made great advances in military and science technology rivaling those of the [[Forerunners]]. In his conversations with Bornstellar on their arrival at [[Charum Hakkor]], the center of the Human empire, the Didact described the weapons created by the Humans and San'Shyuum knowledge that the Forerunner armies had little defense against. By collecting and reverse-engineering Precursor technology at [[Charum Hakkor]], one of the largest collection in the galaxy, humanity's rapid technological achievements made them increasingly arrogant and willing to challenge Forerunner dominance. This coupled with their belief that they, not the Forerunners, were the true inheritors of the [[Mantle]] from the Precursors made them ideological enemies, and heretics from a Forerunner perspective. Essentially purists, humanity destroyed and moved indigenousness species during their rapid colonization expansion into outer space even before the [[Human-Flood war]]. One such example of Humanity's annihilated fifty defenseless systems that Forerunners had resettled other species. After wiping out the indigenous population, they were replaced with human colonies to strengthen their hold over their new territories. The rapid expansion of human technology and power created tensions with the more powerful Forerunner empire. The Didact saw humanity as one of the most contentious, bigoted, self-centered species in the galaxy. Seeing themselves as a great galaxy power capable of rivaling the Forerunner Empire, humanity began to expand in all directions. The last straw leading to the war was the humanity conquest and destruction of Forerunner worlds during the last stages of the Human-Flood war. Devastated by the infestation, humanity look to forcibly take new worlds anywhere including those inhabited by Forerunners. Although initially successful in destroying and conquering many Forerunner worlds, humanity was eventually pushed back to Charum Hakkor.