97,445 BCE
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The date 100,000 B.C.E. is the approximate time when The Forerunners fired the Halos[1], what the Covenant refer to as The Great Journey. The precise activation date was during 97,448 B.C.E., and it was meant to end the Forerunner-Flood War. The activation killed all sentient life in three radii of the galactic center including, it is believed, the Forerunners themselves. The date, about 100,000 years ago, is around the time our Homo Sapien ancestors began migrating out of Africa. Also the time period when the Halo 3: The Cradle of Life mini comics takes place. These comics tell us that human beings saw something (the portal to the Ark) being built by "Gods" (Forerunner machines) in Africa. These forerunners built it prior to the detonation as a way of "saving us in the future" if we ever needed to go to the ark. (Of course, as it so happens, we did.) It is for this reason we were seen as a way to reclaim life in the galaxy, and thus the term "Reclaimer" is born. It is also the reason that we, not the Sanghelli, are Reclaimers.
