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==Society and culture== | ==Society and culture== | ||
[[File:Main-Forerunner.png|thumb|275px|The [[Forerunner symbols | [[File:Main-Forerunner.png|thumb|275px|The [[Forerunner symbols|Eld]] symbol represents the [[Mantle]], a permeating aspect of Forerunner culture.]] | ||
[[File:Crowd of Forerunner.jpg|thumb|275px|A crowd of Forerunners.]] | [[File:Crowd of Forerunner.jpg|thumb|275px|A crowd of Forerunners.]] | ||
The Forerunner civilization was based around the [[Mantle|Mantle of Responsibility]], a belief that it was their role to protect all life in the galaxy; it was generally believed that the Forerunners had gained the Mantle as a birthright from the [[Precursors]] after they vanished. As a result of their perceived status as universal guardians, the Forerunners largely secluded themselves above other species.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 112-113''</ref> They monitored the evolution of other sentient species throughout the galaxy, intervening in ways that ensured their civilizations would follow paths of peace, free of conflict, but also so that they would not challenge Forerunner dominance. To maintain their position, the Forerunners committed acts such as relocating other species from their homeworlds in order to expand their own empire or gain control of new resources. They also enforced the Mantle by hindering the development of other species, even reducing opposing species to small populations of specimens, as they did with [[Prehistoric human civilization|early humanity]].<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 126-127''</ref> Those species who submitted to Forerunner rule lived within the ecumene as subject species, allied with but ultimately subservient to the Forerunners; some of these species helped eliminate pockets of human resistance after the human-Forerunner wars.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 156''</ref> | The Forerunner civilization was based around the [[Mantle|Mantle of Responsibility]], a belief that it was their role to protect all life in the galaxy; it was generally believed that the Forerunners had gained the Mantle as a birthright from the [[Precursors]] after they vanished. As a result of their perceived status as universal guardians, the Forerunners largely secluded themselves above other species.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 112-113''</ref> They monitored the evolution of other sentient species throughout the galaxy, intervening in ways that ensured their civilizations would follow paths of peace, free of conflict, but also so that they would not challenge Forerunner dominance. To maintain their position, the Forerunners committed acts such as relocating other species from their homeworlds in order to expand their own empire or gain control of new resources. They also enforced the Mantle by hindering the development of other species, even reducing opposing species to small populations of specimens, as they did with [[Prehistoric human civilization|early humanity]].<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 126-127''</ref> Those species who submitted to Forerunner rule lived within the ecumene as subject species, allied with but ultimately subservient to the Forerunners; some of these species helped eliminate pockets of human resistance after the human-Forerunner wars.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 156''</ref> |