Age of Abandonment

Covenant history

• Age of Seven Worlds
• The Former Age
• Age of Abandonment
• Ages of Conflict
• Ages of Reconciliation
• Ages of Discovery
• Ages of Conversion
• Ages of Doubt
• Ages of Reclamation

The Age of Abandonment is one of the periods in Covenant history.

One of the leading theories is that the Age of Abandonment was the time when the Forerunners left the activated Halo, or, as the Covenant put it, "Embark on the Great Journey". The Covenant believe that the Forerunners underwent the Great Journey, but in fact they disappeared because they activated the seven Halos in order to contain the Flood, thereby killing themselves and all sentient life in the galaxy. This event happened about 100,000 years before 2552, before the rest of the Covenant races had evolved enough to become sentient.

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