User:CIA391/Distant past

The distant past is a period before the 1st millenium. (This page is "inspired" by the "Memory Alpha" Distant past page. The idea behind it in our case is to make this a "Decade/Century/Millenium" page for all BCE items in the timeline before the 1st millenium.)

Hundred billion years ago

 * In 97,445 BCE; Forthencho, acting as a messenger for the Gravemind, stated that the Domain had around hundred billion years of "life-patterns and living wisdom".

Before life

 * The great Glow occurs in the galaxy.

Over half a billion years ago

 * During a debate with Mendicant Bias, the Precursors were hinted by the Gravemind to have created the Mantle by accumulating a vast reserve of rules based on experiences and disputes.

Around 15 million years BCE

 * The Precursors seeded the species that would come to be known as Forerunners on the planet Ghibalb.

Around 10.1 million years BCE

 * The Forerunner Warriors were considered the highest rate.
 * Star roads were placed around Charum Hakkor.
 * The Precursors choose early humans to be the next species to carry the Mantle. Desiring to seize the Mantle for themselves, the early Forerunners rebel against the Precursors and wipe them out almost entirely.
 * After the Forerunners hunt down all of the Precursors in the Milky Way galaxy. The remains of the Precursors retreat into the Large Magellanic Cloud; the Forerunners' Warrior fleets pursue them via probability mirror-reconciled slipspace portals and proceed to finish their work.
 * A number of Forerunners who conscientiously object to the complete destruction of the Precursors in the Large Magellanic Cloud are exiled on a barren planet within the Tarantula Nebula; these Forerunners later remain as the only surviving population of the expedition.
 * In the face of extinction, most of the Precursors reduce themselves to inert powder, intending to regenerate their forms later. However, one intact specimen remained in deep stasis and is buried within a remote asteroid a million years afterward.
 * Two Precursors escaped the genocide in Large Magellanic Cloud, where some Forerunners hide them; but they die and become flowers containing their genetic code.
 * Following the battle in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remaining Forerunners on the ships sacrificed themselves than return with what they did; leaving the abandoned Forerunner ships in the Large Magellanic Cloud to slowly decayed.

Around 9.1 million years BCE

 * The two Precursor seeds germinate.
 * The Primordial, a dormant Precursor, is said to have arrived on the edges of the galaxy.

Around 1.1 million years BCE

 * The Forerunner Theoretical known as Boundless begins to study a particular star within the Path Kethona galaxy. When she continues her work in defiance of Warrior orders to the contrary, she is eventually prosecuted, her studies are suppressed, and she is forced to enter a Cryptum.
 * A thousand years later, Boundless' Cryptum is opened and it is discovered that she has died inside due to a malfunction in the Cryptum, supposedly resulting from sabotage. Her former students discreetly dispose of her body. After Boundless' death, the entire Theoretical rate is absorbed into the Builders.