Battle of Charum Hakkor

The Charum Hakkor campaign was a conflict between the Forerunners and the Human-San 'Shyuum alliance, an alliance between the prehistoric human civilization and the technologically-advanced San 'Shyuum race. It took place above and finally on the planet Charum Hakkor, the heart of the humans' interstellar empire, around nine thousand years prior to the Forerunner-Flood War. It was the last conflict in the Human-Forerunner war, it concluded in the Forerunners defeating the humans' empire.

Using Precursor unbending filaments to link their orbital defenses, humans managed to hold off the Forerunner military for a period of fifty years. Knowing what was to happen to them if they lost (forced relocation and the removal of technological privileges), the majority of the human population committed mass-suicide. Those that surrendered had their memories extracted before their execution; these "essences" would later be imprinted to certain humans through a geas imposed by the Librarian. In the aftermath of the battles, the Didact also first met the Librarian, who had come to Charum Hakkor to pick specimens of humans to be preserved.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Cryptum