Warrior-Servant

''This article is about the Forerunner rate. For other uses, see Warrior''. Warrior-Servants or Warriors were the second-lowest rate in Forerunner society. As their name suggests, they were responsible for defense and warfare in the Forerunner ecumene. The Warrior-Servants were presumably all subordinate to the Warrior-Servant Corps. Warrior-Servants were typically more powerfully built and more robust than the other rates such as Builders. The highest and most respected class of Warrior-Servants were known as the Prometheans.

Practices
While Forerunner society was peaceful by nature, Warrior-Servants were ruthless in executing warfare against enemies of the ecumene, as they believed that defying the Forerunners was to show contempt toward the Mantle itself. Although their services were vital in maintaining galactic harmony, most Forerunners viewed their purpose and practices as being contradictory to the principles of the Mantle. As such, other rates looked down on the Warrior-Servants, who mostly kept to themselves as a result.

In battle, Warrior-Servants wore varying classes of fighting suits known as combat skins. They utilized many different war machines, including war sphinxes and had fleets of powerful warships, such as Fortress-class vessels, planet-breakers and picket cruisers. Warriors also used drone craft known as weapon-ships, which were remote-controlled by individual warriors in great numbers.

It was a common policy among Warriors to harvest the memories of their vanquished foes before executing them.

History
The highest class of Warrior-Servants, known as the Prometheans, had once been in high social standing and power, serving in various roles in the Ecumene Council. However, after the conclusion of the Human-Forerunner wars, the Prometheans were opposed to a Builder plan to construct a new superweapon known as the Halo Array. Through Master Builder Faber's political war with the Ur-Didact, the Warrior-Servants were diminished as a rate, and many moved to the Builder rate becoming Builder security. Circa 101,000 BCE, the Prometheans lost this political battle and were removed from the Council, some of them entering self-imposed exile in "Warrior Keeps" known as Cryptums, while others were executed. This also resulted in the entire Warrior-Servant rate being marginalized, with their fleets and armies being systematically disbanded over the course of the next millennium as part of Master Builder Faber's scheme to secure the primacy of the Builder rate. This would leave the ecumene ill-prepared for the return of the Flood.

Known Warriors

 * The Confirmer
 * The Didact
 * The Grammarian
 * The Strategos
 * Endurance-of-Will
 * Glory of a Far Dawn
 * Sharp-by-Striking
 * Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished

List of appearances

 * Halo: Cryptum
 * Halo: Primordium
 * Halo 4
 * Halo: Silentium