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[[File:H4-Terminal-CharumHakkor-Battle.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Human forces making their last stand on Charum Hakkor's surface.]] | [[File:H4-Terminal-CharumHakkor-Battle.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Human forces making their last stand on Charum Hakkor's surface.]] | ||
After being pushed back to the core of their empire, the collective human species managed to hold off the Forerunner military for fifty years. Despite the humans using [[Precursor]] [[ | After being pushed back to the core of their empire, the collective human species managed to hold off the Forerunner military for fifty years. Despite the humans using [[Precursor]] [[star road]]s to link their orbital defenses and the extensive amount of preparation and study gained from humanity's early conflicts with the Forerunners, humanity was pushed backwards and cut off from reinforcements as the Forerunner military disrupted humanity's slipstream tunnels, effectively preventing reinforcements and supplies as well as blockading Charum Hakkor's system from the rest of the [[human-San'Shyuum alliance]].<ref name="prim239">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 239-240''</ref> | ||
[[Forthencho|Lord of Admirals Forthencho]], commander of the last fleets of Charum Hakkor, managed to successfully resist the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] for a further three years of continuous attacks despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered and using inferior slipstream and AI technology. Human ships swept across the system for hundreds of times to counter the Didact's daring orbital incursions, to prevent them from establishing superior energy-efficient orbits.{{Ref/Reuse|prim239}} During the planet's siege, the Forerunners contacted the [[San'Shyuum]] and formulated a secret deal. Facing an inevitable defeat, the San'Shyuum were to betray their human allies by allowing Charum Hakkor's security to be breached by the Forerunners. In return, the San'Shyuum would be spared from extinction or de-evolution, but instead quarantined to their [[San'Shyuum home system|home system]].<ref>'''Halo: Mythos''', ''pages 13''</ref> | [[Forthencho|Lord of Admirals Forthencho]], commander of the last fleets of Charum Hakkor, managed to successfully resist the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] for a further three years of continuous attacks despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered and using inferior slipstream and AI technology. Human ships swept across the system for hundreds of times to counter the Didact's daring orbital incursions, to prevent them from establishing superior energy-efficient orbits.{{Ref/Reuse|prim239}} During the planet's siege, the Forerunners contacted the [[San'Shyuum]] and formulated a secret deal. Facing an inevitable defeat, the San'Shyuum were to betray their human allies by allowing Charum Hakkor's security to be breached by the Forerunners. In return, the San'Shyuum would be spared from extinction or de-evolution, but instead quarantined to their [[San'Shyuum home system|home system]].<ref>'''Halo: Mythos''', ''pages 13''</ref> | ||
