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==History==

===Origins===

Millions of years before the Human-Covenant War, a civilization known as the [[Precursor]]s seeded the galaxy with life, and leading to the rise and fall of innumerable species, including the Forerunners and humanity. Periodically, they would eliminate problematic species, specifically those who violated the [[Mantle]]. The Forerunners were eventually judged to be unworthy, and in self-defense, [[Forerunner-Precursor war|engaged the Precursors in combat]], wiping out all but a few survivors. In response to the Forerunner's genocidal uprising, the surviving Precursors put into action a plan that would involve a kind of test that would come to the Milky Way galaxy, as a means to eliminate the Forerunners, ensure greater peace and unity amongst the galaxy's inhabitants, and to test whether or not humanity was worthy of the Mantle.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 335-336''</ref>

Millions of years before the Human-Covenant War, a civilization known as the [[Precursor]]s seeded the galaxy with life, and leading to the rise and fall of innumerable species, including the Forerunners and humanity. Periodically, they would eliminate problematic species, specifically those who violated the [[Mantle]]. The Forerunners were eventually judged to be unworthy successors of the Mantle, and in self-defense, [[Forerunner-Precursor war|engaged the Precursors in combat]], wiping out all but a few survivors. In response to the Forerunner's genocidal uprising, the surviving Precursors put into action a plan that would involve a kind of test that would come to the Milky Way galaxy via extragalactic means provided by the last surviving Precursors, as a means to eliminate the Forerunners, ensure greater peace and unity amongst the galaxy's inhabitants, and to test whether or not humanity was worthy of the Mantle. The only species to counter the Flood's attacks and defend themselves from infection were Humans of the initial intergalactic empire that ultimately stood against the Forerunners and as a result, were devolved and all signs of human achievement erased from known history.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 335-336''</ref>

This test took the form of the Flood, an all consuming collective parasite. Around this time, an ancient Gravemind was created from at least 12 or more unspecified creatures,<ref> '''Halo: Primordium''', '''page 326'''</ref> which would become known as [[the Primordial]], who was then placed in a Precursor [[stasis capsule]] and placed in a small, ravaged planetoid at the galaxy's edge. Eventually, this ancient Gravemind would reveal the truth of the Flood to those willing to know the truth. In actuality, the Flood were a manifestation of the Precursors and/or their long-term plan, which would ultimately determine if peace would be achieved through humanity's defiance of the Flood, or whether the galaxy would succumb to the parasite's version of unity and peace.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 365-367''</ref>

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 ==History==
 ===Origins===
-Millions of years before the Human-Covenant War, a civilization known as the [[Precursor]]s seeded the galaxy with life, and leading to the rise and fall of innumerable species, including the Forerunners and humanity. Periodically, they would eliminate problematic species, specifically those who violated the [[Mantle]]. The Forerunners were eventually judged to be unworthy, and in self-defense, [[Forerunner-Precursor war|engaged the Precursors in combat]], wiping out all but a few survivors. In response to the Forerunner's genocidal uprising, the surviving Precursors put into action a plan that would involve a kind of test that would come to the Milky Way galaxy, as a means to eliminate the Forerunners, ensure greater peace and unity amongst the galaxy's inhabitants, and to test whether or not humanity was worthy of the Mantle.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 335-336''</ref>
+Millions of years before the Human-Covenant War, a civilization known as the [[Precursor]]s seeded the galaxy with life, and leading to the rise and fall of innumerable species, including the Forerunners and humanity. Periodically, they would eliminate problematic species, specifically those who violated the [[Mantle]]. The Forerunners were eventually judged to be unworthy successors of the Mantle, and in self-defense, [[Forerunner-Precursor war|engaged the Precursors in combat]], wiping out all but a few survivors. In response to the Forerunner's genocidal uprising, the surviving Precursors put into action a plan that would involve a kind of test that would come to the Milky Way galaxy via extragalactic means provided by the last surviving Precursors, as a means to eliminate the Forerunners, ensure greater peace and unity amongst the galaxy's inhabitants, and to test whether or not humanity was worthy of the Mantle. The only species to counter the Flood's attacks and defend themselves from infection were Humans of the initial intergalactic empire that ultimately stood against the Forerunners and as a result, were devolved and all signs of human achievement erased from known history.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 335-336''</ref>
 This test took the form of the Flood, an all consuming collective parasite. Around this time, an ancient Gravemind was created from at least 12 or more unspecified creatures,<ref> '''Halo: Primordium''', '''page 326'''</ref> which would become known as [[the Primordial]], who was then placed in a Precursor [[stasis capsule]] and placed in a small, ravaged planetoid at the galaxy's edge. Eventually, this ancient Gravemind would reveal the truth of the Flood to those willing to know the truth. In actuality, the Flood were a manifestation of the Precursors and/or their long-term plan, which would ultimately determine if peace would be achieved through humanity's defiance of the Flood, or whether the galaxy would succumb to the parasite's version of unity and peace.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 365-367''</ref>