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[[File:4 mural.jpg|150px|thumb|The [[Covenant]] was founded upon the worship of the Forerunners.]] | [[File:4 mural.jpg|150px|thumb|The [[Covenant]] was founded upon the worship of the Forerunners.]] | ||
After their disappearance, the Forerunners left behind a great deal of artifacts, many of the more significant ones overseen by their dedicated [[monitor]]s which would react to outside visitors in accordance with their programmed instructions. The mystery surrounding the Forerunners and their technology would later become a source of worship, legend, advanced technology, or combination thereof for the various future civilizations which eventually stumbled upon some of the many Forerunner artifacts across the galaxy. | After their disappearance, the Forerunners left behind a great deal of artifacts, many of the more significant ones overseen by their dedicated [[monitor]]s which would react to outside visitors in accordance with their programmed instructions. The mystery surrounding the Forerunners and their technology would later become a source of worship, legend, advanced technology, or combination thereof for the various future civilizations which eventually stumbled upon some of the many Forerunner artifacts across the galaxy.{{fact}} | ||
The first known species to make use of reverse-engineered Forerunner technology were the [[Sangheili]] and [[San 'Shyuum]], having evolved on worlds rich in Forerunner artifacts. Regarding these artifacts and their creators with religious reverence, these species later formed the hegemony known as the Covenant who would come to form a [[Covenant religion|complex religious doctrine]] based around venerating the Forerunners as gods, referring to them as the "Ancients" or "the Gods". The Covenant believed that the Forerunners disappeared from the galaxy after the [[Halo Array]] elevated the Forerunner to a state of trans-sentient godhood. As such, they appropriated many Forerunner technologies and artifacts, and such searching led to the Covenant coming to discover humanity in the first place. The most holy of these artifacts, the "Sacred Rings" or [[Halo Array|Halo installations]], were seen as the means by which the Forerunners ascended into divinity. The Covenant believed themselves to be the chosen inheritors of the Forerunners' legacy, and by locating and activating the Halo Array, they believed that they too could follow the Forerunners into godhood. This was referred to as the "[[Covenant religion#The Great Journey|Great Journey]]" by the Covenant races. | The first known species to make use of reverse-engineered Forerunner technology were the [[Sangheili]] and [[San 'Shyuum]], having evolved on worlds rich in Forerunner artifacts. Regarding these artifacts and their creators with religious reverence, these species later formed the hegemony known as the Covenant who would come to form a [[Covenant religion|complex religious doctrine]] based around venerating the Forerunners as gods, referring to them as the "Ancients" or "the Gods". The Covenant believed that the Forerunners disappeared from the galaxy after the [[Halo Array]] elevated the Forerunner to a state of trans-sentient godhood. As such, they appropriated many Forerunner technologies and artifacts, and such searching led to the Covenant coming to discover humanity in the first place. The most holy of these artifacts, the "Sacred Rings" or [[Halo Array|Halo installations]], were seen as the means by which the Forerunners ascended into divinity. The Covenant believed themselves to be the chosen inheritors of the Forerunners' legacy, and by locating and activating the Halo Array, they believed that they too could follow the Forerunners into godhood. This was referred to as the "[[Covenant religion#The Great Journey|Great Journey]]" by the Covenant races.{{fact}} | ||
Chosen by the Forerunners to carry the title of "[[Reclaimer]]" and eventually reclaim the Mantle, [[human]]ity had been imparted with a species-wide ''[[geas]]'' by the Librarian;<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 375''</ref> these genetic instructions include an innate familiarity with Forerunner technology.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''pages 84, 146, 170''</ref><ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 142''</ref> Despite this, humanity came to contact with Forerunner artifacts relatively late into their history, following the [[Human-Covenant War|outbreak of hostilities]] with the Covenant whose [[Hierarchs|inner leadership]] regarded humanity's status as apparently living descendants of their supposed gods as potentially destructive to their religion. Thus the Covenant leaders decided to hide this information from the Covenant general population and ordered that humanity be eradicated, a goal in which they nearly succeeded. Forerunner artifacts and installations played a crucial part toward the end of this conflict, with the Covenant nearly reactivating the Halo Array in their misguided pursuit of apotheosis but being stopped at the last minute. As the conflict drew to a close, the Covenant had been plunged into [[Great Schism|disarray]] and humanity was beginning to reclaim its appointed place, gaining many technological leaps as a result of acquiring and reverse-engineering Forerunner technology.<ref name="ttw">'''Halo: The Thursday War'''</ref> | Chosen by the Forerunners to carry the title of "[[Reclaimer]]" and eventually reclaim the Mantle, [[human]]ity had been imparted with a species-wide ''[[geas]]'' by the Librarian;<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 375''</ref> these genetic instructions include an innate familiarity with Forerunner technology.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''pages 84, 146, 170''</ref><ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 142''</ref> Despite this, humanity came to contact with Forerunner artifacts relatively late into their history, following the [[Human-Covenant War|outbreak of hostilities]] with the Covenant whose [[Hierarchs|inner leadership]] regarded humanity's status as apparently living descendants of their supposed gods as potentially destructive to their religion. Thus the Covenant leaders decided to hide this information from the Covenant general population and ordered that humanity be eradicated, a goal in which they nearly succeeded. Forerunner artifacts and installations played a crucial part toward the end of this conflict, with the Covenant nearly reactivating the Halo Array in their misguided pursuit of apotheosis but being stopped at the last minute. As the conflict drew to a close, the Covenant had been plunged into [[Great Schism|disarray]] and humanity was beginning to reclaim its appointed place, gaining many technological leaps as a result of acquiring and reverse-engineering Forerunner technology.<ref name="ttw">'''Halo: The Thursday War'''</ref> | ||