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Humanity and the Forerunners waged a series of conflicts, with the Charum Hakkor theater being a fifty-year war in and of itself. Waypoint's reference to the capital-letters "Human-Forerunner War" is likely an error.
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{{Center|For the conflict beginning in [[2557]], see [[Human-Promethean war]].}} | {{Center|For the conflict beginning in [[2557]], see [[Human-Promethean war]].}} | ||
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{{Quote|Ten thousand years ago, humans had fought a war against Forerunners — and lost. The centers of human civilization had been dismantled and the humans themselves devolved and shattered into many forms, some said as punishment — but more likely because they were a naturally violent species.|[[Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting]], circa [[100,000 BCE]]}} | {{Quote|Ten thousand years ago, humans had fought a war against Forerunners — and lost. The centers of human civilization had been dismantled and the humans themselves devolved and shattered into many forms, some said as punishment — but more likely because they were a naturally violent species.|[[Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting]], circa [[100,000 BCE]]}} | ||
The '''Human-Forerunner War''',<ref name="HFW">[http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/06/20/The-Halo-Bulletin-62012.aspx '''The Halo Bulletin''' - ''6.20.12'']</ref> | The '''human-Forerunner wars''',<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 45, 47''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 236, 375''</ref> also referred to collectively as the '''Human-Forerunner War''',<ref name="HFW">[http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/06/20/The-Halo-Bulletin-62012.aspx '''The Halo Bulletin''' - ''6.20.12'']</ref> were a series of major interstellar conflicts fought between the [[human-San 'Shyuum alliance]] and the [[Forerunner]] [[ecumene]] for over a millennium from around [[110,000 BCE]] to [[109,000 BCE]] across the [[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way|Milky Way galaxy]]. Waged concurrently with the [[Human-Flood war]], the wars resulted in the dismantling of [[Prehistoric human civilization|humanity's interstellar empire]] and in the quarantine of the [[San 'Shyuum]] species.<ref name="cryptum">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 45''</ref> The [[Librarian]] considered this conflict to be the greatest threat to Forerunner power in their history and believed the conflict weakened the Forerunners enough to allow the Flood to emerge victorious until the firing of the [[Halo Array|Halos]].<ref name="h4reclaimer">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Reclaimer (level)|Reclaimer]]''</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
{{quote|Humanity hadn't been expanding. They were ''[[Human-Flood war|running]]''.|The [[Librarian]]<ref name="h4reclaimer"/>}} | {{quote|Humanity hadn't been expanding. They were ''[[Human-Flood war|running]]''.|The [[Librarian]]<ref name="h4reclaimer"/>}} | ||
Humanity held less power in the galaxy than the Forerunners, and so they held Forerunner interference with contempt. Looking to escape from the Forerunners' dominion, humanity expanded throughout the Orion Arm and eventually built an impressive empire consisting of at least 20,000 worlds in a thousand systems.<ref name="empire"/> Humanity had allied themselves with the more technologically sophisticated [[San 'Shyuum]]; this alliance produced technology that easily rivaled that of the Forerunners. As they collected and reverse-engineered [[Precursor]] technology at [[Charum Hakkor]], creating one of the largest collections of Precursor artifacts in the galaxy, humanity's rapid technological achievements made them increasingly arrogant and willing to challenge Forerunner dominance. This, coupled with their belief that they were the true inheritors of the [[Mantle]] from the Precursors rather than the Forerunners (which, ironically, turned out to be true), made them ideological enemies with the Forerunners. The [[Didact]], commander-in-chief of the Forerunner military, saw humanity as one of the most contentious, bigoted, and self-centered species in the galaxy.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 112-113''</ref> | Humanity held less power in the galaxy than the Forerunners, and so they held Forerunner interference with contempt. Looking to escape from the Forerunners' dominion, humanity expanded throughout the Orion Arm and eventually built an impressive empire consisting of at least 20,000 worlds in a thousand systems.<ref name="empire"/> Humanity had allied themselves with the more technologically sophisticated [[San 'Shyuum]]; this alliance produced technology that easily rivaled that of the Forerunners. As they collected and reverse-engineered [[Precursor]] technology at [[Charum Hakkor]], creating one of the largest collections of Precursor artifacts in the galaxy, humanity's rapid technological achievements made them increasingly arrogant and willing to challenge Forerunner dominance. This, coupled with their belief that they were the true inheritors of the [[Mantle]] from the Precursors rather than the Forerunners (which, ironically, turned out to be true), made them ideological enemies with the Forerunners. The [[Ur-Didact|Didact]], commander-in-chief of the Forerunner military, saw humanity as one of the most contentious, bigoted, and self-centered species in the galaxy.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 112-113''</ref> | ||
Driven to desperation after losing many of their colonies in their [[Human-Flood war|conflict]] against the [[Flood]], humanity invaded a Forerunner-controlled sector of space and annihilated fifty defenseless systems in which the Forerunners had resettled other species. After the indigenous populations were eliminated, humanity replaced them with human colonies to strengthen their hold over their new territories. Humanity looked to forcibly take new worlds anywhere, including those inhabited by Forerunners.<ref name="c270">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 270-272''</ref> However, not all of this seemingly irrational violence was driven by the will to expand; instead, human fleets were sterilizing planets with Flood infestations.<ref name="h4terminals">'''Halo 4''', ''[[Terminal/Halo 4|Terminals]]''</ref> | Driven to desperation after losing many of their colonies in their [[Human-Flood war|conflict]] against the [[Flood]], humanity invaded a Forerunner-controlled sector of space and annihilated fifty defenseless systems in which the Forerunners had resettled other species. After the indigenous populations were eliminated, humanity replaced them with human colonies to strengthen their hold over their new territories. Humanity looked to forcibly take new worlds anywhere, including those inhabited by Forerunners.<ref name="c270">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 270-272''</ref> However, not all of this seemingly irrational violence was driven by the will to expand; instead, human fleets were sterilizing planets with Flood infestations.<ref name="h4terminals">'''Halo 4''', ''[[Terminal/Halo 4|Terminals]]''</ref> | ||