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Regarding Earth her "special population", the Librarian would imprint the humans there with the [[Mind transfer|essences]] of human warriors processed via Composers after Charum Hakkor's fall. These imprints were kept dormant but were designed to awaken at the right triggers—such as those encountered by [[Chakas]] and [[Riser]] after meeting with the Forerunner [[IsoDidact|Bornstellar]]. However, both the Council and the Librarian forbade taking these humans to the Halos for preservation or storage, as not they did not want to risk the presence of ancient human military personnel on the weapons. Acting against their explicit instructions, the Master Builder took populations of imprinted Earth humans to Installation 07 in his feverish search for a cure for the Flood.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 189''</ref> | Regarding Earth her "special population", the Librarian would imprint the humans there with the [[Mind transfer|essences]] of human warriors processed via Composers after Charum Hakkor's fall. These imprints were kept dormant but were designed to awaken at the right triggers—such as those encountered by [[Chakas]] and [[Riser]] after meeting with the Forerunner [[IsoDidact|Bornstellar]]. However, both the Council and the Librarian forbade taking these humans to the Halos for preservation or storage, as not they did not want to risk the presence of ancient human military personnel on the weapons. Acting against their explicit instructions, the Master Builder took populations of imprinted Earth humans to Installation 07 in his feverish search for a cure for the Flood.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 189''</ref> | ||
Four years before the end of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]],<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 197''</ref> the Librarian and her Lifeworkers initiated a mass evacuation of Erde-Tyrene, using their remote beacons to prompt all humans on the planet through their ''geas'' to cease their daily activities and gather in the Lifeworkers' evacuation ships.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 17-18''</ref> Only several hundred scattered humans—most of them very old or young—were left on Earth after the evacuation.<ref name="s317">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 317''</ref> Due to the Lifeworkers' exceedingly limited resources and the need to store as many species as possible, many humans were not preserved intact but were reduced into biological composites which were taken to the greater Ark and retained in future generations of humans. Their physical remains would be used to provide nutrition for the microorganisms living in Earth's oceans between the sweep of the Halo pulse and Earth's repopulation.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 56-57''</ref> The surviving specimens, held in stasis, were likewise transported to the greater Ark.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 26''</ref> Earth was sprayed with [[solute]], which would cause any organism affected by the Halo effect to instantly break down into its component molecules, preventing an ecological disaster from occurring.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 19''</ref> | |||
After the Forerunners moved their own surviving population to the greater Ark, the Librarian's indexed humans—who represented the bulk of the species—were moved to the nearby [[Omega Halo]]. Most of this population, as well as many of the formerly diverse human species, were lost when the [[Ur-Didact]] used the [[Composer]] on the inhabitants of Omega Halo. However, the Librarian and her successor, [[Chant-to-Green]], managed to save enough specimens aboard [[Installation 00]] to successfully revitalize ''Homo sapiens'' and several other species. Following the firing of the Halo Array, the surviving humans were [[reintroduction|returned]] to Earth.<ref name="rebirth"/> | After the Forerunners moved their own surviving population to the greater Ark, the Librarian's indexed humans—who represented the bulk of the species—were moved to the nearby [[Omega Halo]]. Most of this population, as well as many of the formerly diverse human species, were lost when the [[Ur-Didact]] used the [[Composer]] on the inhabitants of Omega Halo. However, the Librarian and her successor, [[Chant-to-Green]], managed to save enough specimens aboard [[Installation 00]] to successfully revitalize ''Homo sapiens'' and several other species. Following the firing of the Halo Array, the surviving humans were [[reintroduction|returned]] to Earth.<ref name="rebirth"/> | ||
After their reintroduction to Earth, the human civilization regressed once again, and would remain as Tier 7 hunter-gatherers for nearly a hundred millennia. | After their reintroduction to Earth, the human civilization regressed once again, and would remain as Tier 7 hunter-gatherers for nearly a hundred millennia. The Librarian had imposed a ''[[geas]]'' upon the species, which has been said to have greatly affected their later development; in particular preparing humans for their role as [[Reclaimer|successors]] to the Forerunners as stewards of the galaxy.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 375''</ref> | ||
==Species== | ==Species== | ||
In this time period, Earth was home to numerous sapient species of [[Wikipedia:Homo|human]], [[Wikipedia:Hominidae|hominid]], [[Wikipedia:Ape|hominoid]], and [[Wikipedia:Simian|anthropoid]], all of whom were understood, or regarded themselves, as being part of a single "People".<ref name="p169">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 169''</ref> The multitude of species among the human genus itself was generated rather rapidly, most of them over the course of only a thousand years, after the humans' forced devolution at the hands of the Forerunners. There were more than twenty species regarded as human,<ref name="c25">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 25-26''</ref> with over 120 different subtypes known.<ref name="p188"/> These various forms represented species and subspecies both new and ones that had once existed but were suppressed over the course of the devolution.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 48''</ref> Still, given human species had stayed remarkably similar to their ancestral forms during their regression and re-evolution.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 129''</ref> This meddling was noted to have considerably distorted Earth's natural fossil records,<ref name="c127">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 127''</ref> and made it difficult to determine the exact lineage for a particular human species.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 242''</ref> | In this time period, Earth was home to numerous sapient species of [[Wikipedia:Homo|human]], [[Wikipedia:Hominidae|hominid]], [[Wikipedia:Ape|hominoid]], and [[Wikipedia:Simian|anthropoid]], all of whom were understood, or regarded themselves, as being part of a single "People".<ref name="p169">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 169''</ref> The multitude of species among the human genus itself was generated rather rapidly, most of them over the course of only a thousand years, after the humans' forced devolution at the hands of the Forerunners. There were more than twenty species regarded as human,<ref name="c25">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 25-26''</ref> with over 120 different subtypes known.<ref name="p188"/> These various forms represented species and subspecies both new and ones that had once existed but were suppressed over the course of the devolution.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 48''</ref> Still, given human species had stayed remarkably similar to their ancestral forms during their regression and re-evolution.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 129''</ref> This meddling was noted to have considerably distorted Earth's natural fossil records,<ref name="c127">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 127''</ref> and made it difficult to determine the exact lineage for a particular human species.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 242''</ref> | ||
Some, although not all, of these species were saved in the Lifeworkers' [[Conservation Measure]] and made it to [[Installation 00]] for preservation when the [[Halo Array]] was fired. | Some, although not all, of these species were saved in the Lifeworkers' [[Conservation Measure]] and made it to [[Installation 00]] for preservation when the [[Halo Array]] was fired. In the endgame of the Flood war, the Librarian estimated that only four or five human species remained intact, and due to the scarcity of healthy and intact specimens the recovery of all of the genetic composites the Lifeworkers had stored may be impossible.<ref name="s317"/> | ||
*[[Human|Ha''manush'']] (''Homo sapiens''; modern human): among the most prominent species; would several tens of thousands of years later supersede all of the others as the sole human species | *[[Human|Ha''manush'']] (''Homo sapiens''; modern human): among the most prominent species; would several tens of thousands of years later supersede all of the others as the sole human species | ||