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Following this revelation, the Librarian and the rest of the crew returned to the ecumene aboard the ''Audacity''. She would not reveal the disconcerting truth to anyone until in her testimony to [[Catalog]] over nine hundred years later; although she was asked to testify earlier on, she rejected the request, suspecting that the Master Builder could somehow use the information for political gain due to the Builders' control over the Old Council and the [[Juridical]]s.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 29''</ref> Officially, the mission was deemed a failure, as the crew had not discovered the origin of the Flood.<ref name="string15"/> | Following this revelation, the Librarian and the rest of the crew returned to the ecumene aboard the ''Audacity''. She would not reveal the disconcerting truth to anyone until in her testimony to [[Catalog]] over nine hundred years later; although she was asked to testify earlier on, she rejected the request, suspecting that the Master Builder could somehow use the information for political gain due to the Builders' control over the Old Council and the [[Juridical]]s.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 29''</ref> Officially, the mission was deemed a failure, as the crew had not discovered the origin of the Flood.<ref name="string15"/> | ||
During the genocide of the species in [[Path Kethona]], two Precursors had found shelter and were found by the Forerunners who hid them and tried to heal them. However, the Precursors were beyond their ability to save and although the Precursors possessed the ability to heal, they chose to let nature take its course. After dying, the two Precursors became samples that studied and encoded, seeds that germinated for a million years. Sprouts that climbed to the surface took even longer and bloomed only in the last million years. Unlike the [[Primordial]], these were Precursors that celebrated joy instead of relishing in suffering and as a result, the blooms are not left corrupted with violence and misery but instead are clean, beautiful and bright. | |||
Driven by her own ''[[geas]]'' from the Precursors to fix the path and set right what the Forerunners did wrong, the [[Librarian]] located the specimens while in Path Kethona searching out the origins of the [[Flood]] and, returning home with the specimens, the Librarian kept her discovery out of her report to the Ecumene Council.<ref name="POL" /> | |||
===Work on Bastion=== | |||
The Librarian enlisted the help of the crew of the ''[[Audacity]]'' to transform a small [[shield world]] in its construction phase, [[Bastion]] and make it what it needed to be to nurture this eventual new species. The Librarian created Bastion to resemble [[Earth]] completly. The Librarian had the starship ''[[Eden (spaceship)|Eden]]'' built to carry the Precursor seeds and blooms to a world outside of the Milky Way galaxy that is ideal for planting and growth and where they can't be reached by the Flood. There, in some distant future, life on the planet will emerge and grow sentient, following the complete genetic code of the Precursors and rebirthing the race. However, they will be utterly free of genetic memory and will be able to build a new civilization with a clean slate. Bastion became the Librarian's secret laboratory away from the Ecumene Council and their rules and regulations containing the Librarian's most dangerous research and experiments. This included studies and experimentation on [[ancient humanity]], the Forerunners and the Precursors, ingenious observation and trials, studies with [[Living Time]], working [[Composer]]s, [[Cryptum]]s and other endless mysteries.<ref name="POL">'''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'''</ref> | |||
===Forerunner-Flood war=== | ===Forerunner-Flood war=== | ||