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Humanity achieved an advanced state early in its history, achieving a high level of technological sophistication and expanding outward along the [[Orion Arm]] to escape [[Forerunner]] control thousands of years before the activation of the [[Halo Array]]. At one point, humanity formed [[Human-San 'Shyuum alliance|an alliance]] with the [[San 'Shyuum]] and later | Humanity achieved an advanced state early in its history, achieving a high level of technological sophistication and expanding outward along the [[Orion Arm]] to escape [[Forerunner]] control thousands of years before the activation of the [[Halo Array]]. At one point, humanity formed [[Human-San 'Shyuum alliance|an alliance]] with the [[San 'Shyuum]] and later [[Human-Flood war|warred against]] the nascent [[Flood]]. While humanity managed to drive the Flood off the galaxy for the next several millennia at the cost of a third of their total population, the conflict led to [[Human-Forerunner War|a war with the Forerunners]], a war which humanity lost. As punishment, the humans were stripped of their technology, their civilizations smashed, and the remnants exiled to their homeworld, reduced to a pre-technological state from which they would be forced to start again.<ref name="cryptum"/> | ||
===The Ark and reseeding=== | ===The Ark and reseeding=== | ||