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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Forerunner-Precursor war=== | ===Forerunner-Precursor war=== | ||
A local dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, Path Kethona was once the site of [[Precursor]] activity. One local system was home to a network of [[star road]]s unlike anything seen in the parent galaxy. After the Forerunners [[Forerunner-Precursor war|rebelled against the Precursors]], around [[10,000,000 BCE|ten million years BCE]], and began a genocidal campaign to root out their creators, the Precursors eventually retreated to Path Kethona. However, the Forerunners followed with an enormous fleet of warships, constructing a series of [[probability mirror]]s to [[reconciliation|reconcile]] the massive causal breaches caused by the transit. All but a few Precursors were exterminated; a small number survived by entering suspended animation or reducing themselves to molecular powder programmed to reconstitute their forms at a later time. Ships bearing the powder were sent on their way toward the Milky Way, some eventually crashing on worlds in the galactic margins.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 268-270''</ref> Millions of years later, the Precursor molecules—corrupted over the eons—would spawn a virulent parasitic lifeform: the [[Flood]]. | A local dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, Path Kethona was once the site of [[Precursor]] activity. One local system was home to a network of [[star road]]s unlike anything seen in the parent galaxy. After the Forerunners [[Forerunner-Precursor war|rebelled against the Precursors]], around [[10,000,000 BCE|ten million years BCE]], and began a genocidal campaign to root out their creators, the Precursors eventually retreated to Path Kethona. However, the Forerunners followed with an enormous fleet of warships, constructing a series of [[probability mirror]]s to [[reconciliation|reconcile]] the massive causal breaches caused by the transit. All but a few Precursors were exterminated; a small number survived by entering suspended animation or reducing themselves to molecular powder programmed to reconstitute their forms at a later time. Ships bearing the powder were sent on their way toward the Milky Way, some eventually crashing on worlds in the galactic margins.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 268-270''</ref> Millions of years later, the Precursor molecules—corrupted over the eons—would spawn a virulent parasitic lifeform: the [[Flood]].{{Ref/Reuse|sil35}} | ||
During the war, some Forerunners serving aboard the fleets sent to Path Kethona began to object to the complete genocide of the Precursors as a crime against the [[Mantle]]. Many of these dissidents were summarily executed, while some were exiled on a barren world within a nebular region known as [[Tarantula Nebula|the Spider]]. An artificial ecosystem was constructed entirely from Forerunner genetics to sustain [[Path Kethona Forerunner|the Forerunners on the planet]], who would come to adopt a primitive lifestyle and undergo divergent evolution from the mainline Forerunners, resulting in several physiological differences between them. Ironically, the marooned Forerunners would outlive their former compatriots who finished the genocide, the latter never returning to the [[ecumene]] out of immense guilt over their actions.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 10''</ref> | During the war, some Forerunners serving aboard the fleets sent to Path Kethona began to object to the complete genocide of the Precursors as a crime against the [[Mantle]]. Many of these dissidents were summarily executed, while some were exiled on a barren world within a nebular region known as [[Tarantula Nebula|the Spider]]. An artificial ecosystem was constructed entirely from Forerunner genetics to sustain [[Path Kethona Forerunner|the Forerunners on the planet]], who would come to adopt a primitive lifestyle and undergo divergent evolution from the mainline Forerunners, resulting in several physiological differences between them. Ironically, the marooned Forerunners would outlive their former compatriots who finished the genocide, the latter never returning to the [[ecumene]] out of immense guilt over their actions.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 10''</ref> | ||
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Further scans revealed a single planet orbiting an orange star with a possibility of supporting life.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 8''</ref> Traveling to the planet, the Librarian and her crew discovered the primitive Forerunners and the planet's peculiar ecosystem. The Librarian was taken by a [[Glow-of-Old-Suns|local female]] to a moss-like growth which had adapted to record the locals' history. It was through this repository of knowledge that the Librarian learned the origin of the locals, as well as the true nature of the prehistoric Forerunner expedition to Path Kethona: while ancient Forerunners had indeed traveled to Path Kethona, the journey had not been for the purposes of exploration, but to eradicate the last of their creators. Deeply distraught, the Librarian and her crew subsequently returned to the galaxy; she did not reveal what she had learned to anyone, until her testimony to [[Catalog]] over 900 years later.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 11''</ref> | Further scans revealed a single planet orbiting an orange star with a possibility of supporting life.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 8''</ref> Traveling to the planet, the Librarian and her crew discovered the primitive Forerunners and the planet's peculiar ecosystem. The Librarian was taken by a [[Glow-of-Old-Suns|local female]] to a moss-like growth which had adapted to record the locals' history. It was through this repository of knowledge that the Librarian learned the origin of the locals, as well as the true nature of the prehistoric Forerunner expedition to Path Kethona: while ancient Forerunners had indeed traveled to Path Kethona, the journey had not been for the purposes of exploration, but to eradicate the last of their creators. Deeply distraught, the Librarian and her crew subsequently returned to the galaxy; she did not reveal what she had learned to anyone, until her testimony to [[Catalog]] over 900 years later.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 11''</ref> | ||
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 left behind by the two Precursors that had chosen to die. Returning home with the specimens, the Librarian kept her discovery out of her report to the Ecumene Council and 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 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. | 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 left behind by the two Precursors that had chosen to die. Returning home with the specimens, the Librarian kept her discovery out of her report to the Ecumene Council and 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 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.{{Ref/Reuse|POL}} | ||
All life and Precursor architecture in Path Kethona was wiped out when [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]] fired [[Omega Halo]]'s directed pulse toward the satellite galaxy during the [[Battle of the greater Ark]] in the last days of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] in [[97,445 BCE]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 273''</ref> | All life and Precursor architecture in Path Kethona was wiped out when [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]] fired [[Omega Halo]]'s directed pulse toward the satellite galaxy during the [[Battle of the greater Ark]] in the last days of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] in [[97,445 BCE]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 273''</ref> | ||