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 *The Forerunner [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] known as [[Mendicant Bias]], having been seduced by [[Gravemind]] and descended into [[rampancy]], returns from his 43-year absence with one of the [[Halo Array|Halo rings]] and [[Battle of the Capital|launches an assault]] on the [[Capital|Forerunner capital]], presumably crippling the Forerunner government. The Didact, having survived the battle, assumes command of Forerunner military forces after a thousand years of exile.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 341''</ref>
-*Later, Mendicant Bias allows the Flood into the [[Maginot Sphere]], which gives them the opportunity to attack the Forerunners' inner colonies.<ref name="term">'''[[Halo 3]]''', ''[[Terminal]]s''</ref>
+*In the final hours of the war, the Forerunners realize that activating their last resort, the Halo Array, is the only way to stop the Flood from overrunning the galaxy. As the Didact prepares to activate the rings, Mendicant Bias assembles all Flood-controlled vessels into a fleet of 4.8 million ships, and breaches the [[Maginot Sphere]]. On the other side awaits [[Offensive Bias]] and its combined fleet. As the two fleets [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|engage each other]], the Halo Array is fired. The Halo pulse kills all sentient life within three radii of the galactic center, including any Forerunners not located on [[Installation 00|The Ark]] or within [[Shield World]]s. Minutes after the firing of the array, Mendicant Bias's fleet is decimated by Offensive Bias.<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', ''[[Terminal]]s''</ref>
-*Mendicant Bias attempt to assault the Ark, but is stopped by [[Offensive Bias]]'s fleet and is defeated. Part of Mendicant Bias' personality construct remain in [[Forerunner Dreadnought|a Keyship]] which would eventually end up on the San 'Shyuum homeworld. As the two AIs fight each other, [[Forerunner|the Forerunners]] fire the [[Halo Array]]. The activation is a last resort intended to end the Forerunner-Flood war, killing all sentient life within three radii of the galactic center, including any Forerunners not located on [[Installation 00|The Ark]] or within [[Shield World]]s.<ref name="term"/>
 *Some time after every sentient species, carefully indexed in [[Installation 00|the Ark]], is returned to their homeworlds as a part of the [[Library Project]], the [[Human|''Homo sapiens'']] species begins migrating out of [[Africa]].