97,745 BCE
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In 100,300 B.C.E (approx.), first contact is made between a Forerunner research team and the Flood on G617 g1. A military team was sent in later after contact had been lost. The Flood escaped the planet, thus beginning the 3-century-long Forerunner-Flood War.[1]
