Ecumene

Ecumene
Empire overview
Branches:	Legislative Ecumene Council Judicial Capital Court Supreme Mantle Court
Societal overview
Capital:	Capital
Official language(s):	Jagon, other Forerunner languages
Official religion(s):	Mantle
Official script(s):	Forerunner glyphs
Notable event(s):	Grand Star Season
Historical overview
Dissolution:	100,000 BCE

The ecumene is the translated name for the Forerunner empire which existed over 100,000 years ago. It stretched across the galaxy and consisted of three million habitable planets. The political center of this empire was known as the capital, a massive structure containing multiple cities.

Known regions, systems and worlds

• Capital
• Kelekos
• Meridian
• Nomdagro
• Requiem (Destroyed in 2558)
• Unidentified Forerunner planet
• Orion complex
  • Ghibalb (rendered uninhabitable by several supernovae)
  • Bornstellar's homeworld
• CE-10-2165
  • CE-10-2165-d
• Cygnus system
  • New Jerusalem
• DM-3-1123
  • DM-3-1123 b
• Epsilon Eridani system
  • Reach
• G617
  • Seaward
• Korinth Prior system
  • Shield 0459
• LP 656-38
  • LP 656-38 e
• Path Kethona
  • Spider nebula
• Procyon system
  • Arcadia
• Sol system
  • Edom
  • Erde-Tyrene
• Unidentified system
  • Janjur Qom (under Forerunner quarantine)
• Urs System
  • Sanghelios
• Zeta Doradus system
  • Onyx

Trivia

"Ecumene" describes the Earth as known by the classical civilizations of Greece and the Romans. This later became used by Christian denominations to refer to the general "Christian world".

List of appearances

• Halo: Cryptum (First appearance)
• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
  • Terminals
• Halo: Primordium
• Halo: Silentium