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===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
{{Main|Forerunner-Precursor war}} | {{Main|Forerunner-Precursor war}} | ||
The Forerunners were created by the [[Precursor]]s, a powerful race responsible for seeding the Milky Way Galaxy with life and creating many other species, [[15,000,000 BCE|fifteen million years ago]].{{Ref/Reuse|waypoint forerunner}} The Forerunners were seeded on the planet [[Ghibalb]] in the [[Orion complex]]. The world served as the hub of the Forerunners' fledgling interstellar civilization, comprised of twelve systems within the nebular complex, until it was rendered uninhabitable by an [[astroengineering]] disaster. The Forerunners had attempted to manipulate several stars in their region of space, but accidentally caused a series of [[supernova]]e that resulted in their planet being burned to a cinder by radiation. This event nearly caused the Forerunners' extinction.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 222''</ref> | The Forerunners were created by the [[Precursor]]s, a powerful race responsible for seeding the Milky Way Galaxy with life and creating many other species, [[15,000,000 BCE|fifteen million years ago]].{{Ref/Reuse|waypoint forerunner}} The Forerunners were seeded on the planet [[Ghibalb]] in the [[Orion complex]] from a base stock that also produced humanity. The world served as the hub of the Forerunners' fledgling interstellar civilization, comprised of twelve systems within the nebular complex, until it was rendered uninhabitable by an [[astroengineering]] disaster. The Forerunners had attempted to manipulate several stars in their region of space, but accidentally caused a series of [[supernova]]e that resulted in their planet being burned to a cinder by radiation. This event nearly caused the Forerunners' extinction.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 222''</ref> | ||
For ages, the Forerunners and humans evolved alongside each other with the Forerunners eventually overtaking their peers in wisdom and technological development. Records following this are contradictory; according to some records, the Forerunners had mastered many arts and sciences at the feet of the Precursors, serving as the Precursors' assistants and adjutants while the strange workings of their creators' minds and artifacts eluded even the Forerunners' keen intellects while ccording to other records, the Forerunners achieved interstellar travel on their own and found remnants of their creators' existence long after the latter had left the galaxy to observe it from Path Kethona and during this time the Forerunners discovered and claimed the Mantle as their own. Regardless as their interstellar civilization developed, the Forerunners came to believe they would be judged worthy to be the inheritors of the Precursors' [[Mantle]] of guardianship of all life. However, over [[10,000,000 BCE|ten million years ago]], according to some records, the Precursors made a decision to strip the Forerunners of the Mantle, wipe out the Forerunners<ref>'''Halo Mythos''', ''page 7''</ref> and pass down the Mantle to humans instead while other records state the Precursors chose humans to bear the Mantle with the Forerunners not holding it beforehand. Provoked either by this revelation alone,<ref name="sil209">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 209''</ref> or the Precursors' alleged decision to eradicate the Forerunners as a "problematic" species,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 194'' (''"Long ago, when it became apparent that the Precursors were about to erase Forerunners, there was a war, and Forerunners erased ''them''."'')</ref> the Forerunners responded by [[Forerunner-Precursor war|overthrowing their creators]], exterminating most of them in retaliation.{{Ref/Reuse|sil209}} | |||
The Forerunners, led by the then-dominant [[rate]] of [[Warrior-Servant|Warriors]], began their thorough campaign of extermination in the Milky Way galaxy and later chased the last Precursors down to the [[Magellanic Clouds|satellite galaxy]] of [[Path Kethona]]. There, they would finish their work, eradicating all but a few Precursors who managed to elude them. However, some Forerunners began to question the ethics of the genocide and refused to take part; many were summarily executed, while others were exiled on a barren planet in Path Kethona without any advanced technology. [[Path Kethona Forerunner|This population]] would survive for millions of years, preserving the knowledge of their origins in a biological reservoir of ancestral memory. However, they would remain as the last survivors of the fleet that traveled to Path Kethona, as those who had carried out the genocide until the end never returned to the Milky Way.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''Strings 10, 11, 15''</ref> | The Forerunners, led by the then-dominant [[rate]] of [[Warrior-Servant|Warriors]], began their thorough campaign of extermination in the Milky Way galaxy and later chased the last Precursors down to the [[Magellanic Clouds|satellite galaxy]] of [[Path Kethona]]. There, they would finish their work, eradicating all but a few Precursors who managed to elude them. However, some Forerunners began to question the ethics of the genocide and refused to take part; many were summarily executed, while others were exiled on a barren planet in Path Kethona without any advanced technology. [[Path Kethona Forerunner|This population]] would survive for millions of years, preserving the knowledge of their origins in a biological reservoir of ancestral memory. However, they would remain as the last survivors of the fleet that traveled to Path Kethona, as those who had carried out the genocide until the end never returned to the Milky Way.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''Strings 10, 11, 15''</ref> | ||
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===Early history=== | ===Early history=== | ||
Over the course of their history, the Forerunners fought each other in a number of civil wars, one of which took place over half a million years before their war against the Flood. To safeguard the Orion complex—the center of the ecumene's governance—during these conflicts, the Forerunners constructed the [[Maginot Line]], an immense array of [[Line installation|defensive installations]] spread out in a sphere which completely surrounded the Orion complex. This defense was meant to repel any possible enemy incursion, but it eventually proved vulnerable against an unconventional attack.<ref name="jatkrula">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 104-105''</ref> During the civil wars, the [[Builder]] rate first rose to supremacy and initiated a cultural purge of the other rates, such as Warriors and [[Miner]]s, which involved the suppression of their ancient rituals.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 119''</ref> | Over the course of their history, the Forerunners established empires, fought wars, built worlds, and fought each other in a number of civil wars, one of which took place over half a million years before their war against the Flood. Their own various civilizations grew, splintered, merged and evolved until all eventually converged into the ecumene. To safeguard the Orion complex—the center of the ecumene's governance—during these conflicts, the Forerunners constructed the [[Maginot Line]], an immense array of [[Line installation|defensive installations]] spread out in a sphere which completely surrounded the Orion complex. This defense was meant to repel any possible enemy incursion, but it eventually proved vulnerable against an unconventional attack.<ref name="jatkrula">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 104-105''</ref> During the civil wars, the [[Builder]] rate first rose to supremacy and initiated a cultural purge of the other rates, such as Warriors and [[Miner]]s, which involved the suppression of their ancient rituals.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 119''</ref> | ||
The Forerunner civilization had cemented its place as the preeminent civilization in the galaxy by roughly [[150,000 BCE]],<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 26''</ref> around the same time [[human]]ity first began moving its [[Prehistoric human civilization|latest interstellar civilization]] away from their homeworld, supposedly to escape early Forerunner control.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 20''</ref> The [[Capital]], the center of the Forerunner ecumene and the seat of the [[Ecumene Council]], was constructed around [[122,990 BCE]].<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 296''</ref> At some point in their history, the Forerunners fought a series of battles known as the [[Kradal conflicts]] in the galactic center.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 246''</ref> | The Forerunner civilization had cemented its place as the preeminent civilization in the galaxy by roughly [[150,000 BCE]],<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 26''</ref> around the same time [[human]]ity first began moving its [[Prehistoric human civilization|latest interstellar civilization]] away from their homeworld, supposedly to escape early Forerunner control.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 20''</ref> The [[Capital]], the center of the Forerunner ecumene and the seat of the [[Ecumene Council]], was constructed around [[122,990 BCE]].<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 296''</ref> At some point in their history, the Forerunners fought a series of battles known as the [[Kradal conflicts]] in the galactic center.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 246''</ref> | ||