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For ages, the Forerunners and humans evolved alongside each other with the Forerunners eventually overtaking their peers in wisdom and technological development. The Forerunners would master many arts and sciences at the feet of the Precursors, serving as their assistants and adjutants while the strange workings of their creators' minds and artifacts eluded even the Forerunners' keen intellects. 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, according to some records, over [[10,000,000 BCE|ten million years ago]], 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.<ref>'''Halo Mythos''', ''page 7''</ref> The Precursors did not approve of this and made the 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. Other records state that the Precursors originally chose humans to bear the Mantle without the Forerunners ever holding it beforehand.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P310}} 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>