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Forerunner-Precursor war

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"I am the last of those your kind rose up against and ruthlessly destroyed."
— The Primordial to the Didact.

Ten million years before the Forerunner-Flood war,[1] the Forerunners rose up and destroyed their creators, the race of beings known as the Precursors, in a massive war. Though all Precursors were believed to have been eradicated, the Primordial, who originally claimed to be the last Precursor, later stated that a number of Precursors survived by escaping beyond the Forerunners' reach.[2] The Forerunners' defiance of their creators may have been an act of self-defense, as the Precursors had allegedly decided to erase their species from existence, as they had done with many of their other creations.[3]

This conflict took place so long before the time of the Didact and Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting that their respective generations had no knowledge of it.[4]

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ Halo: Silentium
  2. ^ Halo: Primordium, page 364
  3. ^ 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.")
  4. ^ Halo: Cryptum, page 342