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The ongoing space battle of the Forerunners and the Flood, the [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere]], had its order completely reversed. Mendicant Bias' Flood-controlled fleet had been fighting with Offensive's Forerunner-and-mechanical fleet, but within moments the rogue AI suddenly found itself with ships without any living crew. Offensive used Mendicant's momentary confusion to gain the upper hand, commanding his remaining ships directly and destroying the majority of the Flood's fleet in under 90 seconds. Mendicant was subsequently captured and imprisoned at Installation 00.<ref>'''Halo 3''' - ''Terminal 6''</ref> | The ongoing space battle of the Forerunners and the Flood, the [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere]], had its order completely reversed. Mendicant Bias' Flood-controlled fleet had been fighting with Offensive's Forerunner-and-mechanical fleet, but within moments the rogue AI suddenly found itself with ships without any living crew. Offensive used Mendicant's momentary confusion to gain the upper hand, commanding his remaining ships directly and destroying the majority of the Flood's fleet in under 90 seconds. Mendicant was subsequently captured and imprisoned at Installation 00.<ref>'''Halo 3''' - ''Terminal 6''</ref> | ||
The combined massacre of the rings and of the [[Battle of the greater Ark]] reduced the Forerunner population to less than a fraction of what it had once been. There was no hope of rebuilding their lost empire, and the survivors felt guilt over their imperialism in the name of the [[Mantle]], which had let the Flood conquer as far as it had.<ref>'''[[Halo: Rebirth]]'''</ref> Led by the [[IsoDidact]], the last Forerunners left the Milky Way to build a new home elsewhere, [[Reclaimer|commissioning humanity to one day take their place]]. All species brought to the remaining Ark were [[Reintroduction|reintroduced to their homeworlds]] at [[Technological Achievement Tiers|a pre-Industrial Tier | The combined massacre of the rings and of the [[Battle of the greater Ark]] reduced the Forerunner population to less than a fraction of what it had once been. There was no hope of rebuilding their lost empire, and the survivors felt guilt over their imperialism in the name of the [[Mantle]], which had let the Flood conquer as far as it had.<ref>'''[[Halo: Rebirth]]'''</ref> Led by the [[IsoDidact]], the last Forerunners left the Milky Way to build a new home elsewhere, [[Reclaimer|commissioning humanity to one day take their place]]. All species brought to the remaining Ark were [[Reintroduction|reintroduced to their homeworlds]] at [[Technological Achievement Tiers|a pre-Industrial Tier 7 level]], and roughly 90 millennia passed before any of them became space-faring again.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood (2010):''' ''Adjunct''</ref> | ||
The biological effects of the rings had long-term consequences on the galaxy's ecosystems. Because the Librarian could not rescue every species, all of the specimens left behind were wiped out and rendered their species [[extinct]]. Those species that had been saved on the Ark were reseeded afterward, but the gaps in the food chain were significant enough that during the [[dark time]] many more species went extinct due to their permanently altered environment. While the [[Conservation Measure]] did its best to eliminate any trace of genetic disruption, scars still remained in the fossil record. In [[2332]], [[human]] scientists discovered a curious anomaly dated to [[Wikipedia:Late Pleistocene|Late Pleistocene]], in which no fossils dating to roughly 97,000 BCE were discovered on [[Human colonies|worlds colonized by humans]]. The [[Ross-Ziegler Blip]], as it was called, was initially dismissed as a random aberration caused by spatial distortion, out of doubt that an interstellar extinction event could have occurred simultaneously on every planet. After the Halos were discovered by humanity, the Blip was reinvestigated, its cause now identified as the disintegration of most biomass in the galaxy during the Great Purification.<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[From the Office of Dr. William Arthur Iqbal]]", ''page 519''</ref> | The biological effects of the rings had long-term consequences on the galaxy's ecosystems. Because the Librarian could not rescue every species, all of the specimens left behind were wiped out and rendered their species [[extinct]]. Those species that had been saved on the Ark were reseeded afterward, but the gaps in the food chain were significant enough that during the [[dark time]] many more species went extinct due to their permanently altered environment. While the [[Conservation Measure]] did its best to eliminate any trace of genetic disruption, scars still remained in the fossil record. In [[2332]], [[human]] scientists discovered a curious anomaly dated to [[Wikipedia:Late Pleistocene|Late Pleistocene]], in which no fossils dating to roughly 97,000 BCE were discovered on [[Human colonies|worlds colonized by humans]]. The [[Ross-Ziegler Blip]], as it was called, was initially dismissed as a random aberration caused by spatial distortion, out of doubt that an interstellar extinction event could have occurred simultaneously on every planet. After the Halos were discovered by humanity, the Blip was reinvestigated, its cause now identified as the disintegration of most biomass in the galaxy during the Great Purification.<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[From the Office of Dr. William Arthur Iqbal]]", ''page 519''</ref> | ||