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[[File:HaloFiring.png|300px|thumb|right|A Halo ring is fired, wiping the galaxy of Flood and all sentient life.]] | [[File:HaloFiring.png|300px|thumb|right|A Halo ring is fired, [[Extinction|wiping]] the galaxy of Flood and all sentient life.]] | ||
{{Quote|Activation is murder. A genocide larger than [this galaxy] has ever known. We are sworn to protect life, not destroy it! That is the [[Mantle]] we were given to carry.|The [[IsoDidact]], protesting the firing of the rings<ref name="terminal">'''Halo 3''' - ''[[Terminal/Halo 3|Terminal 2]]''</ref>}} | {{Quote|Activation is murder. A genocide larger than [this galaxy] has ever known. We are sworn to protect life, not destroy it! That is the [[Mantle]] we were given to carry.|The [[IsoDidact]], protesting the firing of the rings<ref name="terminal">'''Halo 3''' - ''[[Terminal/Halo 3|Terminal 2]]''</ref>}} | ||
The '''Great Purification'''<ref>'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''page 205''</ref> was the culminating act of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] in [[97,445 BCE]], when the [[seven]] rings of the [[Halo Array]] were fired. The rings' combined pulses scoured the entire [[Milky Way]] galaxy, disabling the [[Flood]] and wiping out all [[Sentience|sentient]] life that was not safely outside its range at [[Installation 00|the Ark]]. The effects of the firing had lasting effects on the galaxy for the next 100 millennia, marking the end of the [[Forerunner]] [[ecumene]] and eventually leading to the rise of the [[Covenant]] and [[human]]ity. | The '''Great Purification'''<ref>'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''page 205''</ref> was the culminating act of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] in [[97,445 BCE]], when the [[seven]] rings of the [[Halo Array]] were fired. The rings' combined pulses scoured the entire [[Milky Way]] galaxy, disabling the [[Flood]] and [[Extinction|wiping out]] all [[Sentience|sentient]] life that was not safely outside its range at [[Installation 00|the Ark]]. The effects of the firing had lasting effects on the galaxy for the next 100 millennia, marking the end of the [[Forerunner]] [[ecumene]] and eventually leading to the rise of the [[Covenant]] and [[human]]ity. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||