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'''Marontik''' was the largest [[human]] community on Erde-Tyrene in the years prior to the activation of the [[Halo Array]]. It was home to both [[chamanune]] and [[hamanune]] and its denizens were among those processed for [[Conservation Measure|conservation]] by the [[Librarian]] as the [[Forerunner]]s' [[Forerunner-Flood War|war]] against the [[Flood]] grew more desperate.<ref name="HC1"/><ref name="HS2"/> | '''Marontik''' was the largest [[human]] community on Erde-Tyrene in the years prior to the activation of the [[Halo Array]]. It was home to both [[chamanune]] and [[hamanune]] and its denizens were among those processed for [[Conservation Measure|conservation]] by the [[Librarian]] as the [[Forerunner]]s' [[Forerunner-Flood War|war]] against the [[Flood]] grew more desperate.<ref name="HC1"/><ref name="HS2"/> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Following the final defeat of [[human]] [[Ancient human civilization|civilization]] by the [[Forerunner]] [[Ecumene]] after a long series of [[Human-Forerunner wars|armed conflicts]], mankind was purposefully "devolved" and subsequently shattered into multiple forms.<ref name="HC1"/> The [[Ecumene Council]] gave the [[Librarian]] charge of the race's world of birth, [[Erde-Tyrene]], and by around one thousand years after the Forerunner victory, she had moved one of the last surviving populations there. Near the planet's equator, on the western edge of the continent that would later be known as [[Africa]], she established a primary research station for [[Lifeworker]]s at this time as well. Over the next nine thousand years, humans evolved to be represented by twenty distinct varieties, some of whom even resembled the form common before their defeat and "devolution". Some of these forms of human eventually turned to building cities. By the point shortly before the [[Halo Array]] was [[Great Purification|fired]] in [[97,445 BCE]], over nine thousand years had passed since humans were reintroduced and Marontik, built at the confluence of two great rivers just south of the Lifeworker research station, had become the largest community on the planet.<ref name="HC1"/><ref name="CF9">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-array-with-words '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Cannon Fodder - Array With Words'']</ref> At some point centuries prior to this time, the humans of the area had been ruled by kings and queens who were eventually entombed beneath the city.<ref name="HC1"/> The research station had also been long-abandoned by this later point, though an automated craft continued to ferry supplies to it from the next-nearest world, [[Edom]], every few months.<ref name="HC1">''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'', ''Chapter 1''</ref> When the Librarian returned to Erde-Tyrene to index its species for [[Conservation Measure|preservation]], Marontik was one of the last communities to have individuals collected from.<ref name="HS2">''[[Halo: Silentium]]'', ''String 2''</ref> | Following the final defeat of [[human]] [[Ancient human civilization|civilization]] by the [[Forerunner]] [[Ecumene]] after a long series of [[Human-Forerunner wars|armed conflicts]], mankind was purposefully "devolved" and subsequently shattered into multiple forms.<ref name="HC1"/> The [[Ecumene Council]] gave the [[Librarian]] charge of the race's world of birth, [[Erde-Tyrene]], and by around one thousand years after the Forerunner victory, she had moved one of the last surviving populations there. Near the planet's equator, on the western edge of the continent that would later be known as [[Africa]], she established a primary research station for [[Lifeworker]]s at this time as well. Over the next nine thousand years, humans evolved to be represented by twenty distinct varieties, some of whom even resembled the form common before their defeat and "devolution". Some of these forms of human eventually turned to building cities. By the point shortly before the [[Halo Array]] was [[Great Purification|fired]] in [[97,445 BCE]], over nine thousand years had passed since humans were reintroduced and Marontik, built at the confluence of two great rivers just south of the Lifeworker research station, had become the largest community on the planet.<ref name="HC1"/><ref name="CF9">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-array-with-words '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Cannon Fodder - Array With Words'']</ref> At some point centuries prior to this time, the humans of the area had been ruled by kings and queens who were eventually entombed beneath the city.<ref name="HC1"/> The research station had also been long-abandoned by this later point, though an automated craft continued to ferry supplies to it from the next-nearest world, [[Edom]], every few months.<ref name="HC1">''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'', ''Chapter 1''</ref> When the Librarian returned to Erde-Tyrene to index its species for [[Conservation Measure|preservation]], Marontik was one of the last communities to have individuals collected from.<ref name="HS2">''[[Halo: Silentium]]'', ''String 2''</ref> | ||