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===Forerunner Era=== | ===Forerunner Era=== | ||
[[File:H4-Terminal-CharumHakkor-Battle.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Human and Forerunner forces [[Siege of Charum Hakkor|engaging each other]] on the surface of [[Charum Hakkor]].]] | [[File:H4-Terminal-CharumHakkor-Battle.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Human and Forerunner forces [[Siege of Charum Hakkor|engaging each other]] on the surface of [[Charum Hakkor]].]] | ||
Despite possessing powerful spacecraft, the Forerunners and ancient humans continued to deploy ground and air forces in their wars with each other during planetary engagements, the earliest known wars humanity engaged in.<ref name=" | Despite possessing powerful spacecraft, the Forerunners and ancient humans continued to deploy ground and air forces in their wars with each other during planetary engagements, the earliest known wars humanity engaged in.<ref name="H4Terminals"/> The defence of Charrum-Hakkor by combined human and San’Shyuum forces lasted fifty-three years, even after the San’Shyuum leadership surrendered, and included both an orbital defence using advanced Precursor technology and then a brutal ground campaign against Forerunner invaders after those defences fell. Many human and San’Shyuum soldiers chose to commit suicide rather than be captured by the enemy. | ||
After defeating humanity, Forerunner ground forces would face a long, desperate war against the Flood, which depended on planetary engagements to infect and assimilate more victims and increase its capabilities. These engagements invariably ended in a total Flood victory - Forerunner forces eventually resorted to destroying entire star systems, rather than engage them on the ground. While organic Forerunner soldiers proved far too susceptible to infection, towards the end of the war the Forerunners developed [[Promethean#Mechanical_Prometheans|sapient machine soldiers]] to conduct their ground campaigns. However, it was too late to have an effect, and depended on composing too many of the depleted Forerunner Warrior-Servant rate to create their Promethean forces, and the Didact eventually turned to composing humans to try and buy more time, an action that saw the Librarian seal him in a Cryptum on Requiem for his betrayal. Promethean forces would guard Requiem and a number of other Warrior-Servant locations well into the 26th century C.E., long after the activation of the Halo Array. | After defeating humanity, Forerunner ground forces would face a long, desperate war against the Flood, which depended on planetary engagements to infect and assimilate more victims and increase its capabilities. These engagements invariably ended in a total Flood victory - Forerunner forces eventually resorted to destroying entire star systems, rather than engage them on the ground. While organic Forerunner soldiers proved far too susceptible to infection, towards the end of the war the Forerunners developed [[Promethean#Mechanical_Prometheans|sapient machine soldiers]] to conduct their ground campaigns. However, it was too late to have an effect, and depended on composing too many of the depleted Forerunner Warrior-Servant rate to create their Promethean forces, and the Didact eventually turned to composing humans to try and buy more time, an action that saw the Librarian seal him in a Cryptum on Requiem for his betrayal. Promethean forces would guard Requiem and a number of other Warrior-Servant locations well into the 26th century C.E., long after the activation of the Halo Array. | ||