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complex Defense Operations, was a Forerunner organization in command of the ecumene's defense during the Forerunner-Flood war. Most notably led by the

to regard the collective core security and transit authorities of the Forerunner Ecumene. The overwatch network monitored, rationed and forbade travel

Faber's exile around a decade before the end of the Forerunner-Flood war. During the human-Forerunner wars, the Council was affected by the growing influence

thousands of Forerunner worlds, leading to the deaths of billions of Forerunners and other sapient species. The highest levels and tiers of the Forerunner Fleet

blood and mouth, which would transfer memory and understanding from Forerunner to Forerunner through biting. After this initial biting, touching was sufficient

Maniples were a specific division of Manipulars within a Forerunner guild or family, defined by one's function. The term "Maniple" is derived from the

Main article: Forerunner fleet Fleets were a basic unit of organization in the Forerunner ecumene's military forces. Throughout Forerunner history, most

A Primary Pioneer Group was a Forerunner organization that searched for habitable planets. Advance Survey Team-Alpha was apparently part of the group.

most respected group of Warrior-Servants in the Forerunner ecumene. During and after the human-Forerunner wars, they were led by the Didact. The Prometheans'

series on the Forerunners Technology Starships Technology History Forerunner-Precursor war Kradal conflicts Human-Forerunner wars Forerunner-Flood war Culture

species, civilizations, governments, and organizations on the Orion Arm. The Orion complex, the center of the Forerunner ecumene and the location of their homeworld

Earth. A Forerunner door on Installation 04 in Halo: Combat Evolved. A closed Forerunner door on the Threshold gas mine in Halo 2. A Forerunner door opening

subordinating the United Nations itself. All existing supranational organizations, independent nation and city-states, and their respective territorial

a special visual look-development level called "Forerunner City" was created. This featured a Forerunner city composed of a single building. It was eventually

Numerous companies and organizations using numerous shipyards across human space produced or repaired ships. The companies and organizations include the Oros

a kind of assembler vat class employed on a large-scale throughout the Forerunner Ecumene. They consisted of small assembler vats used to create most small-arms

Council security was a Forerunner organization designated to protect the Ecumene Council. They wore black and red combat skins and were assisted by black-armored

large Forerunner structure. Later, Truth took the majority of remaining Covenant loyalist fleets with him after he departed aboard the Forerunner keyship

Builder Security was a Forerunner military organization. They conducted security and combat matters for the Builder rate; in many cases, they effectively

safety of Forerunner artifacts. The Ministry of Tranquility was granted military assets to aid in the ministry's function: the acquisition of Forerunner relics

Covenant ministry that dealt with securing Forerunner reliquaries. The ministry was a semi-monastic organization that was considered to be "obsessed" with

defend Forerunner sites on human colonies during the war. Fleets under the Ministry of Tranquility were, ostensibly, tasked with finding Forerunner artifacts

used in Forerunner glyphs. Main article: Antikythera mechanism The Society of the Ancients questioned if its creation was influenced by Forerunner visitors

beliefs, studying and incorporating Forerunner technology in order to avoid defeat. This incorporation of Forerunner technology eventually caused a stalemate

concentrated most of their forces in East Africa as they excavated long-buried Forerunner Portal structure, invading and occupying a large portion of the surrounding

The Capital Court was a Forerunner ecumene judicial institution located at the Capital. The Court was noted to be a place of great ceremony and ritual

ship. Warships are usually exclusively operated by a Navy, though some organizations and companies have operated their own. Both the Covenant and the UNSC

alliance with humanity. Feigning religious devotion to the Forerunners, he resolved to recover Forerunner technology from the shield world Requiem to the Sangheili

true heart of the Forerunners, namely their desire for glory, their joy in the diversity of rates and the tremendous loss felt to Forerunner culture when identities

called Hesduros, formed a new "Covenant" and eventually traveled to the Forerunner world Requiem and wake the "living god" known as the Didact to assist

dissolution of the Covenant and the abandonment of its religion, some continued Forerunner worship. "The Path is strict, Jora — it brooks no deviation, no remorse

regarding the treatment of Forerunner technology, though Decimus in particular secretly harbors a reverence for the Forerunners. Atriox and Decimus hate

eventually suffering a disastrous defeat against the Forerunners in the human-Forerunner wars, the Forerunners forcibly regressed humanity to a Tier 7 species

efforts. He personally led numerous operations tasked with scouring Forerunner relic sites in search of highly important assets, destroying anything that stood

establishment of the Covenant in 852 BCE. The organization originally consisted of Sangheili that hid Forerunner artifacts from the San'Shyuum. The order was

a surviving Forerunner known as the Didact, who once commanded the Forerunner armies against prehistoric humanity in the Human-Forerunner War. Once awakened

fought between the Forerunners and the Flood in Path Terrulian within the 78th Thema. One of the penultimate battles of the Forerunner-Flood war, it ended

A guild was a specific division within a rate in Forerunner society. Every family within a rate belonged to a particular guild. The amount of mutations

the Sangheili resisting the Created's rule, Cortana sent a Guardian and Forerunner soldiers to pacify Sanghelios, starting with its major cities. The UNSC

content were ubiquitous in Forerunner society. The computing systems of the personal armor worn by virtually all Forerunners were integrated with the wearer's

This mercenary organization was an offshoot of Jul 'Mdama's reformed Covenant, led by Sangheili Shipmaster Vata 'Gajat. As of March 2558 the group was

the UEG and accumulated a large amount of nuclear weaponry. In 2558, a Forerunner Guardian was activated on the colony, causing large-scale destruction

them altogether. The Jiralhanae are rated a native Tier 4 species by the Forerunner Technological Achievement Tier scale, although a Tier 2 rank was adopted

Program, ONI Augmentation Report, Battlefronts, Spartan Dossiers, UNSC Organization, Alien Factions, and the Spartan Armory. The book is written as an official

REAP-X department's greatest breakthrough was the discovery of a working Forerunner slipspace drive used to complete the UNSC Infinity. The department utilizes

Assault Armor was often—though, not always—created and manufactured by organizations, departments, and branches of the United Nations Space Command, the Unified

created by the Forerunners, designed to exterminate all sentient life within the Milky Way galaxy. Built following the Human-Forerunner War, these ringworlds

followed by chapters on humans, Spartans, the Covenant, the Flood, the Forerunners, the Human-Covenant War, science and technology, transport, locations

the ships, constructs, and mega-engineering tools used throughout the Forerunner Ecumene. Most military shipyards and factory clusters were of this class

the first human worlds to fall to the Forerunners in the human-Forerunner wars. After being defeated by the Forerunner civilization, most humans were exiled