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==Overview and history== | ==Overview and history== | ||
One of the more common types of artifacts left behind by the Precursors, star roads were seemingly inert, several-kilometers-thick,<ref name="s95">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 95-96''</ref> virtually unbreakable cables on an immense scale that lay across the galaxy for millions of years. On some worlds, star roads formed orbital and suborbital structures like [[orbital arch]]es. On a larger scale, they were used to connect and link planets and even entire star systems to one another.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 212''</ref> Like other Precursor technology, star roads were not made of ordinary matter, instead being composed of exotic [[neural physics]] construction capable of changing its mass at will.<ref name="s95"/> In some star systems, significant portions of locally available mass had been converted into these structures.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 119''</ref> | One of the more common types of artifacts left behind by the Precursors, star roads were seemingly inert, several-kilometers-thick,<ref name="s95">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 95-96''</ref> virtually unbreakable cables on an immense scale that lay across the galaxy for millions of years. These structures were forged through alternate dimensions. On some worlds, star roads formed orbital and suborbital structures like [[orbital arch]]es. On a larger scale, they were used to connect and link planets and even entire star systems to one another.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 212''</ref> Like other Precursor technology, star roads were not made of ordinary matter, instead being composed of exotic [[neural physics]] construction capable of changing its mass at will.<ref name="s95"/> In some star systems, significant portions of locally available mass had been converted into these structures.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 119''</ref> | ||
In their dormant state, star roads and the larger structures some of them comprised automatically adjusted to changes in planetary and stellar orbits, even occasionally removing portions of themselves to avoid collisions with planets. A particularly complex web of star roads in a system in [[Path Kethona]] had not survived the eons completely intact, having crumbled in several sections; not even the Precursors could predict the sum of the system's orbital movements for many millions or billions of years in advance. Despite their self-adjusting capabilities, [[Forerunner]] [[Builder]]s insisted that star roads and other Precursor constructs were completely inert and lacking any form of internal process or activity. The [[Lifeworker]]s were highly skeptical of these assertions, believing the artifacts were alive in some way.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 114''</ref> | In their dormant state, star roads and the larger structures some of them comprised automatically adjusted to changes in planetary and stellar orbits, even occasionally removing portions of themselves to avoid collisions with planets. A particularly complex web of star roads in a system in [[Path Kethona]] had not survived the eons completely intact, having crumbled in several sections; not even the Precursors could predict the sum of the system's orbital movements for many millions or billions of years in advance. Despite their self-adjusting capabilities, [[Forerunner]] [[Builder]]s insisted that star roads and other Precursor constructs were completely inert and lacking any form of internal process or activity. The [[Lifeworker]]s were highly skeptical of these assertions, believing the artifacts were alive in some way.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 114''</ref> | ||