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The Forerunners would master many arts and sciences at the feet of the Precursors, serving as their assistants and adjutants while the strange workings of their creators' minds and artifacts eluded even the Forerunners' keen intellects. įor ages, the Forerunners and humans evolved alongside each other with the Forerunners eventually overtaking their peers in wisdom and technological development. This event nearly caused the Forerunners' extinction.

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The Forerunners had attempted to manipulate several stars in their region of space, but accidentally caused a series of supernovae that resulted in their planet being burned to a cinder by radiation.

The world served as the hub of the Forerunners' fledgling interstellar civilization, comprised of twelve systems within the nebular complex, until it was rendered uninhabitable by an astroengineering disaster. The Forerunners were seeded on the planet Ghibalb in the Orion complex from a base stock that also produced humanity.

The Forerunners were created by the Precursors, a powerful race responsible for seeding the Milky Way Galaxy with life and creating many other species, fifteen million years ago. Origins Main article: Forerunner-Precursor war They were the Forerunners-the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe's Living Time. They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness. But one species-eons beyond all the others in both technology and knowledge-achieved dominance. One hundred thousand years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.

In modern history, the alien hegemony known as the Covenant mythologized the Forerunners and revered them as gods, deriving much of their own technology from Forerunner artifacts found throughout the galaxy, and held that any who defaced these relics were heretics. Before their disappearance from the galaxy, the Forerunners would name humanity their successors, identifying them with the title ' Reclaimer'. 'Forerunner' is a literal translation of the species' name for themselves they identified themselves as such because they believed that they held an impermanent place in the universe's Living Time, though, in time, they too would be succeeded by other, superior races. The Forerunners took upon themselves the role of caretakers of the galaxy, and believed that this ' Mantle' had been passed down to them by the Precursors, an even more powerful race that preceded the Forerunner civilization. Although they themselves are essentially extinct, evidence of their existence remained, spread across the galaxy in the form of numerous creations, installations and artifacts. The Forerunners reigned for millennia as the ascendant civilization in the galaxy until the activation of the Halo Array, their Pyrrhic solution to halt the Flood, in 97,445 BCE. The Forerunners (Latin Primoris prognatus, meaning 'Firstborn') were an ancient species of extremely technologically advanced beings whose empire-known as the ecumene-encompassed three million fertile worlds in the Milky Way Galaxy. Our strength is a luminous sun towards which all intelligence blossoms, and the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered.' - The Ur-Didact, giving a speech on the purpose of the Mantle. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. ' We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. Tall, humanoid, partially furred various forms assumed by artificially-induced mutation (From left to right) Faber, the Ur-Didact, and the Librarian For the Halo 4 campaign level or achievement, see Forerunner (level) and Forerunner (achievement).

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