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- Garmin registered the name "Forerunner" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in August 2001 but released the first watches—the 101, 201, and 301—in 2003.
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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. [1] The Forerunners were seeded on the planet Ghibalb in the Orion complex from a base stock that also produced humanity. [6]
Nov 2, 2021 · The Forerunners get all the credit in the Halo games, but the Precursors came before, as their name implies. The Precursors helped shape and evolve humans, the Forerunners, and many other races...
Introduced. March 2, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-03-02) [1] The Garmin Forerunner series is a selection of sports watches produced by Garmin. Most models use the Global Positioning System (GPS), and are targeted at road runners and triathletes.
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- The Precursors: A species unlike any other
- Forerunner betrayal: A savage and selfish act
- The aftermath
- Humanity comes into contact with the Flood — and the Primordial
- Human-Forerunner war: A desperate, bloody conflict
- Downfall of ancient humanity
- A peaceful era
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The origins of the Halo universe can be traced back to an ancient race of super advanced beings known as the Precursors. This is their story — and the beginning of the story of the Forerunners.
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With a universe as jam-packed full of complex lore as Halo's, it's hard to believe that there was a time when the Milky Way galaxy was barren. However, that is exactly the case. There was a period in which nothing lived; the entirety of the galaxy was devoid of life. It was not until the arrival of the Precursors that the Milky Way became a home for biological life forms.
The Precursors were described as being "trans-sentient", or beings that were able to connect with the very fabric of the universe. Possessing the ability to travel seamlessly through the universe, they arrived at the Milky Way, only to find it completely empty. Using their advanced powers, they seeded the galaxy with life.
As time went on, the Precursors decided to give the most technologically advanced species they created something called the "Mantle of Responsibility," an honorable and noble position, in which the species would act as the protectors and guides for the lesser races in the galaxy. Their first species chosen for this role was the Forerunners.
In response to the change of power, the Forerunners launched a brutal revenge strike against the Precursors for stripping them of the Mantle. Despite the Precursors' superiority in almost every way, the Forerunner betrayal took them completely by surprise. Before the Precursors could make a defensive stand, the Forerunners slaughtered almost every ...
Upon the conclusion of the Forerunners' rebellion against the Precursors, the galaxy entered an era of relative peace. Aside from occasional civil wars that occurred in sections of the Forerunner empire, the Forerunners continued their role as the Mantle's holders.
At the same time, the last few remaining Precursors used their abilities to transform themselves into a kind of molecular dust. In this form, the Precursors intended to wait millions of years, hiding from their killers and waiting for the perfect opportunity to return to their past forms and exact revenge on the Forerunners. However, the DNA compositions of the powder became corrupted over time, and as a result, life forms that came into contact with it would experience insanity and even physical mutations. This was the very first form of the Flood, a parasitic life form that the Precursor dust would eventually mutate into upon coming into contact with humanity.
Ten million years after the conflict between the Forerunners and the Precursors, ancient humanity came into contact with the Precursor dust. When given to domesticated animals, the powder appeared to improve the behavior of the pets, making them more docile. However, humanity was unaware that the dust retained the sentience and intelligence of the Precursors and was only improving the behavior of the animals to mask their true actions: altering and mutating the genetic code of the pets.
Once the dust fully took control of the animals, the now Flood-controlled pets began to kill and infect their human masters. This was the beginning of the first Flood outbreak. Attacking with unexpected and sudden ferocity, humanity's empire quickly began to fall to the parasite.
At the same time, the humans discovered a being known as the Primordial, the last surviving Precursor, in a capsule located within the center of a planet. Unlike the rest of the Precursors who had become molecular dust, the Primordial chose to seal itself away, mutating its form over time to survive for eons. Human scientists brought it to the human capital world of Charum Hakkor to study it. When asked about the Flood, however, the answer was apparently so horrifying to the humans that they committed suicide.
With the Primordial not offering anything that could help them against the Flood (likely because the Flood were previously Precursors and thus would be on the same side as the Primordial) and knowing conventionally that they couldn't defeat the Flood, the humans chose instead to flee — directly into Forerunner-controlled space.
When the Forerunners saw humanity entering their territory with a massive fleet, they assumed it to be an act of war. Mobilizing its army of warriors, the Forerunners assaulted the incoming forces.
Humanity, in a desperate struggle, fought the Forerunners with an unparalleled fierceness, leading to heavy Forerunner casualties. Meanwhile, the Flood chose to withdraw from their conflict with humanity, tricking the Forerunners into believing that humanity had driven them off. In fact, due to their sudden withdrawal at the start of the Human-Forerunner War, many Forerunners found the Flood as nothing more than an excuse for humanity's expansion into their territory.
Following the Flood retreat, humanity was left to face a race that was superior to them in every way. Despite fighting them ruthlessly, the Forerunners hunted humanity to extinction for its assumed invasion of Forerunner space. One by one, human strongholds fell, until finally, humanity was ultimately defeated on its homeworld Charum Hakkor. While there, the Didact (the leader of the Forerunner military) discovered the Primordial that humanity had captured. The Didact proceeded to interrogate it, and he chose to keep the dialogue between them secret from everyone. After this, the Forerunners decided to keep the Primordial trapped in the stasis capsule it was found in.
As punishment for what the Forerunners saw as an act of aggression on their homes, humanity was stripped of their advancements and regressed back to their origins of hunter-gathering and cave-dwelling. The Forerunners seeded humanity on their homeworld of Earth, where they would be forced to evolve again. This effectively marked the end of the ancient human empire.
After the defeat of the humans, the galaxy entered another age of relative peace. While arrogant and self-centered, the Forerunners nonetheless served their duties as holders of the Mantle by watching over the rest of the galaxy. For most Forerunners, the Flood were nothing but a hoax, a misleading lie that was meant to distract them from seeing humanity as the real threat. However, some Forerunner leaders secretly knew that the Flood were very real, and as such, remained watchful for the return of the parasite.
The Flood themselves would remain poised at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, biding their time and waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike down the Forerunners and exact revenge on them for their genocidal actions.
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Feb 17, 2024 · The Forerunner Era - 200,000 BCE to 50,000 BCE. With the whole galaxy at its feet, the Forerunners become the reigning species, with its empire stretching across the entire Milky Way.
Dec 8, 2021 · Despite being mostly wiped out after their war with The Flood, a few Forerunners did survive, the most notable of which was The Didact who took the role of the primary antagonist in Halo 4. Aside from the aforementioned genocidal maniac, here are a few Forerunners who managed to escape the lethal blasts of the Halo rings and the slimy undead ...
The Forerunners did not attempt a more candid and forceful form of physical warfare until later in the war, by which time it was too late. When the Forerunners were unable to contain the Flood outbreak, the galaxy entered a state of war.
