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Not only that but the Forerunners utterly dominated the War with the Ancient Humanity, completely cutting off slipspace travel for them and took their time dismantling Ancient humanity. They were weakened and underestimated the flood for far too long.
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The Forerunners were an ancient race who thrived as the dominant civilization in the Milky Way galaxy, organizing their ecumene over millions of terrestrial planets. They derived their authority from the Mantle, their pledge to watch over and preserve all life in the galaxy. The Forerunners' society was based on caste-like strata known as rates, wi...
Beginning
1. "It devoured everything it touched. At first, their technology, their courage seemed like it might prevail. But they waited too long to see the threat, to join the fight. The Flood had spread too far and too wide." 2. — Cortana on the Forerunner-Flood war. After nearly ten thousand years of absence, the Flood reappeared on the planet G617 g1, a lightly inhabited world harboring a small commune of Forerunners. The Flood initially caught the Forerunner military by surprise, using captured no...
Stalemate
1. "Know that a thousand other plans were tried and failed. Millions of brave and honored souls died trying to avert this terrible, desperate situation." 2. — A Forerunner log describing the situation the Forerunners found themselves in. As the Flood grew in number and became more intelligent in the process, the Forerunners identified a centralized intelligence coordinating their efforts: the Gravemind, the consciousness of the Flood itself, embodied in agglomerated collectives of biomass and...
Crisis
1. "I kill you all and I enjoy it. I destroy you in your indolent billions—in your gluttony, in your self-righteousness, in your arrogance. I pound your cities into dust; turn back the clock on your civilization's progress. What has taken you millennia to achieve I erase in seconds. Welcome back to the [Stone Age], vermin. Welcome home." 2. — An excerpt of Mendicant Bias' hate-fueled diatribe against the Forerunners after the AI's defection to the Flood. The Forerunners had created a powerful...
The Halo effect purged the galaxy of all sentient life, eliminating the threat of the Flood as it was deprived of available biomass and its collective consciousness. All Precursor artifacts and structures, composed of abstract neural physics construction, were likewise destroyed. These included the Domain, a metaphysical repository of knowledge tre...
A group of Forerunners discuss the Flood.Flood-infected Forerunner ships.Forerunner combatants facing a horde of Flood.The Halo Array at Installation 00, awaiting its deployment across the galaxy.Main article: Human-Forerunner war. Around 107,445 BCE, the Forerunners went to war with humanity's interstellar empire, in response to a perceived invasion of worlds where the Forerunners had relocated other species.
Even if ancient humanity wasn’t also fighting against the Flood, they would’ve eventually been defeated by the Forerunners. If, at the height of both human and Forerunner power, the two civilizations engaged in a war of attrition, the Forerunners absolutely would’ve won for 3 big reasons:
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 ...
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During its history, the United Kingdom's forces (or forces with a British mandate) have invaded, had some control over or fought conflicts in 171 of the world's 193 countries that are currently UN member states, or nine out of ten of all countries.
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Ten million years before the Forerunner-Flood war, the Forerunners rose up and destroyed their creators, the race of beings known as the Precursors, in a sudden uprising.
