Eventually, the Ark began reseeding life across the universe, sending ancient humans back to Earth. After a conversation with the Primordial, who was under the influence of the Gravemind, Mendicant Bias turned on the Forerunners.Īt the last minute, the Forerunners, with the help of a human named Chakas who was placed into the body of a Halo monitor named 343 Guilty Spark, activated the Halo array, killing all life in the galaxy and the Flood-except for the samples the Forerunners kept in storage. However, the Flood could not only infect biological life forms but also induce what is known as a logic plague, infecting AI to do their bidding. But we hadn't seen the last of him.įocused on the Halo array, the Forerunners built an AI called Mendicant Bias to fight the Flood. However, the Didact was defeated, imprisoned on a shield world called Requiem, and forced into a long nap in stasis. The Halo Arrays were chosen, so the Didact rebelled using a technology called The Composer and created an AI army of Prometheans from Forerunner and human warriors alike. The Didact wished to create shield worlds-planets completely encased in metal to protect them from the Flood-while the Master Builder wished to create the Halo Arrays, giant rings that would destroy all life in the galaxy, thereby starving the Flood, with an arc being created to reseed the galaxy afterward. Realizing they couldn't win against the Flood, two political factions formed. With humanity gone, the Flood began infecting Forerunner worlds, making them realize the threat too late. Yet, while the war was won, the Forerunner military was exhausted and a political schism began to brew in their government, cementing the tragedy to come. The San'Shyuum were quarantined to their homeworld, forbidden to ever leave. As punishment, the Forerunners devolved humanity to hunter-gatherers and exiled them to some random planet called Earth. Humanity continued to wage war against both Forerunners and Flood, nearly beating both and forcing the Flood to retreat, but eventually losing to the Forerunners. The Gravemind decided to get revenge on all life in the galaxy by removing free will and turning everything into the Flood. It mutated them into horrifying Flood creatures under the control of the singular Gravemind. After turning themselves into dust, the Precursors became corrupted. The Forerunners, who had yet to encounter the parasite, believed the Flood to be a lie told to justify human aggression.ĭuring the war, humanity found the last living Precursor called The Primordial, who revealed the horrifying origins of the Flood. However, humanity wasn't destroying Forerunner planets as an act of aggression, but because they were being pushed out of their space by the Flood, a parasitic life form that consumed everything it touched and turned it into more Flood. Angered, the Forerunners and humanity began a 1,000-year war, with the San'Shyuum (known later to players as the Prophets) allying themselves with humanity. Humanity and the Forerunners lived mostly on separate sides of the galaxy, until one day, 100,000 years ago, humanity began destroying Forerunner worlds. With little to survive on, most of the remaining Precursors turned themselves into dust for later rehydration.The Forerunners took up the Mantle, twisting the ideology to mean that they had a duty to keep "lesser" races underneath them. The Forerunners rebelled against their creators, forcing the Precursors to flee the Milky Way and retreat to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. Kind oflike the Federation and the Prime Directive from Star Trek, though with a bit more smug superiority.Įventually, 5 million years later, the Precursors choose humanity to carry the mantle, making the Forerunners jealous. They hoped that one day, one of their races would carry the Mantle of Responsibility, their belief that the "most developed" species would become benevolent stewards of life in the galaxy, protecting biodiversity and not getting involved in conflicts between different species unless it was necessary. Some 15 million years ago, give or take a couple thousand, an ancient race known as the Precursors seeded the galaxy with life, creating species such as humans and the Forerunners. While the Halo games started with Halo: Combat Evolved, the story of the Halo universe begins much earlier in 15,000,000 BCE. Now Playing: The Complete Halo Timeline PRE-GAME EVENTS By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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