How big was the Forerunner Empire?

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I’m only seeing that it encompassed 3 million fertile worlds. Is there a map showing how big their empire was? It’d be kind of a letdown knowing Forerunners didn’t expand to the other side of the Galaxy.

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> I’m only seeing that it encompassed 3 million fertile worlds. Is there a map showing how big their empire was? It’d be kind of a letdown knowing Forerunners didn’t expand to the other side of the Galaxy.

I own all of the likely candidates for such information that I know of, and haven’t seen any such thing as a map showing the entirety of the Forerunner Eccumene. It may be released later, but for now I believe it only exists in the mythical “Halo Story Bible”.

I’m also not sure if we can say that this is total worlds, or if it only includes true planets, with artificial worlds having a different classification. The latter would be a stretch, but isn’t outside the realm of possibility.

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> > I’m only seeing that it encompassed 3 million fertile worlds. Is there a map showing how big their empire was? It’d be kind of a letdown knowing Forerunners didn’t expand to the other side of the Galaxy.
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> I own all of the likely candidates for such information that I know of, and haven’t seen any such thing as a map showing the entirety of the Forerunner Eccumene. It may be released later, but for now I believe it only exists in the mythical “Halo Story Bible”.
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> I’m also not sure if we can say that this is total worlds, or if it only includes true planets, with artificial worlds having a different classification. The latter would be a stretch, but isn’t outside the realm of possibility.

We know that the Forerunners made quite a lot of artificial worlds…there’s at least 400 Shield Worlds alone, since the one in Halo Wars was 0459.
Warfleets shows that they had facilities all across the entire galaxy though.

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Considering that they also travelled beyond the Milky Way, I would comfortably assume from all of the descriptions from the books that their empire literally spanned the entire galaxy.