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Our effort today is to piece together the quiet denouement of the Forerunners in the time that followed the firing of the Halo array and the reseeding of the galaxy, looking at fiction from the esoteric depths of Iris, to Fractures, to the Legendary Crates.
Strap yourselves in, Spartans – we’ve got eleven years of franchise history to look back on…
> "And those who made the rings? What happened to the Forerunners?”
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> One hundred thousand years ago, a great and terrible civilisation achieved technological dominance. They appointed themselves as the galaxy’s rulers, imposing a chastening peace over their protectorates for countless millennia.
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> This they did in the name of the Mantle. Their duty: to preserve diversity and serve as guardians of life in all its forms.
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> And then, one day, they vanished.
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> They were the Forerunners, and this is what they did next…
I don’t know what’s in the Lootcrates, but through the short stories we’ve been given, we know that the Forerunners on the Lesser Ark oversaw the reseeding of the galaxy, then upon viewing the Librarian’s last message to the Iso Didact (now just Bornstellar), a group of Forerunners go to the last Forerunner capital “Maethrillian”, where they reboot the Domain after some of their number are killed by Abaddon, a Precursor Ancilla. Afterwards, one of the Forerunner survivors volunteered to become a Monitor to be stationed at the Lesser Ark to hopefully eventually mentor humanity when they were ready. The rest of the Forerunners scattered to far distant planets, isolating themselves so that their race would perish from the galaxy. Bornstellar married, and had a child, but isolated from other Forerunners, that child would be forced to live out his life alone on the planet after his parents’ eventual deaths from old age.
The Forerunner who became a Monitor (Tragic Solitude) eventually went crazy and tried to destroy humanity, and was subsequently destroyed to safeguard Earth.
We don’t have information on who the unnamed Forerunner Builder is in the Halo 5 recordings (unless it’s in the loot boxes) and I’m interested in finding out what his story is.
I’m still waiting to come upon a race in Halo where they bite me. I’m sure the Forerunners the Librarian came across in Silentium must still be out there somewhere and if my memory serves me right they are in the same location as The Domain. " Well that’s how I read it in Silentium" which we must remember was a collection of records and not in any date order and these Forerunners were very different from the Librarian ones as they had travelled many thousands of years even before the 100, 000 years we now have between era’s in lore.
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> I’m still waiting to come upon a race in Halo where they bite me. I’m sure the Forerunners the Librarian came across in Silentium must still be out there somewhere and if my memory serves me right they are in the same location as The Domain. " Well that’s how I read it in Silentium" which we must remember was a collection of records and not in any date order and these Forerunners were very different from the Librarian ones as they had travelled many thousands of years even before the 100, 000 years we now have between era’s in lore.
The Forerunners in Path Kethona (the Large Magellanic Cloud) were the descendants of those who fought the Precursors over 10 million years ago. They never returned to the Milky Way due to the immense guilt of having wiped out their creators - those who objected to this as a crime against the Mantle were either executed or marooned on a world (the one the Librarian and her crew visits on the expedition) which they ‘revived’ with an artificial ecosystem, which is where they built the organic Domain.
Path Kethona ended up being wiped out towards the end of Silentium, as it was a nexus for a bunch of Star Roads that were making their way to the Greater Ark - and then the galaxy. What remained of the Ecumene, under the Master Builder’s leadership, made their final stand there as they fired Omega Halo (the last of the original twelve rings) at Path Kethona - but not before the Star Roads destroyed the Greater Ark and the ring. Whether the ‘organic’ Domain remains in Path Kethona, whether it was affected by Omega Halo’s pulse or not, is unknown, but all life there is dead.
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> > I’m still waiting to come upon a race in Halo where they bite me. I’m sure the Forerunners the Librarian came across in Silentium must still be out there somewhere and if my memory serves me right they are in the same location as The Domain. " Well that’s how I read it in Silentium" which we must remember was a collection of records and not in any date order and these Forerunners were very different from the Librarian ones as they had travelled many thousands of years even before the 100, 000 years we now have between era’s in lore.
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> The Forerunners in Path Kethona (the Large Magellanic Cloud) were the descendants of those who fought the Precursors over 10 million years ago. They never returned to the Milky Way due to the immense guilt of having wiped out their creators - those who objected to this as a crime against the Mantle were either executed or marooned on a world (the one the Librarian and her crew visits on the expedition) which they ‘revived’ with an artificial ecosystem, which is where they built the organic Domain.
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> Path Kethona ended up being wiped out towards the end of Silentium, as it was a nexus for a bunch of Star Roads that were making their way to the Greater Ark - and then the galaxy. What remained of the Ecumene, under the Master Builder’s leadership, made their final stand there as they fired Omega Halo (the last of the original twelve rings) at Path Kethona - but not before the Star Roads destroyed the Greater Ark and the ring. Whether the ‘organic’ Domain remains in Path Kethona, whether it was affected by Omega Halo’s pulse or not, is unknown, but all life there is dead.
Thank you very much. Much appreciated that somebody can remember better than me.
I recently came across your blog when I started getting a tiny bit more involved with the Halo community over the last few months. I’ve been a Halo fan since the first game when I was a nipper and I’ve read all the EU since then. I absolutely love your blog and your articles. This was no different. Such a concise and really well put together piece that does exactly what it says on the tin! Thank you for refreshing my memory and doing so in such a well written manner. You’re a treat for this community.
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> I recently came across your blog when I started getting a tiny bit more involved with the Halo community over the last few months. I’ve been a Halo fan since the first game when I was a nipper and I’ve read all the EU since then. I absolutely love your blog and your articles. This was no different. Such a concise and really well put together piece that does exactly what it says on the tin! Thank you for refreshing my memory and doing so in such a well written manner. You’re a treat for this community.
Thank you very much, that always means a lot to hear! :’)