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- Exalted Legendary Member
Have you seen my mind anywhere? I seem to have lost it...
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I have seen you future
This is true. A long time ago, before the Forerunner-Flood war, there were two great empires in the galaxy. The Forerunners, and the Human-San Shyuum empire. The Human-San Shyuum empire was as vast and advanced as the Forerunners themselves. The Forerunners and the humans both believed themselves to be the rightful bearers of the mantle.
Several ancient ships crashed into several human worlds containing powder. This powder was used to genetically modify a certain type of animal to make it more desirable. Unfortunately for humanity some people liked to eat these animals. People who ate the genetically modified animals became aggressive, cannibalistic monsters.
These people were the beginnings of what would come to be known as the Flood.
Eventually humanity was able to create a counter-virus that, when put into a person who was consumed by the Flood would counteract the flood virus. By infecting their own people with the virus the Human-San Shyuum alliance was able to defeat the Flood, but at a terrible price, over one third of the population had been killed.
During the war, those who weren't killed fled. In their desperation they ran to wherever they could go that wasn't infected by the flood.
Many fled to Forerunner controlled worlds. The Forerunners, who already disliked the humans and prophets, saw these refugees as invaders. They declared war on the humans and the prophets.
The war lasted many years, but the Humans and the Prophets, who were already weakened from their fight with the Flood, were no match for the Forerunner onslaught.
The prophets, who gave up, were confined to two planets in their home system under a quarantine imposed by the Forerunners.
The Humans, who fought to the bitter end, were not shown such mercy. They were devolved and put back on their home planed, which we now call Earth. They had none of their technology, and were left with no memory of what once was.
Later, after the San Shyuum broke their quarantine, the Forerunners brought a halo ring to their system for a test fire. This wiped out the San Shyuum, except for those specimens stored at the ark, leaving the Forerunners as the only species with knowledge of the events of the Forerunner-Human war.
One hundred thousand years ago the Forerunners realized the futility of their fight with the Flood and fired the Halo rings. Some say the Forerunners were wiped out by these rings, not having enough time to reach their shield worlds. Others say they left the galaxy out of shame for the genocide caused by the array.
Whatever the explanation, when the Forerunners disappeared, they brought the story of the Forerunner-Human war with them.