After the emergence of the Covenant threat, the UNSC was given power over the UEG and its colonial governing agency, Colonial Administration Authority , although the civilian government was formally returned its power after the war. Originally designed to keep the peace between neighboring planets and star systems, when certain rebellious factions began to present a problem in the late s, the UNSC was forced to police its colonies to keep privateers and pirates from raiding them.
Formed from the initial alliance out of desperation with their former human enemies, the UNSC, they played a key role in ensuring the salvation of the galaxy and start a new era of relative peace alongside the UNSC.
Facing civil war after the end of the Human-Covenant War, the Swords became a major faction within the galaxy's political and military state. Much of the Swords' trouble came from the Servants of the Abiding Truth and Jul 'Mdama 's emerging Covenant faction , both directly and indirectly caused by the Office of Naval Intelligence which sought the destabilization of the Sangheili race.
Ruled by a large council of kaidons , the Swords of Sanghelios attempt to bring peace and unity to Sanghelios, the Elite homeworld, as well as returning the old values and traditions of Sangheili past. With their UNSC allies, they are succeeding in creating a new era of peace. Originally formed by as an alliance between two species; the Prophets San'Shyuum and the Elites Sangheili , the Covenant was a theocratic hegemony of multiple alien species.
The name "Covenant" is based on the binding Covenant formed between the two races, when the Sangheili promised to defend the San'Shyuum as they searched for the "Sacred Rings" Halo Array which are said to start the " Great Journey ", a term that the Prophets use to explain the disappearance of their Gods, the Forerunner race. The quest of the entire Covenant, the Great Journey is the basis of all of their worship. As the Covenant Empire grew over a millennium, more species were enslaved to their cause, although, up until the Great Schism , none of them were quite as important to the Prophets as the Elites.
At first, the Covenant were mostly held together by a need to survive, but as their society advanced, so did their technology, culture and religion. Now the polytheistic Covenant control a large part of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy and their society is a complicated caste system, with the Prophets still on top, governing the Covenant along with the Elites. The actual context of this prophecy is based on the notion that the Forerunners were so advanced that they had found a way to propel themselves to godlike status using their technology.
To oppose this, a parasitic race known as the Flood attacked the Forerunners and attempted to stop the activation of this technology. Before the Flood could stop them, the Forerunners activated the Halo Array, and ascended to godhood. The Covenant design is to find the Halos, and use it to propel themselves to godliness as well. The three leading Prophets Truth , Mercy , and Regret who were the Hierarchs of the Covenant, wanted to destroy humanity due to the threat they pose to their religion: if humankind really are the Forerunners' heirs, then all that the Covenant believe in is false.
Not wanting the truth about the humans to get out, the rest of the Covenant have been told that humanity is a direct affront to the Forerunner, much like the Flood in goal, so must be exterminated if the Great Journey is to be completed. After the destruction of the original Covenant in the concluding events of the Human-Covenant War, the former member species fragmented into many factions with varying goals, many of them still hostile to humanity as well as each other.
The Flood called The Parasite by the Covenant is a species of virulent, parasitic organisms that thrive by consuming other sentient life of sufficient biomass, no matter where in the universe, thus leading Forerunners to the creation of the Halo Array. The Flood appears to be a hive or communal mind, existing in several stages that eventually lead into the creation of a central intelligence known as the Gravemind. The Flood grow and reproduce via the assimilation of other beings, utilizing corpses and acquiring any biomass including both animal and plant in order to spread.
They are incapable of sexual reproduction, instead they fester inside a host until a certain time period, after which they explode and many new Flood are given off. Once a Gravemind is formed however, the Flood advance to a stage where they no longer require hosts for this, only biomass and calcium, which they require to feed on, and to build bodies with.
Once they have advanced, they create hives which can produce thousands of Flood inside large pustules on walls and other surfaces, which act as incubators. During this stage, the Flood are able to build their own life forms using captured biomass and calcium deposits.
The Flood continue in this fashion recurrently until either everything is devoured, or until they are stopped, the former usually occurring. In modern times, little is known about their origin, except that they arrived from another galaxy and fought both prehistoric humans and Forerunners, eventually defeating the latter.
The Forerunners discovered and then fought them until they were overwhelmed after centuries of war. Faced with the Flood spreading throughout the galaxy and consuming every sentient being, the Forerunners created seven artificial rings called the Halos , galactic superweapons in the shape of enormous rings, to contain and hopefully stop the Flood from ever spreading.
The point of the rings was to wipe out all sentient life, thus starving the Flood of the sufficient biomass required for them to continue spreading. Through their own interpretation of Forerunner artifacts, the Covenant believed these rings were actually devices that allowed the Forerunner to transcend this plane of existence into godlike state, and thus they seek to do the same by activating them once more, not realizing they would inadvertently wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy if they were to be successful in doing so.
Although it seemed the plan had been successful at eliminating the Flood threat, samples of the organism kept on the rings for study were released on at least two of the installations through accidental means, putting the galaxy once again at risk of complete destruction by the parasite.
Once the dominant civilization in the Milky Way , the Forerunners reached unparalleled technological advancement over , years before the Human-Covenant War. Believing to be charged by the mysterious Precursors with protecting less advanced civilizations in the galaxy, they stumbled upon the Flood and fought a three-hundred-year long war to stop the genocidal parasitic species from overrunning the galaxy.
When it looked as if they were going to fail at that task, they built and activated the Halo Array - sterilizing the entire galaxy of sentient life including themselves, starving the Flood into submission, and repopulating the galaxy again with those few species saved from extinction.
All that remains now of the Forerunners are the ruins of their ancient temples and cities, a few scattered pieces of functional technology, and their automated combat and maintenance constructs. Their technological brilliance, combined with a garbled version of the Halo activation, led to the Covenant's religion revering the Forerunners as deities, and that this state could be achieved again by activating the Halos.
In turn, these attempts led to the Human-Covenant War, and the eventual secession of the Sangheili and their alliance with humanity to stop the Covenant. The Insurrectionists are various rebel groups opposed to the rule of the UNSC throughout human space who seek the colonies' liberation from the Unified Earth Government's influence. Following the rapid volumetric growth of the region of space controlled by the human race throughout the 25th century, the UEG found it increasingly difficult to maintain its hold over the Outer Colonies, hundreds of which were scattered across exceedingly large swathes of space.
By , the Outer Colonies surpassed the core worlds in number by several hundred. Despite their more discrete composition, the Outer Colonies proved an ample breeding ground for a strong nationalist sentiment among their citizens which in turn led to their perceiving the Earth government—and the UNSC which imposed its will—as a draconian outside force. Insurrectionist activity as a whole, while not completely gone, died down during the Covenant War. After the end of the Human-Covenant conflict, many insurrectionist movements such as the United Rebel Front which had ceased their operations during the war began to resurface.
A number of colonies refused the offer of peace and cut all ties with the UNSC, which, according to them, had abandoned them during the war. Over ten million years ago , an advanced civilization known as the Precursors controlled the galaxy. Having reigned for billions of years and reached the pinnacle of technological advancement, they seeded the galaxy with life and created many species, including humans and Forerunners.
The Precursors held the Mantle of Responsibility , the guardianship of all life in the galaxy. They eventually decided to give the Mantle to one of their creations and they initially selected the Forerunners.
However, the Precursors changed their minds on handing it to them - tasking humanity with it. The Forerunners, enraged by their creators' favoring of humanity over themselves, rebelled against the Precursors and wiped them out almost entirely.
Some Precursors survived by reducing themselves to dust that, although meant to regenerate their original forms in time, was corrupted over the passage of millions of years and would eventually manifest itself in a completely new form - the parasitic Flood.
Records of the truth about the Precursors were lost over time and faded into legend; ten million years after the destruction of the Precursors, Forerunners simply believed that their creators had disappeared and given them the gift of the Mantle. Early humanity first arose on their homeworld Earth, then known as "Erde-Tyrene" and mastered interstellar travel, eventually becoming a prosperous interstellar empire based on the planet Charum Hakkor. They also allied with the San'Shyuum species, who would become the ruling caste of the Covenant thousands of years later.
Around , BCE , however, humanity stumbled upon the nascent form of the Flood parasite near the galaxy's edges. Hundreds of systems were lost to the parasite in a conflict between the humans and the Flood as humans desperately sterilized any infested world while securing new colonies for their dwindled populations in the borders of the Forerunner ecumene.
Humanity's aggressive expansion and the perceived violations of the Mantle eventually prompted the Forerunners to take action and go to war against humanity. Despite being forced to fight a two-front war against the Flood and the Forerunners, humanity evidently drove the Flood out of the galaxy. However, the Forerunners, led by the Promethean supreme commander known as the Didact , eventually emerged victorious over humanity after defeating their last stronghold on Charum Hakkor.
Following the war in approximately , BCE , the Forerunners dismantled humanity's civilization, regressing them into a Tier 7 species. The remaining humans exiled to their homeworld Earth, where the supreme Forerunner Lifeshaper , known as the Librarian , tended to them and slowly guided them toward developing a primitive civilization ; unlike most Forerunners, the Librarian saw potential in humanity to eventually become the Forerunners' successors.
Weakened by their struggle with humanity as well as major internal strife, the Forerunners were easy prey to the resurgent Flood. For three hundred years, the parasite claimed numerous Forerunner planets and systems, until virtually overrunning the entire ecumene.
As a final resort, the Forerunners - specifically, an individual known as the IsoDidact - fired the Halo Array , a network of superweapons which eradicated all neurologically complex life in the galaxy and subsequently caused most Flood to die out. While life was re-seeded into the galaxy by the Forerunners, the few surviving Forerunners themselves would go into self-imposed exile and not return, passing their Mantle down to its rightful inheritors - humanity.
Dozens of millennia after the disappearance of the Forerunners, two original species of the Covenant, the San'Shyuum and the Sangheili, spent years locked in a bitter war over the control of the remains of the Forerunners. The Prophets wished to use the technology to search and explore the galaxy, but the Elites believed such usage to be a desecration of their holy artifacts.
As the devastating war ravaged both species, the Elites saw that the only way for them to win was to do the exact thing they opposed; use their own Forerunner technology to adapt and befit their vessels.
Eventually, the two species formed an alliance which was formalized with the Writ of Union. Over the following centuries, many species would be absorbed under the power of the Covenant hegemony, and thus conscripted into the search for Forerunner relics, and later the attempt to eradicate the human race. In the late 21st and early 22nd centuries, humanity colonized several worlds in the Solar System , including Earth's moon , Mars , the Jovian Moons , and several asteroids.
In the years , various governments and factions fought for control of Earth and its first colonies. As overpopulation and unrest on Earth mounted, new political movements formed including the Jovian Frieden and Koslovics led by Vladimir Koslov , resurgences of fascism and neo- communism which waged the Interplanetary , Rain Forest Wars and Mars clashes and were defeated by the victorious United Nations Space Command.
The Unified Earth Government was established following the conflicts, emerging as the rulers of most of humanity who now faced the problem of overpopulation, famine and economic instability caused by the wars.
In the late 23rd century, humanity developed the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine , a device which enabled faster-than-light travel through a domain of alternate space-time known as slipstream space. The first extrasolar colony ships went on to colonize worlds in nearby systems within the next decades.
The Inner Colonies , as they later came to be known, would be considered the elite, in contrast to the more remote and less wealthy Outer Colonies , formed over the course of the s. In the s, with over settled worlds across the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, humanity's "Golden Age" of expansion was coming to an end.
Gradually, the Outer Colonies had became more isolated and unstable. Their populations had widely varying loyalties to Earth, and taxes and trade restrictions set up by the UEG's colonial governing agencies caused dissent against the Earth government.
This eventually led to the Insurrection , an undeclared civil war between the UNSC and the various rebel groups that rose up against it in the Outer Colonies. Catherine Halsey. A Forerunner known as the Didact leads them in a war that lasts a thousand years. The humans eventually lose, and are regressed to a hunter-gatherer level. The Forerunners make contact with the Flood, a parasite species who infect and dominate existing sentient beings and had previously been at war with the ancient humans.
First contact goes badly. A war that will last centuries begins. In an attempt to permanently rid the galaxy of the Flood, the Forerunners use the Halo arrays to end all sentient life—except that which they preserve on their Keyships, to rebuild once the Flood have been starved out.
The regressed ancestors of humankind and various alien species are among those preserved. The San'Shyuum prophets and the Sangheili elites , after decades of war, create a union called the Covenant.
Other alien species are convinced to join or be exterminated. After the San'Shyuum homeworld is destroyed they begin construction of a space station called High Charity that will become the Covenant's capital. Modern humankind begin colonizing the solar system, creating settlements on the moon and Mars, as well as various asteroids and moons of Jupiter.
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When you just focus on Master Chief and Cortana, it is, for the most part. If you want way more detail than we go into here, we recommend you check out this great wiki timeline of the Halo universe. The Forerunners get all the credit in the Halo games, but the Precursors came before, as their name implies. The Precursors helped shape and evolve humans, the Forerunners, and many other races using the Mantle of Responsibility , a creation philosophy.
In the Forerunner-Precursor war, the Forerunners destroyed their creators. The Precursors had apparently decided to pass the Mantle onto the humans — letting them dictate the flow of life in the universe — rather than the Forerunners.
Believing they were the superior creation, the Forerunners obliterated the Precursors and took up the Mantle of Responsibility for themselves. Turning mostly to dust, the Precursors eventually became the Flood, the zombielike parasite that ruins the back half of most Halo games. Humans eventually discovered the Flood, which started a brief war.
Believing humanity was pushing its luck and reaching too far, the Forerunners also went to war with the humans in order to stamp them out. The humans defeated the Flood but lost to the Forerunners and their Promethean warriors led by the Didact. The Forerunners brought humanity back to the stone age, stripping them of their interstellar travel.
The Librarian, a Forerunner, looked over humanity. Without the humans around, the Flood returned and went to war with the Forerunners. Losing the war, the Forerunners constructed and activated the titular Halo rings, which were designed to destroy all life that the Flood could potentially prey upon — starving the Flood, ensuring its demise.
They worship the Forerunners and therefore the Halos. Many generations after being punished by the Forerunners, the humans were back to traveling the galaxy and making colonies on lesser planets.
But some of the colonies were unhappy with the politics of Earth. A minor insurrection against the UNSC began to build across several planets. So naturally, the UNSC started abducting children.
Catherine Halsey led the program, and abducted gifted 6-year-olds for it. Well I did a google search on your behalf and found out that the series was the Ringworld trilogy.
It wasn't entirely based off the series but had elements. User Info: haloiscoolisbak. User Info: ikancu. A Thousand Laughing Monkeys What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us - Emerson. User Info: jellsprout. The concept of the Halo itself is similar to the concept of the Ringworld, only on a much, much, much smaller scale. But other than that, it has pretty much nothing in common. Fall of Reach was an Ender's Game clone.
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