Name: The Flood, Referred to as Inferi redivivus by Forerunners (Latin for "The Dead Reincarnated"), the Parasite by most species (Mainly the UNSC/Humands, the Covenant, Forerunners, The Banished, etc.), "Shaping Sickness", "The Plague", etc. ![]() Tier: 9-C | 9-B to 8-C individually | 4-B to 3-C This eventually led to the creation and firing of the Halo array, the fall of the Forerunner Ecumene, and 100,000 years later - the rise of the Forerunner worshiping Covenant Empire and a resurgent humanity. After the conclusion of the Forerunner-Human war, the battered Forerunner Ecumene found itself backed into a corner by the ever-advancing Flood who threatened to consume all sentient life in the galaxy. The Flood would eventually come into conflict with ancient humanity and then, the Forerunners who had stolen the galaxy from the very beings they once worshiped as gods. They would make the Forerunners pay for their insolence, all life in the galaxy would be deprived of free will and never again rise against the Precursors, and life in the galaxy would be truly unified as one. Although initially viewed as an accident or failure on their part, the Precursors began to view the Flood as a form of revenge against the galaxy. But this became corrupted and would induce madness and mutations in any life form that came into contact with it. Some of the Precursors who escaped the genocide went into suspended animation and turned themselves into a powdery substance in the hopes of reviving later on. This war took place ten millions years BCE and its details are lost even to the Forerunners themselves. This did not go down well with ancient Forerunners who waged war against the Precursors and drove them to near extinction. They wished to pass on their "Mantle of Responsibility" (a philosophy whereby a "steward race" which held the Mantle would be entitled to oversee the evolution and cultivation of life in the galaxy) to ancient humans. For hundreds of millions or perhaps even billions of years before the creation of the Halo array, the Milky Way galaxy and all life in it was overseen by the Precursors.
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