The Flood no longer infected humans and instead began to rapidly die out, with both humans and Forerunners sterilizing the remaining infestations. Īfter a certain point, the Flood's rampage throughout human territory stopped. They also inquired the Primordial about the Flood the answers they received were so traumatizing that many committed suicide. Instead, the being revealed disconcerting truths about humanity's origins this was believed by some to have caused the demoralization of human culture and thus contributed to their defeat against the Forerunners. Human researchers found a way to communicate with the entity, asking in vain for answers to various scientific or moral questions, receiving no useful responses. Under Yprin Yprikushma's orders, this being, known as the Primordial, was placed in a stasis capsule and transported to Charum Hakkor for study. In 107,564 BCE, forty years before the last conflict between humanity and the Forerunners, a human expeditionary group encountered an ancient being held in hibernation on a planet near the galaxy's edges. The resulting conflicts lasted for a thousand years. Nevertheless, the Forerunners responded violently to this aggression and waged war with the humans and their San'Shyuum allies. After losing many planets to the Flood humanity desperately invaded a minor sector of the Forerunners' ecumene, ostensibly in an attempt to seize new territory to replace the worlds they had lost, though at least some instances of this seeming aggression were in fact humanity sterilizing worlds where Flood infestation had already taken hold. This civilization encountered the Flood by 108,764 BCE at the latest and went to war against the parasite after discovering its true nature. Human and Forerunner forces battle on Charum Hakkor. At their height, humanity's technological advancement nearly rivaled that of the Forerunners. Humanity also formed an alliance with the San'Shyuum species in order to gain access to their advanced technology. Īfter recovering from their dark ages, humanity made the former Precursor world Charum Hakkor their capital, to be close to one of the greatest collections of Precursor structures. They first settled in and built up population centers in two star systems dozens of lightyears away from Sol before stringing outposts together across nearly thirty thousand lightyears toward the galactic margin of the galaxy. Around 150,000 BCE humanity moved their civilization outward along the Orion Arm, possibly to flee Forerunner control. It was not until much later when scientists led by Yprin Yprikushma traced humanity's potential origin to Earth. Early in their history, long before encountering the Forerunners, humanity underwent a series of technological dark ages, which left their populations scattered across many worlds and resulted in the loss of most of their records, including the knowledge of Earth being their potential original homeworld. These early humans settled on numerous worlds along the galactic margin these regions would be targeted by the Flood's initial assault over a million years later. Having presumably evolved and achieved civilization on Earth, originally known as "Erda" or "Erde-Tyrene", humanity first became a spacefaring civilization at some point prior to 1,100,000 BCE. This civilization allied with the contemporary San'Shyuum and later waged war against the Flood, only to come into conflict with the Forerunners they ultimately suffered a disastrous defeat against the Forerunners and were subsequently regressed into hunter-gatherers, confined to their ancient homeworld. Members of the most predominant human species of this era (retroactively known as "ancient humans" and scientifically designated archeohomina ) were on average larger, stronger, and significantly more intelligent than modern humans. Over a hundred thousand years later, the Librarian would tell John-117 that they were the greatest threat ever faced by the Forerunners. Having first achieved interstellar travel over a million years earlier and colonized planets across the Orion Arm toward the galactic border, humans became a major political and military power rivaling the Forerunners indeed, the Didact considered them the second greatest military power and the latest challenge to Forerunner influence. The Ancestors or Ancient humanity were a prehistoric, technologically advanced civilization of the human species that rose to preeminence in the Milky Way galaxy by approximately 150,000 BCE. " Once, we were one great race, united in power and concerted in our goals." - Forthencho
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