![]() ![]() Humans and their allies, the San'Shyuum, used the spores on animals to domesticate them as pets. Initially they showed no noticeable signs of life or any sort of activity apart from making animals more docile. The humans had been fighting a two-front war: one against the Forerunners and another against an extra-galactic threat known as " The Flood." The Flood originated as simple cells inside automated transports that made their way into the human's part of the galaxy. Born accepts, and gains access to the Didact's memories, learning that he holds deep regrets about his war with the humans. He asks Born to accept a brevet mutation to gain some of the Warrior-Servant caste's traits and to allow access to his memories and those of his class, anticipating the urgency that his knowledge must not end with him. ![]() The four travel to a series of worlds that served as battlegrounds in the Forerunners' war against the humans, all of which show no signs of sentient or complex life, much to The Didact's dismay. He takes Born and the two humans upon some recently arrived ships to retrace his steps prior to being put into the Cryptum, desperate to see if " it" was fired. The Didact, upon awakening, assumes that his wife The Librarian (a member of the Lifeshaper class) sent Born and the humans to awaken him for some purpose. This Forerunner turns to be the Ur-Didact, a member of the dismantled Warrior-Servant caste who was interred in the Cryptum over a thousand years earlier. He hesitantly complies and reawakens the Forerunner inside. Born encounters the AI monitoring the Cryptum and assumes that its occupant is to be revived. After exploring an island near a large crater, Born stumbles across a Forerunner Cryptum: a vault where Forerunners are interred in a state of neverending sleep and contemplation. īorn, who is a swap-member of the Builder caste in the Forerunner hierarch, shows the desire to turn his back on his future as a Builder and instead become a treasure hunter to search for long-lost Forerunner and Precursor artifacts. She assures him that the armor will have no value to the human crew, so Born begins to remove his armor as the florian fetches him sandals made of reeds. It explains that electrical and magnetic fields, other than the ones caused by the planet's dynamics, throw the krakens into a frenzy, which is why the boat is powered by a primitive steam engine. Born then consults with his armor's ancilla first it is described as a disembodied intelligence, in a role similar to another famous A.I. Riser approaches Born and instructs him to remove his Forerunner combat skin as it is upsetting the song. They are sailing across a sea filled with kraken-like monsters which must be pacified by singing a lulling song. With them is the young Forerunner Manipular Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting, who prefers the name his mother used for him: Born. On board are two members of a human subspecies one is a chamanune called Chakas, and the other is a hamanune (also called a florian) named Riser. The story opens on a Human steam boat on Earth, then called Erde-Tyrene. The Human species was split into about half a dozen subspecies to reduce the chances of it once again allying and becoming strong. As punishment, the surviving Humans were devolved by the Forerunners and exiled back to their planet of origin, a world called " Erde-Tyrene" (known in the present as Earth) in the Sol system. This original empire ended some 10,000 years before the events of the book, when they went to war with the Forerunners and were utterly defeated. It is also revealed in the first chapter that Humanity once had a massive and sprawling prehistoric interstellar empire. It details Forerunner- Human contact with-in the "first dozen pages." The novel explores the beginnings of the Forerunner-Flood war. ![]()
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