A/N: Hello guys...This is Long night of solace. This is my third story which is a Marvel and Halo crossover. Before getting into the story, I would like to state a few things.
This story will follow a grounded style similar to Marvel Cinematic Universe. The marvel characters in the entire database won't be crowded here, which is not my scope. There will be characters and factions that will be necessary for the progressing story.
Master Chief will be the only character from Haloverse. Still for the logical information to maintain a continuity, the 1st chapter will serve as the general info about the haloverse, pretty much everything that happened from 2557 AD after Master chief defeated the Didact. The Haloverse human technology is advanced but not to the mythical or fantasy levels. But enough to keep up with the Marvel universe.
Finally, don't expect me to give frequent updates as I got to update 3 stories while also keeping up with my office job for 5 days. It means I only get time to write on remaining 2 holidays.
Last but not least, I hope you will enjoy this!...
Disclaimer: I don't own Halo or Marvel franchise.
Prologue: Humanity
Timeline: 62558 AD.
Humanity had advanced and evolved both biologically and technologically far exceeding the Forerunners in just 60,000 years after 2558 AD.
Out of trillions of galaxies in the universe, Humans have formed an impressive inter galactic empire that spans 50 galaxies in total with 20 in the Inner group and the remaining 30 outside in the Virgo super cluster, along with hundreds of satellite galaxies. Their sphere of influence now spans 250 million light years. Humanity's evolution since 2558 AD had always been on their own path without the influence from other races or species. They developed their own technologies without the need for reverse engineering alien artifacts.
1) Human Colonies:
In the Milky way galaxy, humans have completely, thoroughly colonized 343,650 worlds. In the remaining 49 galaxies they have successfully colonized 1.3 million worlds each to a grand total of 64 million fertile worlds.
Capital worlds: Earth, Reach and Charum Hakkor becomes humanity's capital trinity that represents their empire.
Population: Humanity's population with the extensive help of genetic engineering took their numbers to a humongous 57,600 trillion with an average of 900 million in each world.
65% of the occupied worlds are at least 1.4 times the size of Earth.
Humanity was able colonize other galaxies because of their discovery of large magallenic cloud and the abundant resources available there. That discovery alone helped humanity to make millennia of technological and economic leap in just few decades. Enormous resources at disposal made humans to believe that unconventional technologies are possible there after. Many private industrialists volunteered to help in building vessels and equipment, weapons and powered armors on a massive scale.
Also with the discovery of inter galactic jump gates constructed by Precursors helped humans to easily travel between galaxies in minutes. These mysterious jump gates use neural physics based FTL transit.
2) Human Technology:
i) Weapons:
All the human weapons appear deep black in color with rich elegant contour profiles and body design. Human weapons are almost directed energy weaponry.
Pulse fusion rifle: A DE assault rifle that has a cross blended design of MA5D and ARC-920 rail gun. It uses cooled lithium ions as ammo stored in a glass canisters of 6mm diameter and 7cm long as magazine. A 430MW promethium nuclear fission cell powers a solid state laser of 2kilojoules. The lithium ions are released from the canisters in controlled manner. These ions are irradiated by the laser which immediately pools photons to trigger fusion reaction of lithium ions to create micro stellar rounds of high energy density. Then the rounds are immediately accelerated between parallel rails which magnetizes and confines the rounds and released at very high velocity by the action of lorentz force. The stellar rounds are bluish white in color and releases lightning arc filaments around itself of 5 cm length due to the frictional contact with the atmosphere.
Each canister can be used to fire 280 automatic rounds in total at a speed of 12 rounds per second. Each fusion rounds consume 5 lithium ions. The fusion cross section is very low such that the fusion probability is 95%.
Ion particle rifle: A magnetohydrodynamic assault rifle with a highly sophisticated design. It uses dense rhenium metal rod which is ablated to super excited vapor state where the rhenium atoms are suspended in a pool of electron-photon plasma, compressed and confined by it's own magnetic field. This magnetohydrodynamic state is created continuously, but are accelerated through annular Lorentz accelerator into alternative rounds at a speed of 12 rounds per second. Each rhenium bar is kept inside a wrapped up case that has to be loaded each and every time in to the gun.
This rifle is a 300 automatic rounds weapon. This weapon is also powered by the same promethium nuclear fission cell.
GM-X pistol: A highly advanced guass pistol. It shoots out dense Carbon Nano Tube reinforced tungsten bullets at supersonic speeds by magnetic field. The gun is powered by mini hydrogen fuel cell with a current amplifier. Capable of piercing even dense armor and draining energy shields. In general, this pistol is a deadly weapon when dual wielded.
Humans found this weapon highly efficient and is always a weapon of choice in general.
Talon launchers: Humans have eliminated chemical explosives and replaced them with powerful non-chemical ones. Talon launchers are hand held rocket launchers that use intelligent guidance systems. The missile consists of a micro nuclear fusion warhead that explodes within 4m radius releasing very high energy fusion plasma capable of virtually incinerating anything down to molecular levels. These missiles are ion propelled.
Plasma shotgun: A highly modified variant of M90 shotgun. It uses dense polymers that are ablated by electric arcs to plasma states and are launched in 5 separate micro annular magnetic ducts encased within a single outer cylindrical shell. When shot, the plasma from the ducts splashes out of the gun at very high speed covering a range of 20 metres.
AMX-100 Sniper rifle: An ultra powerful long range recoil-less weapon used by snipers. It uses zero point silicon condensate which is a super dense molecular crystal in near absolute zero temperature. The magazine is specially designed to be a completely sealed cryo chamber which maintains this temperature. The unique property of this silicon crystal is that even after being shot and comes into contact with the atmosphere, there will be no heat transfer with the crystal that will instantly vaporize the rounds. This is because of the extremely powerful cooper pairs formed between silicon atoms combined with the peculiar distribution of Vanderwaal's forces.
This super dense silicon condensate bullet is manufactured by compressing silicon atoms with in a mold(Bullet shaped mold) to ultra high pressure and cryogenically cooled to form molecular silicon crystal bullet. It is accelerated by super conducting magnetic fields at a velocity of 15,000 meters per second with an effective range of 30 kms. This round can shatter dense surfaces, hard light surface and penetrate energy shields and kill the target in a single shot.
Adamantine hammer: Named after greek god Hercules's weapon. Human weapons scientists after conducting effective researches in creating melee weapons, they ended up with this hammer. This weapon has quite a resemblance to Jiralhanae hammer. Adamantine is the only weapon powered by vacuum energy. The hammer head consists of a vacuum energy siphon that draws the quantum energy from the universe and channeled through the head to desired effects. The energy can be channeled and stomped on the ground to create energy tremors. Or the energy can be charged and shot as linear energy streams upon a target. Anyway, both creates devastating effects. This hammer is specially given to spartan super soldiers.
ii) Ground military vehicles:
Mammoth: These are huge mobile artillery platform vehicles that carry at least 30 military personnel inside. It is equipped with dual heavy plasma mortars at the rear top, 2 heavy pulse laser guns at the front, Archer missile batteries at both the sides. These missiles use mixtured nitroglycerine-nitrotoluene explosive warheads. The vehicle is protected by human energy shielding. Three mammoths are powerful enough infact to severely damage a frigate. It is powered by Nitrogen plasmadynamic core. Also it uses artificial-gravity levitation for mobility.
Sabres: These are light reconnaissance vehicles that usually carry 3 personnel - 1 driver, 1 side seat and 1 gunner. They use super conducting magnetic levitation for mobility. It is mounted with a plasma chain gun. Sabres are powered by nuclear fission packs. Sabers too are protected by energy shields though not as powerful as the Mammoth's.
iii) Planetary defense systems:
Orbital defense stations: Humanity having mastered the previously used MAC technology, they decided to take it further by using particle beam weapons.
These stations are huge geo-sync platforms whose only primary weapon system is a particle beam super cannon that fires stream of super high energy Z-Bosons that instantly break into particle-antiparticle pairs at relativistic speeds with energy levels of 1500 TeV. A single super cannon can effectively destroy a Forerunner planet breaker vessel with shielding in a single shot. These stations are powered by Nexus power cores.
Each colony world is protected by stations placed at the strategically most important points around the planet.
Ground side defense cannons: These are large, anti-aircraft energy beam projectors present at the planet's ground side. These weapons provide protection from invading enemy aircrafts into the atmosphere.
Argus: These are automated flying robotic drones that use high power coherent ultraviolet laser beam as their weapon and are protected by bubble shields. These drones are similar in size to the forerunner super sentinels. Their purpose ranges from guarding a facility to an entire city. Scientists have developed a sophisticated system embedded into it to help each argus drone share real time monitoring resources among themselves for automated co-ordination, a swarm formation in short.
iv) Aerial support and defense:
Longsword fighters: Human scientists have completely redesigned and re-engineered the GA-TL1 longsword to be used as both air and space craft at hypersonic velocities. It is propelled by twin deutron plasma propulsion that expels extremely repulsive high energy thermal deutrium ions to create thrust force. For vertical take off and landing, it uses super conducting magnetic levitation against the planetary magnetic field.
It is equipped with homing missiles that carry proton micro fusion warhead and dual pulse laser turrets. The fighter craft is protected by energy shielding.
Broadsword fighters: Completely redesigned and re-engineered F-41 broadsword fightercrafts to be used as both air and spacecraft at hypersonic velocities. It uses the same twin deutron plasma propulsion and super conducting magnetic levitation. One unique feature is, at the bottom of the craft is a gravitational tractor beam generator for lifting and carrying sensitive payloads.
It is equipped with same homing missiles of proton micro fusion warheads, dual pulse laser turrets and EMP mine launchers. They too possess energy shielding.
Griffin fighters: These are purely space fighter crafts and the most deadliest ones. They are propelled by twin repulsor engines using one Helium-3 fusion reactor. Also this is the only craft to possess slipspace drive for short interstellar jumps of 5 light years at a time.
It is equipped with seeker missile launchers. Seeker missile is an ion propelled missile whose warhead consists of 10 micro plasma explosives, each attacking indivdual targets. A single micro explosive is capable of destroying a sabre vehicle. Apart from that, it has a dual magneto hydrodynamic pulse cannons that shoots high energy stream of metallic ions at 4 rounds/s rate of fire. Every Griffin fighter carries one fusion bomb that when launched can cause a significant damage to a fleet.
Pelican dropships: Current Pelican dropships are of more elegant design and sophistication. Each dropship can carry 30 armed personnel. The dropships possess energy shielding and are propelled by fusion plasma drives. Each dropship possess a single plasma turret on the offense.
v) Naval Assets:
All ships hull appear deep blue-black in color with 50% reflectivity. It also does not carry insignia and ship name painted in the hull.
Phantom class stealth vessels: These are re-designed and re-engineered prowlers. They are 410 meters long, 99 meters wide and 40 meters height. They use 'Active Cloaking' quantum engineered nano-crystal that refract light at multiple angles based on crystal lattice polarity. This is superior to every camouflage technology available because it doesn't produce visible lensing effect in the background that can give away it's position. A special cryogenic cooling system is used as a heat sink for the cloaking unit.
The ship is powered by an Anti-deutrium fusion reactor with two repulsor engines for sub light propulsion and a slipspace drive for translight propulsion.
The ship is equipped with powerful active sensors and imaging systems. Human scientists also developed a reverse quantum interference signaling which prevents the others ships from even seeing the ghost images picked up by their sensors which is normal for any other cloaked vessels. It means Phantom class stealth vessels are a total surprise to enemies. It is also protected by human energy shielding. This vessel class is the fastest in the human navy.
It has two main weapon systems. One is a dual pulse laser cannons at 6 rounds per second and another is EMP mine array. Apart from that it has hypersonic missle launchers and nuclear mine launchers.
Strident class heavy frigates: Strident class frigates are 760 metres long, 150 meters wide and 130 metres height. These vessels are powered by two Tritium fusion reactors, 2 repulsor engines for sub-light propulsion and slipspace drive for FTL. It is protected by human energy shielding. The crew capacity is 280.
It's main weapon is one Light Plasma Accelerator that shoots dense compressed plasma at 10kms per second. Secondary weapons include 2 lateral heavy laser cannons with one on each side, Reaper missile batteries.
Marathon class light cruisers: These vessels are 1.5 kms long, 340 metres wide and 420 metres height. Ships are powered by two Anti-Helium-3 fusion reactors with 2 primary and 4 secondary repulsor engines for sublight propulsion and a slipspace drive for FTL. It is protected by human energy shielding. The crew capacity is 1200.
It's main weapon is two Light Plasma Accelerators. Secondary weapons include 2 lateral heavy laser cannons in the stern, 2 lateral plasma turrets in the bow, Reaper missile batteries.
Autumn class heavy cruisers: These vessels are 3 kms long, 580 metres wide and 730 metres height. Ships are powered by three Anti-Helium-3 fusion reactors with 2 primary and 4 secondary repulsor engines for sublight propulsion and a slipspace drive for FTL. It is protected by energy shielding. The crew capacity is 2400.
It's main weapons include one Heavy Plasma Accelerator. Secondary weapons include 2 lateral heavy laser cannons in the stern and 1 heavy laser cannon at the bottom, 2 lateral plasma turrets in the bow, Reaper missile batteries, seeker missile batteries, nuclear mine launchers, EMP mine launchers.
Dawn class destroyers: This ship class is designed based on "ANCIENT HUMAN PRIME CRUISER"
These vessels are 5.2 kms long, 1 km height and 810 meters wide. These ships are powered by one Helium-4 fusion reactor with one primary and two secondary repulsor engines. It uses energy shielding and slipspace drive. The crew capacity 10,200.
The ships are equipped with 4 lateral plasma torpedoes in the front with 2 on each side. It uses 2 lateral Omega laser cannons at the rear. Other armaments include Reaper missile batteries, seeker missile batteries.
The main weapon is the Matter Disintegration Beam Projector in the front face of the ship emitted between two rails that resemble a covenant needler gun's barrel. This high intensity energy stream can wipe out a radius of 100kms in the planet surface and can cleanse the entire planet at full power by triggering nuclear chain reaction in the atmospheric gases. This planet cleansing weapon makes the dawn class destroyers a dangerous asset to human navy. One ship can potentially wipe out a single planet.
Infinity class dreadnaught: These ships are the heavily modified versions of UNSC Infinity. These vessels are 9.4 kms long, 2 kms height and 1.2 kms wide. The ships are powered by two Helium-4 fusion reactors with 2 primary and 2 secondary repulsor engines. It uses Shielding and slipspace drive. The crew capacity is 28,900.
The ships are equipped with 2 heavy plasma accelerators, 4 lateral plasma torpedoes with two on each side, 3 omega laser cannons-two on the rear lateral sides and one at the bottom, Reaper missile salvos, seeker missile salvos, 15 Strident frigates docked at the bottom hanger.
Titan class heavy assault carrier: These are newly designed and developed ships. These vessels are 15.5 kms long, 3.1 kms height, 2.2 kms wide. The ships are powered by two Anti-Helium-4 fusion reactors with 2 primary and 4 secondary repulsor engines. It uses shielding and slipspace drive. The crew capacity is 51,000.
The ships are equipped with 3 super heavy plasma accelerators, 8 plasma torpedoes, 4 light particle cannons, three omega-3 laser cannons, Reaper missile salvos, seeker missile salvos. Also it carries 5 phantom class stealth ships and 10 strident heavy frigates.
Juggernaut class super carriers: These are newly designed and developed ships. These vessels are 22.5 kms long, 5.2 kms height, 3.4 kms wide. The ships are powered by four Anti-Helium-4 fusion reactors with 3 primary and 4 secondary repulsor engines. It uses shielding and slipspace drive. The crew capacity is 72,000.
The ships are equipped with 4 super heavy plasma accelerators, 12 plasma torpedoes, 6 light particle cannons, three omega-5 laser cannons, Reaper missile salvos, seeker missile salvos. It also carries 8 stealth ships, 12 strident frigates.
Oblivion class fortress vessels: The most dangerous and the deadliest ships in human navy, code named 'Planet breakers'. After extragalactic colonization became tremendous, Human Security Council ordered manufacturing of powerful planet breaker vessels for inter galactic security purposes or as the fleet of last resort. They usually patrol the inter-galactic void and monitor the galaxy for peak threat levels.
There are 3 class of ships - 60 kms tall, 80 kms tall and 100 kms tall. Every galaxy has four 60 kms vessels, four 80 kms vessels and two 100 kms vessels to a total of ten ships per galaxy.
The flag ship of the entire human military is the biggest ship ever created by humanity. It is named 'Labyrinth of Chaos' which is 260 kms tall, 115 kms length and 100 kms wide. This flagship is the personal vessel of Supreme Commander John-117, leader of the human military UGSC.
The fortress vessels carry a network of heavy particle cannons, point defense laser cannons, series of super heavy plasma mortars, millions of seeker missile salvos, Reaper missile salvos. Crew components include 100,000 personnel, thousands of Longsword, Broadsword and Griffin fighters, thousands of ground vehicles and tens of thousands of argus drones. The main weapon of these planet breakers is the most powerful energy beam projector located below halfway in the front face of the vessel. It is codenamed 'Azrael' named after the angel of death. This beam projector shoots powerful energy streams that will punch straight into the planet's core and collapses it. This process will completely shatter the planet to asteroid debris.
John-117's flagship has an even more powerful version of this weapon, codenamed 'Thanatos' named after the demon of death that can send a star to supernova, fire omni-directional EMP burst the size of a solar system, cancel FTL travel of any other ship at any range and even trap them in the multiversal barrier.
The fortress vessels are powered by Nexus power core and possess powerful energy shields and slipspace drive.
vi) Materials:
Over the 60,000 years time span, humans have exceedingly improved on fabrication of extremely dense and strong materials. Glass had always been in use in both buildings and ships.
Engineered cross chained dense polymers are the most tough and high tensile strength organic materials developed by humans. Their use ranges from being used as thermal and electrical insulators and reinforcement agents.
The most important material developed by humanity is the 'Titanium-Iridium degenerate nano composite'. This is fabricated by compressing 2D layers of Titanium and Iridium nano sheets alternatively to degeneracy pressure and applying heat to create permanent fusion of layers to form extremely dense composite. But their weight is only greater by a factor of 3.8 than Titanium.
This material codenamed 'NC-D' is used for starship's hull and spartan battlesuit plating.
The important property of this material is that a ship's hull made of NC-D can with stand multiple powerful shots from a heavy plasma accelerator and particle cannons before total failure. It can withstand atmospheric re-entry without shields with no damage. Thus in terms of durability, NC-D surpass the strength of Forerunner materials.
vii) Laser technology:
Humanity had virtually mastered the laser beam technology to full extent. The lasers are one of the most important naval weaponry.
Humanity since 10000 AD, have developed molecular laser technology, an immense feat of engineering.
Molecular lasers work by forcing agitation on a number of molecules through electromagnetic field disturbance that alternatively strengthen and significantly weaken molecular bonds. The difference in energy in this process is released as coherent ultra high energy photons. Triple bonded Acetelyne serves as the best candidate for laser beam.
The wavelength of this laser beam is between 0.1 to 0.8 armstrong.
Pulse laser cannons are 50mm cannons that shoot high energy laser beam in alternating pulse at very high speed to that of a chain gun.
Heavy laser cannons are 100mm cannons that shoot powerful laser beam as individual pulses but with very low firing rate like a battle tank cannon.
Omega laser cannons are the most powerful continuous laser beam ever produced by humans. Omega lasers have beam power of 100 terawatts which can only be done with a help of fusion reactor's energy. Omega lasers can obliterate a shielded covenant assault carrier with just 10% power output in a single shot. Omega-3 lasers are 300 terawatts beam and Omega-5 lasers are 500 terawatts beam.
viii) Cloaking technology:
Humans have developed their own versions of camouflage called 'Active cloak'. For this technology, humans have synthesized quantum engineered nano crystals of Azurite, a carbonate mineral.
When an electric current is passed through, the nano crystals are polarized, so that the incoming light is guided by the crystallographic planes along the desired direction, bending it's path over the surface of the body. This light bending makes the object invisible. The heat generated is removed by a separate cryogenic unit.
This cloak does not produce lensing effect which means it is still effective at higher level movements.
Phantom class stealth ships and Spartan battlesuits possess cloaking technology.
But the most widely used is the 'Trick geodesics' which warps the space-time around an object that keeps it invisible to naked eye. Even engine emissions and signals get warped around.
ix) Slipspace and Alternate dimensions:
Humans possess supreme understanding of slipspace than what they knew 60,000 years ago. This was solely due to the extensive research and innovative breakthroughs made by a renowned physicist Dr. Howard brown. This good doctor specializes in the field of "slipspace and alternate dimensions". Humans have discovered 125 alternate dimensions, some of them include Denial of locale, Shun-space, Natal void, Nexus, Realm of Eternal Dawn etc
It was he who studied and unlocked several mysteries and aspects of multiverse on his own and went on to fabricate his own slipspace drive that was on par with forerunner drives back in 2558 AD.
As of now humans have developed slipspace drives with hyper accurate navigational capabilities following Dr. Howard brown's foot steps.
Current human slipspace drives generate a single quantum singularity of Planck length across and gradually open the singularity to ship size by feeding of energy creating a traversable slipspace portal into which the ships can travel. According to Dr. Brown, the navigational accuracy lies in the generation of the smallest of singularities, which means singularities generated at planck scale has the highest level of accuracy. Highest accuracy can be defined as opening the correct path into the slipspace, thus shortening the travel time.
Current human drives can cross a 110,000 light years in 15 minutes, though the capacity varies with power levels. This is far beyond the capabilities of Forerunner drives.
Continuous researches into the slipspace also had the humans come across the phenomenon of space-time debt which they termed as 'Causal fracture'. Scientists found that prolonged travel and movement of huge masses through slipspace created event distortions in the real space because of the hydrostatic stress created from within the slipspace to the normal space. This was identified on galactic scale where they measured lots of errors in communication signals and errors in slipstream navigation where sometime ships would be forced out of slipspace prematurely to undergo a process of healing from the paradoxical strain.
After working on the methods to permanently remove this fracture, they did research for 50 years and came up with a solution. Ships would be fitted with a 'Tachyon field generator' which creates tachyonic field around the ship that reduces the ship's relative mass to zero. Due to this zero mass, it cannot react with the slipspace and will not produce stress even though present inside it. Once the ship exits the slipspace, the tachyon field is removed. This is humanity's way of correcting causal breach.
There is an added advantage in this method. Internal stress created can be used to track the vessels traveling through slipstream space and even accurately predict their exit point at the time using relativistic echoes that resonate through the reality. Forerunners possessed this ability to clog ancient human ships by denying them access to slipspace and predict their arrival. But since tachyon field brings the ship's relative mass to zero, it is virtually impossible to track their movement and predict their exit point. In this way, humans have transcended the forerunners in understanding slipspace.
Apart from slipspace drives, humans have also demonstrated their ability to manipulate slipspace. Once such technology developed was "Hibernation capsules". These are Humanity's version of time lock device. Forerunners and San shyuum have developed their own time lock devices in their prehistoric times.
Hibernation capsules a.k.a Entropy Dilation Chambers are human sized and looking similar to cryotubes which can manipulate entropy on the quantum scale through a process called 'Slipstream warping'. In this process, entropy can be accelerated, stopped or reversed through manipulation of the physical quantum time-space geometry, in simple terms crystallized reality. It is similar to rearranging atoms in a chemical crystal. Accelerated entropy accelerates time within the capsule. This is done usually to force healing process in persons from fatal injuries in a short time. When the entropy is stopped, it becomes a suspended animation, similar to cryonic sleep. Reversed entropy can reverse time itself in restoring the previous states, including memories which means a person would have never known what happened in his present time. Human hibernation capsules are technological equivalents of Precursor Stasis capsules.
Apart from that, humans have developed teleportation techniques for short range instant translocation. Spartan battlesuits possess in built translocation unit that helps them with teleportation.
x) Propulsion technology:
Humans have developed their own versions of Repulsor engines for sublight propulsion. Human Repulsor engines use trillions of micro singularities generated with sufficient mass. These singularities instantly vaporize into ultra high photon energy density in nanoseconds through hawking radiation. This energy density is accelerated through the nozzle into the space to create the necessary momentum thrust to move the ships.
Deutron plasma propulsion is another propulsion engine developed by humans for space crafts. Ultra high energy thermal deutrium(hydrogen-2) ions generated from Tritium-Tritium fusion reactions are electromagnetically accelerated to generate thrust force.
xi) Power generation technology:
Humans over the time of 60,000 years have developed both conventional and unconventional ways of harvesting energy.
Fusion reactor: Fusion reactors are in use since time immemorial by humans. Humanity have significantly improved and mastered the Fusion technology. As time progressed, humans have developed advanced inertial confinement techniques to create efficient fusion power. But fusion reactors are used only in powering starships. Even Antimatter fusion power has been a common thing among humans. The different fusion powers developed are as follows.
Anti-Deutrium Fusion power
Tritium-Tritium Fusion power
Anti-Helium-3 Fusion power
Helium-4 Fusion power
Anti-Helium-4 Fusion power
Plasmadynamic power: This is an advanced form of power generation technology. Nitrogen is the only gas used for this power source. Here Nitrogen gas is converted to high energy plasma through electrical discharge and then compressed to 1.5 million kelvin temperature using super conducting magnets. The high pressure plasma is released at high velocity into a Electromagnetic turbine which generates hundreds of megawatts of power. Some facilities and Mammoth ground vehicles are powered by this generator.
Quasar power source: This is considered as one of the most significant technology developed by humans. Quasars are intense streams of electromagnetic energy that are released by supermassive black holes at the active galactic nuclei. Quasars have power output in the range of 10^35 watts.
Humans have constructed huge energy harvesting facilities above quasars outside the blackhole's gravity field-far away from the event horizon. The EM energy emanating is collected by the facility and converted to power. This power is supplied through out the galaxy by using special electrical conduits built within a series of slipspace networks. Small slipspace portals are constantly kept open on any two sides for continuous supply of power through these conduits. Likewise multiple conduits are built for efficient and safe transmission.
A single quasar can supply steady power to an entire galaxy for millions of years. Out of 50 galaxies, 10 have found to contain quasars. Thus all the 10 galaxies are powered by them. Humans are also the only race in he universe to generate power from quasars.
Nexus power core: The most advanced form of power generation ever developed by humanity.
This all started with research into alternate dimensions. Humans by 27,557 AD while studying alternate dimensions were exposed to the existence of other realms each having unique laws of physics defying properties. One such realm was this 'Nexus'. Nexus realm consists of active photons whose energy equals that of a trillion universes. Seeing its potential, scientists did years of study to harness power from that realm.
Though humans succeeded, the first experiment was disastrous. Scientists developed a powerful energy siphon to extract the energy from Nexus. They created a micro slipspace portal with the coordinates to that realm. But soon as the portal was created, the Nexus unexpectedly released tremendous energy that the scientists and engineers couldn't contain it. The energy destroyed the whole planet killing all its inhabitants and also sent the star to premature red giant phase destroying first 3 planets and atmospheres of all the planets, leaving it's wake in the entire system.
Then after few more researches and advanced mathematical calculations, they finally found out the correct size of the portal to be created to control the energy flow. Multiple numbers of steady slipspace portals of 0.1 nanometers across to the Nexus were created. It then released a total energy of 10^ 38 watts every second. Having developed facilities to extract energy from Quasars, Engineers were able to construct an even more sophisticated energy siphon to convert the Nexus energy to power.
Oblivion fortress vessels and Orbital defense stations are powered by Nexus energy core. John-117's Armageddon battle suit uses a miniature Nexus siphon for energy manipulation.
xii) Energy Shielding:
Humans have developed their own energy shielding back at 2558 AD itself. Human energy shielding use streams of super cooled positrons quantum mechanically locked to one another, forming a solid surface. This solid positron surface is used as shielding in starships and spartan battlesuits.
Solid positron barrier is 2.5 times more durable than hard light surfaces the forerunners had developed. The same shields are used to protect certain planets whose star exhibits higher levels of coronal activity.
xiii) Battlesuit and armor technology:
One of the most significant piece of military technology developed by Humans. Military scientists had been constantly researching on improving powered armor capabilities with the parallel increase in technological sophistication.
At present, humans use Officer armor, class 5 battlesuit, class 12 battlesuit and Armageddon suit for spartan IIs.
Officer armor: These armors strangely resemble the ancient human officer armor. The best example being the one worn by Lord of Admirals Forthencho. These are in general, uniforms worn by non-combat crew. They have good durability but does not provide protection against any weapons. This armor is usually worn by military non-combat officers. It is bluish black in color with suit designs representing the officers.
Class 5 battlesuit: This is worn by Army, Navy, Airforce and Marine combat personnel. This armor is highly compact and elegant in design and is tight fit to the wearer. This armor does not have energy shields but can withstand multiple energy rounds before failure. The armor appears complete as a single unit from neck to toes. The helmet visor provide live augmented reality data about the surroundings. It also has a combat AI for assistance. Apart from this, the suit has body regulation units, toxin filters, thrusters, shaped plasma combat knives in the upper wrists for melee combat.
Class 12 Battlesuit: This is worn by Spartan super soldiers. This armor is bigger, compact and elegant in design and is tight fit to the wearer. This armor is protected by solid positron shielding and is a lot more stronger and durable than class 5. The helmet visor produce augmented reality HUDs about the environment, advanced sensors, Holographic decoy unit, maneuvering thrusters, smart AI assistance, body regulation units, toxin filters, instant healing units for injury treatment, powerful neural interface for better reaction time and information processing, strength boosters, teleportation unit, shaped plasma knives in the upper wrists. This battle suit is worn above the black nano-synthetic body suit.
Mantis warmaster: This is a huge powered tripedal exoskeleton standing 8 meters tall. It is piloted by any combat personnel. It has energy shielding, advanced sensors, in built combat AI, multiple talon missile launchers in the left arm, three barreled plasma chain gun in the right arm, EMP generator to knock off any electronics, vehicles in 10 metre radius. They also utilize heavy thrusters for maneuvering.
The Spartan IIs use battlesuits that are explained separately.
xiv) Genetic Engineering and Nano technology:
Humanity had ascended to higher levels of biological evolutions with the help of genetic engineering. With constant improvement in medical science, scientists were able to alter human genes to improve the physical appearance and abilities and their population explosion.
By altering telomere divisions in the chromosomes, human life span since 30,000 AD have increased to 780 years. Men stood 6'4" tall and Women stood 6'1" tall. Average body mass and strength have significantly increased.
Combat personnel possessed very high strength, stamina and agility with their extremely tough training regimen. Spartan augmentations have greatly improved making the next generation spartans stronger, faster and deadlier. Current Spartans stand 7'3" tall due to advanced superior augmentation. Spartan IIs stand 7'7" tall except John-117 who is 7'10" and Jorge-052 who is 8'3" taller.
Cloning of organs for replacement have become a common thing though full human cloning was outright banished according to UN colonial Mortal Dictata. All the surgeries are now being performed by AI controlled bots with human medical assistance. Sterile field generators are used to prevent growth or intrusion of harmful bacteria within the surgical zone.
Nano technology is at it's peak among humans. Nanotechnology is used in all manufacturing industries for material and parts fabrication. Molecular nano assemblers are used in all the industries to achieve this. Virtually anything can be fabricated with these assemblers in very short time.
Apart from industrial uses, Nano technology has also been used in reaching indefinite human life span by stopping telomere division that causes aging. But due to it's difficulty in doing on a grand scale, this is given only to certain individuals whose service to humanity are forever needed.
Those persons are Lord Hood, Thomas Lasky, Sarah Palmer, Gabriel thorne, Jameson locke, Dr. Halsey, Dr. Howard Brown, Prof. Ellen Anders, Cptn. James cutter, ODST SSgt. Marcus, Cptn. Veronica dare. Though Spartans IIs are special cases.
The ironic fact is that with all these genetic advancements, humanity couldn't extend their lifespan to significant numbers artificially while using technology to achieve immunity to aging. There's something mysteriously more at play.
Flood Immunity: The most important and significant achievement that humanity ever made was utilizing the combination of Bio and Nano technology to become immune to the flood parasite.
Back in 21,550 AD, humanity officially announced a new vaccination against a particular disease to the general public in order to avoid mass hysteria. This immunity is in fact a bio-engineered techno-organic virus. Researches in to flood helped them to know how the parasite assimilates a sentient being into one of it's own.
This engineered virus is embedded into a nanite that serves two purpose, first to create an antigen to counter the effects of the flood's resonant neuro-chemical signal that forces the subjugation of a sentient being's nervous system to take possession of the host. The nanite in turn will provide the necessary protein bases for self replication of the virus in case the old one becomes inert or exhausted. Thus without subjugating the nervous system, flood cannot mutate a sentient organism, thus starving to death. This techno-organic nano-virus survives using the metabolic heat generated in organisms.
The virus was engineered by human scientists using the genetic sample of the Lekgolo worms due to their natural immunity to the flood.
This immunity is given to every human and all the covenant species and domestic, wild animals thanks largely to the efforts of Dr. Halsey.
xv) Communications:
Humans since 6000 AD have completely eliminated the the use of electromagnetic spectrum for communications.
Humans have mastered quantum communication and is still in use as of now. They use encrypted micro slipspace channels protected by powerful tunneling protocols for information exchange. At the two ends of the channel an atom is placed. Manipulation of quantum states of one atom, affects the quantum states of the other atom through Quantum Electrodynamic interaction. This interaction is the message carried from one node to another. 'Space like' pairs are used to communicate with in a galaxy. 'Time like' pairs are used for communicating between different galaxies.
xvi) Computers and Holography:
Humans have developed extremely advanced quantum computers for computations. They have the peak accuracy in delivering results. Slipspace navigational data are processed by quantum computers for accurate coordinate generation.
For data processing, human scientists have developed 16-dimensional quantum matrix, a processor for performing quantum computations.
For data storage, scientists developed Entropy memory substrates, a module that uses a system of atomic particles where information are stored as entropy change of the particles. The size of memory module is small such that it is hand held. The principle is that every change in entropy is equal to a quantum probability of exclusive event(Data). An event is an atom moving a distance equal to it's diameter. That probability is created and manipulated as data storage. Humans use 24 particle system which means the total possible probability is approximately ((24 x 10^30) -24) (Based on the size of the working space inside the module) independent exclusive events, which means ((24 x 10^30) -24) bytes of data can be stored in that module. A series of electromagnetic pulses are used to change entropy. To retrieve data, the entropy state related to that data must be restored.
Holography plays an important role among humans. Hardlight Holograms are what humans use for computer display, control panels and consoles to actuate any machinery or computer terminal. Hardlight computers are projected by emitters into the open space and are manipulated by normal human hands. Hard light control panels and consoles are used for input and control of hardlight display and computing systems. Hardlight computers are used virtually everywhere from domestic home to powerful starships. Smart and Synthetic AI display themselves as hardlight human bodies.
xvii) Artificial Gravity:
Humans have mastered the art of manipulating gravity to desired effects. Generally, Gondolas powered by artificial gravity are common and used almost in all the planets. Also used in levitation for ground vehicles especially Mammoth and Argus drones. Orbital defense stations use artificial gravity at geo-sync orbits.
Unlike early 26th century versions which use gravity plates, rotating sections and inertia for simulation, Humans are able to create gravitons and anti-gravitons as easy as positive and negative current. All star ships use graviton particle powered gravitation.
3) Human Military forces:
i) UGSC:
UGSC stands for United Inter-Galactic Space Command, the governing military body of humanity. UGSC has 5 sections
UGSC Army
UGSC Navy
UGSC Airforce
UGSC Marine corps
UGSC Special Defense Force
As of 32,200 AD, The UGSC military in all the galaxies and the future to be colonized galaxies came under the rule of the Spartan IIs due to several reasons. Some of them being their 30,000 years of military service and their unparalleled military coordination, tactical skills, knowledge in military science and technologies and the power they represented.
John-117 is the commander for the entire human military and the other spartan IIs serve under his leader ship.
ii) IHF:
IHF stands for Inter-galactic Human Federation, the civilian government that represents the human empire. It is ruled by the president of humanity and council of elders called the Senators. Terrance Hood serves as the President, Thomas Lasky as Ambassador and James Cutter as the chief Senator.
iii) Spartan super soldiers:
The Spartan super soldier program dates back as far as 26th century where the successful creation of Spartan II super soldiers helped humanity to survive.
At present, the Spartan super soldiers are continued improvement of the spartan IV program that began after 2553 AD. The current Spartans possess superior strength, agility, stamina and endurance. This also comes with the coupled Class 12 battlesuit. Spartans are utilized by humans in response to higher level threats. These soldiers are under the command of Special Defense Force (SDF).
But there are also these surviving Spartan II soldiers namely John-117, kelly-087, Linda-058, Fred-104, Jorge-052, Jerome-092, Douglas-042, Alice-130.
These Spartan IIs were subjected to continuous genetic alterations that unlocked their latent abilities with prolonged life span. As of 31,447 AD, Spartan IIs exhibited metaphysical abilities that became the most important part of human evolution and humanity's leap in to the tier-0 technological scale.
4) Planetary and Astro Engineering:
Humanity have significantly improved in terraforming technologies by 4340 AD when they made break through in developing a piece of technology called 'The Shapers'. The shapers are different tools and forms of advanced terraforming of planetary system that used directed energy streams which made geographic and meteorological manipulation easier. Coupled with extremely advanced and efficient slipspace travel, humans set a terraforming record of 1,100 worlds per year. Even they have constructed planets for other space faring species to replace their lost ones.
Human astro engineering has a few examples like Star Harvestation. In order to prevent excessive mining of galaxy's resources, humans managed to artificially create stars through controlled fusion and instantly grow it to the size of a main sequence star whose core would be so rich in minerals. Then using stellar harvesters that utilize channelized gravity beams, the core would be mined for the materials required. Once the fusion fuel gets depleted, the star would eventually die out into cold gas. An artificial star can live upto 100 years with prolonged continuous mining. Stellar harvesters use channelized gravity beams to pull out the materials and at the same time prevent the death of star due to loss in mass while mining.
Other Astro engineering feats are the creation of massive dyson spheres inside Shun-space bubbles, solely commissioned, supervised and maintained by the Spartan-IIs.
5) Metaphysics and Neural Engineering:
When the Spartan IIs were subjected to constant genetic therapies to improve and study their potential, A team led by doctor Halsey discovered their ability to affect physical matter with their mind, though it was all an accident. The Spartans struggled a lot to keep their mind intact.
It was then this case was transferred to the department of Metaphysics and Neural Engineering located in a colony world at Black eye galaxy. They studied Spartan IIs complete brain mapping and neural template for at least 8 months and finally published astonishing results. The science community was made known of the awakened Psychokinetic abilities that the Spartan IIs exhibited and also published lots of journals regarding the potential of this ability.
Then the Spartan IIs were given training on Metaphysics and practice sessions to control their abilities. After reviewing all those journals, doctor Halsey and her team made separate research on the actual theoretical physics behind this ability and found out that her Spartans were able to create controlled neuromagnetism that extended out to the real space and manipulated the physical object. She also found that the magnetism took any shape to manipulate the object in the way they desired and it all depended on their thoughts and concentration.
After publishing her test results back to the Metaphysics department, They began running one more test. In that experiment, they concluded that the spartans were able to do anything with their mind because the surrounding space-time itself is allowing them to do it by adjusting itself and act as the mediator between the mind and the matter. Thus explaining that there seems to be some sort of resonant connection between the mind of a sentient being and the space-time and even went so far as to theorize that the space time itself could be acting like an organic entity with a consciousness of its own helping those who filled it's place. Though skeptical at first, the science community any how accepted this theory as it was evidently proven with the Spartan IIs abilities.
The Metaphysics based those beliefs and began vigorous training session for the Spartan IIs to master this ability for 5 consistent years.
On the other hand, Doctor halsey had been working on a battle suit for the Spartan IIs that can fully utilize these metaphysical abilities. She code named her work as "PROJECT ARMAGEDDON". She took the neuron data of individual spartans and developed a battle suit that responds to their own metaphysical energy from their brain.
Details:
These battle suits were exceedingly elegant and ornamental in design with lots of complex contour profiles in the armor. John's suit was the most elegant and ecstatic. This was done especially to express them for their role as the leaders of human military.
She then developed a special body suit for each spartan that are laced with billions of artificial neurons created from samples of each spartan. These neurons will act as metaphysical amplifier that will alter the physical nature of the armor itself at the spartan's will, like altering the armor materials density. These neurons also create a permanent bond with the wearer's mind making the entire suit to be virtually indestructible. Also these neurons help spartans to create any psychokinetic effects.
Then there is a miniature slipspace unit within which they can store their armor and summon it to wrap over them at will. A specialized helmet for each spartan that has different Visor designs. Inside, it has a display system with the most advanced augmented reality display about the live environment and everything present or about the focused objects. The body suit is also fitted with a highly advanced quantum computer and memory module. A small hard light hologram emitter is fitted to display personal holograms in front of them for interfacing with outside control systems. These hologram work in synchronization with the quantum computer. The miniature slipspace unit that stores their armor, is also used to store other objects including weapons and ammo. A translocation grid is internally built in the suit for teleportation.
With the armor, the spartan IIs can levitate objects of any size and weight, create telekinetic force field that can withstand multiple nuclear explosions, Energy shockwaves that can create ground tremors, telekinetic blast by manipulating gravity through mind to repel and push anything with mega-newtons of force, large telekinetic energy swords from the wrists made of high energy photons assembled with thoughts for melee combat, manipulate physical objects and rearranging molecules with mind to create hard surfaces or sharp solid molecular spikes for attack.
As the Armageddon battlesuit is virtually indestructible due to it's metaphysical nature, the Spartan IIs can survive anything, be it planet break or supernova, hypernova or even the immense energy stream from the binary black holes. Also the suit makes them immortal and ageless.
John-117 on the other hand had personally upgraded his suit on his own with the help of his AI friend Cortana. He retrofitted a mini Nexus energy core within the battlesuit to channel energy from Nexus to shoot energy bolts from his hands controlled by his mind. This was partly because that John-117 exhibited superior abilites than all other Spartan IIs thus pushing his limits far beyond. But still, in terms of physical strength, Jorge even exceeded John.
This was the sole reason that the Spartan IIs were made the leaders of the human military. The Spartan IIs mind were both scientific and militaristic making them the representatives of the human empire's might.
Metaphysical Engineering: With the advent of metaphysical abilities, Department of Metaphysics and Neural Engineering began experiments to find out a way to use the metaphysical energy to reinforce objects to make it indestructible. After constant research, they developed artifacts that can contain and distribute metaphysical energy not only in smaller objects but also in huge objects, even an entire planet.
Then they began mass production of huge artifact that can collect the metaphysical energy from all the people who live on a planet and then distribute it through out the world reinforcing it with the energy.
The living people does not possess any metaphysical abilities. But the neuromagnetism is a common phenomenon for all sentient lives. A single person's neuromagnetic energy is weak, but the said energy is strong among a group. Thus a planet with a population of 900 million gives out significant neuromagnetic energy. This artifact taps into that energy, amplifies it and distribute through out the planet and creates a permanent bond between the people and the planet. This reinforced planets can still be intact for many billions of years.
The artifacts are kept hidden underground of a planet from where the energy is distributed. The main aim of this reinforcement is to make the planet indestructible.
About 1.1 million worlds have been reinforced with metaphysical energy using the artifact.
Ironically, this is something that the Precursors did but under a different name called 'Neural physics'.
6) Artificial Intelligence:
Humans have mastered the creation of sentient AIs. There are 3 classes of AI that humanity creates and use.
Combat AI: A highly advanced non-sentient AI used by human soldiers in their class 5 battlesuit for assistance. They are manually programmed and have indefinite lifespan.
Smart AI: These are highly advanced sentient AI used in every capital ship of a battle group and a fleet. These AI can take command of an entire fleet in the place of it's commanding officer and coordinate them with extreme efficiency.
Smart AIs are created by neural mapping of a very high ranking military officer or chief scientist's brain who creates the AI. Neural mapping techniques are highly efficient with no destructive side effects unlike the 26th century counterpart. Current Smart AIs are faster with the quantum computing and the memory base provided gives them a life span of atleast 250,000 years.
Spartan super soldiers carry a smart AI in their class 12 battlesuit. But not every soldier is given an AI. A spartan fireteam's leader carries the smart AI and the AI connect's itself with the whole team. A team consists of 12 Spartans.
Smart AI takes the form of a man or woman made of hardlight appearing out of a hardlight pedastal in a starship or within a spartan battlesuit's portable AI chip.
Spartan IIs are served by their friend Cortana who is carried by John-117.
Synthetic AI: These are the most powerful and the most advanced super sentient AI. These AI are powered by a life seed and an advanced self learning neural network.
A life seed is an artificially synthesized human DNA from scratch by encoding the protein base pairs with the desired traits. This will guide the AI with it's abilities. A self learning neural network is created and synchronized with the life seed. Then the neural network is given access to collective human knowledge which it uses to learn and adapt itself. In just a year, the synthetic AI reaches full maturity.
Synthetic AI are given full privileges of a living human being. This AI is created to be the overseer of military and industrial operations of a whole galaxy, Out of 50, 14 galaxies are provided synthetic AI to each one to look after the military and industrial operations of that assigned galaxy. They hold great power and respect among everyone. These AI are given a galaxy wide grid for instant translocation to any place possible. Synthetic AI can walk and move with free will, free of any restrains.
Life seed based AI takes the form of a man or woman in normal human size purely made of hardlight. Synthetic AIs are a lot powerful than Forerunner contender class ancilla and have indefinite life span and are immune to logic plague due to their meta-biological nature.
Synthetic AI can be considered similar to the Precursor knowledge engines.
7) Technological Tier:
Human technologies are unparalleled. Even Forerunner technologies are considered far inferior and obsolete.
Humanity stands at tier-0 in technological scale with the utilization of metaphysics and in depth understanding of the nature of space-time and colonization of 50 Giant galaxies and hundreds of satellite galaxies.
Their supreme mastery over some of the fields like astro engineering(creating stars and planets), powerful directed energy weaponry(including orbital defense Particle cannons), dimensional transportation, manipulating gravity and entropy(Time flow), fabrication of near invulnerable materials, Harvesting energy from quasars and extra-dimensions(Nexus), creation of pocket universes(Human made Shun-Space Dyson spheres), creation of life seed based Synthetic AIs, construction of indestructible Armageddon battlesuits(for SpartanIIs) using metaphysics, reinforcing millions of planets with metaphysical energy etc etc., rendered them even to be worshiped as gods by thousands of inferior civilizations.
Thus humanity are technological equals of the Precursors but still only marginal. Because the human understanding of the universe is far too inferior than that of the Precursors. It is safe to say that the humanity's effective use of Metaphysics is at the least basic compared to the knowledge and power the Precursors held. For example, humans don't even get to know the Precursors ability to create star roads and the ability to warp reality and alter Space time on cosmic scale. These are eons ahead of knowledge.
In terms of biological evolution, humanity is only in upper tier-2 or close to tier-1 as they were still physiologically inferior to that of the forerunners including life span and body size. This was maybe due to the Precursors intervention eons ago regarding human evolution.
It is ironic to note that modern humanity took only a 160,000 years since the last firing of halo arrays to reach this position, too fast for any race in the universe on their own.
8) Society, Culture and Beliefs:
Early on in their history, humans fought a lot of civil wars, the most notable being the insurrection and the 22nd century interplanetary wars. But ever since humanity began venturing into the outer galaxies, the first one being Andromeda, the civil wars had been suppressed to a greater degree. This was chiefly due to the change in political structure and new regulation that had been brought forth by the human government.
Even though IHF is the governing body for the humans in all 50 galaxies, each galaxy is given a separate ruler to make independent decision for their welfare. That ruling party must give constant reports to the human senators who will oversee their progress. This political change resulted in each human galaxy staying independent yet wholly governed. This totally eliminated the need for civil wars and local conflicts which were once at peak in human history. Still there were some rebellions by human extremists factions that had to be kept in constant check.
With respect to their culture, a lot has changed. Men and Women are equally treated in every aspect. Even though English is their lingua franca, still they highly respect the multi linguistic culture. Having many languages created a positive diversity among the people and their evolution.
Despite the above traits, humans are highly militaristic. They invest a lot in military assets. About 50% of the total human population are military personnel which is the highest ever recorded for any species with Sanghelli being the only rival due to their naturally warrior like culture.
Humanity had officially released historical records of ancient humans, forerunners and all their historic struggles and conflicts, the wars they had been to. In every school, children had history lessons on these subjects as they felt that every generation should know their prehistoric times.
Ever since humanity found the Large Magellanic cloud back in 2559, highly enriched with potential resources, They completely stopped all the researches and study into the forerunner technology and there was a great reason to it. Humans lacked the resources to develop highly advanced technologies despite having the ideas and potential to actuate it. But the LMC changed everything. The material resources available there made human technological progress leap into several millennia in just a few decades. The other reason they totally stopped researching forerunner artifacts and technology was, Humans always believed that they were capable of evolving on their own as they see fit without outside interference. The reverse engineering of certain covenant and forerunner technologies were solely due to humanity's desperation in saving themselves from the superior covenant forces during the war and didn't have time for their own progress. By 2560, humanity officially began their own research and development activities into the unconventional technologies they previously thought impossible. The ideas that had been shelved for a long time back due to lack of resources began to be dug out.
Humans also believed in reaching the highest potential where reverse engineering was a complete contradiction to that belief as it only prevented them from reaching the fullest of their abilities. Their beliefs did really pay off in the next 60,000 years. This even led humans to give all the Forerunner technologies to the other races in the galaxy for their advancement as they too much relied on the prophets in the covenant era and after the dissolution, they struggled to make progress despite having the potential to do so.
While the concept of the 'Mantle of Responsibility' was strongly fed among humanity, they were the first to reject that idea which was the Precursor's grounded belief for many billion years. Humanity believed in equality that every sentient being in the universe deserves equal opportunity and it's not one's place to judge others. Also that one species should not interfere in other species's natural evolution. Instead of taking care of everyone, humans believed the strongest point is being able to take care of each other.
Views on the Forerunners:
Humans began to learn about the Forerunners on a large scale with their discovery of Halos, Shield worlds etc., At first, with the data provided by the forerunner monitors, humans viewed forerunners as a noble peace keeping race and felt great respect for them when realized that they sacrificed themselves to stop the flood parasite.
But when they got their hands on certain testimonials like the monitor chakas's records and bornstellar relations, Human's view on forerunners turned mixed and even at a point, highly negative because of the revelation of their true nature, their attitude and the grim fate they left the ancient humanity into.
After John-117 learned the billions of years of history from the Precursor AI, Abaddon, He came to know the real origins of humanity and Forerunners and the Forerunner's cruelty towards their creators ten million years back. Since then, human philosophers, politicians and scientists came to strongly resent the forerunners to a point that they viewed whatever the Forerunners did was to right their own wrongs and nothing too noble of that.
Relationship with the Precursors:
Humanity as a whole does not have much information on the Precursors except a certain few facts.
Though John-117 met a Precursor AI called Abaddon in an ancient Forerunner facility while searching for answers about humanity's past. Abaddon considered John-117 as one of the noblest beings in the universe. Just at the first sight, Abaddon learned about him and his approach towards his duties. The AI even went so far to say that John serves as an exemplar for the Precursor's decision to pass down the mantle to Humanity and worthy of becoming the next Precursors.
Abaddon was well kept secret and only a handful of humans are aware of it's existence.
Abaddon also had an inner pride over Precursor's success after it observed the humans, watching them grow, evolve, become the conquerors of 50 galaxies setting up a legacy of the next inter-galactic empire after their own.
Finally the prologue is over as I believe this gives you the heads up of how powerful humanity is. See you in the next chapter.