Halo: Our Shielded World

by T.Godz

While the Human-Covenant war violently rages, lies an ancient Forerunner world. Its inhabitants sheltered in the deep reaches of space, protected in the embrace of the shield world. A Forerunner experiment that looped for thousands of years, it reaches that time again. Will the ancient races destroy each other once more or will they face the fallout of a war they know nothing about

1. Prologue

PROLOGUE

In time past the Forerunners had only one legacy, us for they had no legacy of their own perhaps with exception to their soulless creations. Their war with the flood was a long brutal one, yet it was futile they had not prepared for the ferocity of the Flood and in the end was their demise. Before their entire civilisation was lost they saved the species whose DNA had been indexed by repopulating planets left desolate after the activation of the Halo rings. They did however also try something extraordinary that is to test the co-operation of the indexed species within a shield world. A world protected by any horrors that lay await in the galaxy, immune from the Halo rings. Here, life would go on, ignorant in its self contained environment. Perhaps these species would have something that the Forerunners didn't in times of peril; reassurance, a friend to lean on, diversity and most important of all, unity.

Having imprinted each of the species forerunner beliefs of peace and cohabitation with fellow beings and their language, they left the shield world to carry out the destruction of the galaxy for its eventual salvation. The shield world remained dormant in for millions of years, its non-organic keepers supporting the world ready for its journey to support life.

Roughly two thousand years previous to present time, the races were awakened from slumber and released into the Eden world, with their predecessors learning's fresh in their minds times of peace and prosperity were enjoyed by all races with each other. That was until their own needs came before that of the collective, single races breaking away, war, famine in suit. The forerunners had underestimated each races hereditary biological factor, affecting their motives for living in this new world.

More recently over the past few centuries, an increased development in technology has been allowed to progress with the races once more able to peacefully share the same world raising them to a mix of Tier 6 to Tier 4 technologies. Their study of their mechanical hosts and Forerunner structures paved the way for Tier 4 medical advances and various technologies however the shield world prevents any of the species leaving the planet therefore creating a progressed Post-Industrial world.