A/N: And I couldn't stop working on this. Fan-fucking-tastic. I can only hope I can hold back enough to not start the story itself.

Oh yeah, the reason I made the Precursors less powerful than visualised by many people is because, if they are Gods, how would the Forerunners have defeated them in Halo canon? Just think, if you and ten thousand Marines were to face off against Jesus Christ, Allah, Buddha, Shiva, Zeus or any other deity you believe in, what are the chances of you coming out tops? To quote Kelly-087, "Piss poor odds for the little guys."

EDIT: I've added a bit more on the Cybertronian conflict.

EDIT: Shifted the evolution of the Cybertronian race forwards by 300,000 years, and pushed the Great Shattering forwards as well. Also removed some unnecessary details such as the Tier Advancements of Humans and Forerunners. Turians are now members of the Alliance, as are many other races :).

Timeline II: Precursors-Forerunners

34.95 MY BCE
34.85 MY BGJ
34.95 MY BWU
34.95 MY BCF
34.86 MY PGS

The Precursors create the Flood as a test for their creations, knowing that they lack the commitment to continually protect this galaxy.

The Flood is created from Precursor DNA and a kill switch is made to destroy all forms not in slipstream time-lock at the time of activation.

Periodically, it is released upon a species which the Precursors deem "in line" with the true teachings of the Mantle of Responsibility.

1.1 MY BCE
1 MY BGJ
1.1 MY BWU
1.1 MY BCF
1.01 MY PGS

The Forerunners are created by the Precursors on Ghibalb.

1 MY BCE
0.9 MY BGJ
1 MY BWU
1 MY BCF
0.91 MY PGS

The Precursors create a collection of species referred to as Humanity on Erde-Tyrene.

750,000 BCE
650,000 BGJ
649,148 BWU
649,500 BCF
660,000 PGS

Both Humanity and Forerunners unlock Upper Tier 1 technology within 200 years of each other, rendering them eligible for testing.

700,000 BCE
600,000 BGJ
699,148 BWU
699,500 BCF
610,000 PGS

The Precursors judge the Forerunners unworthy of the Mantle because of their arrogance and alleged superiority to other races. They schedule them for eradication.

They also find Humanity a possible candidate for ownership of the Mantle and schedule them for testing.

The Forerunners find out about this and launch an all-out assault on Precursor forces.

699,800 BCE
599,800 BGJ
698,948 BWU
699,300 BCF
609,800 PGS

The Forerunner Warrior-Servants overwhelm the Precursors with sheer numbers and decimate their fleets. The Precursors were a mainly nomadic race, so the planets they settled were few and far.

The Forerunner-Precursor War ends in a pyrrhic Forerunner victory.

The Precursor Testing ship en route to Human territory is destroyed and its cargo lost for a long time.

The location of the Precursor's Flood kill switch station is lost, as was all knowledge of the Parasite.

Small pockets of Precursors managed to escape the Forerunner onslaught, hiding themselves on small, out-of-the-way systems to escape detection.

The remaining loyal remnants of the Precursor High Council make a last stand on the planet of Junthor. As a last act of defiance, a Precursor raised a single obelisk with the phrase "Walk among these works, and know our greatness" stenciled on one side. A Forerunner vandal carved out the phrase "Monsters from the id" on the base of the reverse side soon after the planet fell.

Angonce, a former member of the High Council and creator of the Flood, crashes his ship on giant garden world Spherus Magna with a rather large population of survivors, including Supreme Commander Heremus.

Primus, another member of the High Council and a respected scientist, exiled himself to his personal Shield World Cybertron, content to experiment in isolation.

With the Precursors gone, the Forerunners declare themselves the Guardians of the Mantle and Protectors of all Life. This puts them in direct opposition with the Humans, who were told by the Precursors that they were the true Inheritors of the Mantle.

400,000 BCE
300,000 BGJ
399,148 BWU
399,500 BCF
310,000 PGS

A civil war ensues between different factions and/or species of Humanity. During this time, many new planetary bases of different leaders are established. This begins the Dark Age of Humanity

This conflict lasts for generations and factions rise and fall; this leads to some confusion over which planet Humanity originated from.

399,000 BCE
299,000 BGJ
398,148 BWU
398,500 BCF
309,000 PGS

The Hakkor Alliance manages to overcome their opponents and establishes a United Human Government based on Charum Hakkor.

First Contact with the San'Shyuum occurs, resulting in the Human-San'Shyuum Alliance. Thus begins the Golden Age of Humanity.

350,000 BCE
250,000 BGJ
249,148 BWU
249,500 BCF
260,000 PGS

The Forerunners encounter the Rakata Infinite Empire. Immediately, the Ecumene declares war on the Empire for its enslavement of entire species.

The Forerunners soon learn about the Force and the devastation it can cause in the hands of a skilled individual.

349,900 BCE
249,900 BGJ
249,048 BWU
249,400 BCF
259,900 PGS

The Rakata Infinite Empire collapses after their slave species rebel and join the Forerunners. The Forerunners use their superior Navy and slipspace manoeuvrability to decimate the Rakata.

Eventually, the Rakata are forced back to their homeworld of Lehon, where they make a last stand. When it was clear all was lost, the remaining Rakata Warriors made a suicide run against Forerunner lines, sealing the fate of their race.

After the war, Forerunner scientists also got to work understanding the Force. It was discovered that only very few Forerunners, predominantly of the Warrior-Servant and Builder rates, were Force-sensitive to a limited degree. The Warrior-Servants who exhibited this behaviour were re-assigned to an elite unit known as Prometheans.

300,000 BCE
200,000 BGJ
299,148 BWU
299,500 BCF
210,000 PGS

A San'Shyuum team makes first contact with the Turians. Their entrance into the Alliance begins the framework for future Human foreign policy, in encouraging all races to join the Hakkor Alliance on equal terms.

200,000 BCE
100,000 BGJ
199,148 BWU
199,500 BCF
110,000 PGS

Experimentation by the remaining Precursors on Spherus Magna turns them into cyborgs and thus, grants them immunity to Halo due to the lack of a central nervous system.

The first Agori and other biomechanical creatures are created, Angonce and his followers having given up on the concept of purely organic or synthetic life upholding the Mantle after millions of years of failures.

Primus creates the mostly synthetic shape-shifting race of the Cybertronians, beginning with the Primes. He instructs his ancilla to wake him from cryostasis once his creations unlock Tier 4 technology.

110,000 BCE
10,000 BGJ
109,148 BWU
109,500 BCF
20,000 PGS

Human colonists under Yprin Yprikushma discover the long-lost wreck of the Precursor Testing ship. In it they find Flood spores and the Gravemind. They bring it back to the capital of Charum Hakkor.

The spores are tested on the Pheru, a popular pet for Humans and San'Shyuum. It alters their behaviour, making them friendlier and more endearing.

Thus, millennia after their scheduled testing, Humanity unintentionally releases the Test of the Mantle on themselves.

109,400 BCE
9,400 BGJ
108,548 BWU
108,900 BCF
19,400 PGS

The Pheru are quarantined on their homeworld of Faun Hakkor after 80% of the population begin exhibiting excessively violent behaviour and/or unnatural growths.

However, when some Humans begin to show similar growths and or behaviour to the Pheru, mass panic ensues and the Alliance military is put on high alert.

So begins the Human-Flood War.

109,300 BCE
9,300 BGJ
108,448 BWU
108,800 BCF
19,300 PGS

The Flood launches a coordinated attack across Alliance space. All of a sudden, several colonies and outposts go dark and several core worlds are attacked by mysterious Human ships with organic growths on them.

The entire military is mobilised to retake the worlds. Most of them are utterly overrun, but some still had pockets of resistance. Those survivors told horrific tales of how they escaped Flood assimilation.

In the opening days of the Human-Flood War, over 40% of Alliance space falls to the parasite.

109,200 BCE
9,200 BGJ
108,348 BWU
108,700 BCF
19,200 PGS

The Flood intrudes into a small sector of Forerunner space, prompting the Human 192nd Fleet under Lord Admiral Forthencho Forzhanal to pursue. Orbital vitrification of infected worlds is authorised around this time as well.

Extensive colonisation by the Alliance in Forerunner border space (opposite end of their space from the epicentre of the Flood stranglehold) is authorised by the Charum Hakkor government to account for the thousands of worlds lost in the opening years of the Human-Flood War.

109,100 BCE
9,100 BGJ
108,248 BWU
108,600 BCF
19,100 PGS

The Forerunner Ecumene, outraged at the supposed intrusion of their sovereign territory, authorises the Didact to wage War against Humanity in the name of the Mantle.

Alliance scientists manage to develop and deploy the Flood cure around this time.

109,000 BCE
9,000 BGJ
108,148 BWU
108,500 BCF
19,000 PGS

Humanity, having lost 78% of its territory and 54% of its pre-war population, was unable to effectively combat the Forerunners. Among the first planets to fall to the Forerunner onslaught is Erde-Tyrene, the world many humans consider their homeworld. This deals a massive blow to Alliance morale.

Horrified by the balls of glass left in place of once heavily populated Human planets which they stumbled upon, the Forerunners swear to remove from the galaxy what they perceive to be the true threat to all life.

The final battle of Charum Hakkor is fought 10 years after the San'Shyuum surrender. The last 500,000,000 humans and remaining 1,800,000 other species still loyal to Humanity pit themselves against the billion-strong Forerunner Warrior-Servant army.

Humanity falls, and is devolved to a Tier 7 species of hunter-gatherers. Their life expectancy drops from 3000 to 20 in one generation.

Following the Fall of Humanity, Forerunners uncover the real reason the Humans invaded Forerunner space, the Flood. However, they dismiss it as nothing but excuses and conspiracies. However, the Lifeworker known as the Librarian was convinced it was more than just that. She begins to plan for an eventual Flood invasion.

A/N: And yep. I've finally worked all those errors out. Note, this may be subject to revision when something else hits me.

So far the foundations for Halo, Star Wars, Transformers and Bionicle have been set. Rest assured, more will come soon.

And argh, I WILL get backtowork on TDS and TTFE soon. Just as soon as I work out the goddamn dynamics of Chief's conversation with the Citadel Council and the circumstances of Teridax's little re-appearance. It's tough, bending canon while making sure it stays true to the storyline, especially in "insert Halo character into ME universe" and straight fanfics.

Anyways, until next update,

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