A random idea that popped into my head. slight spoilers for Halo Silentium. updates will depend on feedback and whatnot.

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Lesser Ark

Bornstellar watched from the citadel as the Lifeworkers were preparing to leave, they had seeded the Humans back onto Erde-Tyrene and the rest of the species of the galaxy back to their home worlds. He thought back to his last conversation to Riser, the little Florian that had been his friend. The humans and Forerunners had held a party to celebrate living and to remember the dead, it had been fun he thought to himself, seeing humans and Forerunners as brothers and sisters rather than old enemies.

Soft foot falls came from behind, he didn't need to turnaround to know who it was; the Lifeshaper Chant-to-Green. "So we leave than?" she asked as she drew near, Bornstellar nodded,

"Yes, as soon as your Lifeworkers are ready." He said, the remains of the other rates were already and waiting, a few hundred Builder vessels and Miner ships were waiting in orbit along with the remains of the Warrior caste on board a dozen warships; four Dreadnoughts, six Cruisers, two Dignity-Class escorts and the last remaining Fortress-Class vessel, Horizon after War.

"Where will we go?" she asked, Bornstellar sighed and hung his head low,

"I don't know, somewhere far from here, somewhere were the Precursors haven't left their mark. Somewhere safe." He replied although he doubted such a place existed for Forerunners.

"I am sorry about your wife…" Chant began but Bornstellar cut her off, "She was his wife. Not mine. I am nothing but a copy, a Manipular in a Prometheans body." She said nothing else for a long while, they just stood side by side as they looked through the large window. Bornstellar couldn't help but wonder what the Humans that came here would be like; would they be like their ancient brethren? Or would they be different? Would they be at war or at peace? He didn't know and he never would.

When the Lifeworkers were done their ships rose up and joined the fleet in orbit of the Lesser Ark, Chant took the Audacity while Born took the Horizon. Born felt a great weight on his shoulders, the remains of the Forerunner Empire were looking to him for guidance, to help them see the start of a new Ecumene. As he looked over the status of the ships he noted that the Slip-Space budget was plentiful, more than enough to move the remains of their people away from their old home.

It would take many years even at full speed to leave what is believed to be the Precursors sphere of influence, so they rested, waited for the time when the Ships Ancilla would wake them.

Uncharted Space outside the Precursor Sphere of Influence

C.200 years after the Halo Event

When he awoke Born quickly donned his armour and moved to the bridge as the rest of his Warriors awoke and took their replenishment drinks, he had his as he moved, he wanted to waste no time on little things. "What is the status of the fleet?" he asked as he entered the bridge, "All ships are fully operational" the Horizon reported, that was good he thought.

"Where are we?" he asked, "two hundred and eighty million light years outside of the Precursor's sphere of influence. We have arrived at a galaxy not too dissimilar to our own." The Horizon responded.

The fleet exited Slip-space soon after and found themselves in a system containing two habitable planets, four rocky planets and two large gas giants, "Have the fleet move to the garden world closest to the star, that's where we will begin to rebuild our civilisation." He ordered. It would take them decades to fully inhabit the planet along with its companion world and then centuries to start expanding outwards again, but they had time, there were no threats, no need to go expanding as quickly as possible.

New Forerunner Capital

C.600 years after the Halo event

Over the centuries of rebuilding a new Council had been selected, there was hardly any discrimination between rates and their population was booming. Bornstellar had even married Chant-to-Green and started a family.

They started to build new ships and were slowly starting to expand out into the new galaxy, Born was glad to have peace as he stood on balcony of his home that he had built for him and Chant, the memories of the Didact were still with him but he was himself again, not the ancient Warrior that defeated the Humans at Charum Hakkor but his own person, although many still referred to him as the Didact or IsoDidact when being formal.

He watched one of his aids teach his children what he could about the history of the Forerunners, without the Domain they would have to find a new away to store their history or what remained of it.

One of his Warriors came up to him, "Didact, one of our Ancilla's has intercepted an emergency signal from life native to this galaxy, you may wish to see this yourself," he said, Born turned away and looked at the Warrior before nodding, "Show me," was the simple order as he walked over to a console built into his house.

The screen came to life and played the signal, it was low resolution and full of static, weapons fire drowned out nearly all other noise on the transmission. The view was horribly unstable and kept moving side to side; like someone was running. Some weapons fire died down allowing the person to speak,

"Mayday, Mayday this is Lieutenant Shepard to all Alliance Forces in the area, Elysium is under attack by- rate and slave- we need…" the signal shut off, completely dead. Born watched it all and he watched it again to make sure he wasn't seeing things; a Human had sent the transmission, Humans were under attack and were losing ground to slavers. The word felt odd to him, Forerunners didn't have word for it, they didn't have slaves nor did they allow anyone in their home galaxy to utilise slaves.

"Didact?" his Warrior questioned, snapping Born back into action, "Have the Horizon ready to go when I get there, we leave immediately." He ordered and the Warrior snapped off a salute and went off to get readythe Horizon.

Uncharted System

C.600 years after the Halo event

Chant-to-Green worked nearly day and night, burying herself in her duties as the Lifeshaper to escape the guilt of leaving the Librarian. The Librarian had ordered her to go, to save the Humans but she felt like she had abandoned her on the Human Homeworld.

The building in which she was working in was open, no doors or windows just open air all the way through. She had dismissed all her aids back to the Capital as they weren't needed on the planet.

She was busy studying one of creatures that inhabited the garden world and had ignored several attempts from her Ancilla that was trying to get her attention; it was only when she heard footsteps and weapons getting ready to fire that she stopped. "Send out a communication to the Capital, make sure my husband responds." She ordered her Ancilla, "Already done Lifeshaper," it responded.

Slowly she turned round to face the apparent threat; a group of six bird-like aliens in very primitive combat skin with equally primitive weapons were waiting for her to make a move, she made none.

"Commander we've made contact, one alien. Its first contact sir," one of the creatures said into a communications device, Forerunner technology was very good at translating alien languages and it was apparent here was no different.

"Well than, keep it there until we can bring in a diplomatic team, no hostile moves or the Council will have our heads if we start another Shanxi." The alien's leader responded, Chant was glad that they weren't going to shoot her, not that the weapons were registered as dangerous by her armour.

So? review and depending on feedback i might update it sooner than some other stories of mine. anyway i'm going to carry on writing my other stories now.