Seen from the perspective of the Hives, the Forerunners—and the related hominid subspecies they had somehow emerged from—were an abomination. They were tribal primate omnivores with a voracious appetite not only for biomass, but also metals and rare earth elements. Forerunners swarmed across the multiverse like a disease, breeding rapidly and expanding indiscriminately, bringing down biospheres and importing zoonotic diseases. In every time line where the dreaming apes took hold they precipitated a mass extinction event. Even the more enlightened Forerunner empires—ones that understood the
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