Primordium (Halo: The Forerunner Saga, Book 2) by Greg Bear

By Greg Bear

A very long time in the past, i used to be a dwelling, respiring individual. I went mad. I served my enemies. They turned my in simple terms friends.

Since then, I’ve traveled backward and forward throughout this galaxy, and out to the areas among galaxies—a larger achieve than any human earlier than me.

You have requested me to inform you approximately that point. because you are the final actual Reclaimer, i have to obey. Are you recording? strong. simply because my reminiscence is failing swiftly. I doubt I’ll manage to end the story.

Once, on my birth-world, an international I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now could be referred to as Earth, my identify was once Chakas…[/i]

In the wake of obvious self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, humans—Chakas and Riser—are like flotsam washed up on very unusual beaches indeed.

Captured via the grasp Builder, lost in the course of a livid conflict in house, they now locate themselves on an inverted international the place horizons upward thrust into the sky, and the place people of every kind are trapped in a deadly cycle of horror and overlook. For they've got turn into either examine animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic online game whose insanity is familiar with no end--a video game of historic vengeance among the powers who seeded the galaxy with existence, and the Forerunners who anticipate to inherit their sacred Mantle of responsibility to all residing things.

In the corporate of a tender woman and an previous guy, Chakas starts an epic trip throughout a misplaced and broken Halo looking for a fashion domestic, an evidence for the warrior spirits emerging up inside of, and for the Librarian’s tampering with human destiny.

This trip will take them into the Palace of soreness, the area of a robust and giant intelligence who claims to be the final Precursor, and who now has keep an eye on of either this Halo and the destiny of Forerunners and people alike.

Called the Captive by way of Forerunners, and the Primordial by means of historical human warriors, this intelligence has taken cost of, and retasked, the grasp Builder’s merciless researches into the Flood—which it could actually have itself unleashed at the galaxy greater than 10000 years ahead of.

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