Quarin (Earth-4343)

The Quarin (Latin Primoris prognatus, meaning "the first born") were a ancient and advanced sentient species of mammalians that once possessed a thriving interestellar empire, knonw as the Ecumene, which compassed more than two billion fertile planets in the Milky Way galaxy. For millions of years the Quarin ruled the galaxy as it's ascending and most technologically advanced race until the arrival of the extragalactic parasite they called the Flood.

This encounter eventually resulted in the War of the Twilight, and the subsequent construction and use of the Halo Array, their phyrric solution against the enemy in 97,445 BCE. Even though they are esentially extinct, remnants of their technology was left behind through the galaxy in the form of installations, worlds and artifacts.

The Quarin took upon themselves the title of protectors of the galaxy, believing the Mantle passed by their creators, the Protheans, did mean they were to rule over everything else. The Quarin identified themselves as the Forerunners because they believed they held a place in the universe's Living Time. Before their essential extinction, the Quarin named Humanity their sucessors, giving them the title of Reclaimer.

In contemporany history, the multiple species hegemony called the Covenant would rever the Quarin as gods, adapting their technology from the numerous Quarin technology spread through the galaxy, and deemed those who opposed this viewn as heretics.