User:Machine Majesty94/Overseers: Origins of The Mantle

The Forerunners had once believed they were the second civilization to ascend to the Mantle, they mythologized and highly esteemed the progenitors of the responsibility they had currently possessed. The Precursors were a truly powerful and mysterious race, they had achieved Tier 0 on the Forerunner technological stratification system and were believed to be the masterminds behind the designation of the Mantle.

THE TRUTH
The Precursors themeselves knew little of the true origins of the Mantle in the later years of their empire, but records aquired by The Didact in his searches for Precursor artifacts have revealed that even the mighty transsentient race themeselves were merely the second in the living time of the universe. For before even the Precursors it appears there was yet another civilization, one that according to legend represents the true origins of the Mantle.... The Overseers. While The Didact asked The Primordial (an ancient creature widely believed to be the last surviving Precursor) about the details involved with the Overseers, the creature refused to give any clear details only that "The gods themeselves could see through us and we owe them their revenge." perhaps when The Primordial said "gods" he was making reference to the Overseers, but whether or not not this is true may never be answered.

The Overseers it seems, were responsible for inventing the concept of the Mantle. Everything in the galaxy has in some way been affected by their rapturous and awe-inspiring power and recent evidence has made it abundently clear that the Precursors themeselves only reached Tier 0 because from the time of their earliest beginnings the Overseers had been guiding them both technologically and ideally.

While we know next to nothing about the Overseers themeselves and much of their technology and machinery had disappeared before even the time of the Precursors, one thing is for certain: The Overseers had literally broken the technological tier system designed by the Forerunners. No one knows what they looked like, but it is obvious that these aliens were advanced. So advanced in fact that that they were classified by the Precursors and Forerunners as "PRIME" a technological and societal state known as Supersentience. It was believed that the Overseers could engineer mirror portals to allow themeselves to travel intergalactic distances instantaneously.

While almost every bit of this information is purely speculated due to the loss of records and knowledge over time, it can be argued that these creatures had extragalactic origins and came to the milky way to establish a sense of stewardship among it's populace. Their is one question however that stands above the innumerable others.... What happened to the Overseers?