User:Phalanx Actual/Precursor Exiles

The Exiles are speculated to be the last of the Precursor race. After leaving the Milky Way galaxy due to losing the Forerunner-Precursor war. After passing the mantle on, they departed to the Black Eye Galaxy, for a century long journey they travelled in Precursor Arks. Evidenced in captured Exile logs, they are rumored to have encountered an extra-galactic threat. This threat was speculated to be the flood parasite, but this has since been proven false by Dr. Sorvad.

Around 7000BCE they engaged in a devastating war effort that decimated their fleets and their colonies. After accelerating their own evolution to help adapt to the new situations, they continued the war effort for as long as they could. Finally being overrun after waging war for an unknown, but presumably incredibly large period of time, they lost their ideals, technology, colonies and leaders.

After losing their leadership, surviving military forces organized one final effort to save their species. They grouped together the technologies and equipment they could and had their best minds determine a way to survive. After months of planning, and losing 8 out of their 13 remaining colonies their maginot line was breached, and OPERATION: GREAT JOURNEY was put into action.

In 6700BC the Precursor military launched their "Sacred Arks", entering slipspace en route to the milky way. Due to losing their Tier Zero technologies. They ventured slipspace for 9320 years due to their scavanged technology and finally arrived at the Milky way galaxy, seeking assistance from the forerunners. After running out of fuel for their Slip space drives they drifted with minimal engine power, in waves of thousands, with Arks 32km long they settled down near the outer edge of UNSC Space.

Mistaking the Homo Sapiens for Forerunners they immediately tried to communicate with them, the UNSC leaders spoke with the Precursor Exiles for a short period of time. When they discovered they were not the Forerunners, but in a way, their descendants they asked for their assistance nonetheless.

After discovering that the Homo Sapiens were discovered to have been abusing and utterly disgracing the planets that the Forerunner sought to protect, their short alliance quickly broke down because humanity's existence depended on defiling, and breaking their reason for existence.

When hostilities began, the UNSC did the logical thing to do and reinitiated the Cole Protocol, and attempted to engage the hostile Exiles, pleading them to cease fire and to speak things over. Due to the Precursors living without a cause, and breaking the tenets of their belief for long enough, they refused to cease fire. They knew that such a species would eventually destroy themselves and their homes, the only question was when it was going to finally happen. Though pained by this decision, due to studying humanity for years while at war, the Admiral of the Exile fleet decided to eradicate or strip humanity of their technologies.

In 2618, the UNSC began a secret war effort, after PROJECT: Safehouse was reclaimed and humanity's populations were restored. They chose to wage a war in the shadows, not wanting to panic the human populations again.

By 2622, the Exiles breached the farthest lines in Human-Sangheili controlled space, the Sangheili fleets were finally overrun by the Exile war machines, the humans on Eden IV saw the species that would destroy millions

Technologies
By 2622, their technologies were lost from the war effort thousands of years ago, they classified as either Tier 2 or Tier 3 in the Forerunner technological scale.

After settling down on numerous colonies, the Royal Ark Colony ships re-established the shattered, and tired Precursor civilization once again. Their domestic technology was based on clean energy production, and ecologically friendly machinery.

Their military technologies were some of the best preserved technologies, though suffering from extreme degradation from the multi-millenia journey, Exile military technology is still extremely effective. Utilizing advanced Projectile weapons, due to the lack of Plasma in their stockpiles. Their projectile weapons are based on magnetic acceleration, and/or rocket based propulsion. Their missile weaponry can significantly maime or destroy lighter UNSC ships with a single volley, while their main magnetic weaponry, a mix between Covenant Energy Projectors and Magnetic Accelerator Cannons, can completely decimate any UNSC or Sangheili armor.

Exile exoatmospheric warships are normally not rated for atmosphere, presenting both UNSC and Sangheili at an advantage. Though in recent years the UNSC has encountered a magnetically suspended Exile Corvette, capable of utilizing the metal on Human and Elite cities to create a magnetic field to assist the standard propulsion systems, which in turn creates a primitive anti-gravity system. Compared to their Tier Zero anti-gravity, it's wasteful and unessesary but it is the best the Exiles are capable of due to losing most of their knowledge in the field.

Similar to the Covenant's glassing, Exiles destroy all signs of humanity on the planets that they defeat. But instead of wasting their resources and destroying the landscape, they convert the planets in to Military Fortresses. Using energy projectors to sink the human cities, they send in personnel to retrieve the raw material, and in place, they create their own cities above those they have sunk.

Using clean technology, they hinder the potential of their Weapons and Technology. When a Colony is converted, the planet is mined of its resources, to create new War machines and cities. When a colony is mined, seeds for the growth of more resources are placed. Seeding is one of the few, yet most amazing technologies that remain in the Exile's capabilities. The 'seeds' are placed on the planet's surface, or underground to accelerate the growth of both raw materials, and plant life.