Jihye Ecumene

"Welcome to the Ky'Leik Authoritarianism. Your ship is being rerouted to the nearest spaceport for certification evaluation. You will be on your way soon. Thank you."

- Automatic message given upon entering FA territory. (Ky'Leik was the name of the Forerunner species in their universal language.)

The Forerunner Authoritarianism, or Ky'Leik Authoritarianism in native tongue, is a massive, ongoing spacefaring nation spanning an entire (formerly two) galaxies. The Authoritarianism at one point maintained 99.8% of the Forerunner species and stayed so for nearly 45,000 years. At its peak circa 105,000 BCE, the FA maintained 37,015 colonies and cared for 4,097,223,000,000 denizens. Arguably the most innovative creation of the species was their artificial and massive homeplanet Gerina which was the size of five Jupiters in surface area but had a gravity of only 0.81 G's, which was what the Ky'Leik (Forerunner) species was accustomed to. When the Forerunner were forced to activate the Halo array circa 100,000 BCE, the entire population of Gerina was transported to the Andromeda galaxy throughout 5,000 planets, over two hundred of which were artificial with shield worlds. This supercapital was then destroyed in case of unexpected capture by the Flood. As of 2500 CE, the Authoritarianism had been restored to some extent in the Andromeda though millenia of civil war within the species had greatly reduced the combined population to less than eighty billion, many of which wielded weapons that could be considered a stepping stone between 27th century Human and 27th century Sangheili technologies