The first battle

A few years have gone by and the halo array is about to fire. While it may be sad the fact remains that the flood must be stopped and this is the only way. At least we know that we did not go down without a fight. It will be a long time before the galaxy returns to he level of prosperity it has seen under forerunner rule, but this is also a chance to do things right or correct them early on as in the last ruling body there was corruption and filth mixed equally with those who wished for the good of the universe and abided by the Mantle truly.

I hope the librarian is safe.

(Time skip)

7 years and 184 days have passed since the firing of the halo array.

Everything is dead as was foretold. I did all the required checks to ensure we would not send any ships to infected planets and began sending out the keyships to repopulate. I find it funny how my very first worry was not without cause as now i do not have sufficient ancilla to man all the ships in the fleet.

I have also finally received my new task fortunately i was worrying unnecessarily about this one as it was one that i would not need to do any time soon and that is to save as much life as possible without any species unprepared for the knowledge of my existence knowing.

Sometimes I miss the Librarian as she would often call me just to talk due to my personality.

(Time skip)

11 years and 86 days have passed since the firing of the halo array.

I have recieved a distress signal from a keyship that was attacked by a small amount of flood infested ships and immediately started running. I assembled a fleet of keyships and sentinels and placed a fragment of myself quickly named 2 in charge of the fleet.

2 departed only 4 minutes and 52 seconds after i recieved the signal for the first time.

When 2 arrived on the scene there was a single keyship that had yet to deposit its specimens being chased by a sojourner heavy warship class vessel and its fighter complement.

2 immediately launched her sentinel and started the bombardment of the ship and immediately started wondering where the parasite came from. In half a minute there was nothing left of the harrier class as the fleet had not only superior numbers but better weapons too. This was thanks to the fact that Aura decided it would be good to research into more effective anti flood weapons created not only with the forerunners weapons in mind, but other races' weapons as well, or at least with as much info about them as she could gleam from the system before the destruction of Maethrillian the forerunner capitol.

It resulted in interesting and very effective weaponry that could have been invented and used before were only invented by her now because the forerunners simply never accepted anyone else's designs since they thought themselves to be the best at everything.

Some of the reseeded civilisations have begun expanding and conquering their home planets, but there is no semblance of any technology anywhere.

(Time skip)

15 years have passed since the firing of the halo array.

Since the incident with the keyship being pursued by a flood infected sojourner class heavy warship, the number of incidents has only increased but thankfully everything is still under control even though the place of origin for the flood infested ships has yet to be found.

Since the reseeding is almost complete and only a shard of Aura is in charge of responding to the distress signals, Aura has found that she has a lot of time on her hands and has decided that she will try to create a form that feels more comfortable than the monitor unit. While the monitor unit is nice she has with times passing only become more aware of how uncomfortable she feels while using it.

She used synthetic muscle to create a form not dissimilar to the Librarian, the only difference being she had synthesised hair flowing down her back freely and bright blue eyes instead of the Librarians purple. Her new body was 13ft 6in tall and weighed 973 pounds due to her having integrated some technology right into the body which had space for it, due to not needing organs. She included a teleport like that of a promethean knight and several local servers to store enough of 'her' to make it so that when she wanted she could not only use it to transport said information but also make it feel like she is directly in the body and not just controlling a puppet with a string.

Next she started creating armour that had no life support system or anything that a living being needed. She shaped in ways that would give her maximal protection while also leaving joints free to move with thin armour. There were integrated weapon holders and different pieces of armour floating around the torso part with appendages also having extra layers armour floating a few centimetres above the base armour. In the end it looked like a builder combat skin with promethean soldier parts covering it as the floating second layer.

Her masterpiece utilised the best materials she had access to and in the end was a class 27 combat skin.

And so in her new body with each thought about possible experiments or possible improvements time impossibly slowly for an ancilla that could process thousands when not millions of lines of thought inched forward towards better days for the galaxy.