Halo Timeliney Things

Horizontal is time, whereas the vertical grouping of lines shows what characters were together at what times.Alright, so, inspired by my Halo Encyclopedia (that I got today FFFUCKCFUCKCUKFCUKFUCKUFKCUKCUFKCUYEAHHHH) and this xkcd comic I saw a while ago containing movie narrative charts (which can be found here , thankyou to the sexy ~ yorricksfriend for the link), I decided to do one for Halo; more specifically, the Forerunner-Flood war that people tend to not know anything about.I'll probably do more, if I can be arsed. I'd like to, this was fun, so I might.For anyone who cares, here's a brief rundown;The Forerunner rise to be the preeminent race in the Milky Way, and take on the rest of the galaxy's races as their responsibility to protect and help. The Flood appear, and immediately begin assimilating races left and right, growing and growing.The Forerunner carve a 'line in the sand'; the Maginot Sphere. Beyond this line, chaos reigns and the war goes badly for the Forerunner and their allies. In order to defeat the Flood, they build the Halo Array; seven gigantic ring-world constructs designed to wipe the galaxy clean of all biomass capable of sustaining the Flood. Meanwhile, out of the range of the Halo Array, they also build another, larger, construct; The Ark. This is designed to shelter the Forerunner and any other survivors from the purge, allowing them to emerge afterwards and re-colonize the galaxy.In order to distract the Flood, and it's Gravemind leader, while they catalog and retrieve any surviving races, the Forerunner construct Mendicant Bias, a highly advanced Artificial Intelligence, to control their fleets and take the fight to the Gravemind directly. However, Mendicant Bias, as sophisticated as he is, is burdened with free will, which leads him into 'rampancy', turning on his Forerunner creators.As the last of the remaining races are rushed back to the Ark for safekeeping, the chief Forerunner cataloger, simply known as "The Librarian", stumbles across Earth and humankind. Seeing a great amount of potential in our ancestors, she quickly constructs one last portal to the Ark, shepherding the entirety of the human race through, before closing and sealing the portal, leaving herself stranded and at the mercy of the Flood.Meanwhile, as the majority of the Forerunner survivors retreat to the Ark, one last, ditch effort is made. Offensive Bias, a new artificial intelligence, is constructed; less sophisticated than Mendicant, Offensive Bias is nonetheless coldly efficient. Offensive Bias and it's remaining Forerunner fleets face the entirety of the Flood armada outside of the Maginot Sphere; thousands of civilian and commercial, and military craft. As the battle intensifies and things seem to be at their most dire for the Forerunner, the Halo Array is fired. Every organic being in the galaxy is simply wiped from the page; the Flood, the Forerunner still outside the Ark, everything. Now outnumbered three-to-one, Mendicant Bias quickly falls.Offensive Bias then takes Mendicant's construct array back to the Ark for study, as the surviving Forerunners begin the reseeding of the galaxy. Humanity is replaced to Earth first of all, followed by all other races that the Forerunner managed to rescue in time.Once their work is complete, the Forerunner left the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, leaving nothing but relics and ancient technology in their wake; and, of course, the Halo Array.----------------------------------------------------------------------------