<DIV><DIV><I><DIV><P>100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings. </P><P>But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.&#160; </P><P>They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness. </P><P>They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe&#8217;s Living Time.</P><P>And then they vanished. </P><P>This is their story.</P></DIV></I><P><I></I>&#160;</P><P><I>Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting</I> is a young rebellious Forerunner.&#160;He is a&#160;Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunners&#8217; highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe.&#160; It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.</P><P>Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father. </P><P>But this Manipular has other plans.&#160;</P><P>He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his father&#8217;s hand. </P><P>Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies. </P><P>But powerful forces are at play.&#160; Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.</P><P>On a Lifeworker&#8217;s experimental planet, Bornstellar&#8217;s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellar&#8217;s destiny &#8230;and the fate of the entire galaxy.</P><P>This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins. &#160;For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.&#160;&#160;&#160;</P></DIV></DIV>