Halo: Cryptu is a young rebellious Forerunner He is a Manipular, untried--yet to becoe and duty waits He cohest and most politically powerful rate It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe It is the Builders who believe they reatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life Bornstellar is reat Builder just like his father But this Manipular has other plans He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past His reckless passion to seek out the -vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his father’s hand Bornstellar is sent to live a the Miners, where he must come to terms here his duty truly lies But powerful forces are at play Forerunner society is at arelentless Dire solutions-- called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos On a Lifeworker’s experimental planet, Bornstellar’s rebellious course crosses the paths of two hureatBornstellar’s destiny …and the fate of the entire galaxy