Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner. He is a 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’ highest 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 must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle-as shepherds and guardians of all life. Bornstellar is marked to become a great 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 marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors-long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent-forces his father’s hand. Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies. But...