This would never come to pass, however. The awaited Forerunner would never arrive. Instead, an the crew of an unrelated science vessel ordered to ferry The Contender to The Ark would barely manage escape a confrontation with the Flood, and veer-off track, through Hope's slipspace portal and into the complex. The stray Forerunner would crash onto one of the artificial planets, and would remain there, under the care of the complex's Overseer-class ancilla, specifically 086 Awakened Follower. In this time, the complex's Overseers would swiftly see to it that The Contender was kept isolated and quarantined due to the threat that they feared he may cause.