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{{Status|Canon}} | {{Status|Canon}} | ||
{{Disambig header|the Forerunner Monitor|other uses of the term|343}} | {{Disambig header|the Forerunner Monitor|other uses of the term|343 (disambiguation)}} | ||
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{{AI infobox | {{AI infobox | ||
|name= 343 Guilty Spark | |name= 343 Guilty Spark | ||
|image={{tabcontainer|title1=Monitor|content1=[[File:H2A | |image={{tabcontainer|title1=Monitor|content1=[[File:HTMCC-H2A 343GuiltySpark.png|300px]]|title2=Armiger|content2=[[File:Enc22 Spark.png|300px]]}} | ||
|began=c. [[97,445 BCE]] | |began=c. [[97,445 BCE]] | ||
|ended-title=Physically destroyed | |ended-title=Physically destroyed | ||
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|function=[[Monitor]] of [[Installation 04]] and its [[Installation 08|replacement]]<br>Shipboard AI of the ''[[Ace of Spades]]''<br>Caretaker of [[Bastion]] | |function=[[Monitor]] of [[Installation 04]] and its [[Installation 08|replacement]]<br>Shipboard AI of the ''[[Ace of Spades]]''<br>Caretaker of [[Bastion]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Quote|Last time, [[IsoDidact|you]] asked me, if it was my choice, would I [[Great Purification|do it?]] Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. There is no choice. We must activate [[Installation 04| | {{Quote|[[Halo: Silentium|Last time]], [[IsoDidact|you]] asked me, if it was my choice, would I [[Great Purification|do it?]] Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. There is no choice. We must activate the [[Installation 04|ring]].|Guilty Spark to [[John-117]].<ref name="Two Betrayals">'''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''', ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref>}} | ||
'''04-343 Guilty Spark''',<ref name="343GS Final Cutscene">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]'' (final cutscene)</ref> initially known as '''Monitor Chakas'''<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 277''</ref> and known to the Covenant as '''"the Oracle"''' | '''04-343 Guilty Spark''',<ref name="343GS Final Cutscene">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]'' (final cutscene)</ref> initially known as '''Monitor Chakas'''<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 277''</ref> and known to the Covenant as '''"the Oracle,"''' was a [[Forerunner]] [[monitor]] originally tasked with maintaining [[Installation 04]].<ref name="quirk">'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', ''page 238''</ref> He is often addressed by the [[United Nations Space Command]] as just '''"the Monitor"''' in reference to his title. Originally an [[Erde-Tyrene civilization|ancient]] [[human]] known as [[Chakas]] before his mind was moved into an artificial monitor body, Guilty Spark played an important role in the ancient [[Forerunner-Flood war]], as well as the modern-day [[Battle of Installation 04]], the [[Sesa 'Refumee's heretic faction|heretic]] uprising within the Covenant, and the events that transpired on the Ark during the [[Battle of Installation 00]]. | ||
Though | Though Guilty Spark was originally believed to have been destroyed in the [[Raid on Installation 08]], smoldering pieces of him survived, badly damaged and recovered by the {{UNSCShip|Rubicon}}. After taking over the ship,<ref name="Primordium">'''[[Halo: Primordium]]'''</ref> he rebuilt himself as an [[armiger]] and began a search for the [[Librarian]], a search that would lead him to seek out a new path for himself with the crew of the ''[[Ace of Spades]]'' and going simply by '''Spark'''.{{Ref/Reuse|Renegades}} | ||
After locating [[Bastion]], Spark decided to leave the ''Ace of Spades'' and become the caretaker of the [[shield world]], feeling that he didn't belong in the past or present but | After locating [[Bastion]], Spark decided to leave the ''Ace of Spades'' and become the caretaker of the [[shield world]], feeling that he didn't belong in the past or present, but outside of time. As a final gift to his friends, Spark helped [[Lessa]] and [[Niko]] with their future endeavors and repaired [[Little Bit]] to be the new shipboard AI of the ''Ace of Spades''. With [[Rion Forge]] and company gone, Spark departed with Bastion to an unknown location.<ref name="POL">'''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'''</ref> | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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===Halo=== | ===Halo=== | ||
{{Quote|My galaxy is dead. I am machine. I am Chakas. I am human. I am 343 Guilty Spark. I have never understood Forerunners. And they will never understand me. But for now... Silentium.|Guilty Spark reflects on his nature as the Halo Array fires.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 330''</ref>}} | {{Quote|[[Milky Way|My galaxy]] is dead. I am machine. I am Chakas. I am human. I am 343 Guilty Spark. I have never understood Forerunners. And they will never understand me. But for now... '''Silentium'''.|Guilty Spark reflects on his nature as the Halo Array fires.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 330''</ref>}} | ||
Preceding the Halo Array's distribution across the galaxy, Chakas was commanded by the [[Ecumene Council]] to abandon all connection with his former station. As the installation monitors were being given their new assignments aboard a Lifeworker vessel stationed over the lesser Ark, the IsoDidact met with Chakas for one final time and the two had a brief conversation before they parted ways. It was also here that the installation monitors received their final names, with Chakas being assigned the name 343 Guilty Spark by the IsoDidact. The IsoDidact asked Chakas if he would fire the rings, were it his decision; Chakas remained silent,<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 313-314''</ref> but would continue to ponder the Didact's question for the millennia to come. Over a hundred thousand years later, Spark would cite this query to [[John-117]], whom he had evidently mistaken for the IsoDidact.<ref name="twoB">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref> | Preceding the Halo Array's distribution across the [[Milky Way|galaxy]], Chakas was commanded by the [[Ecumene Council]] to abandon all connection with his former station. As the installation monitors were being given their new assignments aboard a Lifeworker vessel stationed over the lesser Ark, the IsoDidact met with Chakas for one final time and the two had a brief conversation before they parted ways. It was also here that the installation monitors received their final names, with Chakas being assigned the name 343 Guilty Spark by the IsoDidact. The IsoDidact asked Chakas if he would fire the rings, were it his decision; Chakas remained silent,<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 313-314''</ref> but would continue to ponder the Didact's question for the millennia to come. Over a hundred thousand years later, Spark would cite this query to [[John-117]], whom he had evidently mistaken for the IsoDidact.<ref name="twoB">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref> | ||
From that point forward, Spark became the designated guardian and custodian of Installation 04.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' - ''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal Two|Terminal 2]]''</ref> When the Array was activated, with Installation 04 being the first to fire, Spark received a signal from a nascent, previously-unknown civilization broadcasting its first transmission into deep space, and was saddened by the realization that they would be wiped out before they even had the chance to travel to the stars and make contact with other beings. At the same time, large portions of Spark's memory were automatically suppressed for the sake of compartmentalization as a precaution in the event the Flood and its ancilla-corrupting [[logic plague]] were to resurface. This caused him to forget much of his past life aside from the knowledge required in his duties as caretaker of Installation 04.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 329-330''</ref> | From that point forward, Spark became the designated guardian and custodian of Installation 04.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' - ''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal Two|Terminal 2]]''</ref> When the Array was activated, with Installation 04 being the first to fire, Spark received a signal from a nascent, previously-unknown civilization broadcasting its first transmission into deep space, and was saddened by the realization that they would be wiped out before they even had the chance to travel to the stars and make contact with other beings. At the same time, large portions of Spark's memory were automatically suppressed for the sake of compartmentalization as a precaution in the event the Flood and its ancilla-corrupting [[logic plague]] were to resurface. This caused him to forget much of his past life aside from the knowledge required in his duties as caretaker of Installation 04.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 329-330''</ref> | ||
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The Librarian stated that she would go to join her other personality imprints at the [[Absolute Record]] while humanity had to be given the tools to uphold the Mantle and the knowledge to tend to the Domain. The Librarian offered Spark a choice: to remain with his friends or to go with her to the Absolute Record. The Librarian gave Spark a small etched box that she called a key for if he chose to remain and instructed that he "find what's missing. Fix the path. Right what my kind has turned wrong." After the Librarian admitted that the Didact was most likely beyond redemption, Spark announced his decision to stay with the friends he had waited one hundred thousand years to find and promised to meet the Librarian again before she departed for the Absolute Record. As she left, the Librarian communicated with Rion at least and in her message, the Librarian instructed Rion to take care of Spark who is more fragile and important than she could ever know.<ref name="Renegades">'''[[Halo: Renegades]]'''</ref> | The Librarian stated that she would go to join her other personality imprints at the [[Absolute Record]] while humanity had to be given the tools to uphold the Mantle and the knowledge to tend to the Domain. The Librarian offered Spark a choice: to remain with his friends or to go with her to the Absolute Record. The Librarian gave Spark a small etched box that she called a key for if he chose to remain and instructed that he "find what's missing. Fix the path. Right what my kind has turned wrong." After the Librarian admitted that the Didact was most likely beyond redemption, Spark announced his decision to stay with the friends he had waited one hundred thousand years to find and promised to meet the Librarian again before she departed for the Absolute Record. As she left, the Librarian communicated with Rion at least and in her message, the Librarian instructed Rion to take care of Spark who is more fragile and important than she could ever know.<ref name="Renegades">'''[[Halo: Renegades]]'''</ref> | ||
===A | ===A new path=== | ||
{{Quote|I have waited one hundred thousand years to find my friends. Why would I leave when I have found them?|Spark chooses a new path.<ref>'''[[Halo: Renegades]]''', ''page 298''</ref>}} | {{Quote|I have waited one hundred thousand years to find my friends. Why would I leave when I have found them?|Spark chooses a new path.<ref>'''[[Halo: Renegades]]''', ''page 298''</ref>}} | ||
Upon emerging from the hard light beam, Spark shifted his [[armiger]] into a combat configuration with a hard light rifle which Spark used to bring down the roof of the cavern and force the Spartans to retreat. Spark led the crew onto the platform where the Librarian's pod had been which also acted as a [[slipspace translocation|translocation pad]] and teleported everyone to safety outside where Spark was able to remote-pilot the ''[[Ace of Spades]]'' to pick them up and cloaked them from military detection while pulling his fragment from the ONI systems. | Upon emerging from the hard light beam, Spark shifted his [[armiger]] into a combat configuration with a hard light rifle which Spark used to bring down the roof of the cavern and force the Spartans to retreat. Spark led the crew onto the platform where the Librarian's pod had been which also acted as a [[slipspace translocation|translocation pad]] and teleported everyone to safety outside where Spark was able to remote-pilot the ''[[Ace of Spades]]'' to pick them up and cloaked them from military detection while pulling his fragment from the ONI systems. | ||
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File:HaloCE-343GuiltySpark.png|343 Guilty Spark in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''. | File:HaloCE-343GuiltySpark.png|343 Guilty Spark in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''. | ||
File:343 GS.jpg|343 Guilty Spark in the swamps of [[Installation 04]]. | File:343 GS.jpg|343 Guilty Spark in the swamps of [[Installation 04]]. | ||
File:H2-343GuiltySpark- | File:H2-343GuiltySpark-Wallpaper.jpg|Promotional image of 343 Guilty Spark in ''[[Halo 2]]''. | ||
File:H2-343GuiltySpark-Extraction.png|343 Guilty Spark in ''Halo 2''. | |||
File:GS-Heretic.jpg|343 Guilty Spark with [[Sesa 'Refumee]] in ''Halo 2''. | File:GS-Heretic.jpg|343 Guilty Spark with [[Sesa 'Refumee]] in ''Halo 2''. | ||
File:Sanctum of the hierarchs 343gs.png|343 Guilty Spark held captive within a [[Containment field device]] by the Covenant. | File:Sanctum of the hierarchs 343gs.png|343 Guilty Spark held captive within a [[Containment field device]] by the Covenant. | ||
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File:HPoL - Early Spark.jpg|An early render of Spark for the cover of ''Halo: Point of Light''. | File:HPoL - Early Spark.jpg|An early render of Spark for the cover of ''Halo: Point of Light''. | ||
File:Spark Armiger.jpg|Spark on the cover of ''Halo: Point of Light''. | File:Spark Armiger.jpg|Spark on the cover of ''Halo: Point of Light''. | ||
File:HINF - Charm icon - Guilty Charm.png|A 343 Guilty Spark weapon charm in ''[[Halo Infinite]]''. | |||
File:AmogusMJOLNIR.jpg|343 Guilty Spark as a pet in ''Among Us''. | File:AmogusMJOLNIR.jpg|343 Guilty Spark as a pet in ''Among Us''. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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*''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' | *''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]'' {{Im}} | *''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]'' {{Im}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' {{Im}} | |||
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{C|Charm only}} | |||
{{col-end}} | {{col-end}} | ||
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[[Category:Forerunner A.I.]] | [[Category:Forerunner A.I.]] | ||
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