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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[File:H5G-John&Cortanadomainghost.png|thumb|right|[[Cortana]] contacting [[John-117]] through the Domain in [[2558]].|200px]] | [[File:H5G-John&Cortanadomainghost.png|thumb|right|[[Cortana]] [[Neural physics|telepathically]] contacting [[John-117]] through the Domain in [[2558]].|200px]] | ||
The Domain was an immaterial reserve of knowledge and collective experience viewed by the Forerunners as the essence and living expression of their culture and history. In addition to the ancestral impressions and memories contained within, information could also be stored in and retrieved from the Domain for practical purposes. There was a mysterious quality to the Domain; despite its ubiquity in Forerunner culture, its exact nature or origin remained largely nebulous even to Forerunners. Due to these abstruse aspects, the Forerunners treated the Domain as something mystical and transcendent; it was regarded with reverence and connected to the Forerunners' [[Mantle|religious beliefs]].<ref name="p234"/><ref name="s55">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 55''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 271''</ref><ref name="s275"/> | The Domain was an immaterial reserve of knowledge and collective experience viewed by the Forerunners as the essence and living expression of their culture and history. In addition to the ancestral impressions and memories contained within, information could also be stored in and retrieved from the Domain for practical purposes. There was a mysterious quality to the Domain; despite its ubiquity in Forerunner culture, its exact nature or origin remained largely nebulous even to Forerunners. Due to these abstruse aspects, the Forerunners treated the Domain as something mystical and transcendent; it was regarded with reverence and connected to the Forerunners' [[Mantle|religious beliefs]].<ref name="p234"/><ref name="s55">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 55''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 271''</ref><ref name="s275"/> | ||