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[[File:TerminalArkArray.jpg|thumb|250px|Installation 07 with the other six rings.]] | [[File:TerminalArkArray.jpg|thumb|250px|Installation 07 with the other six rings.]] | ||
Most of the Installation's surviving biological specimens, including humans, were saved by the Lifeworkers and relocated to the Ark.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=348}} Mendicant Bias' core on the installation was deactivated, while the AI itself was forced to undergo a process to "correct" its rampancy.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=356}} The Primordial was captured and placed in a cage within a chamber deep underneath the installation's surface; there, the Didact interrogated the being with an injured Chakas, before executing it.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=359-367}} The majority of the Flood, including ten inactive [[proto-Gravemind]]s and the infected Forerunners processed by the Composer, remained on the ring, watched over by a number of remaining monitors. By order of the Didact, the Halo, now shrouded in perpetual cloud, was eventually sent through a slipspace portal to remain as a memorial, a "sacred tomb" for the millions of beings that had died there.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=373-374}} At the same time, it was intended to be used in concert with the final, newer Halo Array if mass galactic sterilization was deemed necessary.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=314}}{{Ref/Note|Though never officially stated, Installation 07's primary weapon was presumably upgraded at some point to become omnidirectional like those of the newer array rather than the unidirectional pulse it had as part of the older array. Otherwise, Installation 07 never could've acted as part of the newer array in an act of mass galactic sterilization.}} | Most of the Installation's surviving biological specimens, including humans, were saved by the Lifeworkers and relocated to the Ark.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=348}} Mendicant Bias' core on the installation was deactivated, while the AI itself was forced to undergo a process to "correct" its rampancy.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=356}} The Primordial was captured and placed in a cage within a chamber deep underneath the installation's surface; there, the Didact interrogated the being with an injured Chakas, before executing it.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=359-367}} The majority of the Flood, including ten inactive [[proto-Gravemind]]s and the infected Forerunners processed by the Composer, remained on the ring, watched over by a number of remaining monitors. By order of the Didact, the Halo, now shrouded in perpetual cloud, was eventually sent through a slipspace portal to remain as a memorial, a "sacred tomb" for the millions of beings that had died there.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=373-374}} At the same time, it was intended to be used in concert with the final, newer Halo Array if mass galactic sterilization was deemed necessary.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=314}}{{Ref/Note|Though never officially stated, Installation 07's primary weapon was presumably upgraded at some point to become omnidirectional like those of the newer array rather than the unidirectional pulse it had as part of the older array. Otherwise, Installation 07 never could've acted as part of the newer array in an act of mass galactic sterilization.}} | ||
After Installation 07 was reclaimed from Mendicant Bias and the Primordial, the [[Librarian]] spent time on the ring, creating the new [[Cartographer#Installation 07|Cartographer]], setting the parameters for [[the Monument]] and giving the ancillas new purpose after so much of their original purpose had been lost.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL16}} Following the Librarian's directions, the ancillas of Zeta Halo spent centuries gathering the various essences, imprints and damaged submonitors left over from the civil war on the ring and gave them a new home in the Monument. The ancilla continued keeping watch over the Monument and the lifeforms living on Zeta Halo for the countless eons that followed as per the instructions of the Librarian and the IsoDidact. Their only deviation from these instructions was to purify the ring's atmosphere and end the shroud of mist over it because of the effect that it was having on the [[tullioc]].{{Ref/Reuse|PoL15}} | |||
At the conclusion of the Forerunner-Flood war, Installation 07 was positioned at coordinates that would allow the Halo Array to blanket the entire galaxy in its destructive pulse. Installation 07 was activated along with the other six rings in the final Halo Array, wiping out all life within its effective radius of 25,000 light years.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P350|Enc22|Page=350}} | At the conclusion of the Forerunner-Flood war, Installation 07 was positioned at coordinates that would allow the Halo Array to blanket the entire galaxy in its destructive pulse. Installation 07 was activated along with the other six rings in the final Halo Array, wiping out all life within its effective radius of 25,000 light years.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P350|Enc22|Page=350}} | ||