Terminal

This article is about the terminals in the games. For other uses, see Terminal (disambiguation).

Terminals are in-game objects found in Halo 3 and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Conceptually based upon similar terminals in the game Marathon, the Terminals fill the player in on the Halo backstory, much in the same way as they functioned in Marathon.

Halo 3

The exterior of a Halo 3 terminal.

Main article: Terminal/Halo 3

The Terminals in Halo 3 are a continuation of the Iris alternate reality game used as viral marketing for Halo 3. They clarify a great deal of the Iris story line by naming the authors of different messages and by explaining the circumstances of the original firing of the Halo Array. The Terminals follow the stories of the Librarian and the Didact, Forerunner logs of Flood attacks, and Mendicant Bias's progression into rampancy.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

Main article: Terminal/Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

The Terminals in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary feature fully-animated cutscenes instead of text like in Halo 3. Most of them are logs narrated by 343 Guilty Spark and expand on the history of Installation 04.