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'''The Library''' is the seventh [[campaign]] level in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''. It begins after [[343 Guilty Spark]] teleports [[John-117]] from the swamp he was in to the [[Library]] of [[Installation 04]]. The Master Chief must battle through four [[Flood]]-filled levels to reach the [[Activation Index|Index]] chamber.

==Transcript==

''Level ends.''

==Trivia==

*If the player has an [[Overshield]], it is possible to launch him/herself onto the Activation Index. The player can fall to the bottom of the place right below this post and survive.

*On the second elevator ride, if the player get high enough, jump off and get under it, the player can make their way to the center of the chamber and jump into the pit. There a spinning Forerunner [[Monitor]], 343 Guilty Spark, can be seen. Oddly enough, the player can also do this while 343 Guilty Spark is supposedly on another part of the level at the time.

*In ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]'', there is an error in the geometry of the remastered graphics on the top floor, with the yellow lighting. One specific part of the floor features a dead-end corridor with a health pack with two pillars sticking up, a common sight in the level. But the remastered graphics in this instance places a flat wall texture across at the part of the corridor where the pillars begin. This means the player can walk between the pillars and through the "wall" into what appears to be empty space, where they can see behind the walls of the level.

*The blue-lighted windows seen throughout the level are rumored to be used to access the data archived by the [[Librarian]] although this has never been seen in any of the games thus far. In addition, they are described as "glowing blue monitors" in ''Halo: The Flood''.

*Opening this file in a modding program will reveal a Flood actor variant with a [[M7057 flamethrower|flamethrower]]. However no such Flood form spawns in the level due to the fact that in the [[Xbox]] version of the game the flamethrower was unfinished, even though the [[Halo: Combat Evolved (PC port)|PC version]] of this level does contain a working flamethrower (which also doesn't have a spawn point as a random piece of weaponry lying around).

*Whenever Sentinels are deployed to escort the Monitor, they only follow him until they reach certain landmarks such as the series of pillar-like braces occasionally found in the middle of corridors. There is a possibility that the braces are actually devices used to mark the areas where Sentinels which are permitted to occupy. Another theory could be that the braces found in areas serve as signs that the Sentinels found within the Library are not allowed to wander outside of certain perimeters.

*In the Anniversary version of the level there is a small portion of the previously mentioned brace-like structures that can be broken off by means of grenade explosions.

*Also in the Anniversary version, the decorations on the Library's walls resemble the monoliths/petals that surround the [[Portal at Voi]].

==Gallery==

File:HCEA-ActivationIndexChamber.png|A view of the index chamber on the Library's top floor.

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