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Faun Hakkor

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Faun Hakkor
Astrographical

System:

Charum Hakkor system

Societal

Species:

Human (non-native) (Formerly)

Government:

Ancient humanity (Formerly)

 

Faun Hakkor is a planet in the Charum Hakkor system, which was once settled by ancient space-faring humans.[1][2] It shares its system with Charum Hakkor, Ben Nauk, and twelve other planets that were mined for ores and volatiles.[3]

Overview[edit]

Environmental features[edit]

Similar in size to Charum Hakkor, Faun Hakkor was covered in green vegetation. It had several oceans surrounded by mountain ranges.[4] Following the test firing of Installation 07, it was scarred by craters, overgrown primitive vegetation, and vast regions of burned and flattened topography.[1]

Ecology[edit]

The planet once had many jungles and dense arboreal forests. Primitive plants, mosses, algae, fungi, and symbiotic combinations of all four could be found. The planet had flowering plants, but they were few and far between. A type of semi-sentient tree grew in forests which covered the surface. The trees had acquired a form of long-term intelligence, using insects, viruses, bacteria, and fungi as carriers of genetic and hormonal signals in order to communicate with each other over centuries, analogous to the function of neurons within a brain. Despite their form of intelligence being unlike that of most sentient beings, these trees were among the organisms killed by the test-firing of Installation 07.[5]

Prior to the 97,495 BCE, the planet was home to hundreds of species of animals ranging in size from a meter to one-hundred meters, some aquatic, others large land carnivores and sedate prairie-grazers. Smaller animals less than a meter in size included tree-hoppers, burrowers, small carnivores, seed-eaters, flying creatures, arthopods, and clonal sibling societies. The Pheru were a notable animal species indigenous to the planet. They were popular amongst humans and San'Shyuum as pets on many worlds, and later became a cross-species vector for the earliest known Flood infection within the Milky Way.[1]

After 97,495 BCE no animals above a millimeter in scale or with a central nervous system (or even a notochord) survived on the planet, a result of the test firing of Installation 07. All that remained were mosses, fungi, algae, and their combined symbiotic forms.[5]

History[edit]

During the Siege of Charum Hakkor in the human-Forerunner wars, Faun Hakkor became under attack by Forerunner forces as well. While its planetary militia and military forces fiercely defended the world, Faun Hakkor's military installations and personnel numbers were significantly less than Charum Hakkor. While the world was captured by the Forerunners, a majority of its flora and fauna were left unharmed. Following the war, the Forerunner Lifeworker rate ensured the surveying of Faun Hakkor's remaining species.[1]

Around 97,495 BCE, the system was the test site for Installation 07, one of the twelve original Halo rings. The Halo was set to a low-power setting, but still managed to kill every specimen of every type of animal on the planet, even those that were unsuitable for infestation by the Flood; all that remained were primitive organisms such as mosses, fungi, algae, and (certain) plants. The planet then went into a state of gradual ecological collapse. The lack of pollinators led to the rapid extinction of flowering plants, while the world's water bodies were filled with decaying matter.[5]

43 years after Installation 07's test-firing, after the Didact was awoken on Erde-Tyrene from his Cryptum, he took his ship to the Charum Hakkor system to find out what had happened during his exile. After finding Charum Hakkor in ruins and barren, he was mortified to discover that life on Faun Hakkor had been eradicated. The Didact later left for Janjur Qom to see the current status of the remaining San'Shyuum.[6]

List of appearances[edit]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Halo: Cryptum, page 131
  2. ^ Halo Waypoint, Cryptum Glossary (Retrieved on Mar 14, 2014) [local archive] [external archive]
  3. ^ Halo: Cryptum, page 122
  4. ^ Halo: Cryptum, page 130
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Halo: Cryptum, page 132-133
  6. ^ Halo: Cryptum, page 134