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[[File:Keyofonsanalan.jpg|thumb|200px|James Ackerson holding out the Key of Osanalan to Ruwan.]]
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The '''Key of Osanalan''' was a simple imaginary skeleton key, seemingly fashioned from tin-foil, that [[Ruwan Ackerson|Ruwan]] and [[James Ackerson]] used in make-believe games when they were both children.<ref>'''Halo: Uprising''' ''[[Halo: Uprising Issue 1|Issue 1]]''</ref>   
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The '''Key of Osanalan''' is a [[Forerunner]] object underneath the city of [[Cleveland]], [[United States of America|Ohio]] on [[Earth]].<ref>[[Halo: Uprising Issue 1]]</ref>  As revealed by a captured [[Colonel James Ackerson]], without the Key, the [[Halo Array|Halos]] will not properly activate. Outside of [[Halo: Uprising]], no mention of the key is seen in [[Halo 3]], and [[Master Chief]] activates the replacement [[Installation 04]] successfully even without the key. One of the main characters in Uprising, [[Ruwan]] claims to know exactly what it is.


==Background==
==Speculation==
During their childhood, James and Ruwan Ackerson used the imaginary Key of Osanalan to rescue a "Princess" as part of their make-believe games.<ref>'''Halo: Uprising''' ''[[Halo: Uprising Issue 3|Issue 3]]''</ref>
*The key could be required for a full Array activation, but not for singular detonations, as a sort of stop-gap measure and extension to ensure that the galaxy is not wiped out by accident. Or, the key could likely be the activation index for the portal, which would explain its location on [[Earth]] and not a Halo ring. The key could also be a [[Keyship]], much like Truth's [[Dreadnought]].
*The key could be related to the [[Activation Index]], whether in appearance or not it holds a striking semblance metaphor-wise.
*The key could also be one of Mendicant Bias's Fragments that is needed to activate the Portal to the Ark. It would explain why the Forerunner Dreadnought was just siting in its Cradle for such a long time.
*The key could be a master key of sorts, able to activate any of the halo rings without their respective firing indexes.


During the [[Human-Covenant War]], James Ackerson, now a [[colonel]] in the [[UNSC Army]], was captured after the [[Battle of Mare Erythraeum]]. While he was being interrogated by the [[Jiralhanae]] [[Shipmaster]] [[Lepidus]], he said that the [[Halo Array|Halos]] would not properly activate without the Key of Osanalan, causing the Covenant to go on a misleading search for the "Key". Ruwan, after realizing the importance of the Covenant's belief in the key, contacted the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]], saying that he would give them the Key when they met. Once they arrived, Ruwan then told them that he was the Key. Confused, the Covenant brought Ruwan to their ship, the {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} ''[[Harbinger of Piety]]''. Unbeknownst to them, Ruwan had been implanted with [[Tykos 30]], an organic tracking compound. Moments before ''[[Nassau Station]]'' used its [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] to destroy the ship, Ruwan told the [[Minister of Inquisition]] to ''"kiss [his] ass"''.<ref name="Uprising4">'''Halo: Uprising''' ''[[Halo: Uprising Issue 4|Issue 4]]''</ref>
==Related Articles==
 
*[[Halo: Uprising]]
After the destruction of ''Harbinger of Piety'', [[James Ackerson]] openly mocked the Covenant about the key's non-existence, which resulted in his death.{{Ref/Reuse|Uprising4}}
*[[Battle of Cleveland]]
 
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Uprising]]'' {{1st}}


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