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[[Image:Llibraryday.jpg|thumb|right|230px|The Library of [[Installation 05]].]]
'''The Library''' is the name given to a structure present on each of the  [[Halo Installations]] created by the [[Forerunner]]s. 

==Background==
The Library's true function is unknown at present. However it is hypothesized to be a collection of all information regarding the [[Flood]] known to the Forerunner and also collated cloned DNA sequences. All of this information is contained within the [[Index]], which is housed within the [[Index Chamber]] and is used in the process of activating the [[Halo]] system and wiping the galaxy clean of sentient life.

The Index is held in suspended animation within the core of the Library, out of reach of possible Flood outbreak. The only internal access is via a giant lift that descends from the highest level of the Library to the Index's suspended position. 

Access to the Library itself usually occurs via each installation's internal teleportation grid<ref>[[The Library (Level)| The Library]] Initial starting point of this level is reached via teleportation</ref>. On [[Installation 05]] [[2401 Penitent Tangent]] was unable to assist the [[Arbiter (Character)|Arbiter]] in this manner. As a result a longer, less direct route had to be taken. An Anti-Gravity [[Gondola]] spanned the distance between a Forerunner base and the Library. This large Forerunner base was the [[Sentinel Wall]] which was protected by an energy shield and filled with hundreds if not thousands of [[Sentinels]] and [[Enforcers]]. Then, beyond the wall is an artificial lake and a great chasm that the gondola must cross.

On both [[Installation 04]] and [[Installation 05]] the Flood was still able to breach such defenses and infest the Library. This may indicate that the Library is not as secure as the Forerunners had hoped it would be, or that it was initially a containment facility for the Flood. The interior of both Libraries consists of multiple gigantic hallways of geometric design interconnected to one another, finally leading to the Index Room. The large hallways suggests that it was designed to hold large amounts of [[Forerunners]], possibly acting as a backup refugee camp against the flood.

== Installation 04 ==
[[Image:Libraryon04.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The fourth floor inside Alpha Halo's Library.]]
[[Image:LibraryonAlphaHalo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|John-117 and 343 Guilty Spark about to get the Index.]]
[[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]] teleported the [[Master Chief]] from 04's [[Flood Containment Facility]], after deeming him to be a [[Reclaimer]], into the Library of [[Installation 04]] and instructed him to retrieve the index. 

It is here that 343 Guilty Spark remarks upon both the nature of the [[Flood]] and the [[Forerunners]]. Making specific reference to their technological superiority, he wonders why the Chief had brought "such ineffective weapons to combat the Flood"<ref>[[The Library (Level)| The Library]] Mentioned after the first doorway is passed through.</ref>. Guilty Spark also recommends that the Master Chief should upgrade from his current [[MJOLNIR armor]], a [[Mark V]] (which according to an Forerunner ranking system is only Class 2) to a Class 12 [[Combat Skin]], which is stated as a necessity in order to combat the Flood. However, he later tells the Master Chief that his suit will serve him well as the Flood would try to alter the atmosphere for their own needs (possibly referring to the Flood spores spreading throughout the facility).

The Flood had heavily infested this library in the few short days since their initial breakout, with large groups using the ventilation shafts and access corridors to make their way through the facility. There were Flood in almost every part of the complex, including the [[Index Chamber]] itself, and the Sentinel drones assigned to the facility were mostly overwhelmed. By the time the Chief arrived, the Sentinels were reduced to small groups using the shafts to avoid destruction and the Flood had begun terraforming, spreading their spores through the facility by using the ducts.  

Toward the end of this Library, the Chief encountered the body of a [[Marine]] who was Guilty Spark's previous Reclaimer. This Marine was said to have been so mutilated that the Flood could not possibly infest him. He was identified to be [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Marvin Mobuto]]<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]] pages 244-245</ref>.

It seems the Covenant made no attempt to access the Library on Installation 04. While the Master Chief explored the dark bowels of the structure, there is no sign of the usual crates, shield generators or spare weapons. This is probably because the Covenant did not find out about the Library, the Index or its purpose until after the capture of Monitor [[343 Guilty Spark]].

With help from the Sentinels, and motivation from Staff Sergeant Mobuto, the Master Chief fought his way through three levels of the complex and retrieved the index. The Library's subsequent status and Flood infection is unknown, although it was [[The Maw|destroyed]] with the rest of [[Alpha Halo]] when the Master Chief detonated the [[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn's]] engines. The library is not seen from the outside, so it is unclear whether the libraries on each ring are different. e.g. Installation 04's control room is different than Installation 05's.

== Installation 05 ==
[[Image:Sacredicon1600.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Library as seen during the [[Battle of Installation 05]].]]

In [[Halo 2]], while the Master Chief hunted down the [[Prophet of Regret]], [[Commander]] [[Miranda Keyes]], [[Sergeant Johnson]] and most of [[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]'s Marines attempted to break into the Library in order to find and retrieve the Index. Due to the significantly larger Flood outbreak on this Installation, the Library and its defenses were seriously damaged and as a consequence were filled with larger numbers of Flood than its Installation 04 counterpart. The UNSC forces were seemingly unprepared for the Flood presence, and many of them were infected by the flood.

The Arbiter traveled to the Library of [[Delta Halo]]. (This journey encompasses the [[Sacred Icon (Level)|Sacred Icon]] and [[Quarantine Zone (Level)|Quarantine Zone]] levels.)
Dropped into the Sentinel Wall from [[Tartarus]]' [[Phantom]], the Arbiter battled his way through swathes of Flood and [[Sentinel]]s to find the [[gondola]] that would carry him into the core of the Library. By removing the containment plugs, he then lowered the [[Containment Shield]] guarding the [[Quarantine Zone]] enabling him to enter the Library proper. Unfortunately, this also released the Flood and allowed them to gain access to victims and vehicles from both Covenant and human forces, adding to the magnitude of the outbreak.

The Arbiter took the gondola into the depths of the Library to find the Index Chamber. This inner section of the Library was identical to Installation 04's. After the Arbiter knocked Johnson unconscious, Tartarus and his Brute forces arrived. Tartarus pulled Keyes toward him with the Fist of Rukt, stunning her in the process, and removed the Index from her possession. Tartarus then [[Covenant Civil War|betrayed]] the Arbiter, pushing him into the central shaft of the Library using the Fist of Rukt's gravity manipulation powers. After being thrown to his death by Tartarus, the Arbiter is rescued by the [[Gravemind]], who then held him captive for his own motives. It should be noted that in the Index Room there are what appear to be multiple destroyed Enforcers, as well as a number of the Gravemind's tentacles. A large part of the Gravemind exists beneath the Library itself, and this is where 2401 Penitent Tangent and the Flood Infected [[Prophet of Regret]] were held. It seems that the Flood just tossed dead bodies over the edge.

== Installation 04 (II) ==
Although it is never seen, it can be assumed that the Library of [[Installation 04 (II)]] is almost identical to that of [[Installation 04|its predecessor]] with the exception of more elaborate interior designs.  One can infer this for the simple reason that the [[Control Room]] is identical between the structures as well.

== Trivia ==
[[Image:1212267588 The Library of Delta Halo.PNG|thumb|A Library on an unknown Halo in daylight.]]
*The foremost structure of the Library is similar to the symbols on the stone slabs on the top floor of the bases in the [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] map [[Blood Gulch]]. It could mean that the structure of the Library is somehow related to Blood Gulch, or that it is purely a common [[Forerunner]] symbol.
*It can only be assumed that every Installation (except [[Installation 00]]) had a Library assuming that they all have the same function.
*In the [[Halo 2]] [[multiplayer]] level, [[Containment (Level)|Containment]], if you fly a Banshee, in the distance you can see [[Installation 05]]'s library.
*In [[Halo: Combat Evolved]], the [[Master Chief]] gets in the Alpha Halo Library through teleportation by [[343 Guilty Spark]]. In [[Halo 2]], the Arbiter goes through a gondola system to get in the [[Delta Halo]] Library, it may be possible that you can get into the [[Installation 04|Alpha Halo]] Library as well through a gondola system but it is unknown for sure.

==Sources==
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==Related Pages==
*[[Index]]
*[[Halo]]
*[[Control Room]]

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