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A '''Lifeworker beacon''' was an device utilized by the [[Lifeshaper]] known as the [[Librarian]] to imprint her ''[[geas]]'' upon humanity. | |||
A '''Lifeworker beacon''' was | |||
==Design and operation== | ==Design and operation== | ||
The Lifeworker beacon seen on [[Installation 07]] took the form of a great, egg-shaped structure on a platform of Forerunner metal that was fifty meters wide and about shoulder height to a human. The beacon was as high as the platform was wide and was the color of beaten copper laced through with swirls of dusky sunset sky. It was incised all around by smooth vertical grooves about an arm span apart. The device was camouflaged from the humans in the city it was placed in | The Lifeworker beacon seen on [[Installation 07]] took the form of a great, egg-shaped structure on a platform of Forerunner metal that was fifty meters wide and about shoulder height to a human. The beacon was as high as the platform was wide and was the color of beaten copper laced through with swirls of dusky sunset sky. It was incised all around by smooth vertical grooves about an arm span apart. The device was camouflaged from the humans in the city it was placed in and they built a market square around it.<ref name="pri88-89">'''[[Halo: Primordium]]''', ''pages 88-89''</ref>- | ||
The purpose of the Lifeworker beacons was to act as an automated imprinting system, imposing the [[Librarian]]'s various ''[[geas]]'' upon all of the humans within its range at birth. To the humans, they always recalled this as the Librarian coming to them at birth when in reality it was the beacons. | The purpose of the Lifeworker beacons was to act as an automated imprinting system, imposing the [[Librarian]]'s various ''[[geas]]'' upon all of the humans within its range at birth. To the humans, they always recalled this as the Librarian coming to them at birth when in reality it was the beacons.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 374''</ref> However, the signal from the beacons could be changed by whoever was in control of them. This would alter the ''geas'' a person was following to this new set of instructions.<ref name="pri184">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 184''</ref> | ||
During his odyssey on Installation 07, [[Chakas]] found one of these beacons in the ruins of a [[Tudejsa]] city and correctly guessed its purposes.<ref name="pri88-89" /> By this time, the beacons on the installation had been subverted by [[Mendicant Bias]] and the [[Primordial]] who utilized them to alter the ''geas'' of the Tudejsa and draw them unresisting to the various "[[Palace of Pain|Palaces of Pain]]" located around the ring. After meeting [[Genemender-Folder-of-Fortune]], Chakas learned of this and agreed that conflicting instructions from the various beacons around the installation made sense in the situation they were in.<ref name="pri184" /> | |||
==Trivia== | |||
*Though not explicitly stated, the [[Librarian]] most likely used her beacons to manipulate the ''[[geas]]'' of [[Chakas]] and [[Riser]] to prepare them for the coming of [[IsoDidact|Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting]]. The two had very specific dreams from their ''geas'' regarding Bornstellar coming in search of treasure while Bornstellar had been tested and chosen by [[Bornstellar's ancilla|his ancilla]] for the Librarian. As seen in ''[[Halo: Primordium]]'', the beacons signals can be used to update the ''geas'' in a living person as circumstances change. | |||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo: Primordium]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Halo: Primordium]]'' {{1st}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Silentium]]'' | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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{{Forerunner|technology}} | {{Forerunner|technology}} | ||
[[Category:Forerunner technology]] | [[Category:Forerunner technology]] | ||
