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{{Quote|I have thought of a way, but it is not something that should be considered...we could use Luminal Beacons.|[[Nizat 'Kvarosee]]}}
 
'''Luminal Beacons''' are small [[Forerunner]] artifacts employed by the [[Covenant]] for the purposes of location-tracking.
{{Quote|I have thought of a way, but it is not something that should be considered...we could use Luminal Beacons|[[Nizat 'Kvarosee]]}}


==Description==
==Description==
Luminal Beacons were small Forerunner devices, capable of tracking their own location through gravity-wave analysis and temporal distortion. This was done thanks to quantum-dot processing machines and integrated senors within the beacons. Using this, and quantum enganglement, the devices were able to instantly relay their locations to reception units within ''[[High Charity]]''. They were considered so advanced that even the [[Ministry of Discovery]] was unable to reverse-engineer or understand them.<ref name="OB5">''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'', Chapter 5</ref>
'''Luminal Beacons''' were small [[Forerunner]] devices, capable of tracking their own location through gravity-wave analysis and temporal distortion. this was done thanks to quantum-dot processing machines and integrated senors within the beacons. Using this, and quantum enganglement, the devices were able to instantly relay their locations to reception units within ''[[High Charity]]''. <ref> Halo: Oblivion Chapter 5</ref>  


==History==
==History==
Created by the Forerunners, these devices would eventually be found by the [[Covenant]] during their thousands of years of searching for Forerunner relics. By the year [[2525]], only four of these beacons had been found by the alien hegemony. Due to this and their abilities, they were considered deeply sacred, kept within the [[Beacon Keeper's Vault]], along with their reception units. Their sole purpose within the Covenant was to be given to fleets heading to unknown space to announce the presence of a [[Halo Array|Halo ring]], if one was found. More than five thousand [[Cycle|cycles]] prior to 2525, a Covenant fleet in possession of one of these beacons vanished, ultimately transmitting from deep within the [[Milky Way|galactic core]]. Thanks to the high star density and strong gravity, it was beyond the Covenant's ability to retrieve and was called the "Fabled Lost Beacon" afterwards.{{Ref/Reuse|OB5}}
Created by the forerunners, these devices would eventually be found by the [[Covenant]] during their thousands of years of searching for forerunner relics. By the year 2525, only four of these beacons had been found by the alien hegemony. Due to this and their abilities, they were considered deeply sacred, kept within the Keeper Beacon's vault, along with their reception units. Their sole purpose within the Covenant was to be given to fleets heading to unknown space to announce the presence of a [[Halo ring]], if one was found. More then Five thousand [[Cycle|cycles]] prior to 2525, a covenant fleet, with one of these beacons vanished, with the beacon( now know as the Lost Beacon) ultimately transmitting from deep within the galactic core.<ref> Halo: Oblivion Chapter 5 </ref>
 
During the first months of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Hierarchs entrusted two of the three remaining beacons with fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee on his campaign into human territory, as they claimed clues to finding the Halo rings could be found there. During the [[Battle of Zhoist]], one of these beacons was lost when the ship it was on, ''[[Almighty Persuasion]]'' was destroyed. The remaining one would be taken back to High Charity when Nizat was brought back for debriefing. Here he would suggest using it as a way to wipe out [[ONI]].{{Ref/Reuse|OB5}}


When it was found out one had been lost under his charge already, the plan was declined and he was ordered to return the remaining beacon to the Beacon Keeper's Vault. Here, Nizat, his [[second]], [[Tam 'Lakosee]], and nine other [[shipmaster]]s would kill the guards and the [[San'Shyuum]] [[Beacon Keeper]] himself in order to obtain the other remaining beacon, along with the reception units and use them both to find and destroy ONI.{{Ref/Reuse|OB5}} During the [[Battle of Netherop]], one of the beacons, hidden in a human emergency locator, would be planted on a ONI agent<ref>''Halo: Oblivion'', Chapter 19</ref>, while the other, unbeknownst to the humans was stored in armor with a personal energy shield, and subsequently captured by them as well.<ref>''Halo: Oblivion'', Epilogue</ref> Meanwhile, their reception units were aboard the [[Intrusion corvette|stealth corvette]] ''[[Quiet Faith]]'' as it managed to flee the system.
During the first months of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Hierarchs entrusted two of the three remaining beacons with fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee on his campaign into human territory,as they claimed clues to finding the halo rings could be found there. During the [[Attack on Zhoist]], one of these beacons was lost when the ship it was on, ''[[Almighty Persuasion]]'' was destroyed. The remaining one would be taken back to High Charity when Nizat was brought back for debriefing. Here he would suggest using it as a way to wipe out [[ONI]]<ref> Halo: Oblivion Chapter 5</ref>


When it was found out one had been lost under his charge already, the plan was declined and he was ordered to return the remaining beacon to the Keeper Vault. Here, Nizat, his [[second]], [[Tam 'Lakosee]], and nine other shipmasters would kill the guards and the [[San'Shyuum]] Beacon Keeper himself in order to obtain the other remaining beacon, along with the reception units and use them both to find and destroy ONI.<ref> Halo: Oblivion Chapter 5</ref> During the [[Battle of Netherop]], one of the beacons, hidden in a human emergency locator would be planted on a ONI agent<ref> Halo: Oblivion Chapter 19</ref>, while the other, unknown to the humans, stored in armor with a personal energy shield, was captured by them as well.<ref> Halo: Oblivion: Epilogue</ref> Meanwhile, their reception units, were aboard the stealth corvette, ''[[Quiet Faith]]'' as it managed to fleet the system.
==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{c|First mentioned, indirect}}
*[[Halo: Oblivion]] (First appearance)
*''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' {{Mo}}


==Sources==
==Sources==
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{{Forerunner|artifacts}}
{{Forerunner|artifacts}}
[[Category:Forerunner technology]]
[[Category: Forerunner technology]]

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