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| | [[File:Halo Last Light cover.jpg|thumb|300px|Blue Team and Veta Lopis in the cave system]] |
| | The '''Montero Cave System''' is an immense series of caves located beneath the surface of [[Gao]], a [[human]] [[Outer Colony]]. Located in the [[Montero]] region in the [[Campos Wilderness District]], the Montero Cave System was host to the [[Forerunner]] [[Covert Support Base 4276]], a support facility for [[Line Installation 444-447]] on the nearby [[Shaps III]] in the [[Shaps system]].<ref name="hll36">'''[[Halo: Last Light]]''', ''pages 36-43'' (Google Play edition)</ref> |
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| [[File:Halo Last Light cover.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Blue Team]] and [[Veta Lopis]] in the cave system.]]
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| The '''Montero Cave System''' is an immense series of caves located beneath the surface of [[Gao]], a [[human]] [[Outer Colony]]. Located in the [[Montero]] region in the [[Campos Wilderness District]], the cave system encompasses thousands of square kilometers of [[Wikipedia:Karst|karst caves]] underneath the Montero Jungle.{{Ref/Novel|Id=ll11|LL|Chapter=1|Page=11}}
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| ==Overview==
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| The Montero Cave System was host to the [[Forerunner]] [[Covert Support Base 4276]], a support facility for [[Line Installation 444-447]] on the nearby [[Shaps III]] in the [[Shaps system]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=c3|LL|Chapter=3|Page=36-44}} The cave system itself—at least the portion of it around the support base—was artificial, created by the Forerunners to function as service caverns for the facility. The caves served as a camouflaged cooling array, with the winding tangles of caves seemingly designed to give hot air time to cool before it reached the surface. The caverns rose upward in a roughly spiral pattern, many of them terminating at underground lakes. In the center of the elaborate array was the [[Well of Echoes]], a deep basin directly above the Forerunner base, which served as a vent for the hot air.{{Ref/Novel|LL|Chapter=12|Page=163-164}} Other parts of the caves performed various functions for the support base, including drainage conduits and settling ponds—all fashioned in the likeness of natural terrain.{{Ref/Reuse|c3}}
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| Its nature unknown to the human colonists, the Montero Cave System was Gao's most popular natural wonder and a famous tourist attraction.{{Ref/Reuse|ll11}} During [[Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE]] on [[2553#July|July 6, 2553]], the support base and a large part of the cave system around it were destroyed by [[Blue Team]] with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]] to prevent the Forerunner technology from falling into the hands of the [[Gao Republic]]'s anti-centralization government.{{Ref/Novel|LL|Chapter=28|Page=377-379}}
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| ==Locations==
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| *[[Gallery of the Inverted Forest]]
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| *[[Well of Echoes]]
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| *[[Covert Support Base 4276]]
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Halo: Last Light]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Halo: Last Light]]'' {{1st}} |
| *''[[Halo Mythos]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
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| [[Category:Gao locations]] | | [[Category:Gao locations]] |
