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| {{Planet infobox | | {{Merge|G617 g1}} |
| |name=Seaward | | {{Ratings}} |
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| |body=[[G617]]<ref name="bestiarum">'''[[Bestiarum]]''', ''Flood''</ref>
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| |position=Seventh planet{{Ref/Reuse|bestiarum}}
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| |moon(s)=G617 g 1{{Ref/Reuse|bestiarum}}
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| |gravity=1.375 G (approx.){{Ref/Reuse|bestiarum}}
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| |atmosphere=.9 atm ([[Wikipedia:Nitrogen|N2]], [[Oxygen|O2]], [[Argon|Ar]]){{Ref/Reuse|bestiarum}}
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| |temperature=–25°C to 41°C{{Ref/Reuse|bestiarum}}
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| |species=[[Forerunner]]
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| |population=approx. 1,000,000{{Ref/Reuse|HE}}
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| |government=[[Ecumene]]/private community
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| '''Seaward''',<ref name="HE">'''Halo: Evolutions (Volume I)''', ''Soma the Painter''</ref> formally designated '''G 617 g''', is a planet in the [[G617]] system situated within the near border region of the galactic halo. Once home to a [[Forerunner]] colony,{{Ref/Reuse|HE}} the planet saw the return of the [[Flood]] to the [[Milky Way]] ''circa'' [[97,745 BCE]]. The planet's inhabitants were the first victims of the parasite during the [[Forerunner-Flood war]].<ref name="terminal6">'''[[Halo 3]]''', ''[[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal Six]]''</ref>
| | '''G 617 g''' was the [[Forerunner]] designation for a planet in the [[G617]] system situated within the near border region of the galactic Halo. <ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', ''[[Terminals#Terminal Six|Terminal Six]]''</ref> |
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| ==Description== | | ==Background== |
| Seaward was a large planet at the edge of the galaxy, secret to all save a small number of Forerunners. It was capable of supporting sentient life but possessed no indigenous fauna;{{Ref/Reuse|terminal6}} several plant and insect species were later transplanted to the planet by its inhabitants. The planet had a unique optical effect ("Twofire") caused by its twin stars. As the stars fell below the horizon their combined light would be reflected in multiple colors in the clouds above.{{Ref/Reuse|HE}}
| | It was capable of supporting life, but possessed no indigenous fauna. A [[Primary Pioneer Group]] was dispatched to investigate, making a post landfull report. For one reason or another however, it failed to make a follow up report. It appears that a medium intensity military expedition was sent in after 333 hours (or about 14 days in [[Human]] time). |
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| The planet was officially designated an uninhabitable world to allow a small community of wealthy Forerunners to use it as a "private, expensive sanctuary". Supplies were regularly delivered to the settlement via [[transorbital balloon]]; the colony's inhabitants exported artwork and energy supplies in return. Aside from these transactions, the planet was largely left alone and ignored. Communication with the rest of the [[ecumene]] was almost nonexistent.
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| | A moon in the G617 system, G617 g1 was the first world in the Milky Way to be infected by Flood. |
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| The planet's inhabitants had given up most of the Forerunners' advanced technology, including [[Forerunner personal armor|personal armor]], in favor of a more primitive lifestyle.{{Ref/Reuse|HE}} Most of the Forerunners in the settlement did this out of a desire to live close to nature, and to eventually age naturally and die. The planet had a single settlement, [[Wharftown]], which contained little more than homes, parks and a small area of agricultural land.
| | A Forerunner-based research team called the Primary Pioneer Group made active landfall on the bordering town planet known as G617g and they initially reported some interesting findings. Despite previous assumptions and conjectures, the world could support sentient life despite the lack of fauna, which they intended to review more closely. The protocol allows them to dispatch a secondary batch of researchers called the Advance Survey Team-Alpha. After a week of no communication, the Forerunners who were remotely monitoring this new discovery become worried.[1] |
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| ==History==
| | In their response to the initial testimony and report, those monitoring it advised that they would send a military detachment to the site shortly to uncover why their two exploratory teams have halted communication. That would be the last time the Forerunners had any contact with G617g, and it was the beginning of the largest war their galaxy would ever see, lasting about three centuries. No one knows why the Flood were dormant on G617g or even how long they had been there before they were discovered, but it is believed that they, due to their vastly different physiology, traveled to our galaxy from another.[2] |
| Around [[97,745 BCE]], the Flood made landfall on Seaward, marking their first appearance since the [[human-Forerunner wars]] 9,000 years earlier. Their arrival was noted by the [[Auditor]] and the [[Prelate (Forerunner)|Prelate]], who were informed of the event through an automated notification system employing several devices - a trade beacon, a medical station, and [[Soma|a local painter's]] [[jetbrush]]. They then agreed to inform the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] of the Flood's return.{{Ref/Note|In "Soma the Painter", the Auditor tells the Prelate to "send word for the Didact" upon being informed of the Flood invasion. However, ''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'' reveals that the Didact was still exiled in his [[Cryptum]] at this time and would not awaken until centuries later. One may infer that the Auditor and Prelate wished to revive him, a measure which (perhaps due to the [[Faber|Master Builder]]'s political influence) did not come to pass as intended.}}
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| Around this time a Forerunner administrative group recorded that after a successful post-landfall report, a [[Primary Pioneer Group]] on Seaward had failed to make a follow-up report. The office noting the delinquency also stated that [[Advance Survey Team Alpha]] was to verify the planet's lack of native fauna. Both groups failed to reestablish communication with the office; those monitoring the two groups advised that they would send a military detachment to the site shortly to uncover why the two exploratory teams had halted communication.{{Ref/Note|The accounts of the first Flood contact as presented in the ''Halo 3'' terminals and in "Soma the Painter" differ greatly. The terminals depict G 617 g as an unexplored world, with the Primary Pioneer Group being a planetary survey party. However, "Soma the Painter" depicts the planet as already hosting a Forerunner colony (albeit one secret to most of the ecumene) and the Forerunner authorities being made aware of the Flood attack before any action to explore the planet is taken, at least on their part.<br>While it is uncertain how much of the terminals' story remains canonical, it is possible to reconcile the two to a certain extent. Accounting for possible failures to communicate on either party's part (the Prelate mentions that no one else has been informed of the event), as well as the possibility that the Primary Pioneer Group was operating independently of the administrative party the Auditor and Prelate represented, it is possible that these events took place concurrently or shortly after one another. Given that ''Halo: Cryptum'' implies that the Flood threat was kept secret from the Forerunner population at large, survey teams such as the Pioneer Group may not have been informed of the Auditor and Prelate's findings. Additionally, due to the planet's secrecy, the Pioneer Group would not have been aware that the world had been a Forerunner colony, perhaps initially leading them to classify it as an uninhabited world. Despite this, the Advance Survey Team's observations on the lack of native fauna and their apparent failure to notice any artifacts constructed by the Forerunner population are more difficult to explain, although one may infer that these were eliminated when the Flood overwhelmed the planet, with any structures being less durable and permanent than typical Forerunner architecture due inhabitants' rejection of advanced technology.}}
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| This would be the last time the Forerunners had any contact with G 617 g. The invasion of the planet was the beginning of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], which would last three centuries and end with the firing of the [[Halo Array]], killing all sentient life in the galaxy.{{Ref/Reuse|terminal6}}
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| The planet's formal designation refers to the Biblical story of [[Wikipedia:Noah|Noah]]. Genesis 6:17 (KJV) says, "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a [[Wikipedia:Genesis flood narrative|flood]] of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."
| | *There are references to [[7]] in "G 617 g". "g" is the seventh letter of the alphabet and as such, 6+1+7=14=7+7 |
| | *This is the site where the [[Forerunners]] made first contact with the [[Flood]].{{fact}} |
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==Sources== |
| *''[[Halo 3]]''
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| **''[[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminals]]'' {{Fm}}
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| *''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
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| **''[[Soma the Painter]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: Last Light]]'' {{Im}}
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