Editing Teleportation grid

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[[File:Teleportation Grid.JPG|thumb|[[John-117]] teleporting via the teleportation grid.]]

While the teleportation system on [[Onyx]] was made up of a network of [[teleporter|translocation platforms]], the teleportation grids on the Halo installations allow translocation from any point on the ring without the need for a teleporter. Teleportation through a grid is typically accompanied by rings of golden light that surround the individual being teleported.<ref name="two">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref><ref name="gravemind">'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Gravemind]]''</ref> A teleportation grid requires massive amounts of energy to operate.{{Ref/Reuse|two}} The translocation grids on the Halo installations are supported by an array of "telemetry clusters", spire-like structures equipped with synchronization conduits which ensure the grid's operation at all times.{{Ref/Reuse|nelson}} Teleportation grids extend some distance away from the installation they are based on, as evidenced by the [[Gravemind]] being able to use [[Installation 05]]'s grid to translocate [[John-117]] into ''[[High Charity]]'', which was holding position near the installation.{{Ref/Reuse|gravemind}}

[[File:1219939660 Avatars Halo Teleportation.jpg|thumb|[[John-117]] being teleported by [[343 Guilty Spark]] on Installation 04.]]

 

[[Installation 04|Installation 04's]] teleportation grid was used extensively during the course of the [[Battle of Installation 04]]. The Installation's [[Monitor]], [[343 Guilty Spark]], first encountered [[John-117]] outside of a [[Flood containment facility]], and used the teleportation grid to transport them to the Installation's [[Library]], in order to retrieve the [[Activation Index]].<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level, ''[[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]''</ref> After the Index was retrieved, the Monitor used the grid again to transport the two of them to the [[Control Room]] to activate the Halo's final weapon.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level, ''[[The Library]]''</ref> During the Master Chief's efforts to neutralize the Installation's primary firing sequence, [[Cortana]] tapped into the teleportation grid, using his [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V MJOLNIR]] armor's fusion reactor to power a single jump, to a [[Truth and Reconciliation|downed Covenant cruiser]] having learned how from when she was in the Installation's control systems;<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level, ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref> however, Cortana's relative inexperience with the grid resulted in reorientation difficulties: the Master Chief was teleported upside down.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level, ''[[Keyes]]''</ref>

[[Installation 05]]'s teleportation grid was unavailable during the [[Battle of Installation 05]] as it was being controlled by the [[Gravemind]] (formed beneath that Installation's Library facility) through the Installation's captured Monitor, [[2401 Penitent Tangent]]. Managing to ensnare both the [[John-117|Master Chief]] and the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]], it formed a tentative alliance with the two enemies in order to stop the rings activation - teleporting the [[John-117]] aboard [[High Charity]],{{Ref/Reuse|gravemind}} in orbit above the Installation, and the Arbiter near to the Control Room.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[Uprising]]}} The fact that it did not, or could not, use the same grid to teleport its own [[Flood combat form]]s to those locations indicates that use of it is restricted to non-Flood life forms and constructs.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[High Charity (level)|High Charity]]}}

 

[[Installation 07]]'s teleportation grid utilized portals, much like those on [[Requiem]]. On the Master Chief's orders, [[the Weapon]] opened a portal to take him from the [[Command Spire (location)|Command Spire]] to as close as possible to where [[Jega 'Rdomnai]] was taking [[Fernando Esparza]].{{Ref/Level|Id=Command Spire|Hi|[[The Command Spire]]}} The two passed through a data cluster of [[Cortana]]'s memories, causing the Master Chief to see some of them.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[Repository (Halo Infinite level)|Repository]]}}

 

The ring also had translocation pads which teleported the [[boat crew]] out of the Conservatory using a sequence of glyphs provided by [[117649 Despondent Pyre]]. The trip made the humans nauseous.{{Ref/Novel|RP|Chapter=35}} Later, after Spartan [[Tomas Horvath]] fell onto a pad with [[Gorian]], it activated and teleported both combatants away moments before the pad was destroyed by Banished fire, thus preventing the rest of the team from using it or discovering where Horvath had been sent. Horvath was teleported to a partially collapsed Forerunner facility on a mountain very far away from the [[Beacon tower|beacon tower]] where had teleported from.{{Ref/Novel|RP|Chapter=36}}{{Ref/Reuse|RP38}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=RP39|RP|Chapter=39}}

 

[[Adjutant Resolution]] was able to teleport around the installation.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[Spire (Halo Infinite level)|Spire]]}}{{Ref/Reuse|Command Spire}} [[091 Adjutant Veridity]] was able to teleport the boat crew to safety before they could be overrun.{{Ref/Novel|Id=RP38|RP|Chapter=38}}

 

After the death of the [[Harbinger]], a portal mysteriously opened inside the [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]]'s central chamber, enabling the Chief and the Weapon to escape the collapsing chamber. The portal not only transported them to the opposite side of the Ring, it also sent them three days into the future.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Silent Auditorium|HI|Endless|Silent Auditorium}}

The artificial planet [[Onyx]] also possessed a teleportation grid, which was used by [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] to transport the [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan-IIs]] and [[SPARTAN-III Program|IIIs]] across the megastructure during the [[Onyx Conflict]].{{Ref/Reuse|goo311}} After translocating Spartans to safety from a [[Joyous Exultation Covenant|Covenant]] attack in the [[Cartographer|map room]], Halsey used it to an advantage when assisting the Spartan teams to disable a [[Sentinel manufacturing facility|Sentinel manufacturing plant]] on Onyx, allowing the Spartans to rapidly traverse the immense facility.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 318''</ref> According to Dr. Halsey, an [[electromagnetic pulse]] generated by a [[nuclear weapon]] would have disrupted Onyx's teleportation grid for days, thus preventing the Spartans from using nukes to destroy the Sentinel factory.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 317''</ref> After the facility was destroyed, Halsey transported them to a room containing [[Team Katana]]'s [[slipspace field pod]]s and soon after, to the [[core room antechamber]] in the center of the megastructure. In the antechamber, the Spartans attempted to block [[Voro Nar 'Mantakree]] and [[Joyous Exultation Covenant|his forces]] from entering by placing the pods on various teleporter platforms. However, there were too many to block in the antechamber and Voro's forces were able to teleport in using platforms further away.

===Etran Harborage===

[[Trove]] also contained a teleportation grid. On the [[Apex Site]] was a pad that could be activated through a voice command to transport its occupant to a desired location. In this pad's case, a ring rose up and surrounded the user with energy before disappearing, leaving the user at their desired destination. The Harborage also contained numerous small teleporters which acted similar to elevators, transporting anyone who entered them from a higher level to a nearby lower level and vice versa. Aside from aircraft, the main way onto the Apex Site was through a large pad teleporter at the top of a series of ramps that led to the Apex Base Site. This pad transported anything entering it to the Apex Site automatically.

 

In order to escape [[Arbiter]] [[Ripa 'Moramee]] and his forces on the Apex Site, Professor [[Ellen Anders]] activated the teleporter there with a command of "surface!" The teleporter sent Anders to a small bridge on the surface of the inner shield world. Smaller teleporters were then used by Anders and Sergeant [[John Forge]] to reach an evac [[Pelican]] and to help move around while building [[firebase]]s in the area.

 

In order to destroy the shield world, Forge and his forces began moving the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}}'s [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] reactor up the ramps leading to the Apex Site teleporter pad. After fighting through massive Covenant forces, an [[M312 Elephant]] was able to back the reactor onto the pad, teleporting it to the Apex Site. Due to the Elephant being outside of the pad at the time, only the reactor itself was teleported.

[[Requiem]] contained a unique teleporter in the form of portals that would open to various locations on the shield world, including its surface and its core. [[Cortana]] was able to access and control the network after being put into a terminal and opened a portal to a tower in the planet's core so that she and the [[John-117|Master Chief]] could travel there to find the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} and escape the planet. However, this awoke the [[Promethean]]s, who could also utilize the portal network to a great effect to move across Requiem. Cortana and the Master Chief later used portals to travel around the core and later to escape to the surface when the core started to collapse. After shutting down the [[particle cannon]]s protecting the gravity well generator and meeting with a personality imprint of the [[Librarian]], the two used a portal to rejoin the nearby human forces.<ref>'''[[Halo 4]]'''</ref>

 

The Forerunner ship ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' possesed a teleportation grid in the form of portals similar to [[Requiem]] to allow beings to move about the ship easier. Once [[Cortana]] was inserted into the ship's systems, she was able to open portals to various locations throughout the ship before finally getting the [[John-117|Master Chief]] to where he wanted to go: the [[Composer]].<ref>'''[[Halo 4]]''', campaign level ''[[Midnight]]''</ref>

 

 

 

 

File:HCE-TeleportationGridRings-screen2.png|The teleportation grid in active use in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''.

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