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===Transcript===
===Transcript===
Created by the [[Forerunners]] over [[97,445 BCE|100,000 years ago]], Halo was designed to be a wide-effect, neural-disruption weapon capable of destroying any [[Sentience|sentient life]] which might perpetuate the [[Flood|Flood Parasites’]] existence. But this wasn’t Halo’s sole function. The enormous Ring-world was also a structure ten thousand kilometers in diameter engineered to support life on its interior surface. This part of Halo’s architecture is believed to be of roughly the same constitution of a typical [[Wikipedia:Gravitation|One-G]] planet, with large geographic formations and enormous bodies of water. All of this contained within a climate-controlled bed of atmosphere roughly 318 kilometers from one edge to the other. While intel suggests that the seven Halo Installations representing the array each have their own distinctive environment conditions, the two best-documented installations, [[Alpha Halo|04]] and [[Delta Halo|05]], offered a large assortment of [[Forerunner fauna and flora|flora and fauna]] across their surface. Towering mountain ranges, enormous canyons, and vast swaths of desert terrain occupied their interiors, comprised of a rich intermingling of ecosystems. To the untrained eye the facade of these ring-worlds looks no different than that of many life sustaining planets. Unsurprisingly, given their origin, the surface of a Halo ring-world is littered with Forerunner structures and technology: [[Beacon tower|enormous beacons]], [[Barrier tower|soaring spires]], and [[Library|immense complexes]]. Still, for the most part, these individual structures’ overarching purpose and mechanism remain a mystery. And underneath Halo’s outer strata exists a honeycomb labyrinth of interior structures, interconnected by [[Energy bridge|bridges]] made of [[hard light]], complex tunnel systems, and a vast [[teleportation grid]]. The surface of Halo is no small marvel: its majestic architecture, its natural composition, and its sheer size offers only a hint at the Forerunners’ [[Technological Achievement Tiers|technological mastery.]]
Created by the [[Forerunners]] over [[97,445 BCE|100,000 years ago]], Halo was designed to be a wide-effect, neural-disruption weapon capable of destroying any [[Sentience|sentient life]] which might perpetuate the [[Flood|Flood Parasites’]] existence. But this wasn’t Halo’s sole function. The enormous Ring-world was also a structure ten thousand kilometers in diameter engineered to support life on its interior surface. This part of Halo’s architecture is believed to be of roughly the same constitution of a typical [[Wikipedia:Gravitation|One-G]] planet, with large geographic formations and enormous bodies of water. All of this contained within a climate-controlled bed of atmosphere roughly 318 kilometers from one edge to the other. While intel suggests that the seven Halo Installations representing the array each have their own distinctive environment conditions, the two best-documented installations, [[Alpha Halo|04]] and [[Delta Halo|05]], offered a large assortment of [[Forerunner fauna and flora|flora and fauna]] across their surface. Towering mountain ranges, enormous canyons, and vast swaths of desert terrain occupied their interiors, comprised of a rich intermingling of ecosystems. To the untrained eye the facade of these ring-worlds looks no different than that of many life sustaining planets. Unsurprisingly, given their origin, the surface of a Halo ring-world is littered with Forerunner structures and technology: [[Beam emitter|enormous beacons]], [[Barrier tower|soaring spires]], and [[Library|immense complexes]]. Still, for the most part, these individual structures’ overarching purpose and mechanism remain a mystery. And underneath Halo’s outer strata exists a honeycomb labyrinth of interior structures, interconnected by [[Energy bridge|bridges]] made of [[hard light]], complex tunnel systems, and a vast [[teleportation grid]]. The surface of Halo is no small marvel: its majestic architecture, its natural composition, and its sheer size offers only a hint at the Forerunners’ [[Technological Achievement Tiers|technological mastery.]]


==The Cartographer==
==The Cartographer==
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While a Halo Installation is typically under the supervision of a single Monitor, or caretaker, the enormity of its process requires numerous automated drones. These machines are commonly referred to as Sentinels. Sentinel operations meet a wide variety of ends: whether it’s the repair of damaged structures, the mining and retrieval of raw material, or most importantly, the containment of the Flood parasite during an outbreak. For this reason, the design and size of Sentinels varies as well: from the small, flitting [[Constructor]]s to the heavily-armored [[Enforcer]]s, and even larger [[Retriever Sentinel|Retrievers]], gigantic strato-sentinels which strip-mine resources sites for the rings’ construction. Held aloft by an [[anti-gravity]] system which makes the buildings mobile, large Sentinel production factories hover high above a ring’s surface, safe from the Flood. Though [[Sentinel manufacturing facility|Sentinel assemblage facilities]] do not have the same significance as other sites on the Halo Installations, their relative importance in the event of a Flood outbreak can not be ignored. Records indicate that during [[Battle of Installation 05|combat on Installation 05,]] also known as “Delta Halo”, the Flood targeted the Sentinel factory, using [[Zurdo-pattern Wraith|captured Covenant weapons]] to bring it down. [[Battle of the Quarantine Zone|This event]] served as a sobering reminder of the necessity of sentinels to maintain a Flood outbreak, as well as the insidious and intelligent nature of the parasite itself.
While a Halo Installation is typically under the supervision of a single Monitor, or caretaker, the enormity of its process requires numerous automated drones. These machines are commonly referred to as Sentinels. Sentinel operations meet a wide variety of ends: whether it’s the repair of damaged structures, the mining and retrieval of raw material, or most importantly, the containment of the Flood parasite during an outbreak. For this reason, the design and size of Sentinels varies as well: from the small, flitting [[Constructor]]s to the heavily-armored [[Enforcer]]s, and even larger [[Retriever Sentinel|Retrievers]], gigantic strato-sentinels which strip-mine resources sites for the rings’ construction. Held aloft by an [[anti-gravity]] system which makes the buildings mobile, large Sentinel production factories hover high above a ring’s surface, safe from the Flood. Though [[Sentinel manufacturing facility|Sentinel assemblage facilities]] do not have the same significance as other sites on the Halo Installations, their relative importance in the event of a Flood outbreak can not be ignored. Records indicate that during [[Battle of Installation 05|combat on Installation 05,]] also known as “Delta Halo”, the Flood targeted the Sentinel factory, using [[Zurdo-pattern Wraith|captured Covenant weapons]] to bring it down. [[Battle of the Quarantine Zone|This event]] served as a sobering reminder of the necessity of sentinels to maintain a Flood outbreak, as well as the insidious and intelligent nature of the parasite itself.


==The Containment Facility==
==The Contaiment Facility==
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