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|description=Deserts and volcanic activity for terrain<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 174''</ref> | |description=Deserts and volcanic activity for terrain<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 174''</ref> | ||
|location=[[Khaphrae system]]<ref name="H4EVG">'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'''</ref> {{C|Formerly}} | |location=[[Khaphrae system]]<ref name="H4EVG">'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'''</ref> {{C|Formerly}} | ||
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'''Installation 03''', also known as '''Gamma Halo''',<ref name="Composer">'''Halo 4''', ''Composer'' ([[Halo 4 audio logs|audio log]])</ref><ref name="11h">''[[Eleventh Hour reports]] - #5''</ref><ref group="note">In [[:File:H3 halo inner ring title.PNG|''Halo 3'''s texture files]], Installation 03 is named "Eta Halo", while the designation "Gamma Halo" is given to [[Installation 06]]. This is contradicted by one of the [[Halo 4 audio logs|audio logs]] in ''Halo 4'', (as well as the [[Eleventh Hour reports]]), which identify Installation 03 as "Gamma Halo". Since the name assigned to the ring in ''Halo 4'' is conveyed in released media, it is considered to override the previous designation, which was never seen outside ''Halo 3'''s files.</ref> is one of the [[List of "seven" references in the Halo series|seven]] rings in the [[Halo Array]]. Its [[monitor]] is [[049 Abject Testament]].<ref name="Terminal"/> The ring appears to have a red and cracked surface, indicating the presence of vast deserts, as well as volcanic activity.<ref name="enc"/> | '''Installation 03''', also known as '''Gamma Halo''',<ref name="Composer">'''Halo 4''', ''Composer'' ([[Halo 4 audio logs|audio log]])</ref><ref name="11h">''[[Eleventh Hour reports]] - #5''</ref><ref group="note">In [[:File:H3 halo inner ring title.PNG|''Halo 3'''s texture files]], Installation 03 is named "Eta Halo", while the designation "Gamma Halo" is given to [[Installation 06]]. This is contradicted by one of the [[Halo 4 audio logs|audio logs]] in ''Halo 4'', (as well as the [[Eleventh Hour reports]]), which identify Installation 03 as "Gamma Halo". Since the name assigned to the ring in ''Halo 4'' is conveyed in released media, it is considered to override the previous designation, which was never seen outside ''Halo 3'''s files.</ref> is one of the [[List of "seven" references in the Halo series|seven]] rings in the [[Halo Array]]. Its [[monitor]] is [[049 Abject Testament]].<ref name="Terminal"/> The ring appears to have a red and cracked surface, indicating the presence of vast deserts, as well as volcanic activity.<ref name="enc"/> | ||
Unlike [[Installation 04|Installations 04]] and [[Installation 05|05]], which orbit large gas giants, Installation 03 | Unlike [[Installation 04|Installations 04]] and [[Installation 05|05]], which orbit large gas giants, Installation 03 was originally anchored in orbit around a rocky planet, the face of which has been shattered as a result of a fairly recent impact event; the debris from the impact, still aglow as of [[2557]], has collected to form a dense [[asteroid]] field in orbit over the planet as well as the Halo.<ref name="composer">'''Halo 4''', ''[[Composer (level)|Composer]]''</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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By [[2557|July 2557]], [[SPARTAN-II]] [[Black Team]] had been assigned to Gamma Halo,<ref>[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2963929_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2963929 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction'']</ref> along with a research attaché. The science team established a camp in one of the Halo's deserts. On July 25, Team Black and the scientists were killed by the Didact and his Promethean machines, who had been flung to the Halo through the Composer's slipspace portal aboard ''Mantle's Approach'' during the [[New Phoenix Incident]]. Around the same time, [[859 Static Carillon]], the monitor of the [[Composer's Forge]], attempted to contact Gamma Halo's monitor after a service portal between the Halo and the Composer's Forge was reopened. Receiving no response, Static Carillon traveled through the portal to the [[Composer's Abyss]] on Installation 03, where he encountered the Didact. At the Promethean's request, the monitor led him to the portal to the Composer's Forge.<ref name="HE9">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue #9]]''</ref> | By [[2557|July 2557]], [[SPARTAN-II]] [[Black Team]] had been assigned to Gamma Halo,<ref>[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2963929_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2963929 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction'']</ref> along with a research attaché. The science team established a camp in one of the Halo's deserts. On July 25, Team Black and the scientists were killed by the Didact and his Promethean machines, who had been flung to the Halo through the Composer's slipspace portal aboard ''Mantle's Approach'' during the [[New Phoenix Incident]]. Around the same time, [[859 Static Carillon]], the monitor of the [[Composer's Forge]], attempted to contact Gamma Halo's monitor after a service portal between the Halo and the Composer's Forge was reopened. Receiving no response, Static Carillon traveled through the portal to the [[Composer's Abyss]] on Installation 03, where he encountered the Didact. At the Promethean's request, the monitor led him to the portal to the Composer's Forge.<ref name="HE9">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue #9]]''</ref> | ||
The next day, [[Blue Team]] arrived on Installation 03 to investigate the loss of contact with Black Team on [[Terrence Hood|Admiral Terrence Hood]]'s orders. Upon discovering the fate of Black Team and the scientists, and destroying some of the Knights responsible for the massacre, they soon came across the Composer's Abyss and the slipspace portal within.<ref name="HE8">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|Issue #8]]''</ref> Entering the service portal, Blue Team arrived at the Composer's Forge, where they encountered the Didact once again. | The next day, [[Blue Team]] arrived on Installation 03 to investigate the loss of contact with Black Team on [[Terrence Hood|Admiral Terrence Hood]]'s orders. Upon discovering the fate of Black Team and the scientists, and destroying some of the Knights responsible for the massacre, they soon came across the Composer's Abyss and the slipspace portal within.<ref name="HE8">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|Issue #8]]''</ref> Entering the service portal, Blue Team arrived at the Composer's Forge, where they encountered the Didact once again. At the Didact's request, 859 Static Carillon transported Installation 03 through slipspace to orbit over the planet housing the Composer's Forge. The Didact used the portal to return to Gamma Halo, taking one of the Composers with him. Blue Team followed in close pursuit and were confronted by the Didact again at the top of the Composer's Abyss.<ref name="HE9"/> Though the Spartans were nearly killed by the Didact, Static Carillon arrived to the site in time to save them, incapacitating the Didact and sending him into [[Control Room (Installation 03)|Gamma Halo's control room]] by utilizing the local [[teleportation grid]].<ref name="HE10">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 10|Issue #10]]''</ref> | ||
Wielding Gamma Halo's [[Activation Index]] which Didact had dropped when the monitor ambushed him, John-117 followed the Didact into the control room with Static Carillon's help while the other Spartans returned to their Longsword. The Master Chief used the Index to give 859 Static Carillon control of Gamma Halo, enabling the monitor to detach the segment of the ring housing the control center. This caused massive cracks to appear in the landscape surrounding the removed plate. Static Carillon was momentarily preoccupied with stabilizing the Halo as the plate's sudden removal would have otherwise resulted in the ring's destruction. Although the plates on both sides of the removed portion were not immediately connected, thus closing the loop of the ring, Gamma Halo was able to maintain structural integrity. After teleporting John-117 to safety just as the removed fragment impacted the Composer's Forge and destroyed it, Static Carillon took Installation 03 for safekeeping and repairs in an undisclosed location.<ref name="HE10"/> | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:H4-GammaHalo-Installation03.jpg|[[John-117]] gazing upon Installation 03. | File:H4-GammaHalo-Installation03.jpg|[[John-117]] gazing upon Installation 03. | ||
File:H4- | File:H4-GammaHaloInst03-ScanScreen.jpg|Another view of Installation 03. | ||
File:KhaphraeSystem-planet.jpg|The destroyed planet around which Gamma Halo orbits. | File:KhaphraeSystem-planet.jpg|The destroyed planet around which Gamma Halo orbits. | ||
File:Escalation - GammaHalo Longsword.png|Blue Team's Longsword over the Halo. | File:Escalation - GammaHalo Longsword.png|Blue Team's Longsword over the Halo. | ||