Installation 03: Difference between revisions

====Standby and deactivation====

On [[2552#November|November 3, 2552]] during the [[Battle of Installation 05]], a signal was sent to this Halo from [[Installation 05]], putting it on standby mode and preparing it to fire on demand.<ref>'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[The Great Journey]]''</ref> On [[2552#December|December 11, 2552]], the installation was still in standby mode and was about to be fired at the behest of the [[Prophet of Truth|High Prophet of Truth]], who had seized [[Installation 00]]'s [[control room]]. However, the Array was deactivated by [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan]] [[John-117]] and the [[Hierarch]] was assassinated by [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]] before this could occur.<ref>'''Halo 3''', campaign level ''[[The Covenant]]''</ref>

====The Composer====

The ONI science teams retrieved various artifacts from the surface of Installation 03 and brought them on Ivanoff Station for study, including the installation's [[activation index]] and a [[Composer]]. An accident with the Composer killed the team researching the device; however, it provided coordinates which led the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} to the [[shield world]] known as [[Requiem]]. When the [[Ur-Didact]] was awakened, he traveled to Ivanoff in his ship ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' and [[Raid on Ivanoff Station|acquired the Composer]], using it to digitize Ivanoff's staff before jumping to slipspace to travel to [[Earth]] to use the recovered weapon on humanity's homeworld.<ref name="composer"/> However, SPARTAN-117 and Cortana followed the Didact into slipspace in an [[F-41 Broadsword]] in hopes of foiling his plan, ultimately defeating him.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Midnight]]''</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>

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"/>

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