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====The Composer==== | ====The Composer==== | ||
[[File:HE Installation 03.jpg|thumb|100px|A section of Installation 03 is ejected toward the [[Composer's Forge]].]] | [[File:HE Installation 03.jpg|thumb|100px|A section of Installation 03 is ejected toward the [[Composer's Forge]].]] | ||
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> | 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]] on [[2557#July|July 24, 2557]], 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> | ||
During these events, [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant forces]] landed in a jungled region of Gamma Halo where they took the artifact known as the [[Conduit]] to a Forerunner structure they termed the [[Altar]]. A [[SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IV]] under the command of [[Kwon|Lieutenant Kwon]] was sent to the area via [[SOEIV|orbital drop]] to reacquire the Conduit from the Altar. After securing the Conduit, the Spartan was redeployed to Earth in hopes of using the Conduit to deter an ongoing [[Promethean]] invasion of [[New Phoenix]].<ref name="ign hss">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbhbZLhOFk '''YouTube''': '' Halo: Spartan Strike Gameplay Commentary'']</ref> | |||
The | By the time of the Didact's attack, [[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> | ||
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{{Main|Skirmish on Installation 03}} | |||
On July 25, 2557, [[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"/> | 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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File:H4-GammaHaloInst03-ScanScreen.jpg|Another view of Installation 03 | File:H4-GammaHaloInst03-ScanScreen.jpg|Another view of Installation 03 | ||
File:KhaphraeSystem-planet.jpg|The destroyed planet around which Gamma Halo formerly orbited | File:KhaphraeSystem-planet.jpg|The destroyed planet around which Gamma Halo formerly orbited | ||
File:HSS-Gameplay-Don't Look Down.jpg|A Spartan fighting Prometheans in Gamma Halo's jungles. | |||
File:HSS-Gameplay-Pylons.jpg|A Forerunner structure in the [[Altar]]'s vicinity. | |||
File:Escalation - GammaHalo Longsword.png|Blue Team's Longsword over the Halo | File:Escalation - GammaHalo Longsword.png|Blue Team's Longsword over the Halo | ||
File:Escalation - Desert.png|A desert on Installation 03 | File:Escalation - Desert.png|A desert on Installation 03 | ||