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Revision as of 18:05, October 7, 2015
Basis is the largest natural satellite orbiting the gas giant Threshold in the Soell system.[1] Silvery-gray in color, the moon is 23,848 kilometres (14,818 mi) in diameter,[2] nearly double the size of Earth. Halo Installation 04 was positioned in the Lagrange point between Basis and Threshold.[1] After Installation 04's destruction, a group of Covenant defectors built a makeshift camp on Basis, amid the wreckage from Alpha Halo.[3] Debris from Installation 04 often rained down on Basis, creating small craters on the moon's surface.[4] During a skirmish over Threshold following the Battle of Installation 04, Cortana maneuvered John-117's GA-TL1 Longsword into the gravity well of the moon to slingshot the fighter around Basis to avoid Covenant attacks.[5]
Trivia
- Originally, the level The Arbiter was supposed to take place on the moon Basis, instead of the gas mine over Threshold.[citation needed]
- Basis's texture in Halo: Combat Evolved appears to be a color-graded image of Mars's surface.
- The blue coloring of Basis when seen from space is puzzling, considering that from the surface it has a hazy orange or rust-colored atmosphere and terrain. The ruddy atmospheric coloration from the ground may result from the ash and smoke thrown up by the flaming wreckage of Installation 04.
Gallery
Basis
Closeup of Basis
Basis, as seen from Threshold's atmosphere
List of appearances
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Halo: The Flood
- Adjunct (Mentioned only)
- Halo: First Strike
- Halo 2
- Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
- The Mona Lisa (Motion comic only)
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
- Halo 2: Anniversary
- Halo: Escalation
- Halo 5: Guardians (Holographic projection only)
Sources
- ^ a b Halo Story Bible: Halo", Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets, Chapter 5, page 63
- ^ halo.bungie.org: Halo-verse Planetary Scale
- ^ Halo 2, in-game flavor text for Burial Mounds
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 72
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 61
