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[[File:CortanaIndex-large.jpg|thumb|250px|left|[[Cortana]] producing a [[Holography|hologram]] of [[Installation 04]]'s activation index from her memory banks.]] | [[File:CortanaIndex-large.jpg|thumb|250px|left|[[Cortana]] producing a [[Holography|hologram]] of [[Installation 04]]'s activation index from her memory banks.]] | ||
The Index is vaguely T-shaped, with a faint green or blue glow emanating from a stripe on each side. The object seems to be merely a digital storage device containing the software or access codes needed to activate the rings, as shown when Cortana extracted the Index's data and stored it within her memory, and when she activated the [[Installation 08|second Installation 04]] with the stored Index.<ref name="twobetrayers">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref><ref name="h3h"/> Each Index is stored safely within an [[Index chamber]], a large room that is located at the core of every [[Library]] on each Halo installation and guarded by waves of [[Sentinel]]s.<ref name="h1l">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[The Library]]''</ref><ref name="quarantine">'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[ | The Index is vaguely T-shaped, with a faint green or blue glow emanating from a stripe on each side. The object seems to be merely a digital storage device containing the software or access codes needed to activate the rings, as shown when Cortana extracted the Index's data and stored it within her memory, and when she activated the [[Installation 08|second Installation 04]] with the stored Index.<ref name="twobetrayers">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref><ref name="h3h"/> Each Index is stored safely within an [[Index chamber]], a large room that is located at the core of every [[Library]] on each Halo installation and guarded by waves of [[Sentinel]]s.<ref name="h1l">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[The Library]]''</ref><ref name="quarantine">'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Quarantine Zone]]''</ref> | ||
According to [[containment protocol]]s followed by the [[monitor]]s of each Installation, only a [[Reclaimer]] is allowed to retrieve the Index from the Library. Immediately after this, however, the Index will be taken by the monitor for safekeeping to ensure it does not fall in the hands of the Flood in the event the Reclaimer is infected.<ref name="h1l"/> Once safely in the installation's [[Control Room]], however, the monitor must hand the Index over to the Reclaimer, as monitors are not allowed to activate their Installations by themselves.<ref name="twobetrayers"/> | According to [[containment protocol]]s followed by the [[monitor]]s of each Installation, only a [[Reclaimer]] is allowed to retrieve the Index from the Library. Immediately after this, however, the Index will be taken by the monitor for safekeeping to ensure it does not fall in the hands of the Flood in the event the Reclaimer is infected.<ref name="h1l"/> Once safely in the installation's [[Control Room]], however, the monitor must hand the Index over to the Reclaimer, as monitors are not allowed to activate their Installations by themselves.<ref name="twobetrayers"/> | ||