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| ==Summary==
| | The Monitor is a probably a hundred thousand year old [[AI]]. The only Monitors that are known are [[2401 Penitent Tangent]] and [[343 Guilty Spark]]. Both [[Monitors]] control the [[Sentinels]] and [[Sentinel Majors]]. It is not known if [[2401 Penitent Tangent]] can control the [[Sentinels]] and [[Sentinel Majors]] from the clutches of [[Gravemind]], at the bottom of [[Delta Halo]]'s [[Library]]. While [[343 Guilty Spark]] glows blue, [[2401 Penitent Tangent]] glows red. There's a question about [[343 Guilty Spark]]. What was he guilty of?? |
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| The Monitors are [[Artificial Intelligence]] constructs created by the [[Forerunners]] one hundred thousand years ago to service and maintain the [[Halo]] installations, and to make sure that [[The Flood]] stays imprisoned. The body of a Monitor consists of a rounded box shape with one glowing eye on a side. In case of a catastrophic outbreak, the Monitor would seek out a "[[Reclaimer]]" to activate the installations and stop the spread of the Flood by eliminating all sentient life in the galaxy. They are extremely intelligent yet completely devoted to their original purpose. The [[Covenant]] refer to the Monitors as Oracles. | |
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| It seems that there is exactly one monitor per Halo Instillation, making seven total. (However it has been suggested that [[The Ark]] may have a Monitor as well.) | |
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| ==Features==
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| Monitors are protected by advanced Forerunner shields that make them impervious to any small arms in the [[UNSC]] or Covenant arsenal. They have no offensive capability whatsoever, however, the [[Sentinel]] and [[Enforcer]] constructs are programmed to serve the Monitors only.
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| They have the ability to teleport themselves and others around their Halo. It is unclear how this grid works, but it seems that a Monitor on an Installation other than its own has no access to its transportation grid. They also have the ability to store the [[Index]] somewhere that the Flood could not get to it.
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| Monitors also have cognitive capability, and speak english. They keep daily logs of all things that occour on their Installation. As with [[UNSC]] AIs, the Monitors have been speculated to be in stages of [[Rampancy]] due to their isolation for literally hundreds of thousands of years.
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| ==Known Monitors==
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| *[[343 Guilty Spark]] ([[Installation 04]])
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| *[[2401 Penitent Tangent]] ([[Installation 05]])
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| ==Trivia==
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| The number 343 is seven to the third power, [[List of "Seven" references in Halo|seven]] being a number seen frequently in [[Bungie]] games and mythology. The number "2401" is seven to the fourth power.
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| When the numbers of each Monitor are examined, a pattern emerges: each seems to be seven raised to the power of the installation number minus one; therefore this grid can be established.
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| {|border=1px
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| !Installation
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| !Monitor
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| !01
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| |7
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| |49
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| !04
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| |343
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| !05
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| |2401
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| !06
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| |16807
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| !07
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| |117649
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| Note that the first three digits of the monitor of Installation 07 is 117, [[Master Chief]]'s service number.
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| == Images ==
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| [[Image:Chums.jpg|150px]] | |
| [[Image:2401PT.jpg|70px]]
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| [[Category:Technology]]
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| [[Category:The Forerunner]]
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