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Summary

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.

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.)

Features

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.

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.

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.

Known Monitors

Trivia

The number 343 is seven to the third power, seven being a number seen frequently in Bungie games and mythology. The number "2401" is seven to the fourth power.

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.

Installation	Monitor
01	1
02	7
03	49
04	343
05	2401
06	16807
07	117649

Note that the first three digits of the monitor of Installation 07 is 117, Master Chief's service number.

Images

File:Chums.jpg File:2401PT.jpg

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-The Monitors are probably a hundred thousand year old [[A.I.]]s. 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??
+==Summary==
+[[Image:343GS avatar.gif|right]]
+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.
-==Oracle==
+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.)
-The Oracle is the another [[Covenant]] name for Halo maintenance robots, such as [[343 Guilty Spark]] in [[Halo:Combat Evolved]]
-== Trivia ==
+==Features==
+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.
-*Also of interest is the fact that Penitent Tangent's number (2401) is <math>7^4</math> while Guilty Spark's number (343) is <math>7^3</math>. The [[Wikipedia:7 (number)|number seven]] is used frequently in Bungie games and mythology, possibly in Halo because of the suggested biblical references such as [[The Ark]] and [[The Flood]], and the number's significance in some books of the Bible. Trivially, <math>2+4+0+1=7</math>.
+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.
-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 (<math>7^{n-1}</math>), or it could be that since the "oracles" are mechanical beings they operate most commonly using binary language in which case the exponentials are not a derived series manipulation, but rather they are simply the alpha numeric translations of binary code which starts from 0 not 1 thus the number "7" becomes 6 since the first integer value in the counting system is 0 not 1 (i.e. 0=1...6=7); regardless this would generate the following pattern,
+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.
+==Known Monitors==
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+*[[343 Guilty Spark]] ([[Installation 04]])
+*[[2401 Penitent Tangent]] ([[Installation 05]])
+==Trivia==
+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.
+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.
+{|border=1px
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-|343 ([[343 Guilty Spark]])
+|343
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-|2401 ([[2401 Penitent Tangent]])
+|2401
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-Also, this may refer to the seven planes of heaven in order of one Halo to another.
+Note that the first three digits of the monitor of Installation 07 is 117, [[Master Chief]]'s service number.
-So, we can say that if n is the installation number, then 7<sup>n-1</sup> is the monitor number of said installation.
-Furthermore, one must note that there are seven unique letters in "Penitent Tangent". In earlier Bungie games, namely the ''[[Wikipedia:Marathon (computer game)|Marathon]]'' series, names were often found to be sevens.
-The seventh moniter number's first three digits are 117, the same as John 117.
-==See Also==
+== Images ==
-*[[343 Guilty Spark]]
+[[Image:Chums.jpg|150px]]
-*[[2401 Penitent Tangent]]
+[[Image:2401PT.jpg|70px]]
-[[Category: Characters]][[Category: The Forerunner]]
+[[Category:Technology]]
+[[Category:The Forerunner]]