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|image = [[File:Cold Storage Monitor.jpg|265px]]
|description = Resembles a large monitor integrated to the ceiling of a Flood containment facility
|color = Silver, blue
|function = Oversaw Flood containment facility on Installation 05
|affiliation = Forerunner
}}
This '''unidentified [[ancilla]]'''  is a [[Forerunner]] construct that monitored a [[Flood]] [[Flood containment facility|containment facility]] on [[Installation 05]]. It was far larger than a [[monitor]]; rather than freely levitating like a monitor, this construct was mounted on rails on the ceiling of the facility.<ref>'''Halo 3''', level ''[[Cold Storage]]''</ref>
 
==Overview==
{{Conjecture}}
This ancilla might have served as a local caretaker designated to watch or oversee the Flood specimens contained in the facility.


{{AI Infobox
Given their remarkably similar appearances, it is also possible that this ancilla had the same role with [[the Knowing]], a Forerunner construct on the planet [[Ariel]] that was designed to gather and organize information about the course of history. If this is so, it is possible that all [[Halo Array|Halo installations]] possess such a construct.
| image=[[Image:Cold Storage Monitor.jpg|250px]]
{{Conjecture end}}
| name=Cold Storage Monitor
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| description=Large [[Monitor]] integrated to the ceiling of [[Cold Storage]]
| color=Silver, Blue
| affiliation=[[Forerunner]]
| function=Watches over Cold Storage
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The '''Cold Storage Monitor''' is a [[Monitor|monitor]] on the ceiling of the [[multiplayer]] map, [[Cold Storage]] in [[Halo 3|''Halo 3'']]. The "Monitor" follows your movements, but will stop once you leave the room. This Monitor is several times the size of an average Monitor, such as the player's model whilst in [[Forge]]. It has been speculated to be a "local caretaker," designated to watch over the facility like a prison guard, similar to a "dumb" [[UNSC]] [[AI]]. It seems to have failed as the [[Flood]] have mostly taken over the facility, although no Flood can be seen in the main room in which this Monitor resides, so perhaps, in a way, it has succeeded. This Monitor is also invincible, and cannot be harmed by [[grenades]], [[Human|human]] [[weapons]], [[Sentinel Beam]]s, or [[Plasma]] weapons.


==Trivia==
==Gameplay==
*The [[Cold Storage]] Monitor will not follow a player in Monitor mode in Forge unless it sees the player before he/she becomes a Monitor. The Monitor will follow a new person that walks into the room, even if someone else is in there. This can be useful in [[Multiplayer]] battles like Oddball. An advantage, the Monitor can see everyone, even those wearing [[Active Camo]]. This indicates that it uses other sensors, such as heat sensors to detect objects that normally, cannot be seen.
The ancilla is attached to a pair of rails on the ceiling of the main room in the multiplayer map ''[[Cold Storage]]''. It serves as an invulnerable piece of immobile scenery. It follows the movements of any players in the room, but stops paying attention to players when they leave the room. However, it will not track players in edit mode unless it sees them prior to entering this mode. It is capable of seeing players using [[active camouflage]], implying the usage of heat sensors or other optical technologies. It will continue to track the bodies of dead players provided if no one else is in the room.
*In [[Red vs Blue: Reconstruction]], the [[Cold Storage]] Monitor portrays a speaker system used by the Director and Councilor of Project: FREELANCER to communicate with Agent Washington in the Chapter 19.  


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
<gallery widths="150">
Image:1215439011 Untitled.jpg|The Monitor is far larger than a normal Monitor.
File:ColdStorageMonitor2.jpg|The construct compared to a normal monitor.
Image:Monitor3.jpg|The monitor from an other angle.
File:ColdStorageMonitor3.jpg|The ancilla from another angle.
</gallery>
</gallery>
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo 3]]'' {{1st}}
==Sources==
{{Ref/Sources}}
{{Forerunner AI}}
[[Category:Forerunner A.I.]]
[[Category:Forerunner A.I.]]
[[Category:Unidentified content]]
[[Category:AI characters]]

Latest revision as of 18:42, March 19, 2022

Unidentified ancilla
Cold Storage Monitor.jpg
Biographical information

Description:

Resembles a large monitor integrated to the ceiling of a Flood containment facility

Color(s):

Silver, blue

Political and military information

Affiliation:

Forerunner

Functionality:

Oversaw Flood containment facility on Installation 05

 

This unidentified ancilla is a Forerunner construct that monitored a Flood containment facility on Installation 05. It was far larger than a monitor; rather than freely levitating like a monitor, this construct was mounted on rails on the ceiling of the facility.[1]

Overview[edit]

Warning: The following information is conjecture and does not necessarily represent official information.

This ancilla might have served as a local caretaker designated to watch or oversee the Flood specimens contained in the facility.

Given their remarkably similar appearances, it is also possible that this ancilla had the same role with the Knowing, a Forerunner construct on the planet Ariel that was designed to gather and organize information about the course of history. If this is so, it is possible that all Halo installations possess such a construct.

Conjecture ends here.

Gameplay[edit]

The ancilla is attached to a pair of rails on the ceiling of the main room in the multiplayer map Cold Storage. It serves as an invulnerable piece of immobile scenery. It follows the movements of any players in the room, but stops paying attention to players when they leave the room. However, it will not track players in edit mode unless it sees them prior to entering this mode. It is capable of seeing players using active camouflage, implying the usage of heat sensors or other optical technologies. It will continue to track the bodies of dead players provided if no one else is in the room.

Gallery[edit]

  • The construct compared to a normal monitor.

    The construct compared to a normal monitor.

  • The ancilla from another angle.

    The ancilla from another angle.

List of appearances[edit]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ Halo 3, level Cold Storage

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