Installation 07: Difference between revisions

The ring was home to a number of power stations, many of which were sabotaged by the Warriors who rebelled against the Master Builder during the crisis at the Capital.{{Ref/Reuse|p305}} A dark gray conical structure 300–400 meters tall was assumed to be a power station by Chakas, who had seen similar structures on Erde-Tyrene.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=161}}

The primary extension of Mendicant Bias was housed in a massive facility deep beneath Installation 07's surface, accessible via anti-gravity gondolas which traveled through an enormous, 20-30-kilometer-diameter circular opening in the ring's landscape. After passing through an undetermined void within the ring's bowels, the transit vehicles settled in an enormous chamber whose floor was a green-glowing maze of hard light paths resembling a spiderweb.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=278-283}} Mendicant Bias itself was based in a mobile structure featuring its core crystals and a large green eye, moving on legs of hard light.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=287-288}} It was here that the humans were eventually gathered and thoroughly examined by Mendicant Bias before the final effort to cancel the ring's failsafe orbit.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=288}} After the installation's retake by the IsoDidact and Mendicant Bias' transfer away from the ring, the Primordial was detained in a chamber located near Mendicant Bias' former core, the [[Metarch-class ancilla|Metarch]]'s data crystals now dark and inert.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=356}} The Primordial was imprisoned in a hemispherical chamber 531 meters in diameter within an arena 104 meters wide, locked in a cage of intermeshed black rods housing a [[slipspace bubble|temporal manipulation mechanism]]. The cage was located on a round elevated platform in the center of the arena.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=359}} The core was transformed by order of the Librarian into [[the Monument]], a new home for the various essences, imprints and damaged submonitors left over from the civil war on the ring. With the destruction of Zeta Halo's Cartographer, its function was transferred to this location.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL15}}

About a kilometer off the shores of the ocean crossed by Chakas and his compatriots there was a human city based on wooden platforms supported by stone pillars and only accessible via water.{{Ref/Novel|Id=p135|Pri|Page=135}}{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=139}} A network of bridges, platforms, docks and other wooden structures crisscrossed between these pillars,{{Ref/Reuse|p135}} becoming denser toward the settlement's center.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=142}} The largest building had a layout the shape of a peaked pentagram and was home to a large hall with impressively intricate carvings in its [[door]].{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=144}} During the skirmishes on the ring, this city was the site of a battle between hundreds of Forerunners whose corpses would remain scattered across the area; no humans—alive or dead—were present at this point. [[Vinnevra]] believed them all to have been taken away, most likely to a "[[Palace of Pain]]" for experiments given the events on the ring at the time.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=143}} The Forerunners had imprisoned a [[Proto-Gravemind]] in an energy cage placed inside the hall of the central building. The [[mind transfer|personality imprint]] of [[Forthencho]] suggested that this battle was fought for a prize or to keep that prize from falling into the wrong hands, possibly the Proto-Gravemind. The Forerunners appeared to have fought to the last man with none surviving.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=150-153}}

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