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The '''Soell system''' is the planetary system in which [[Threshold]], [[Basis]], and [[Installation 04]] are located.<ref name="sybex">'''[[Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets]]''', ''page 63''</ref> The star seems to be located near the rim of the [[Milky Way]].<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved'''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Reach'''</ref> Soell is orbited by nine planets; the Soell system is composed of four outer planets and five inner planets separated by an [[asteroid]] belt.<ref name="truth">'''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''', multiplayer level ''[[Truth]]''</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSQyp45mKM '''YouTube''': ''Soell System Hologram - Halo 5 Guardians'']</ref>
The '''Soell system''' is the planetary system in which [[Threshold]], [[Basis]], and [[Installation 04]] are located.{{Ref/Book|Id=sybex|[[Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets]]|Page=63}} It is located in relative proximity to the [[Epsilon Eridani system]]{{Ref/Game|Id=hw2|[[Halo Wars 2]]}} within the [[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way]].<ref>'''[[Halo Legendary Crate]]''', ''[[Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #3]]''</ref> Soell is orbited by nine planets: four outer planets and five inner planets separated by an [[asteroid]] belt.{{Ref/Map|Id=truth|[[Halo 5: Guardians]]|[[Truth]]}}<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSQyp45mKM '''YouTube''': ''Soell System Hologram - Halo 5 Guardians'']</ref>
 
==Overview==
===Planetary system===
The five inner planets of the Soell system all appear to be terrestrial. The innermost planet is small with one small [[natural satellite]]. The second planet is small and moonless. The third orbiting body is a tiny, cratered planet with two small natural satellites. The fourth planet is orbited by three moons. The fifth planet orbiting Soell is a terrestrial planet with a slight ovoid shape and a single natural satellite.{{Ref/Reuse|truth}}
 
Beyond the relatively sparse [[asteroid]] belt, the sixth orbiting planet is a large, ringed planet. [[Threshold]] is the seventh and largest planet in Soell's orbit.{{Ref/Book|Id=vis|[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]|Page=195}} Threshold is orbited by 12 satellites, including [[Basis]], its largest satellite, and Installation 04.{{Ref/Reuse|sybex}} The eighth planet is a shattered, rocky world. The ninth planet orbiting Soell is a large, cratered terrestrial planet. Soell's outermost orbiting planet has an [[Wikipedia:Elliptical orbit|elliptical orbit]], thus occasionally bringing it closer to Soell than the eighth closest planet.{{Ref/Reuse|truth}}
 
====Locations====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- align="center"
!width="75px"|Name !! Image !! Description !! Orbiting locations
|- align="center"
| Soell I || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell I.png|300px]] || Planet || 1 moon
|- align="center"
|- align="center"
| Soell II || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell II.png|300px]] || Planet || N/A
|- align="center"
| Soell III || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell III.png|300px]] || Planet || 2 moons
|- align="center"
| Soell IV || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell IV.png|300px]] || Planet || 3 moons
|- align="center"
| Soell V || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell V.png|300px]] || Planet || 1 moon
|- align="center"
| Soell asteroid belt || N/A || Asteroid belt || N/A
|- align="center"
| Soell VI || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell VI.png|300px]] || Planet with a ring || 5 moons
|- align="center"
| [[Threshold|Soell VII "Threshold"]] || [[File:H5G Threshold.png|300px]] || Gas Giant planet || 12 moons including [[Basis]]<br>[[Installation 04]] (destroyed, remnants remain)<br>[[Deep-Space Anomaly 0198]]<br>[[Threshold gas mine]]
|- align="center"
| Soell VIII || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell VIII.png|300px]] || Planet || N/A
|- align="center"
| Soell IX || [[File:H5G-Truth-Hologram of Soell IX.png|300px]] || Shattered Planet || N/A
|}


==History==
==History==
{{Expand-section}}
===Ancient history===
During the waning years of the [[Forerunner]] [[Ecumene]] in the midst of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the Soell system was chosen as the location for [[Installation 04]], with the gas giant Threshold serving as its anchor. Facing utter annihilation at the hands of the [[Flood]], the [[IsoDidact]] activated the installation, triggering the Halo Array and eradicating the Flood and all sentient life in the galaxy. For nearly a hundred thousand years the Soell system and its strategic significance went unnoticed even as the galaxy steadily repopulated.
 
===Human-Covenant war===
[[File:H2A-AlphaHaloDiscovery.jpg|thumb|300px|The Fleet of Particular Justice over Installation 04.]]
In [[2552]], the penultimate year of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the humans of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} made a supposedly blind [[slipspace]] jump into the Soell system, having narrowly fled the [[Covenant]] who had [[Fall of Reach|completely destroyed]] the colony world of [[Reach]]. As the ''Autumn'' approached the ring,{{Ref/Level|Id=poa|CE|[[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn]]}} [[343 Guilty Spark]] sent a signal to the human vessel threatening to activate the ring's defensive countermeasures if they did not retreat from its vicinity. However, upon recognizing the humans, the apparent [[Reclaimer]]s of the Forerunner race, Guilty Spark disabled the ring's defenses and welcomed the humans to approach.{{Ref/Game|[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]|[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)/One|Terminal One]]}} During this, the Covenant [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] emerged, having beaten the humans to Soell and initiating an attack on the cruiser, thus triggering the climactic [[Battle of Installation 04]].{{Ref/Reuse|poa}}
 
In the days that followed, the humans and Covenant battled for control of the installation, both unaware of its true value as a weapon of mass destruction. During the prolonged engagement, the Covenant unknowingly unleashed the Flood, which had laid in stasis as the installation's vast army of [[Sentinels]] studied its nature. The parasite spread quickly and soon overtook both sides, threatening to use the Covenant's remaining ships to flee the Soell system and infect all life in the galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark sought the aid of [[Spartan-II program|Spartan-II supersoldier]] [[John-117]] in activating the ring's defenses and with it the entire Halo Array.{{Ref/Level|CE|[[Two Betrayals]]}} Instead, with the aid of [[Cortana]] the Spartan evaded both Spark and the Covenant invaders and detonated the ''Pillar of Autumn''{{'}}s fusion reactors, causing a chain reaction that destroyed Installation 04 and prevented the Flood from escaping the system.{{Ref/Level|CE|[[The Maw]]}}
 
In the days that followed, the {{UNSCShip|Red Horse}} was sent to investigate the system, encountering the human prison ship ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' in the vicinity of Installation 04's debris field. A team of Marines was sent to [[Skirmish on Mona Lisa|investigate]], only to find the vessel overrun by Flood who had escaped containment. Recognizing the threat, the ''Red Horse'' was forced to destroy the ''Mona Lisa'', destroying the surviving Flood once again.
 
The Covenant holy city of ''[[High Charity]]'' occupied the Soell system as the [[High Council]] publicly prosecuted [[Shipmaster]] [[Thel 'Vadamee]] for his failure to safeguard the ringworld.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[The Heretic]]}} However, the Council opted to promote 'Vadamee to [[Arbiter]], and tasked him with the elimination of a group of [[Heretics]] that had assembled on the [[Threshold gas mine]], unaware of the Flood specimens also alive on board.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[The Arbiter]]}} The [[Battle of the Threshold gas mine|engagement]] saw the destruction of this facility, the Heretics, and all of the Flood encased within, as well as the capture of 343 Guilty Spark.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[The Oracle]]}}  


==Planetary system==
Following this battle, the Covenant abandoned the Soell system and relocated to the [[Coelest system]] to the newly-discovered [[Installation 05]].{{Ref/Level|H2|[[Regret (Halo 2 level)|Regret]]}}
The five inner planets of the Soell system all appear to be terrestrial. The innermost planet is small with one small [[natural satellite]]. The second planet is small and moonless. The third orbiting body is a tiny, cratered planet with two small natural satellites. The fourth planet is orbited by three moons. The fifth planet orbiting Soell is a terrestrial planet with a slight ovoid shape and a single natural satellite.<ref name="truth"/>


Beyond the relatively sparse [[asteroid]] belt, the sixth orbiting planet is a large, ringed gas giant. [[Threshold]] is the seventh and largest planet in Soell's orbit.<ref name="vis">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 195''</ref> Threshold is orbited by [[Basis]], a massive natural satellite and the gas giant's only apparent moon, and Installation 04.<ref name="sybex"/> The eighth planet is a shattered, rocky world. The ninth planet orbiting Soell is a large, cratered terrestrial planet. Soell's outermost orbiting planet has an [[Wikipedia:Elliptical orbit|elliptical orbit]], thus occasionally bringing it closer to Soell than the eighth closest planet.<ref name="truth"/>
===Post-war===
After the conclusion of the Human-Covenant War that saw the final collapse of the Covenant, the Soell system fell into the newly-established [[Joint Occupation Zone]] under the strict supervision of the Sangheili-led [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[United Nations Space Command]].  


===Locations===
The Soell system was chosen to host the [[Installation 08|replacement]] [[Installation 09|installations]] constructed by [[Installation 00]] immediately after Halo's destruction. The first of these was destroyed in 2552 and the second was seized by the [[Created]] while in slipspace in [[2559]]. The second replacement was launched to the Soell system by the crew of the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} specifically due to the system's proximity to human space: it was believed that the signal from a [[distress beacon]] placed on the new installation would be able to reach human space and alert them to the ''Spirit of Fire's'' predicament on Installation 00.{{Ref/Reuse|hw2}}
*[[Threshold]]
**[[Basis]]
**[[Installation 04]]
**[[Threshold gas mine]]
**[[Deep-Space Anomaly 0198]]


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
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==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Halo ring.jpg|Soell and Halo Installation 04
File:Halo ring.jpg|Soell and Halo Installation 04.
File:Installation 04 Terminal.jpg|Soell, partially eclipsed by Threshold
File:Installation 04 Terminal.jpg|Soell, partially eclipsed by Threshold.
File:H2A-AlphaHaloDiscovery.jpg|The Fleet of Particular Justice over Installation 04
File:HaloAJ.png|Soell and the ruins of Installation 04.
File:HaloAJ.png|Soell and the ruins of Installation 04
File:H2A-Soell from Threshold.png|Soell as seen from Threshold's atmosphere.
File:BasisCentered.jpg|Basis, a moon of Threshold
File:BasisCentered.jpg|Basis, a moon of Threshold.
</gallery>
</gallery>


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''
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*''[[Halo Legends]]''
*''[[Halo Legends]]''
**''[[Origins]]''
**''[[Origins]]''
{{Col-2}}
*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
**''[[The Mona Lisa]]''
**''[[The Mona Lisa]]''
*''[[Halo: Reach]]''
*''[[Halo: Reach]]''
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''
**''[[Terminal/Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary|Terminals]]''
**''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|Terminals]]''
*''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]''
*''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]''
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]''
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]''
*''[[Halo 2 Anniversary]]''
*''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''
**''[[Terminal/Halo 2 Anniversary|Terminals]]''
**''[[Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminals]]''
*''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'' <small>(Simulation only)</small>
*''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''
{{Col-end}}
*''[[Halo Mythos]]
*''[[Halo: Tales from Slipspace]]''
**''[[Dominion Splinter]]'' {{C|Flashback}}
*''[[Halo Wars 2]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Fireteam Raven]]''
*''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]''
*''[[Halo: The Television Series Season Two]]''
**''[[Thermopylae (TV Series)|Thermopylae]]''
**''[[Halo (TV Series)|Halo]]''


==Sources==
==Sources==
<references/>
{{Ref/Sources}}
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Latest revision as of 00:24, March 15, 2024

Soell system
H5 - Soell.png
Stellar overview

Orbiting planets:

9[1]

Asteroids:

1 asteroid belt[1]

Societal overview

Notable events:

Affiliation:

Forerunner ecumene (formerly)

 

The Soell system is the planetary system in which Threshold, Basis, and Installation 04 are located.[2] It is located in relative proximity to the Epsilon Eridani system[3] within the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.[4] Soell is orbited by nine planets: four outer planets and five inner planets separated by an asteroid belt.[1][5]

Overview[edit]

Planetary system[edit]

The five inner planets of the Soell system all appear to be terrestrial. The innermost planet is small with one small natural satellite. The second planet is small and moonless. The third orbiting body is a tiny, cratered planet with two small natural satellites. The fourth planet is orbited by three moons. The fifth planet orbiting Soell is a terrestrial planet with a slight ovoid shape and a single natural satellite.[1]

Beyond the relatively sparse asteroid belt, the sixth orbiting planet is a large, ringed planet. Threshold is the seventh and largest planet in Soell's orbit.[6] Threshold is orbited by 12 satellites, including Basis, its largest satellite, and Installation 04.[2] The eighth planet is a shattered, rocky world. The ninth planet orbiting Soell is a large, cratered terrestrial planet. Soell's outermost orbiting planet has an elliptical orbit, thus occasionally bringing it closer to Soell than the eighth closest planet.[1]

Locations[edit]

Name Image Description Orbiting locations
Soell I Hologram of Soell I from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Planet 1 moon
Soell II Hologram of Soell II from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Planet N/A
Soell III Hologram of Soell III from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Planet 2 moons
Soell IV Hologram of Soell IV from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Planet 3 moons
Soell V Hologram of Soell V from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Planet 1 moon
Soell asteroid belt N/A Asteroid belt N/A
Soell VI Hologram of Soell VI from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Planet with a ring 5 moons
Soell VII "Threshold" H5G Threshold.png Gas Giant planet 12 moons including Basis
Installation 04 (destroyed, remnants remain)
Deep-Space Anomaly 0198
Threshold gas mine
Soell VIII Hologram of Soell VIII from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Planet N/A
Soell IX Hologram of Soell IX from Halo 5: Guardians Truth map. Shattered Planet N/A

History[edit]

Ancient history[edit]

During the waning years of the Forerunner Ecumene in the midst of the Forerunner-Flood war, the Soell system was chosen as the location for Installation 04, with the gas giant Threshold serving as its anchor. Facing utter annihilation at the hands of the Flood, the IsoDidact activated the installation, triggering the Halo Array and eradicating the Flood and all sentient life in the galaxy. For nearly a hundred thousand years the Soell system and its strategic significance went unnoticed even as the galaxy steadily repopulated.

Human-Covenant war[edit]

The Fleet of Particular Justice over Installation 04.

In 2552, the penultimate year of the Human-Covenant War, the humans of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn made a supposedly blind slipspace jump into the Soell system, having narrowly fled the Covenant who had completely destroyed the colony world of Reach. As the Autumn approached the ring,[7] 343 Guilty Spark sent a signal to the human vessel threatening to activate the ring's defensive countermeasures if they did not retreat from its vicinity. However, upon recognizing the humans, the apparent Reclaimers of the Forerunner race, Guilty Spark disabled the ring's defenses and welcomed the humans to approach.[8] During this, the Covenant Fleet of Particular Justice emerged, having beaten the humans to Soell and initiating an attack on the cruiser, thus triggering the climactic Battle of Installation 04.[7]

In the days that followed, the humans and Covenant battled for control of the installation, both unaware of its true value as a weapon of mass destruction. During the prolonged engagement, the Covenant unknowingly unleashed the Flood, which had laid in stasis as the installation's vast army of Sentinels studied its nature. The parasite spread quickly and soon overtook both sides, threatening to use the Covenant's remaining ships to flee the Soell system and infect all life in the galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark sought the aid of Spartan-II supersoldier John-117 in activating the ring's defenses and with it the entire Halo Array.[9] Instead, with the aid of Cortana the Spartan evaded both Spark and the Covenant invaders and detonated the Pillar of Autumn's fusion reactors, causing a chain reaction that destroyed Installation 04 and prevented the Flood from escaping the system.[10]

In the days that followed, the UNSC Red Horse was sent to investigate the system, encountering the human prison ship Mona Lisa in the vicinity of Installation 04's debris field. A team of Marines was sent to investigate, only to find the vessel overrun by Flood who had escaped containment. Recognizing the threat, the Red Horse was forced to destroy the Mona Lisa, destroying the surviving Flood once again.

The Covenant holy city of High Charity occupied the Soell system as the High Council publicly prosecuted Shipmaster Thel 'Vadamee for his failure to safeguard the ringworld.[11] However, the Council opted to promote 'Vadamee to Arbiter, and tasked him with the elimination of a group of Heretics that had assembled on the Threshold gas mine, unaware of the Flood specimens also alive on board.[12] The engagement saw the destruction of this facility, the Heretics, and all of the Flood encased within, as well as the capture of 343 Guilty Spark.[13]

Following this battle, the Covenant abandoned the Soell system and relocated to the Coelest system to the newly-discovered Installation 05.[14]

Post-war[edit]

After the conclusion of the Human-Covenant War that saw the final collapse of the Covenant, the Soell system fell into the newly-established Joint Occupation Zone under the strict supervision of the Sangheili-led Swords of Sanghelios and the United Nations Space Command.

The Soell system was chosen to host the replacement installations constructed by Installation 00 immediately after Halo's destruction. The first of these was destroyed in 2552 and the second was seized by the Created while in slipspace in 2559. The second replacement was launched to the Soell system by the crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire specifically due to the system's proximity to human space: it was believed that the signal from a distress beacon placed on the new installation would be able to reach human space and alert them to the Spirit of Fire's predicament on Installation 00.[3]

Trivia[edit]

The system is named after Matt Soell, a former Bungie employee.[15]

Gallery[edit]

  • Soell and Halo Installation 04.

    Soell and Halo Installation 04.

  • Soell, partially eclipsed by Threshold.

    Soell, partially eclipsed by Threshold.

  • Soell and the ruins of Installation 04.

    Soell and the ruins of Installation 04.

  • Soell as seen from Threshold's atmosphere.

    Soell as seen from Threshold's atmosphere.

  • Basis, a moon of Threshold.

    Basis, a moon of Threshold.

List of appearances[edit]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Halo 5: Guardians, multiplayer map Truth
  2. ^ a b Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets, page 63
  3. ^ a b Halo Wars 2
  4. ^ Halo Legendary Crate, Data Drop #3
  5. ^ YouTube: Soell System Hologram - Halo 5 Guardians
  6. ^ Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 195
  7. ^ a b Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Pillar of Autumn
  8. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Terminal One
  9. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level Two Betrayals
  10. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Maw
  11. ^ Halo 2, campaign level The Heretic
  12. ^ Halo 2, campaign level The Arbiter
  13. ^ Halo 2, campaign level The Oracle
  14. ^ Halo 2, campaign level Regret
  15. ^ Halo.bungie.org: Re: Climate?
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