ONI Ilex Facility: Difference between revisions

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The '''ONI Ilex Facility''' is a classified military [[Wikipedia:Black site|black site]] formerly operated by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] as part of the [[Zeta Halo project]].{{Ref/Site|Id=S3Intel|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/echoes-within-intel|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo Infinite - Echoes Within Intel|D=17|M=04|Y=2023|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel}}

At the center of the facility is a large spire with several smaller structures strewn around its base and set into the frozen mountainside. Just below the spire is a structure containing hexagonal devices reminiscent of [[Installation 07]]'s hexagonal building blocks,{{Ref/Reuse|Location}} revealing the facility's involvement in the research of [[Forerunner]] technology.{{Ref/Reuse|S3Intel}}{{Ref/Reuse|CFEchoes}}{{Ref/Reuse|Location}}  

The Ilex Facility was involved in experiments on Covenant [[active camouflage]] and [[overshield]] technologies. This resulted in the creation of the Multifunctional Emitter Prototype; a large device that can emit a field producing active camouflage or overshield effects.{{Ref/Reuse|overview}}

The Ilex Facility also became involved in [[Operation: ECDYSIS]], a facet of the [[Zeta Halo project|ongoing study]] of Installation 07 by the [[United Nations Space Command]].{{Ref/Reuse|S3Intel}} Researchers here studied materiel and technologies discovered on the ringworld. Some of the structures analyzed at the Ilex Facility included structural samples taken from Installation 07, which were able to yield a number of discoveries in mineralogy. However, despite active research, the base was unable to replicate the effects of [[reformation]] as demonstrated on the ring, due to being unable to reproduce the method in which Forerunner technology [[Assembler vats|turns]] raw materials into [[Smartmatter|useful structures]] even despite a number of workarounds implemented to boost the base's electrical power output to a fraction of that needed for full-scale testing.{{Ref/Reuse|S3Intel}}{{Ref/Reuse|CFEchoes}}

Ultimately, the base's staff were unable to progress as rapidly in their understanding of Installation 07 as the [[Onyx United Research Project|researchers]] on the [[shield world]] [[Trevelyan]] were, though they remained hopeful that future discoveries may be able to assist [[human]]ity in [[Terraforming|restoring]] the multitude of [[Human colonies|colony worlds]] [[Glassing|glassed]] by the Covenant during the [[Human-Covenant War]].{{Ref/Reuse|S3Intel}} However, the Ilex Facility would eventually become abandoned and fall into disrepair.{{Ref/Reuse|overview}}

The Ilex Facility is the setting of the ''[[Halo Infinite]]'' [[multiplayer]] maps [[Cliffhanger]]{{Ref/Reuse|S3Intel}} and [[Illusion]].{{Ref/Site|Id=overview|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/map-overview-halo-infinite-cu29|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Map Overview - Halo Infinite CU29|D=24|M=1|Y=2024}}