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| <center>''Looking for the [[Library]] structure?''</center>
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| {{Article Quote|Fight your way through an ancient security facility in search of the [[Index]].}}
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| {{Level infobox
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| |prev=[[343 Guilty Spark (Level)|343 Guilty Spark]]
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| |game=[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]
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| |next=[[Two Betrayals]]
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| |name='''''The Library'''''
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| |image=[[Image:Libraryon04.jpg|300px]]
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| |player=[[John-117]]
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| |date= [[2552#September 20, 2552|September 20, 2552]]
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| |place= Inside the [[Library]] of [[Installation 04]]
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| |Objective= Retrieve the Index.
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| |enemies=*[[Flood]]
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| **[[Combat Forms]]
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| **[[Carrier Forms]]
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| **[[Infection Forms]]
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| }}
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| '''The Library''' is the [[Seven|seventh]] level in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''. It begins after [[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]] teleports the [[Master Chief]] from the swamp he was in (part of the [[343 Guilty Spark (Level)|previous level]]) into the [[Library]] of [[Installation 04]]. Equipped initially with a [[Pistol]] and an [[Assault Rifle]] ([[Shotgun]] is primary for the second player in co-op) or with a [[Pistol]] and [[Shotgun]] on [[Easy]] difficulty, he must battle through four [[Flood]]-filled levels to reach the [[Index]] chamber. This is the first level where you encounter [[Carrier Forms]]. This is also the first and only level where [[Sentinel]]s will be your allies for most of the level. And this is the only level that you're not fighting against the [[Covenant]] foes. This is also the last level in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' where you will have allies.
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| It should also be noted that this is one of the least popular levels in the Halo series. Many players find the layout confusing and repetitive. Also, as the only adversary in this level is the Flood, some players are thrown off by the dramatic changes in challenges, rhythm, and tactics in the level. After so much negative feedback, Bungie made the Library segment much shorter in its [[Halo 2]] counterpart, [[Sacred Icon]]. However, some players like this level due to its difficulty and see it as a challenge. It is also very similar to the ''[[Halo 3]]'' level [[Cortana(Level)|Cortana]].
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| == Allies ==
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| *[[Forerunner]]
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| **[[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]]
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| **[[Sentinels]]
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| == Enemies ==
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| *[[Flood]]
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| **[[Combat Forms]]
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| **[[Carrier Forms]]
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| **[[Infection Forms]]
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| == Weapons ==
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| *[[M6D Personal Defense Weapon System|Pistol]]
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| *[[MA5B Individual Combat Weapon System|Assault Rifle]]
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| *[[M19 SSM Rocket Launcher|Rocket Launcher]]
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| *[[Shotgun#M90 Mk I|Shotgun]]
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| *[[Fragmentation Grenade]]
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| *[[Plasma Pistol]]
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| *[[Type-25 Directed Energy Rifle|Plasma Rifle]]
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| *[[Needler]]
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| *[[Plasma Grenade]]
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| == Equipment ==
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| [[Overshield]]
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| ==Transcript==
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| ===The Library===
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| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmX8CBX3D_I {Cutscene}]
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| (''The view fly through of the main central chamber of the Installation, through a bizarre rotating doorway, to find 343 Guilty Spark and the Master Chief teleporting in.'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "We must collect the Index before we can activate the installation."
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| {Gameplay}
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| (''Over the course of the level, 343 Guilty Spark mutters all sorts of random phrases. Here are most, if not all of them''):
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| *"Doodeedooodooo..."
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| *"Teeheeeheeeheeehee!"
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| *"Huaaaaa, huaaaauuuuhummmmm."
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| *"Ahhhh...I, am a genius. Heeheeheehee!"
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| *"Ah."
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| *"Oh. Hello."
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| *"Hahahahaha!"
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| *"Oh, that's a good idea!" ''(When you reach one of the rotating doors)''
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| *"[[Master Chief|Reclaimer]], we must keep moving! ...[[Master Chief|Reclaimer]]?" ''(If you die)''
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| *"Hmm, how unfortunate." ''(If you die)''
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| *"I told you to upgrade to at least a class 12 combat skin!" (If you die)
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| *"Please, stop being [[Human]]." (''If you shoot him or the [[Sentinels]]'')
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| *"That is totally unnecessary." (If you shoot him)
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| *"We have much more important business here." (If you shoot him)
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| *"Please control your temper." (If you shoot him)
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| *"Are you finished yet?" (If you shoot him)
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| *"Please conserve your ammo." (If you shoot him)
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "We are near the Index chamber. Follow me."
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| ''When the Chief emerges into the large central chamber''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The energy field above us contains the Index. We must get up there."
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| (''When the Chief comes to a huge door, which is locked'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The security doors have sealed automatically. I will go access the override to open them."
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| (''When Spark returns'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Please, follow closely. This portal is the first of ten."
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| (''If the Chief heads to the wrong way'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "That is not the correct direction, Reclaimer. If you do not follow me, you may become lost."
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| (''As the Chief and Spark move into the next hallway'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Puzzling. You brought such ineffective weapons to combat the Flood, despite the containment protocols."
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| (''Upon moving down another hallway'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The Flood must not escape the installation. They would consume all."
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| (''Upon entering into another hallway'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "You can see how the body's been transformed by the genetic restructuring of the Flood infection. The small creatures carry spores that cause a host to mutate. The mutated host then produces spores that can pass the Flood to others. It is insidious and elegant. As long as any hosts remain, the Flood is virulent."
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| (''As the Chief goes down yet another hallway'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "We must continue. This way please."
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| (''Further down the another hallway'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "This installation's research facilities are most impressive! Perhaps we'll have time to see them later."
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| (''As the Monitor Spark sends a squad of Sentinels to assist the Chief'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "These Sentinels will supplement your combat system. But, I suggest you upgrade to at least a Class Twelve combat skin. Your [[MJOLNIR|current model]] only scans as a Class Two, which is ill suited for this kind of work. "
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| (''As the Chief nears the first platform lift'')
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Pardon me. A plasma conduit breach in [[Section 5-5-2-4]] has disrupted power flow to a gravitic maintenance assembly. Repairs require my attention. I will return soon."
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| (''As the Chief rides the first lift to upstairs'')
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| ===Wait, It Gets Worse!===
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| ''Towards a little down the first hall of the second floor.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Flood activity has caused a failure in a drone control subsystem. I must reset the backup unit. Please, continue on. I will rejoin you when I have completed my task."
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| ''The Monitor leaves temporarily, and soon returns to the Chief with the door open.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The Sentinels can use their weapons to manage the Flood only for a short time. Speed is of the essence."
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| ''Once the Chief encounters another large door.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Please wait here."
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| ''As Chief approaches another hallway on the second floor.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Your environment suit should serve you well when the Flood begins to alter the atmosphere. You are a good planner."
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| ''Into once again another hallway.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The installation was well conceived. It is surely the only way to end the Flood threat."
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| ''The Chief finds and rides the second platform lift)''
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| ===But I Don't Want to Ride the Elevator!===
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| ''The Chief goes into the first hallway of the third floor.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "I would conjecture that the [[Covenant|other species]] currently on the installation is responsible for releasing the Flood. They seem most persistent in their attempts to access restricted areas."
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| ''The Chief comes into another hallway, but this time its large, open, cavernous.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Why naturally the Flood is simply too dangerous to release, and mass sterilization protocols may again need to be enacted. Of course, samples were kept here after the last catastrophic outbreak...for study. It seems... that decision may have been an error."
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| ''The Chief encounters another hallway.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The installation was specifically built to study and contain the Flood. Their survival as a race was dependent upon it. I am grateful to see that some of them survived to reproduce. "
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| ''The Chief reaches the third floor's locked door.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "I will deactivate the security lock. Wait here.'
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| ''Spark once again leaves and returns to the Master Chief."
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| ''The Chief encounters yet another hallway, but this time with slightly more Flood forms.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' Please stay close. Time is short.
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| ''The Chief rides on the platform lift to the fourth floor.''
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| ===Fourth Floor: Tools, Guns, Keys To Super Weapons===
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| ''The Chief enters the first hallway of the fourth floor.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The Flood are already hard at work repairing your vessel. Its parasitic nature belies the Flood's intelligence."
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| ''The Chief clears the route to the Index platform, fending off several remaining Flood forms.''
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| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Lurm6e2RY {Cutscene}]
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The energy barrier surrounding the Index will deactivate when we reach the ground floor."
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| ''When the platform comes to a stop.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "You may now retrieve the Index."
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| ''The Chief walks slowly over to the Index, which is held in a sheath of some sort. Sections of the sheath move in and out for a few moments, before the Index itself pops slightly out of the top of the sheath. The Chief removes it and stares at it for a moment, before 343 Guilty Spark zaps it from the Chief's hands and into some sort of trans-dimensional pocket.''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Protocol requires that I take possession of the Index for transport. Your organic form renders you vulnerable to infection. The Index must not fall into the hands of the Flood, before we reach the [[Control Room]] and activate the installation."
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| ''Spark and the Chief teleport away from the platform''
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| '''343 Guilty Spark:''' "The Flood is spreading! We must hurry!"
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| == Trivia ==
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| ===Glitches===
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| *If you have an [[Overshield]], it is possible to launch yourself onto the [[Index]], and you can fall to the bottom of the place right below this post and survive.
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| *On the second elevator you ride, get it just high enough to where you can walk under it. Once under, it will start to go back up, jump into the blue light that represents a gravity lift, you will fall to your death but at the bottom you will see a spinning [[Monitor]] who will even talk. You can also do this while [[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]] is on another part of the level, at the time.
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| ====Mistakes====
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| *[[343 Guilty Spark]] makes a mistake in a sentence he says in the beginning of the level. He says that "The energy field above them contains the Index," while, in fact, the [[Index]] is on the bottom floor of the energy field lift, the same place he says the line.
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| *In the beginning cutscene, the container holding the [[Index]] unlocks, revealing it for two seconds before the animation by what is seen appears to have restarted since the Index seems to disappear as if the container was never even opened. This might have been caused by a scripting error.
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| ===References===
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| *It's believed that the body of [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Marvin Mobuto]] from [[Halo: The Flood]] could be found lying around within the level. One of the only known ways to tell if you have found his body is if you manage to find a human infected [[Flood]] that's already dead. He was said to have survived fighting his way to the [[Index]], but once he came in range of it, he was thrashed and mangled by the [[Flood]]. Hunting for his body could also help make the level a bit more interesting to play. One of the bodies rumored to be his can be found down the corridor after [[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]] opens the first blast door. The second rumored body can be found at the second blaster door, right after "Wait, It Gets Worse!" by a [[health pack]] and two [[fragmentation grenades]]. The third rumored body can be found at the 4th or 5th blast door. The fourth rumored body can be found in the trench after the 7th door. The last rumored body can be found at further down the corridor after the door to the [[Index]] that can be found with a trail of [[Flood]] and some [[human]] blood and an [[Assault Rifle]] with one round in it.
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| *After [[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]] opens the first security door, if you go to your left, there will be a large hologram on the wall. At the top of this, there is a smaller hologram that resembles [[The Ark]] from ''[[Halo 3]]''.
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| ===Miscellaneous===
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| *This is one of the only two levels in [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] where the [[Sentinels]] are your allies, the other being [[343 Guilty Spark (level)|the previous one]].
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| *Throughout the level, there are spawn points for [[Flood]] that you can reactivate after going through them the first time.
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| *The Library, (apart from the [[343 Guilty Spark (Level)|343 Guilty Spark]] level) is the only level on [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] after you meet the [[Flood]] that isn't played somewhere where you have already played during the game. In other words, this level is really long, but you never have to visit past places.
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| *This is also the first level where you encounter AI using [[Rocket Launchers]].
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| *This is the only level that does not feature vehicles in both cinematic and game play modes.
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| *If you jump off any of the elevator rides while it's going up, the elevator will start to come back down again.
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| *Sometimes [[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]] will fly down close to a [[Flood]] body and start saying things to it.
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| *A good way to avoid [[Flood]] for a quick breather is to jump up on top of the platforms as you are going through the hallways. They look like feet protruding from the wall.
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| *This is the last level in [[Halo: CE]] that you will have allies.
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| *In the Korean Halo version, this level is named as "''Finding the Index''".
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| *Bungie's map code for this level is C-20.
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| *The blueish lighted windows seen throughout the level are rumored to be used to access the data archived by the [[Librarian]] although this has never been seen in any of the games thus far. In addition, they are described as "glowing blue monitors" in [[Halo: The Flood]].
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| {{level}}
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| [[Category:Levels|Library, The]]
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| [[Category:Halo 1 Campaign]]
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