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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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File:H4 Watcher 3D.jpg|A 3D model of the Watcher. | |||
File:H4 Watcher3D front back.jpg|3D models of the Watcher. | |||
File:Watcher back Knight.jpg|A Watcher stored in the back of a Knight. | |||
File:Watcher reference.jpg|Various views of the Watcher. | |||
File:H4-SentinelWatcher-Render.png|Alternate render of a Sentinel Watcher with red side-disks. | File:H4-SentinelWatcher-Render.png|Alternate render of a Sentinel Watcher with red side-disks. | ||
File:H4-Development-PrometheanWatcher.jpg|The Promethean Watcher Sentinel during ''Halo 4'''s development stage. | |||
File:H4-PrometheanWatcher-Ingame.jpg|Closeup of a Promethean Watcher Sentinel in flight mode. | |||
File:H4-PrometheanWatcher-Rec | |||
File:H4-SentinelWatcher-Requiem.jpg|A Promethean Sentinel Watcher in the jungles of Requiem. | File:H4-SentinelWatcher-Requiem.jpg|A Promethean Sentinel Watcher in the jungles of Requiem. | ||
File:H4-SpartanOps-2.jpg|A [[SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IV]] engaging a Knight being shielded by a Watcher. | File:H4-SpartanOps-2.jpg|A [[SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IV]] engaging a Knight being shielded by a Watcher. | ||
File:H4-SpartanOps-WatcherCrawler.jpg|Two [[SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IV]]s facing off against a Watcher and a [[Promethean Crawler|Crawler]]. | File:H4-SpartanOps-WatcherCrawler.jpg|Two [[SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IV]]s facing off against a Watcher and a [[Promethean Crawler|Crawler]]. | ||
File:H4-SO-S1E8-SpartanVsWatcher.jpg|A SPARTAN-IV battling Elites and a Watcher. | File:H4-SO-S1E8-SpartanVsWatcher.jpg|A SPARTAN-IV battling Elites and a Watcher. | ||
onstruction.jpg|Closeup of a Promethean Watcher Sentinel's reconstruction beam. | |||
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*''[[Halo: Escalation]]'' | *''[[Halo: Escalation]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]'' | *''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'' | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== |
Revision as of 00:54, June 13, 2015
The Promethean Watcher is a Forerunner Sentinel variant.[1][2] Watchers are part of the mechanical Promethean forces created by the Ur-Didact near the end of the Forerunner-Flood war as a desperate attempt to combat the Flood.[3][4] Watchers acted as the primary defensive drones of the Promethean shield world Requiem, where they were first encountered by the UNSC in summer 2557.[5]
Overview
In the battlefield, Watchers act in a supporting role, assisting Promethean ground units with aerial combat screening and often forcing opponents to engage the Sentinel first. Each Promethean Knight unit carries a single Watcher or more in the back of their armored carapace, from which the Watcher can be deployed at will. Watchers are essentially low-level ancillas based on the Promethean Knight from which they originate. The watcher's AI is housed in its upper carapace above the "head".[5]
The Watcher is capable of healing and augmenting damaged allies, providing them with hard light shields, and can catch and return enemy ordnance, such as grenades, with a gravity-displacement field.[2] They are armed with a built-in Boltshot.[6] Watchers can resurrect destroyed Knights from the small orb of light they leave behind upon death; however, this can only be performed once for each individual Knight.[7] They are also capable of summoning Promethean Crawlers to the battlefield by conjuring the Crawlers' forms from raw material in the ground.[8] Watchers are also capable of building beam turrets.[9]
Appearance
Unlike the angular appearance of most Sentinels, Watchers have curving carapaces, a defining characteristic of Promethean war machines. They have a number of appendages, including what appear to be legs hanging below the midsection which serve as stabilizers and two large disks on both sides which provide agile lift systems and a coiled energy expenditure from within them. Most of these segments lack physical joints and are held together by energy fields. Above the midsection there appears to be a head with stylized facial features and also two fins which act as motion curators to control movement.[5] Like the other Promethean constructs, Watchers under the Ur-Didact's control possess orange lighting, in contrast to the blue-lit appearance typical of other Forerunner constructs.
Trivia
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- The Watcher, along with the Promethean Crawler, was first seen in a leaked image from McFarlane Toys. However, it was first mentioned as the "Watcher Sentinel" several months earlier in Halo: The Essential Visual Guide.
- The Watcher was called Bishop during the development of Halo 4. The Watcher's model filename is still called "storm_bishop". The Knights are all that survive of the formerly chess-piece-named Prometheans.
- An outline of the Reclaimer symbol, in reality the Marathon logo, appears on the Watcher's midsection despite Bungie owning the rights to the Marathon franchise.
- Shooting the tiny face on the Watcher counts as a headshot and destroys the whole body. However, the face is so small and the Watcher is protected by weak shields, that aiming for it is not very practical.
- Promethean Knights are capable of deploying multiple Watchers from their body, not just one. This may be due to bugs.
Gallery
- H4-PrometheanWatcher-Rec
A SPARTAN-IV engaging a Knight being shielded by a Watcher.
Two SPARTAN-IVs facing off against a Watcher and a Crawler.
- Onstruction.jpg
Closeup of a Promethean Watcher Sentinel's reconstruction beam.
List of appearances
- Halo 4 (First appearance)
- Halo: Silentium
- Halo: Escalation
- Halo: Spartan Strike
- Halo 5: Guardians
Sources
- ^ Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 167
- ^ a b Halo 4 Official Site: CHARACTERS
- ^ Halo Waypoint - Halo 4 Fiction Panel from SDCC 2012
- ^ Halo Waypoint - Halo 4: A New Campaign and Halo Infinity Multiplayer Panel from SDCC 2012
- ^ a b c Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, page 53
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- ^ Making Halo 4: Return of the Forerunners
- ^ Halo Waypoint: The Halo Bulletin: 6.20.12
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level Infinity
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