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<center>''Were you looking for [[installation 00|the Ark]]'s control room, the [[Installation 00 Citadel|Citadel]]?''</center>

A '''control room''' is a crucial facility featured on many [[Forerunner]] installations, most prominently those of the [[Halo Array]]. The control room of a Halo contains the installation's [[Core]] data center, and is used to manage the entirety of the Halo's systems, including its primary weapon, which can be activated by inserting the [[Activation Index]] into the Core or even disabled, given sufficient expertise.<ref name="hw2 last">'''Halo Wars 2''', campaign level ''[[Last Stand]]''</ref> Other functions include the management of the installation's safety protocols,<ref name="esca10">'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 10|Issue #10]]''</ref> and control over the Halo's [[gravity anchor]]s, enabling the ejection of select environmental sections into space.<ref name="hw2 last"/> The Halos' control rooms are typically located within a pyramidal temple-like structure.<ref name="twoB">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref>

Here, the [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Tartarus]] brought [[Miranda Keyes]] to the Control Room along with [[343 Guilty Spark]] to attempt to activate Delta Halo. He succeeded in initiating the activation sequence of the installation, but was slain by [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee and [[Avery Johnson|Sergeant Johnson]]. The Index was removed by Miranda before the weapon could fire. Upon activation of the firing sequence, the control room's central chamber reconfigured from its inert state into a three-leveled structure with a [[gravity lift]] in the middle.<ref name="TgreatJ"/>

Inside the control room, the corridors and doorways are reminiscent of Installation 04, while offering minimal changes. The actual control room and control panel is scarcely different from the original. The large dome-shaped room still shows a holographic image of the Halo ring, although Threshold is missing from this image (as the ring has not been moved to that point).<ref name="hh3"/>

The differences in design from the original Installation 04 may be due to the ring's incomplete state, as suggested by Cortana's observation, "Halo. It's so new...unfinished."<ref name="hh3"/>

==Etran Harborage==

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The [[Etran Harborage|Etran Harborage's]] [[Apex Site]] was classified as a form of control room.<ref name="evg"/> This facility was an elongated platform suspended in the air high above the interior surface of the miniature [[Dyson sphere]], surrounded by docking towers housing [[Forerunner dreadnought]]s. At one end of the platform was a control panel which, like many Forerunner artifacts, could only be operated by a [[Reclaimer]].<ref>'''Halo Wars''', campaign level ''[[Beachhead]]'' (opening cutscene ''"Judgment Day"'')</ref>

==Trivia==

==Gallery==

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File:Ih_Halo_ziggurat_01.jpg|Finalized concept art of the structure, now bearing clear similarities to the original ring's control room.

File:Controlroom.jpg|Exterior view of Installation 04's control room.

File:H2A - Delta Halo activated.jpg|Installation 05's control room initiating the installation's firing sequence.  

File:H2A-SevenRings.jpg|Installation 05's control room activates its holographic readout of the Halo Array upon shutdown.  

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