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[[Image:Ark Terminal.jpg|thumb|right|The exterior of a ''Halo 3'' terminal.]]

The '''Terminals''' are [[Forerunner]] machines that provide insight into the history of the Forerunners, primarily the [[Forerunner-Flood War]].  

===The Ark===

====Terminal 1====

After fighting the [[Hunters]], continue on your way until you enter a building in the cliff wall. You should now be in a corridor with two holographic displays on the right, and two doors on the left. Enter the semi-circular room and you will see the first of the [[seven]] Terminals.

====Terminal 2====

Go outside to the desert area, commandeering transport. You must complete a significant section of this level until you obtain tanks after defeating the [[Anti-Air Wraith]]s, then return in the tanks to the main door to the structure.

====Terminal 3====

There is a part in the level in which you walk down a long hallway with white walls, and turn to the left at the end to continue. In the next room there will be a [[Grunt]] wandering around, and many stacked up [[Plasma Battery|Plasma Batteries]]. As soon as you enter this room, go underneath the staircase / platform on which you are standing. Underneath there will be a door that conceals the terminal. To access this terminal, you may spawn at Rally Point Bravo, bringing you to the room with the sleeping Grunts, directly before the room with the Grunt and Plasma Batteries.

===The Covenant===

====Terminal 4====

Fight your way past the [[Covenant]] beach defenses, then obtain the [[Warthog]] and fight onwards up the hill and eventually past the [[Wraith]] tank. Go inside the structure and fight past the various Covenant inside. The fourth Terminal is located near the first elevator control. Before you ride the elevator up, look at the opposite side of the elevator from which you came. You will see a dark ledge; jump on to it and you should see the terminal to your left.

====Terminal 5====

After getting a [[AV-14 Attack VTOL|Hornet]], fly towards the second tower (the one that the [[Elite]]s have already disabled). The [[Arbiter]] will remind you that Tower 2 is already clear, just to confirm you are at the right place. The Terminal is in the main hallway of the structure, with three dead elites, opposite from the only (locked) door. (And as a bonus, there is [[Halo 3 Skulls#Thunderstorm|a skull]] on the outside of Tower 2 on the rise platform in the middle; just walk up and claim it for another achievement. Note that the skull won't be present if you start from Rally Point Alpha, or are playing on the Easy difficulty.)

====Terminal 6====

Terminal 6 is placed identically to Terminal 4, only in the third tower and off to the right (versus the left in Terminal 4). Enter the tower, fighting your way past the [[Drone]] swarm and the pair of Hunters. The terminal is located near the elevator control; before you ride the elevator up, look at the opposite side of the elevator from which you came. You will see a dark ledge, jump on to it and you should see the terminal, which opens up to the left.

===Cortana===

====Cortana Terminal====

Terminal 8 is located in the basement room of the [[Halo 3 Skulls#Tilt|Tilt Skull]]'s location, where the [[Gravity Hammer]] is found. (This terminal does not count towards the [[Marathon Man]] achievement, but instead, plays a secret Cortana moment.)

====Terminal 7====

Terminal [[7]] is found at the beginning of the final level in ''Halo 3''. To find it, head forward from the start of the level through the snow until you encounter the area with a few structural beams going from one wall into another. At this point (before you go past any beams) you will see a metal floor. Follow the floor to the right and up through a small gap in the ice, and follow this path along. You will find a beam heading through a crack in the ice. Follow this beam into a doorway. [[Cortana]] will ask you, “Where are you going?”. Turn left once inside and the Terminal should be in full view. Cortana will say, "Wait. What's that?" as a good hint. The terminal will be in front of what is presumably one of [[Installation 04 (II)]]'s pulse generators. After that, Cortana will ask you: "Chief, how many of these have you found?" If the level is completed on Legendary, the terminal, once accessed on a different difficulty or another run-through, will show more information, which hints at what the Chief is not worthy to know, at least not yet. Note: that the bridge that you used to get to the Terminal will be destroyed.