Installation 00

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The Ark is an enigmatic Forerunner structure from which all the Halo Installations across the galaxy can be activated[1]. In this final cutscene, Delta Halo is armed by Tartarus, but is then unexpectedly shut down by Miranda Keyes, causing it to send a communication, to all other Halos in the galaxy, putting them on standby mode, primed to fire. 343 Guilty Spark informed Miranda Keyes, Sergeant Johnson and the Arbiter that the Halos must now be activated or deactivated from the "Ark".

The Portal at Voi as seen in the Halo 3 announcement trailer.
The Ark, near Mombasa, Kenya opens.

Ark on Earth

The exact location and characteristics of the Ark is found in a leaked video to be only reacable by a portal opened by the Forerunner artifact on Earth.

Trivia

  • In the biblical story of Noah's Ark that was built to save Noah's family and a number of animals from a massive flood. This runs parallel to the Halo Universe story line where the Forerunner use the ark to save their species from the Flood. Also, in yet another reference to the number seven in Halo, the Noah's Ark story is in Genesis chapter seven.

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The Forerunners

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Halo Array
Arks
Senescent array
Gyre 01 • Gyre 02 • Gyre 03 • Gyre 04 • Gyre 05 • Gyre 06 • Gyre 07 • Gyre 08 • Gyre 09 • Gyre 10 • Gyre 11 • Gyre 12
Neoteric array
Other

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Installation components

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Other installations
Other megastructures
Other facilities

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Technology
AI suppressor • Ancilla • Anti-gravity gondola • Assembler vats • Astroengineering • Baffler • Combat skin ((War sphinx • Seeker)) • Confinement bubble • Confinement field • Constraint field • Console • Coordinate key • Dazzler • Design seed ((Upgrade seed)) • Durance ((Didact's Gift)) • Encephalon • Energy core • Engineering unit • Entanglement dish • Flarecore • Gas canister • Guardian • Hard light (Light bridge) • Grappler • Huragok • Interdiction web • Lifeworker beacon • Mind transfer • Modular Dispersal Technology • Observation pane • Personal armor • Power core • Relic core • Sharquoi • Slipspace bubble • Slipspace core (Flake) • Slipspace field pod • Slipspace translocation ((Personal slipspace unit • Teleporter • Teleportation grid • Slipspace portal)) • Smartmatter • State-shifter • Stasis field • Verivorr • Weapon rack • Z-9930 Terminal

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Ships
Civilian starships
Small craft and weapon-ships
Escorts
Unknown type

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Sentinels
Types
Related facilities

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Weaponry
Infantry weapons
Grenades
Mounted weapons
Battlefield equipment

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Artifacts
  • The real world Ark of the Covenant which according to the old Testament contains the stone tablets of the ten commandments, is the holiest object of the Jewish faith. The Ark of the Covenant is popularly believed to rest somewhere in east Africa, albeit in Ethiopia rather than Kenya.
  • The "Ark" seen in the announcement trailer is structurally identical to the Forerunner sanctuary described in the final chapters of Ghosts of Onyx (albeit on a much grander scale), complete with thirteen metal fins and a brilliant, blue-white portal in the ground. However, it is shown without the thirteen concentric rings rising around the portal, which means that it was either built without them or they will raise as the Ark opens. The ark could be another safe haven from the effects of the halos like the shield world. Also the ark could contain at least one Forerunner or pictures of them.
  • It is believed that the trailer took place around the levels of Tsavo Highway and The Storm.
  • Ark concept.jpg

    Concept sketch of the mysterious structure opening.

  • Starry Night by the Ark.PNG

    A Carrier Battle Group over The Ark.

Links

Sources

  1. ^ Halo 2 The Great Journey Final cinematic.
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