049 Abject Testament

049 Abject Testament
Biographical information
Began service:	c. 101,217 B.C
Ended service:	Unknown
Gender:	Male personality
Color(s):	Orange illuminations with silver casing
Political and military information
Affiliation:	Forerunner ecumene
Functionality:	Monitor of Installation 03

"We deserve to be forgotten."

— Abject Testament to 343 Guilty Spark on whether they would be remembered.

049 Abject Testament was the Forerunner monitor of Installation 03.

Background

Abject Testament, as well as the other six monitors, was present at the dispersion of the activation indexes prior to the firing of the Halo weapons near the end of the Forerunner-Flood war. When 343 Guilty Spark remarked on the inability to access the Domain and the loss of Forerunner history, Abject Testament was remembered to have said that they deserved to be forgotten, a statement which Spark was in tenuous agreement with.

Following this he presumably went on to become custodian of Installation 03, though his final fate is unknown. By 2557 049 was unresponsive to messages from 859 Static Carillon, a monitor acting as keeper of the Composers. 049's unresponsiveness caused 859 to travel to Installation 03 to investigate, where he encountered the Ur-Didact.

Behind the scenes

• Abject Testament was voiced by the famous voiceover artist Fred Tatasciore (uncredited), who also voiced the AI aboard Truth and Reconciliation in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary as well as some of the Jiralhanae in Halo 3.
• Abject is an adjective that can mean miserable; forlorn; dejected, while testament means a proof, attestation; or tribute. He is likely named this because of his opinion that the Forerunners ought to be forgotten, believing they left a miserable legacy. Furthermore, it follows the pattern of all Monitor names known so far, having an adjective describing guilt.

List of appearances

• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
  • Terminals (First appearance)
• Halo: Escalation (Mentioned only)