Assembler Sentinel
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Assembler Sentinels are a type of Strato-Sentinel employed by the Forerunners.[3] Like the similarly-named Constructors, Assemblers are used to build Forerunner installations and their components.[2]
Overview
Design
With an overall design similar to that of other Strato-Sentinels like the Steward Sentinel, the Assembler Sentinel consists of a vaguely disc-shaped, ovoid body with three central luminous ocular sensor "eyes."[2] Some Assembler Sentinels incorporate tower-like protrusions at the edges of its upper surface,[4] while others do not.[2][4][5] Beneath the Assembler's large body hangs several gravitic grappler appendages. Alongside these grapplers, Assemblers also feature integrated energy shielding and warship-grade directed-energy projectors for defense.[2]
Operation
Assembler Sentinels are predominantly designed and employed for the construction, maintenance, fabrication, transportation, and reconditioning of large superstructures.[2][6] They typically work alongside Retriever Sentinels, utilising the resources harvested by the Retrievers for the construction of large structures such as Halo rings.[1] Assemblers may also be utilised to conduct finishing work on structures emerging from large construction looms.[2]
Although they were not initially designed for combat, they will suspend their primary duties to engage Flood forms in the event of an outbreak.[2][7]
Operational history
During the Forerunner-Flood war, Assemblers were sometimes used in an offensive role against the Flood, using their gravitic grapplers against the parasite in a limited offensive capacity.[2] Toward the war's end, Assemblers were used to construct the Portal at Voi on Earth.[4]
The Foundry of Installation 00 is populated by numerous Assemblers, as well as Retrievers. While the Retrievers extract resources and minerals from the small moon held there, the Assemblers use the materials to build components of the Halo Array and to repair the Ark, if required.[1][8] Assemblers were used alongside Extractor Sentinels to construct Installation 08.[9][10]
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Halo 3 concept art for a Strato-Sentinel, ultimately later canonised as the Assembler.
More Halo 3 concept art for a Strato-Sentinel that would later be established as the Assembler.
Halo 3 concept art of Strato-Sentinels in the Ark's Foundry.
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Assemblers construct the portal in Voi.
Assembler Sentinels in Origins.
A group of Assembler Sentinels.
A number of Assembler Sentinels.
List of appearances
- Iris
- Halo 3: The Cradle of Life (First appearance)
- Halo Legends
- Halo: Silentium (Mentioned only)
- Halo Wars 2 (Mentioned only)
Sources
- ^ a b c Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Log - The Foundry
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 328
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 335
- ^ a b c Halo 3: The Cradle of Life
- ^ Halo Legends, episode Origins
- ^ Twitter, Frank O'Connor (@franklez): "They are deliberate variants created by the Studio4°c in partnership with us - and they are canonical and in that sense those variants could show elsewhere. They are tweaked as new designs to infer re-seeding and general array and repopulation maintenance duties. See also Iris" (Retrieved on Apr 29, 2022) [archive]
- ^ Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 167
- ^ Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Log - Forerunner Sentinels
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 343
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 356
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