Coordinate key
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A coordinate key is a piece of Forerunner technology that leads the user to a location and grants them access to it.
Operational history
During 343 Guilty Spark's meeting with a personality imprint of the Librarian in a Forerunner complex beneath Mount Kilimanjaro, she provided him with a small etched box containing a coordinate key with the instruction to "find what's missing. Fix the path. Right what my kind has turned wrong."[1]
Months later, when Lessa handled the coordinate key, it responded to the touch of a Reclaimer and part of it collapsed inwards by twelve millimeters to form the symbol for Installation 07.[2] After six months without success in finding the UNSC Spirit of Fire, Rion Forge agreed to take the Ace of Spades to follow the trail set by the key.
On Zeta Halo, Spark inserted the coordinate key into the installation's Cartographer with Rion adding her touch as a Reclaimer. The Cartographer displayed a star map pointing to a location on New Carthage before ejecting the key and a second component which Rion combined together. A slipspace portal opened and pulled Rion through, although Spark managed to keep hold of the coordinate key.[3] When Ram Chalva inserted the coordinate key into a terminal at the way station that the map pointed to, it released a third component to the key. When the pieces of the coordinate key were put together, it pointed to Erebus VII with no spots for a fourth piece.[4]
Following the trail left by the key, Rion and Spark were eventually led to the shield world Bastion, the Librarian's secret laboratory. After launching the Eden, Spark used the coordinate key to assume control of Bastion as its new caretaker.[5]
List of appearances
- Halo: Renegades (First appearance)
- Halo: Point of Light
Sources
- ^ Halo: Renegades, chapter 48
- ^ Halo: Point of Light, page 35
- ^ Halo: Point of Light, chapter 16
- ^ Halo: Point of Light, chapter 28
- ^ Halo: Point of Light
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