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===Activating the Halo Array=== | ===Activating the Halo Array=== | ||
[[File:HM-IsoDidact.png|thumb|The IsoDidact activates the Halo Array from Installation 00's citadel.|250px]] | [[File:HM-IsoDidact.png|thumb|The IsoDidact activates the Halo Array from Installation 00's citadel.|250px]] | ||
{{Quote|Now, old friend, we have the most important job in history–perhaps in all time. You may very well outlast all of us here. You may see the new galaxy emerge. Tell me, Chakas, if this was your choice, after all we have seen and survived... would you fire the rings?|The IsoDidact queries [[343 Guilty Spark]] about the Halo Array before the activation, only to be met by silence. | {{Quote|Now, old friend, we have the most important job in history–perhaps in all time. You may very well outlast all of us here. You may see the new galaxy emerge. Tell me, Chakas, if this was your choice, after all we have seen and survived... would you fire the rings?|The IsoDidact queries [[343 Guilty Spark]] about the Halo Array before the activation, only to be met by silence.{{Ref/Novel|Id=sil314|Sil|Page=314}}}} | ||
{{Main|Great Purification}} | {{Main|Great Purification}} | ||
At [[Installation 00]], the IsoDidact and the other surviving Forerunners began immediate preparations for the activation of the Halo Array. Before the Array's distribution across the galaxy, the IsoDidact assigned the monitors for each installation and gave them their new names. In his last exchange with Chakas, the Didact designated him as [[343 Guilty Spark]] and assigned him as the caretaker of [[Installation 04]]. After the Halos had been deployed, the IsoDidact operated from the Ark's [[Installation 00 Citadel|Citadel]] to complete preparations for the coming activation.<ref name="string36">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 36''</ref> The [[Metarch-class ancilla|Metarch]] [[Offensive Bias]], commanding the remains of the Forerunner fleet, was sent to [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|stall]] Mendicant Bias and its approaching fleet to prevent them from reaching the Ark before the Halos could fire.<ref name="string38">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 38''</ref> | At [[Installation 00]], the IsoDidact and the other surviving Forerunners began immediate preparations for the activation of the Halo Array. Before the Array's distribution across the galaxy, the IsoDidact assigned the monitors for each installation and gave them their new names. In his last exchange with Chakas, the Didact designated him as [[343 Guilty Spark]] and assigned him as the caretaker of [[Installation 04]]. After the Halos had been deployed, the IsoDidact operated from the Ark's [[Installation 00 Citadel|Citadel]] to complete preparations for the coming activation.<ref name="string36">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 36''</ref> The [[Metarch-class ancilla|Metarch]] [[Offensive Bias]], commanding the remains of the Forerunner fleet, was sent to [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|stall]] Mendicant Bias and its approaching fleet to prevent them from reaching the Ark before the Halos could fire.<ref name="string38">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 38''</ref> | ||