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{{Quote|We did not create so much without a means to catalog it all.|The [[Librarian]]'s imprint to [[Catherine Halsey]]<ref name="Key">'''Spartan Ops:''' ''[[S1/Key|S1E9 Key]]''</ref>}} | {{Quote|We did not create so much without a means to catalog it all.|The [[Librarian]]'s imprint to [[Catherine Halsey]]<ref name="Key">'''Spartan Ops:''' ''[[S1/Key|S1E9 Key]]''</ref>}} | ||
The '''Janus Key''' is a [[Forerunner]] [[Cartographer|cartographical]] artifact<ref name="evg">'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 135''</ref> that provides real-time location of every piece of Forerunner technology in the [[Milky Way|galaxy]] when its halves are combined. | The '''Janus Key''' is a [[Forerunner]] [[Cartographer|cartographical]] artifact<ref name="evg">'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 135''</ref> that provides real-time location of every piece of Forerunner technology in the [[Milky Way|galaxy]] when its halves are combined.{{Ref/Reuse|Key}} | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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===Discovery on Requiem=== | ===Discovery on Requiem=== | ||
[[File:H4-SOps-Halsey-Librarian.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The Librarian reveals the Janus Key to Halsey.]] | [[File:H4-SOps-Halsey-Librarian.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The Librarian reveals the Janus Key to Halsey.]] | ||
[[2558|Six months after]] the Didact's [[New Phoenix Incident|attack on Earth]] was foiled, the Librarian's stored personality gave the key to [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], instructing her to take the key to the [[Absolute Record]]. After Halsey reawakened in the [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant]]-controlled [[Copernicus Base]], [[Jul 'Mdama]] took half of the artifact and escaped with the doctor. As she was being carried away, she threw the other half of the key to [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Gabriel Thorne]]. | [[2558|Six months after]] the Didact's [[New Phoenix Incident|attack on Earth]] was foiled, the Librarian's stored personality gave the key to [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], instructing her to take the key to the [[Absolute Record]]. After Halsey reawakened in the [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant]]-controlled [[Copernicus Base]], [[Jul 'Mdama]] took half of the artifact and escaped with the doctor. As she was being carried away, she threw the other half of the key to [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Gabriel Thorne]].{{Ref/Reuse|Key}} Thorne eventually gave his half to [[Henry Glassman|Dr. Henry Glassman]] for further study.<ref>'''Spartan Ops:''' ''[[S1/Exodus|S1E10 Exodus]]''</ref> | ||
===The Absolute Record=== | ===The Absolute Record=== | ||