Installation 07
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Unknown star system (currently)[1][2] |
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Galactic sterilization/Flood containment and research |
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Diameter: |
10,000 kilometers (6,200 mi) (formerly 30,000 kilometers (19,000 mi))[8] |
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318 kilometers (198 mi)[9] |
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Surface depth: |
47 kilometers (29 mi)[10] |
Installation 07, also known as Zeta Halo,[9][11] originally known as Gyre 11 by the Forerunners,[12], and Oth Koronn by the Banished,[13] is one of the seven rings in the Forerunners' Halo Array, located in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.[4]
Unlike the other six remaining Halo installations, which were constructed as a separate array of rings with the diameter of 10,000 kilometers,[14] Installation 07 is the only surviving ring from the original main array of twelve 30,000-kilometer-wide Halos.[15] However, the installation's diameter was reduced to 10,000 kilometers after most of its superstructure was discarded as a result of heavy damage.[16]
117649 Despondent Pyre was the assigned monitor of Installation 07 until her destruction during a conflict between the United Nations Space Command and the Banished that began in late 2559.[7] The submonitor Adjutant Resolution took over as the caretaker of the installation following his superior's destruction.[17] It was during this conflict that Installation 07 would once again be heavily damaged, this time purposefully by Created leader Cortana.[18]
History[edit]
Forerunner era[edit]
Construction and commissioning[edit]
Unlike the other six rings in the final Halo Array, Installation 07 was manufactured at the greater Ark instead of Installation 00 or the "lesser Ark". As a result, it was originally three times the size of a normal Halo ring (30,000 kilometers in diameter).[8] Like the other Halos, Installation 07 served a secondary purpose as a Lifeworker preserve for biological specimens from across the galaxy as part of the Conservation Measure. Installation 07 was primarily dedicated to humans, being home to various species and subspecies of the human genus, alongside numerous fauna and flora. The humans living on the installation identified themselves as Tudejsa, meaning "the People" or "People from Here."[19] In the beginning, these humans were allowed to build their own societies and were mostly left undisturbed by the Forerunners.[20] Some of the People even constructed rudimentary cities.[21]
During the Forerunner-Flood war, Master Builder Faber placed Installation 07, along with the other eleven rings in the original Array, under control of the Contender-class AI Mendicant Bias, and one of the primary extensions of the AI was placed on the ring.[22] At one point, the Master Builder broke his deal with the Librarian and began to use the human specimens on the ring for his brutal experiments on the Flood. Some of the Lifeworkers serving on the installation complied and aided Faber's minions in these experiments, while those most loyal to the Librarian worked to keep the installation's biological preserves intact. Faber also forcibly drafted Warrior-Servants as an additional security force for the installation. In their exhaustive experiments, the Master Builder's researchers found that the majority of humans were apparently immune to the Flood, which they believed to be a result of a "cure" developed by the Ancestors during the ancient human-Flood conflict. In reality, no cure ever existed, and the humans' apparent immunity was the result of the Flood's ongoing strategy to target Forerunners only.[23]
Faber's researchers believed that a cure to the Flood might be found via extracting ancestral memory imprints from humans who carried the Librarian's special