Editing Maker-of-Moons

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'''Maker-of-Moons''' was a high-ranking [[Forerunner]] [[Builder]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 5''</ref>

==Biography==
She was born around 99,445 BCE to an ancient [[Builder]] family responsible for the manufacturing of fast, heavily armed ships. Her father served the [[Master Builder]], [[Faber]], and was directly responsible for the [[Ur-Didact]]'s original exile. She originally helped in the designs of the [[Halo Array]] in the later stages. She was supposed to improve upon the plans, but found numerous faults with the original designs. The twelve original Halos were too large, which made them unwieldy to transport via [[slipspace portal]]s. While they could shed portions, they were otherwise vulnerable to instability and collapse. She also pointed out several design flaws with the [[greater Ark]], including the inability to make smaller installations. When she was ignored, she resigned in protest.

She was subsequently put on trial by the [[Juridical]]s, then still part of the Master Builder's corruption, but her father intervened; however, Faber had [[Builder Security]] execute him. When the Master Builder was put on trial not long after, Maker was part of an emergency council of several Builders gathered on [[Secunda]], intending to testify against him in exchange for protection from his minions. However, the meeting was stopped by Faber's personal security. Faber had Maker, along with the Ur-Didact, [[Sharp-by-Striking]], and [[Catalog]], which was intending to take Maker's testimony, all enclosed in [[stasis bubble]]s and exiled to a barely functioning old Builder hulk near [[Uthera Midgeerrd]].

Maker was released from stasis significantly later, after the Ur-Didact and Sharp-by-Striking first woke and disabled her and Catalog's stasis bubbles. After being released she spasmed and appeared ill; Sharp inspected her to see if she was infected by the [[Flood]], but found she was not, with the effects instead resulting from her long stasis. She responded with disbelief when she was told she was exiled. She was able to access the ship's system, informing the others that the [[ancilla]] was still online but the weapons had been stripped. When a large, unidentified mass appeared approaching the ship, she was able to scan it and identify it as [[Precursor]] artifacts. This was soon proven true, with the mass being revealed as a tangled formation of active Precursor [[star road]]s. A Flood-controlled fleet also appeared and converged on the ship. Maker and Sharp decided to leave the vessel in stasis bubbles, hoping they would not be detected by the Flood, while Ur-Didact and Catalog remained on the ship. Impressed by the Didact's sacrifice, Maker gave him her [[Forerunner personal armor|armor]] before abandoning the ship.

Assuming her stasis bubble was not discovered by the Flood or that it did not fail in the intervening years, Maker was most likely killed when the Halo Array was fired in [[97,445 BCE]], as the Forerunner authorities were unlikely to attempt a rescue deep within the [[Burn]].<ref name="catalog"/>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Silentium]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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