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The '''Data Center''' was an immense underground facility under the city of [[New Mombasa]], [[Kenya]], [[Earth | <center>''Looking for [[Data Hive]], the [[Halo 3: ODST]] level?''</center> | ||
The '''Data Center''' was an immense underground facility under the city of [[New Mombasa]], [[Kenya]], [[Earth]].<ref name="hive">'''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''', campaign level, ''[[Data Hive]]''</ref> | |||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
[[File:Ai_core_1.jpg|thumb|The Superintendent's core.]] | [[File:Ai_core_1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Superintendent's core.]] | ||
The data center consisted of | The data center consisted of ten sublevels, with the most crucial facilities on the lowest level. The facility had a fire containment system, that if activated, would flood any section in the data center with freezing argon gas. Sublevels seven, eight and nine mainly housed maintenance tunnels and rooms, retractable data stacks and other similar facilities. [[Dr. Endesha]]'s office was located on Sublevel 9.<ref name="hive"/> | ||
The [[Superintendent]]'s main data core was located in Sublevel 10, inside a massive cavern and suspended over an underground lake. The data core was directly below the [[ | The city's [[Artificial Intelligence|Urban Infrastructure AI]]'s, the [[Superintendent (Construct)|Superintendent]]'s main data core was located in the lowest level, Sublevel 10, inside a massive cavern and suspended over an underground lake. The data core was directly below the [[ONI Alpha Site]]'s main building, with a deep shaft connecting them. Sublevel 10 also housed massive power junctures.<ref name="hive"/> | ||
The [[Forerunner]] [[Portal]] structure was also partially located below this facility.<ref name="hive"/><ref name="epilogue">'''Halo 3: ODST''', ''Epilogue''</ref> | |||
== History == | |||
[[File:Tunnel_common.jpg|thumb|right|A typical maintenance tunnel in the Data Center.]] | |||
The Data Center's construction was overseen by [[Dr. Endesha]], the scientist responsible for managing the Superintendent.<ref name="sadie">'''Halo 3: ODST''', ''[[Sadie's Story]]''</ref> | |||
Just before [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[Battle of Earth|invasion]] on [[Earth]], an unusual object, later revealed to be the Portal, was detected by a seismic survey performed by the Superintendent. When the [[Battle of Mombasa]] begun, Dr. Endesha was inside the Data Center, observing [[Huragok]] who freed one of their own, which eventually made its way into the Superintendent's core and started to repair it, eventually fusing its [[Vergil]] subroutine with itself. Dr. Endesha was killed when Commissioner Kinsler activated the facility's fire containment system by the flamethrower found in the sublevel, flooding the facility's Sublevel 9 with Argon.<ref name="sadie"/> During the battle, [[Yanme'e]] built hives into the Data Center's Sublevel 10.<ref name="hive"/> | |||
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Kinsler sent a team of NMPD officers to make sure the Doctor was dead, and then retrieve the Superintendent's data. Eventually, only [[Unnamed NMPD Officer|one officer]] survived. He was later | Kinsler sent a team of [[New Mombasa Police Department|NMPD]] officers to make sure the Doctor was dead, and then retrieve the Superintendent's data. Eventually, only [[Unnamed NMPD Officer|one officer]] survived. He was later met by an [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODST]], [[the Rookie]], who had arrived in the Data Center to find [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Veronica Dare|Dare]], who was holding in Sublevel 9. The cop was later killed, but the Rookie made his way to Dare's position, and they retrieved the Huragok who had fused its data with the Superintendent. After this, the facility fell under Covenant control.<ref name="hive"/><ref name="epilogue"/> | ||
When the [[Prophet of Truth]] arrived at Earth on November | When the [[Prophet of Truth]] arrived at Earth on November, 2552, he traveled to the Data Center's lowest level, where the Covenant forces had excavated a tunnel into the interior of the Portal structure. At this point, the structures inside the facility were still mostly undamaged. Large numbers of Huragok were present, and they had painted their enigmatic symbols - most of them depicting the Superintendent's avatar - all over the Superintendent's core and the surrounding structures.<ref name="epilogue"/> | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
A partially excavated Forerunner artifact below the main chamber of the facility is featured in the epilogue cutscene of ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', where the Prophet of Truth observes multiple Huragok working on the excavation. During the level ''[[Data Hive (Level)|Data Hive]]'' in the game, while the player | *A partially excavated Forerunner artifact below the main chamber of the facility is featured in the epilogue cutscene of ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', where the Prophet of Truth observes multiple Huragok working on the excavation. During the level ''[[Data Hive (Level)|Data Hive]]'' in the game, while the player can't see it clearly due to the Superintendent's main core in the way, the structure can be seen in the background. As the artifact's existence was unknown to the humans at the time, only revealed in a seismic survey made by the Superintendent just before the Covenant invasion, it could not have been visible before the Covenant arrived. It is unknown if the Covenant actually excavated the artifact during the few hours between their invasion and the Rookie's arrival to the Data Center, or if its presence in the in-game level is simply an oversight on the developers' part.<ref name="hive"/> | ||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:Datastack_open.jpg|An open data stack. | File:Datastack_open.jpg|An open data stack. | ||
File:Datacent_hurag.jpg|The Huragok | File:Datacent_hurag.jpg|The Huragok, Vergil, inside the Superintendent's core. | ||
File:Endeshas_office.jpg|Dr. Endesha's office in the facility. | File:Endeshas_office.jpg|Dr. Endesha's office in the facility. | ||
File:Hives_3.jpg|The Yanme'e hive above Sublevel 10's Power Juncture. | File:Hives_3.jpg|The Yanme'e hive above Sublevel 10's Power Juncture. | ||
File: | File:Portal_access.jpg|Part of the Forerunner Portal structure, seen in the main cavern. | ||
File:Sublevel_development_compilation.png|A compilation of images showing the creation process of a room in the data center, from early concepts to the final game. | |||
File:Tunnel concept.png|Concept art of the tunnels. | |||
File:Datacenter_concept.jpg|Concept art of the Superintendent's main core. | |||
File:ODST_underground_hub.jpg|Concept art of a data stack hub. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
* | *[[Halo 3: ODST]] {{1st}} | ||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
<references/> | |||
{{MombasaLocales}} | {{MombasaLocales}} |