Editing Shaps III

{{Status|Canon}}

|position=Third planet{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}}

|species=[[Forerunner]]s{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}} {{C|formerly}}

|government=[[Ecumene]]{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}} {{C|formerly}}

{{Quote|Shaps III is a wasteland. There is nothing there except Forerunner ruins.|[[Wendell]]{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}}}}

'''Shaps III''', designated '''Wuatera Thresis''' by the [[Forerunner]]s, is the third planet in the [[Shaps system]], located within the [[Isbanola sector]] among the [[human]] [[Outer Colonies]]. Once a Forerunner colony of the [[ecumene]], Shaps III is currently an uninhabited wasteland with remains of Forerunner cities and an [[Line Installation 444-447|installation]].{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}}

{{Quote|It is in a system only eight-point-seven light-years from here, the third world of an F2 star with fourteen planets. A beautiful world with beautiful cities.|Intrepid Eye, referring to a prehistoric Shaps III{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}}}}

Shaps III was once part of the [[Forerunner]] [[ecumene]] and was host to numerous cities.{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}} Following [[Great Purification|the firing]] of the [[Halo Array]], the Forerunners had left behind many of their structures and artifacts on the surface of the planet, including [[Line Installation 444-447]] of the [[Maginot Line]].<ref name="hll36">'''Halo: Last Light''', ''pages 36-39'' (Google Play edition)</ref> It was also where the {{Class|archeon|ancilla}} [[Intrepid Eye]] was created.{{Ref/Reuse|hll42}}

On [[2553#April|April 14, 2553]], the planet was chosen to be partially [[glassed]] by the [[pirate]] [[Sav Fel]] to demonstrate the destructive power of ''[[Pious Inquisitor]]'''s [[Energy projector|ventral beam]] to [[Staffan Sentzke]]. Fel considered it to be a wasteland full of ancient ruins, however, Sentzke was astonished by its Forerunner buildings. Against the wishes of the ship's [[Huragok]], [[Sometimes Sinks]], Fel and his crew activated the ventral beam and glassed a Forerunner site on the planet. Staffan was speechless upon seeing the planet's molten surface caused by the cleansing beam and asked to try it himself, which Fel approved. Sentzke asked Sometimes Sinks to aim the beam elsewhere to avoid damaging more ruins and then proceeded to glass a portion of the planet.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''pages 125-133''</ref>

The glassing of Shaps III's Forerunner structures caused Line Installation 444-447, and a number of nearby line installations,<ref>'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 145''</ref> to activate and to send out an automated distress signal which was received by [[Covert Support Base 4276]] on the planet [[Gao]] in the nearby [[Cordoba system]]. This roused Support Base 4276's AI Intrepid Eye from stasis, triggering a chain of events which led to [[Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE|a conflict on the planet]] in early July 2553.{{Ref/Reuse|hll36}} Around the time of their [[operation]] on Gao, the [[717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion]] deployed a [[company]] to Shaps III to survey the line installation, where the unit discovered valuable [[boson bead]]s created when Fel glassed a [[hard light]] device within the Forerunner ruins on the planet.<ref>'''[[Halo: Retribution]]''', ''page 9'' (Google Play edition)</ref> In mid-[[2556]], the crew of ''[[Ace of Spades]]'' undertook a job on Shaps III that required them to utilize [[active camouflage]] units.<ref>'''[[Halo: Smoke and Shadow]]''', ''page 78''</ref>

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