Editing Silent Auditorium (location)

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[[File:HINF Silent Auditorium building.png|thumb|300px|The exterior of the Silent Auditorium.]]
{{Quote|It's a courtroom. A prison. A place of execution. All these things. Together. Why?|[[The Weapon]] speaking of the Silent Auditorium's purpose during the [[Battle for Zeta Halo]].{{Ref/Level|Id=Silent Auditorium|Hi|[[Silent Auditorium]]}}
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The '''Silent Auditorium''' is a location which [[Escharum]], the [[Banished]], and The [[Harbinger]] sought control over, in [[2560|May, 2560]].{{Ref/Reuse|Premiere}}

==History==
{{Quote|The [[Installation 07|Ring]] is already under [[Banished|our]] control. Soon, the Auditorium as well...|[[Escharum]] speaking of the Silent Auditorium.{{Ref/Game|HI|trailer|Detail=[[Halo Infinite Campaign Gameplay Premiere|Campaign Gameplay Premiere]]|Id=Premiere}}}}
[[File:HINF SA Central Chamber.png|thumb|250px|The central chamber of the Silent Auditorium.]]

The Silent Auditorium is the facility on Installation 07 in which the Forerunners had enacted judgement upon the Xalanyn. The Xalanyn could not defend themselves and stood silently as the Forerunners imprisoned them. [[Despondent Pyre]] was instructed by the [[Grand Edict]] to experiment on the Xalanyn to learn the extent of what their kind could endure.{{Ref/Game|Id=af4|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Archaeological Findings 2|Banished Audio log|Detail=Archaeological Findings #04 - A Curious Directive}}

Thousands of years later, when [[Cortana]] took control of Zeta Halo, she took up residence in the Silent Auditorium. On [[2559#December|December 12, 2559]], the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} arrived at Zeta Halo and deployed [[the Weapon]], a duplicate of Cortana created by Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] for the express purpose of neutralizing the original Cortana. The Weapon infiltrated the Ring and trapped Cortana inside the facility. Cortana expected [[John-117]] to arrive to return her to the ''Infinity'' for deletion. However, [[Atriox]] showed up instead. Having learned of the Silent Auditorium's true purpose, he demanded the Cortana surrender control of the Ring to him. Instead, Cortana sacrificed herself to destroy the Auditorium, severely damaging the Ring in the process.{{Ref/Reuse|Silent Auditorium}}

Six months later, thanks to the partial repairs made by the [[Reformation]], the [[Harbinger]] was able to access the Silent Auditorium and attempted to open a connection between the Auditorium and an unknown location on the Ring by way of a carrier wave. The signal itself was noted as being sentient and was searching the Ring. The Weapon was able to intercept this signal being transmitted from the three statues that decorated the central chamber. However, once the Harbinger accessed the third and final transmitter, the Weapon noted that a presence on the Installation was assisting her as she attempted to intercept the signal.{{Ref/Reuse|Silent Auditorium}}

Although the Master Chief successfully stopped the Harbinger from using the Auditorium to locate and free the Endless, the Harbinger vowed in her dying breath that the Endless would still return. After the Harbinger's death, the Silent Auditorium quickly began to collapse, but not before a translocation portal opened up, sending the Master Chief three days into the future and across the Ring. Although the central chamber of the Auditorium was destroyed, the external structure remained largely intact.{{Ref/Reuse|Silent Auditorium}}

==Production notes==
The Silent Auditorium was first mentioned by Escharum in the ''[[Halo Infinite]]'' [[Halo Infinite Campaign Gameplay Premiere|Campaign Gameplay Premiere]].{{Ref/Reuse|Premiere}}

==Gallery==
===Concept art===
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File:HINF Concept OriginalSilentAudtorium.jpg|Concept art of the Silent Auditorium before Installation 07 was damaged.
File:HINF MysteriousStructureConcept.jpg|Concept art of a [[Pelican]] flying toward the rebuilt Silent Auditorium.
</gallery>
===Screenshots===
<gallery>
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Statues.png|One of the many rooms within the Auditorium depicting these statues.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Rebuilt.png|The Silent Auditorium viewed from the Repository.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Hallway.png|Another hallways within the Silent Auditorium.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Room.png|Hologram of Offensive Bias within the Auditorium.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Halls.png|A vast chamber within the Silent Auditorium.
File:HINF Harbinger Battle.png|The Harbinger utilising the statues to search Installation 07.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Repairs.png|The Silent Auditorium fully repaired.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Repairing.png|The Reformation being directed to the Silent Auditorium.
HINF Silent Auditorium Destroyed.png|The Silent Auditorium destroyed.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Repaired.png|The Silent Auditorium repaired in the distance.
File:HINF Silent Auditorium Cylix.png|Cylixes stored within the Auditorium.
File:HINF Cylix Jiralhanae.png|Jiralhanae Cylixes stored in the Silent Auditorium.
File:HINF Jiralhanae Cylix.png|Jiralhanae Cylixes storage chamber.
File:HINF Silent Audit Entering Central Chamber.png|John-117 enters the Auditorium's central chamber.
File:HINF No Shield Silver Chieftain.png|[[Horatius]], a Banished Chieftain, in the Silent Auditorium.
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]''

==Sources==
{{Ref/Sources}}

[[Category:Installation 07 locations]]