Terminal

This article is about the terminals in the games. For the terminal devices, see Z-9930 Information Vector Console. For other uses, see Terminal (disambiguation).

Terminals are objects found in the campaigns of multiple Halo games. Conceptually based upon similar terminals in Bungie's earlier Marathon game series, the Terminals serve to flesh out the backstory of the Halo universe and expand upon events relevant to the game narratives.

Terminals were first introduced in Halo in Halo 3, which features seven text-based terminals hidden throughout the game's campaign that tell the story of the Forerunner-Flood war. These were expanded in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 4, and Halo 2: Anniversary to be fully-animated videos produced by Sequence, before returning to the text-based format in Halo: Campaign Evolved.