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{{Status|Canon}}
{{era|H3|RVB|}}
{{AI infobox
{{ratings}}
|image = [[File:Cold Storage Monitor.jpg|265px]]
 
|description = Resembles a large monitor integrated to the ceiling of a Flood containment facility
{{AI Infobox
|color = Silver, blue
| image=[[Image:Cold Storage Monitor.jpg|250px]]
|function = Oversaw Flood containment facility on Installation 05
| name=Cold Storage Monitor
|affiliation = Forerunner
| number=
| began=
| ended=
| gender=
| description=Large [[Monitor]] intergrated to the ceiling of [[Cold Storage]]
| color=Silver, Blue
| affiliation=[[Forerunner]]
| function=Watches over Cold Storage
| battles=
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This '''unidentified [[ancilla]]''' is a [[Forerunner]] construct that monitored a [[Flood]] [[Flood containment facility|containment facility]] on [[Installation 05]]. It was far larger than a [[monitor]]; rather than freely levitating like a monitor, this construct was mounted on rails on the ceiling of the facility.<ref>'''Halo 3''', level ''[[Cold Storage]]''</ref>
The '''Cold Storage Monitor''' is a [[Monitor|monitor]] on the ceiling of the [[multiplayer]] map, [[Cold Storage]] in [[Halo 3|''Halo 3'']]. The "Monitor" follows your movements, but will stop once you leave the room. It should be noted that the Monitor on the ceiling is not [[2401 Penitent Tangent]], for it's far too large, and Penitent Tangent has a red "eye" (although the red eye may be possibly due to [[rampancy]], which is similarly what [[343 Guilty Spark]] displayed during rampancy), in fact it is several times the size of an average Monitor, such as the player's model whilst in [[Forge]]. It has been speculated to be a "local caretaker," designated to watch over the facility like a prison guard, similar to a "dumb" [[UNSC]] [[AI]]. It seems to have failed as the [[Flood]] have mostly taken over the facility, although no Flood can be seen in the main room in which this Monitor resides, so perhaps, in a way, it has succeeded. This Monitor is also invincible, and cannot be harmed by [[grenades]], [[Human|human]] [[weapons]], [[Sentinel Beam]]s, or [[Plasma]] weapons.


==Overview==
{{Conjecture}}
This ancilla might have served as a local caretaker designated to watch or oversee the Flood specimens contained in the facility.


Given their remarkably similar appearances, it is also possible that this ancilla had the same role with [[the Knowing]], a Forerunner construct on the planet [[Ariel]] that was designed to gather and organize information about the course of history. If this is so, it is possible that all [[Halo Array|Halo installations]] possess such a construct.
{{Conjecture end}}


==Gameplay==
==Trivia==
The ancilla is attached to a pair of rails on the ceiling of the main room in the multiplayer map ''[[Cold Storage]]''. It serves as an invulnerable piece of immobile scenery. It follows the movements of any players in the room, but stops paying attention to players when they leave the room. However, it will not track players in edit mode unless it sees them prior to entering this mode. It is capable of seeing players using [[active camouflage]], implying the usage of heat sensors or other optical technologies. It will continue to track the bodies of dead players provided if no one else is in the room.
*The [[Cold Storage]] Monitor will not follow a player in Monitor mode in Forge unless it sees the player before he/she becomes a Monitor. The Monitor will follow a new person that walks into the room, even if someone else is in there. This can be useful in [[Multiplayer]] battles like Oddball. An advantage, the Monitor can see everyone, even those wearing [[Active Camo]]. This indicates that it uses other sensors, such as heat sensors to detect objects that normally, cannot be seen.
*In [[Red vs Blue: Reconstruction]], the [[Cold Storage]] Monitor portrays a speaker system used by the Director and Councilor of Project: FREELANCER to communicate with Agent Washington in the Chapter 19.  


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery widths="150">
<gallery>
File:ColdStorageMonitor2.jpg|The construct compared to a normal monitor.
Image:1215439011 Untitled.jpg|The Monitor is far larger than a normal Monitor.
File:ColdStorageMonitor3.jpg|The ancilla from another angle.
Image:Monitor3.jpg|The monitor from an other angle.
</gallery>
</gallery>
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo 3]]'' {{1st}}
==Sources==
{{Ref/Sources}}
{{Forerunner AI}}
[[Category:Forerunner A.I.]]
[[Category:Forerunner A.I.]]
[[Category:Unidentified content]]
[[Category:AI characters]]

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