User:CIA391/Terminal misc

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This is sources for the in-universe state of the "collectable" terminals.

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary Terminals

Recorded by humanity as the "Alpha Halo Terminals",[1] these were a series of video transmissions paired with Forerunner code sequences recovered by John-117 during the Battle of Installation 04 in 2552.[2][3]

Following analysis of the video transmissions, ONI researchers uncovered how to unlock highly encrypted data using the Forerunner code sequences in them, leading to additional intel and resources that improved the Spartan program and equipment.[2]

Halo 3

Recorded by humanity as the "terminal dialogs",[4] these were a series of text terminals recovered by John-117 during the Battle of Installation 00 in 2552. These terminals had John-117 and Mendicant Bias communicate with each other during the events of the battle.[5] ONI would eventually get a copy of these dialogs.[4]

Around 2554, onboard the UNSC Rubicon, during ONI's interrogation of 343 Guilty Spark, the UNSC Rubicon's science team references the terminals as a source for their prior information on the Forerunners; they note that the terminals' records are on some points incompatible with Guilty Spark's account.[4] These differences were caused by the unstable Mendicant Bias manipulating the terminals to some extent when presenting them to John-117, filtering and editing the information in a way which best suited its own purposes.[6]

Halo 4

Terminals

Recorded by humanity as the "Domain Data Archives",[1] these were video transmissions recorded by Cortana from Z-9930 Information Vector Consoles on Requiem, rubble from Installation 03, and the Mantle's Approach.[7] When John-117 and Cortana found the terminals, Cortana wasn't able to view the whole thing, only able to extract bits and pieces of the complete exchange, logging it for investigation later.[8] As a result the Data Archives were only snapshots and glimpses,[9] of impressions of reality created by the Domain, and may differ from other more literal records.[10]

Audio stuff

Not confirmed. But one makes sense.

Halo 3 ODST Audio Logs

The audio logs were recovered by Jonathan Doherty during the Battle of New Mombasa in 2552.[11]

Halo Reach

Data Pads

The data pads were recovered by SPARTAN-B312 during the Fall of Reach in 2552. The reliability of the information in them were contested.[12] The datapads were left by a human individual who was shown...... (this part is messy) (Cite Precipice)

Reach radios

A lot of the radios were tied to recordings Benjamin Giraud recovered and showed as part of his journalistic series titled "Ghosts & Glass".[13]

Halo 2 Anniversary Terminals

  • The first few terminals say John-117 accessed them! That is all.

Halo 5

Not yet

Halo Infinite

Not yet - But Halo: Edge of Dawn puts "finding them" as suspect. Outside ones that unlock via campaign progression.

Notes: Edge of Dawn Chapter 7 - Has John and Joy confirm they found "a startling amount of intel through data drops and log entries". Focusing on the Lucas Browning ones.

Halo Campaign evolved

During the Battle of Installation 04 in 2552, terminals were discovered on Installation 04 that covered exchanges between 343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent.[14] According to Office of Naval Intelligence the information within these terminals are classified under Project BOOKWORM.[15]

  1. ^ a b Halo Waypoint, The Halo Bulletin: 11.1.12: This was tied to a puzzle that lead to a Section 3 Transmission (Retrieved on Jan 4, 2012) [archive]
  2. ^ a b Halo Waypoint, Forums - //CLASSIFIED//SECTION 3 DECODING CENTER// (Retrieved on Oct 14, 2014) [archive]
  3. ^ Halo Waypoint, Forums - CLASSIFIED - HYDRAI THREAD - GLYPH CODES (Retrieved on Oct 13, 2014) [archive]
  4. ^ a b c Halo: Primordium, chapter 33
  5. ^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide - Equipment, page 129 (Terminal)
  6. ^ Halo Waypoint, 343 Sparkast 017 (Retrieved on Jul 13, 2014) [local archive] [external archive]
  7. ^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide - Equipment, page 129 (Terminal)
  8. ^ Halo 4, campaign level Requiem: "This node is caught in a loop trying to access something it's calling "the Domain", an offworld data repository of some kind, though I'm only able to extract bits and pieces of the complete exchange... I'll log it for investigation later." - Cortana
  9. ^ X.com, Halo (@Halo): "@HaloArchive 2. The events in Silentium are as they actually occurred in history. The Halo 4 terminals are snapshots and glimpses..." (Retrieved on Jan 2, 2014) [archive]
  10. ^ Halo Waypoint, The Halo Bulletin 5.14.14 (Retrieved on Aug 30, 2014) [archive]
  11. ^ Halo Waypoint Forums, Catalog Interaction (Retrieved on Apr 13, 2016) [local archive] [external archive]
  12. ^ Halo Waypoint Forums, Questions about Reach datapads and flood. (Retrieved on Nov 27, 2020) [local archive] [external archive]
  13. ^ Halo: 'Ghosts & Glass' by B. Giraud
  14. ^ X.com, Halo (@Halo): "343 Guilty Spark, Installation 04's enigmatic monitor, suffered a hundred millennia of isolation. Terminals discovered on Alpha Halo detail several exchanges Spark shared with 2401 Penitent Tangent of Delta Halo before his transmissions ominously ceased. #FictionFriday" (Retrieved on Aug 16, 2026) [archive]
  15. ^ Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Lore de Force (Retrieved on Jul 7, 2026) [archive]
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