Sigma Octanus IV artifact

The Sigma Octanus IV Artifact is a Forerunner artifact first identified as such when it was on display in the Côte d'Azur Museum of Natural History on Sigma Octanus IV.

Description
The artifact contained a star chart embedded with coordination to the Soell System, where Installation 04 is located, and another to Reach.

Background
The artifact arrived on the planet as a form of a meteor in 57,448 B.C.E. Some 60,000 years later, human inhabitants of the planet placed the artifact in a Côte d'Azur Museum of Natural History.

During the Covenant invasion of Sigma Octanus IV, the Covenant attempted to seize the artifact from the museum, only to have the operation foiled by the SPARTAN-II Blue Team. Knowing that that gravity of the planet's condition is well beyond them, but aware of the potential intelligence value, the SPARTANs took the artifact and placed a HAVOK tactical warhead inside the museum.

Scans of the artifact were later given to Cortana and Dr. Halsey, whom attempted to decrypt it as a language. During the Fall of Reach, Cortana successfully translated the artifact in a form of a star chart instead of a language, leading the and its crew to Installation 04.

List of appearances

 * Halo: The Fall of Reach