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In the battlefield, Watchers act in a supporting role, assisting Promethean ground units with aerial combat screening and often forcing opponents to engage the Sentinel first. Each [[Promethean Knight]] unit carries a single Watcher in the back of their armored carapace, from which the Watcher can be deployed at will. The Watcher is an integral part of the Knight, as it shares the same digitized essence, part of which is split off when the Watcher separates from the Knight's carapace.<ref>[http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1180242 '''HBO Forum:''' ''Designing the Prometheans'']</ref> | In the battlefield, Watchers act in a supporting role, assisting Promethean ground units with aerial combat screening and often forcing opponents to engage the Sentinel first. Each [[Promethean Knight]] unit carries a single Watcher or more in the back of their armored carapace, from which the Watcher can be deployed at will. The Watcher is an integral part of the Knight, as it shares the same digitized essence, part of which is split off when the Watcher separates from the Knight's carapace.<ref>[http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1180242 '''HBO Forum:''' ''Designing the Prometheans'']</ref> | ||
The Watcher is capable of healing and augmenting damaged allies, providing them with [[Z-90 Photonic Coalescence Emitter/Aegis|hard light shields]], and can catch and return enemy ordnance, such as [[grenade]]s, with a [[Anti-gravity technology|gravity-displacement field]].<ref name="H4 Characters"/> They are armed with a built-in [[Z-110 Directed Energy Pistol|Boltshot]].<ref name="demo"/><ref name="gi"/> Watchers can resurrect destroyed Knights from the small orb of light they leave behind upon death; however, this can only be performed once for each individual Knight.<ref name="Return">'''[[Making Halo 4: Return of the Forerunners]]'''</ref> They are also capable of summoning [[Promethean Crawler]]s to the battlefield by conjuring the Crawlers' forms from raw material in the ground.<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/06/20/The-Halo-Bulletin-62012.aspx '''Halo Waypoint:''' ''The Halo Bulletin: 6.20.12'']</ref> Watchers are also capable of building [[beam turret]]s.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Infinity (Halo 4 level)|Infinity]]''</ref> | The Watcher is capable of healing and augmenting damaged allies, providing them with [[Z-90 Photonic Coalescence Emitter/Aegis|hard light shields]], and can catch and return enemy ordnance, such as [[grenade]]s, with a [[Anti-gravity technology|gravity-displacement field]].<ref name="H4 Characters"/> They are armed with a built-in [[Z-110 Directed Energy Pistol|Boltshot]].<ref name="demo"/><ref name="gi"/> Watchers can resurrect destroyed Knights from the small orb of light they leave behind upon death; however, this can only be performed once for each individual Knight.<ref name="Return">'''[[Making Halo 4: Return of the Forerunners]]'''</ref> They are also capable of summoning [[Promethean Crawler]]s to the battlefield by conjuring the Crawlers' forms from raw material in the ground.<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/06/20/The-Halo-Bulletin-62012.aspx '''Halo Waypoint:''' ''The Halo Bulletin: 6.20.12'']</ref> Watchers are also capable of building [[beam turret]]s.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Infinity (Halo 4 level)|Infinity]]''</ref> | ||