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Following the use of Installation 07 by Master Builder Faber to suppress [[Battle of Janjur Qom|a rebellion]] on the [[San 'Shyuum]] homeworld of [[Janjur Qom]], the other eleven Halo installations were taken to the Forerunner [[Capital]] during the tribunal against Faber, where it was to be decided whether to decommission them. However, in the midst of the trial, Mendicant Bias, turned rampant by the Primordial, appeared with Installation 07, which had gone missing since the San 'Shyuum rebellion, and assaulted the Capital. The AI attempted to seize control of the remaining Halos and fire them, but was only able to control five out of the twelve. One of those five was destroyed by the combined tidal forces of the Capital, the firepower of local Forerunner fleets, and the stress of a recent [[slipspace]] transition. The seven Halos that Mendicant Bias was unable to control were recalled to Installation 00 via slipspace jumps, yet only [[Omega Halo|one]] escaped before the portal collapsed, with the other six breaking up in-slipspace. | Following the use of Installation 07 by Master Builder Faber to suppress [[Battle of Janjur Qom|a rebellion]] on the [[San 'Shyuum]] homeworld of [[Janjur Qom]], the other eleven Halo installations were taken to the Forerunner [[Capital]] during the tribunal against Faber, where it was to be decided whether to decommission them. However, in the midst of the trial, Mendicant Bias, turned rampant by the Primordial, appeared with Installation 07, which had gone missing since the San 'Shyuum rebellion, and assaulted the Capital. The AI attempted to seize control of the remaining Halos and fire them, but was only able to control five out of the twelve. One of those five was destroyed by the combined tidal forces of the Capital, the firepower of local Forerunner fleets, and the stress of a recent [[slipspace]] transition. The seven Halos that Mendicant Bias was unable to control were recalled to Installation 00 via slipspace jumps, yet only [[Omega Halo|one]] escaped before the portal collapsed, with the other six breaking up in-slipspace. | ||
Installation 07 jumped into a distant system on a pre-designated destructive collision course with [[ | Installation 07 jumped into a distant system on a pre-designated destructive collision course with [[Wolf-faced planet|a planet]] - a security measure put in place in the event that it fell out of Forerunner control. The installation was eventually reclaimed by the IsoDidact's forces, and it survived the passage of the planet despite taking heavy damage. A significant amount of the ring's superstructure was discarded, reducing its size to 10,000 kilometers, in order to allow it to perform a successful slipspace jump to the [[greater Ark]]. The installation's surviving biological specimens were transported on the Ark and the Flood outbreak on the ring was contained. The ring was refitted to enable it to function in concert with the six final Halos and deployed to its final station in the galaxy; the distribution of the final Halo Array would follow several years later.<ref name="s314"/> | ||
In the final hours of the Forerunner-Flood war, the ecumene's leadership retreated to the greater Ark, also home to Omega Halo, the sole remaining Halo of the twelve original rings, apart from the repurposed Installation 07. When a [[Battle of the greater Ark|Flood attack]] became imminent, it was decided that the IsoDidact go to the lesser Ark where he would deploy and fire the final Halo Array. Before relinquishing the coordinates to his secret Ark,<ref name="s270"/> the Master Builder met the IsoDidact in the control room of Omega Halo and fired the ring, obliterating a small portion of the [[star road]]s laying siege on the Ark and cleansing [[Path Kethona]] (the Large Magellanic Cloud) of life.<ref name="s273">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 273''</ref> | In the final hours of the Forerunner-Flood war, the ecumene's leadership retreated to the greater Ark, also home to Omega Halo, the sole remaining Halo of the twelve original rings, apart from the repurposed Installation 07. When a [[Battle of the greater Ark|Flood attack]] became imminent, it was decided that the IsoDidact go to the lesser Ark where he would deploy and fire the final Halo Array. Before relinquishing the coordinates to his secret Ark,<ref name="s270"/> the Master Builder met the IsoDidact in the control room of Omega Halo and fired the ring, obliterating a small portion of the [[star road]]s laying siege on the Ark and cleansing [[Path Kethona]] (the Large Magellanic Cloud) of life.<ref name="s273">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 273''</ref> | ||