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{{quote|He says it's sourced from a place no one will go. He says it's sourced from hell. A place so doomed that even Elite Zealots won't go there.|[[Jameson Locke]], translating for [[Axl]]<ref name="nf1"/>}} | {{quote|He says it's sourced from a place no one will go. He says it's sourced from hell. A place so doomed that even Elite Zealots won't go there.|[[Jameson Locke]], translating for [[Axl]]<ref name="nf1"/>}} | ||
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While most of the debris of Installation 04 either fell into [[Threshold]]'s or [[Basis]]' [[gravity well]]s or remained in the orbital debris field, at least 30% of the mass and curvature remained unaccounted for by the UNSC. In late [[2555]], the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] took note of information recorded by an Automated UNSC Scout Vehicle, Recon-14, in an area designated Location 6201. Recon-14 had been deployed from the ''Pillar of Autumn'' before the ship's crash-landing on the Halo installation. The signal data from the drone was analyzed by multiple ONI specialists, among them ONI attaché for astrophysical phenomena [[Madeline Tress|Dr. Madeline Tress]]. She correctly concluded that the signal originated from the missing fragment of Installation 04, indicating that a part of the ring either generated or was enveloped in a significant slipspace event, one far exceeding the capabilities of either human or Covenant technology.<ref name="wp shard"/> | While most of the debris of Installation 04 either fell into [[Threshold]]'s or [[Basis]]' [[gravity well]]s or remained in the orbital debris field, at least 30% of the mass and curvature remained unaccounted for by the UNSC. In late [[2555]], the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] took note of information recorded by an Automated UNSC Scout Vehicle, Recon-14, in an area designated Location 6201. Recon-14 had been deployed from the ''Pillar of Autumn'' before the ship's crash-landing on the Halo installation. The signal data from the drone was analyzed by multiple ONI specialists, among them ONI attaché for astrophysical phenomena [[Madeline Tress|Dr. Madeline Tress]]. She correctly concluded that the signal originated from the missing fragment of Installation 04, indicating that a part of the ring either generated or was enveloped in a significant slipspace event, one far exceeding the capabilities of either human or Covenant technology.<ref name="wp shard"/> | ||
Uniquely, the extreme heat of the ''Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s explosion, comparable to temperatures produced by a [[supernova]], caused the formation of an entirely new element in a small area of the fragment—one not found elsewhere in the known universe. This element was later illegally mined from the fragment and smuggled to [[Human colonies|human colonial space]], specifically [[Sedra]]. It was discovered that the element caused catastrophic breakdown of DNA in certain humans but did not affect other species. The element was refined into a [[bioweapon]] which a [[Sangheili]] terrorist unleashed in [[Sedra City]], killing or hospitalizing many of the planet's citizens. A joint [[Locke's team|ONI]]-[[Sedran Colonial Guard]] team led by [[Jameson Locke|Lt. Commander Locke]] embarked on a mission to the Halo fragment in order to capture the smugglers who mined the element and destroy the deposits with a [[HAVOK]] nuclear warhead.<ref name="nf1"/> | Uniquely, the extreme heat of the ''Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s explosion, comparable to temperatures produced by a [[supernova]], caused the formation of an entirely new element in a small area of the fragment—one not found elsewhere in the known universe. This element was later illegally mined from the fragment and smuggled to [[Human colonies|human colonial space]], specifically [[Sedra]]. It was discovered that the element caused catastrophic breakdown of DNA in certain humans but did not affect other species. The element was refined into a [[bioweapon]] which a [[Sangheili]] terrorist unleashed in [[Sedra City]], killing or hospitalizing many of the planet's citizens. A joint [[Locke's team|ONI]]-[[Sedran Colonial Guard]] team led by [[Randall Aiken|Colonel Randall Aiken]] and [[Jameson Locke|Lt. Commander Locke]] embarked on a mission to the Halo fragment in order to capture the smugglers who mined the element and destroy the deposits with a [[HAVOK]] nuclear warhead.<ref name="nf1"/> However, the team became stranded on the shard after a [[Lekgolo]] swarm commandeered and crashed their [[D81-LRT Condor]] dropship.<ref name="nf2"/> | ||
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