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[[File:HaloFiring.png|thumb|right|250px|The Halo Array fires, ending the conflict.]] | [[File:HaloFiring.png|thumb|right|250px|The Halo Array fires, ending the conflict.]] | ||
The Flood and the star roads destroyed both Omega Halo and the greater Ark, but the IsoDidact managed to escape to Installation 00 to fulfill his mission. Arriving at the lesser Ark, the IsoDidact had the rings' Index collection distributed to their respective installations aboard a Lifeworker vessel over the Ark. The installations' primary monitors were also formally given their assignments to their final posts. Each monitor | The Flood and the star roads destroyed both Omega Halo and the greater Ark, but the IsoDidact managed to escape to Installation 00 to fulfill his mission. Arriving at the lesser Ark, the IsoDidact had the rings' Index collection distributed to their respective installations aboard a Lifeworker vessel over the Ark. The installations' primary monitors were also formally given their assignments to their final posts. Each monitor received a new name and numeric designation, each intended to serve as a form of memorial to the Forerunners.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 313''</ref> With the assistance of [[Offensive Bias]], the IsoDidact deployed the remaining six Halos from [[Installation 00 Citadel|the Ark's Citadel]]. Together with Installation 07, these installations comprised the final Halo Array of seven rings.<ref name="s314"/> | ||
As Mendicant Bias and the Flood prepared their [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|final assault]] on the lesser Ark in order to stop the firing of the Halos, the IsoDidact activated the Array. [[Installation 04]] was first in the Array to fire, with the others following sequentially as their fields intersected.<ref name="sil326">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 326-327''</ref> The pulse covered the entire galaxy, killing all sentient life within range and destroying the Precursors' [[neural physics]] architecture, including the [[Domain]] the Forerunners used to hold dear.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 322-323''</ref> Whether the pulse would destroy star roads and other Precursor artifacts in faster-than-light transit was uncertain even to the Forerunners themselves, due to the largely unknown mechanisms of Precursor superluminal travel.<ref name="s312">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 312''</ref> However, their total destruction seems apparent from the fact they were no longer in evidence when the Forerunners repopulated the galaxy.<ref name="rebirth"/> | As Mendicant Bias and the Flood prepared their [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|final assault]] on the lesser Ark in order to stop the firing of the Halos, the IsoDidact activated the Array. [[Installation 04]] was first in the Array to fire, with the others following sequentially as their fields intersected.<ref name="sil326">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 326-327''</ref> The pulse covered the entire galaxy, killing all sentient life within range and destroying the Precursors' [[neural physics]] architecture, including the [[Domain]] the Forerunners used to hold dear.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 322-323''</ref> Whether the pulse would destroy star roads and other Precursor artifacts in faster-than-light transit was uncertain even to the Forerunners themselves, due to the largely unknown mechanisms of Precursor superluminal travel.<ref name="s312">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 312''</ref> However, their total destruction seems apparent from the fact they were no longer in evidence when the Forerunners repopulated the galaxy.<ref name="rebirth"/> | ||