Omega Halo: Difference between revisions

Unlike the six rings of the final Halo Array, (and the reduced [[Installation 07]]), Omega Halo was manufactured at the [[greater Ark]] instead of [[Installation 00]].<ref name="last"/> Like the other Halos built at the greater Ark, Omega Halo's main weapon was designed to fire directed pulses as opposed to the omnidirectional effects of the newer Halos.<ref name="s314">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 314''</ref> Omega Halo was the last 30,000 kilometer Halo to be built. By the last year of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], all but one of its counterparts had been destroyed either during the [[Fate of Maethrillian|assault on the Capital world]] or by [[Flood]]/[[Precursor]] forces in the intervening years;<ref name="last"/><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 234''</ref> Installation 07 had been severely damaged, reduced in size, and repurposed alongside the smaller, final Array.<ref>'''[[Halo: Primordium]]''', ''page 374''</ref><ref name="last"/><ref name="s314"/> Omega Halo itself retreated from the fall of the Capital through a [[slipspace portal]], the only one of the two Halos that tried to make the transit and survived.<ref>'''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'''</ref>