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A '''kelguid''' is a kind of technology employed by the [[Covenant]]. Kelguids are interactive [[Holography|holographic]] | {{Title|''Kelguid''}} | ||
A '''''kelguid''''',{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS21|HSS|Chapter=21}} referred to as a '''starholo''' by [[human]]s,{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS22|HSS|Chapter=22}} is a kind of technology employed by the [[Covenant]]. ''Kelguids'' are interactive [[Holography|holographic]] star-maps used by navigators to plot journeys through [[slipspace]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS21}}{{Ref/Reuse|HSS22}} The Covenant developed the ''kelguid'' technology through reverse-engineering [[Forerunner]] equivalents.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS9|HSS|Chapter=9}} | |||
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The ''kelguid'' consists of a silver disk sitting atop a cylindrical waist-high (by human standards) equipment cabinet. From the silver disk a [[Holography|hologram]] is projected that [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] described as looking like "a half-eaten dinner of spaghetti and meatballs that had just entered zero-g." The "meatballs" were spherical holograms that represented [[Gravity well (physics)|gravity well]]s of various sizes and the "spaghetti" consisted of lines representing the curvature of spacetime around the gravity wells. The lines would sometimes bend so tightly that they would intersect, creating connection points that could be as transit nodes for slipspace-capable starships.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS22}} | |||
Despite the device appearing to employ standard holographic technology, Dr. Halsey reported an unusual "cold tingle" in her arm when she waved her hand inside the ''kelguid''{{'}}s projected hologram, prompting her to quickly remove her hand.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS22}} | |||
==History== | |||
During the [[Human-Covenant War]], Covenant [[intrusion corvette]]s were known to carry a ''kelguid'' on their [[bridge]]s. Following the [[Battle of Seoba]] in [[2526]], the ''kelguid'' of the ''[[Worthy Silence]]'' was recovered by the [[Spartan-II]]s attached the [[UNSC]]'s [[Task Force Yama]], and later used by Dr. Catherine Halsey to find the Covenant supply world of [[Zhoist]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS22}} Despite this, [[Fleetmaster]] [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]] believed that humans were not intelligent enough to operate the device.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS21}} | |||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== |