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|name=Xalanyn | |name=Xalanyn | ||
|othernames=Endless | |othernames=Endless | ||
|image=[[File:HINF | |image=[[File:HINF HarbingerRender.png|200px]] | ||
The [[Harbinger]], a female Xalanyn | |||
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|notable-person=[[ | |notable-person=The [[Harbinger]] | ||
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{{Quote|If [[Halo]] cannot end them, it must imprison them.|[[Grand Edict]] to [[117649 Despondent Pyre]]{{Ref/Game|Id=stinger|HINF|Legendary post-credits cinematic}}}} | {{Quote|If [[Halo]] cannot end them, it must imprison them.|[[Grand Edict]] to [[117649 Despondent Pyre]]{{Ref/Game|Id=stinger|HINF|Legendary post-credits cinematic}}}} | ||
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The Forerunners and the Xalanyn arranged a parley between delegates from the two species, with [[Installation 07]] taken into range of the Xalanyn homeworld.{{Ref/Game|Id=af4|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Archaeological Findings 2|Banished Audio log|Detail=Archaeological Findings #04 - A Curious Directive}} The Forerunners, realizing that their plan to pass the [[Mantle]] of Responsibility to [[Human|humanity]] was in danger and treating the Xalanyn as a threat to the rest of the galaxy's species,{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22p486|Enc22|Page=486}} decided that the Xalanyn were to be imprisoned on Installation 07,{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22p25|Enc22|Page=25}} with some members subjugated for study at the [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]] on the ring.{{Ref/Reuse|af4}} The [[Grand Edict]] charged Installation 07's monitor, [[117649 Despondent Pyre]], with guarding the Xalanyn's prison, and assigned [[Offensive Bias]] to the ring to aid in this.{{Ref/Reuse|stinger}} | The Forerunners and the Xalanyn arranged a parley between delegates from the two species, with [[Installation 07]] taken into range of the Xalanyn homeworld.{{Ref/Game|Id=af4|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Archaeological Findings 2|Banished Audio log|Detail=Archaeological Findings #04 - A Curious Directive}} The Forerunners, realizing that their plan to pass the [[Mantle]] of Responsibility to [[Human|humanity]] was in danger and treating the Xalanyn as a threat to the rest of the galaxy's species,{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22p486|Enc22|Page=486}} decided that the Xalanyn were to be imprisoned on Installation 07,{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22p25|Enc22|Page=25}} with some members subjugated for study at the [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]] on the ring.{{Ref/Reuse|af4}} The [[Grand Edict]] charged Installation 07's monitor, [[117649 Despondent Pyre]], with guarding the Xalanyn's prison, and assigned [[Offensive Bias]] to the ring to aid in this.{{Ref/Reuse|stinger}} | ||
However, a few Xalanyn managed to | However, a few Xalanyn managed to escape from their species' imprisonment, and began to roam the Milky Way in secret, visiting scattered outposts and installations in hope to find a solution in order to free their people from their imprisonment.{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22p487|Enc22|Page=487}} | ||
[[File:HINF Endless Prison.png|thumb|left|350px|The door leading into the chamber containing the Xalanyn's cylixes.]] | [[File:HINF Endless Prison.png|thumb|left|350px|The door leading into the chamber containing the Xalanyn's cylixes.]] | ||
===Return=== | ===Return=== | ||
{{Quote|no=two|q1=I am the Harbinger. All that you know shall be undone.|1=The Harbinger|q2=Good.|2=Escharum|3=[[ | {{Quote|no=two|q1=I am the Harbinger. All that you know shall be undone.|1=The Harbinger|q2=Good.|2=Escharum|3=The [[Harbinger]] and Escharum upon releasing the former from her cylix.{{Ref/Game|Id=tp3|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#The Prisoner 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=The Prisoner #03 - She was Smiling}}}} | ||
In [[2559]], the [[Jiralhanae]] [[Atriox]], the [[Warmaster|leader]] of a group of mercenary raiders known as the [[Banished]], had discovered the existence of the Xalanyn.{{Ref/Reuse|enc22p25}} Seeking to uncover this secret hidden by the Forerunners, Atriox and his second-in-comand [[War Chief]] [[Escharum]] travelled to Installation 07.{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22p423|Enc22|Page=423}} Over the course of [[Battle for Zeta Halo|the conflict]] with the [[UNSC]] on the ring in [[2560]], the Banished excavated Forerunner subterranean structures, eventually coming across the cylix that contained the Xalanyn known as the "Harbinger".{{Ref/Game|Id=tp2|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#The Prisoner 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=The Prisoner #02 - What was Inside}} The Harbinger was released from her cylix by forcing a [[human]] [[prisoner of war]], [[Lucas Browning]], to [[Reclaimer|interface]] with her cylix.{{Ref/Reuse|tp3}}{{Ref/Reuse|tp2}} Upon her release, the Harbinger allied with the Banished. She promised to help Escharum restore the ring to its operational status, while Escharm would help her release her fellow Xalanyn from the Silent Auditorium.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[Pelican Down (Halo Infinite level)|Pelican Down]]}} The Banished excavated the [[Conservatory (location)|Conservatory]], allowing the Harbinger to gain access its interior and kill Despondent Pyre, stealing data from her at the same time.{{Ref/Level|Hi|Conservatory}} Ultimately, [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]] intervened, killing the Harbinger and preventing her from releasing the Xalanyn.{{Ref/Level|HINF|House of Reckoning}}{{Ref/Level|HINF|Silent Auditorium}} | In [[2559]], the [[Jiralhanae]] [[Atriox]], the [[Warmaster|leader]] of a group of mercenary raiders known as the [[Banished]], had discovered the existence of the Xalanyn.{{Ref/Reuse|enc22p25}} Seeking to uncover this secret hidden by the Forerunners, Atriox and his second-in-comand [[War Chief]] [[Escharum]] travelled to Installation 07.{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22p423|Enc22|Page=423}} Over the course of [[Battle for Zeta Halo|the conflict]] with the [[UNSC]] on the ring in [[2560]], the Banished excavated Forerunner subterranean structures, eventually coming across the cylix that contained the Xalanyn known as the "Harbinger".{{Ref/Game|Id=tp2|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#The Prisoner 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=The Prisoner #02 - What was Inside}} The Harbinger was released from her cylix by forcing a [[human]] [[prisoner of war]], [[Lucas Browning]], to [[Reclaimer|interface]] with her cylix.{{Ref/Reuse|tp3}}{{Ref/Reuse|tp2}} Upon her release, the Harbinger allied with the Banished. She promised to help Escharum restore the ring to its operational status, while Escharm would help her release her fellow Xalanyn from the Silent Auditorium.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[Pelican Down (Halo Infinite level)|Pelican Down]]}} The Banished excavated the [[Conservatory (location)|Conservatory]], allowing the Harbinger to gain access to its interior and kill Despondent Pyre, stealing data from her at the same time.{{Ref/Level|Hi|Conservatory}} Ultimately, [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]] intervened, killing the Harbinger and preventing her from releasing the Xalanyn.{{Ref/Level|HINF|House of Reckoning}}{{Ref/Level|HINF|Silent Auditorium}} | ||
Elsewhere on the ring, cylixes of other Xalanyn, though with a different appearance compared to that of the Harbinger, were found by [[Atriox]].{{Ref/Reuse|stinger}} | Elsewhere on the ring, cylixes of other Xalanyn, though with a different appearance compared to that of the Harbinger, were found by [[Atriox]].{{Ref/Reuse|stinger}} | ||
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*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}} | ||
*''[[Halo: The Rubicon Protocol]]'' | *''[[Halo: The Rubicon Protocol]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]'' {{Mo}} | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||