Menachite portal complex: Difference between revisions

When Dr. Halsey and her Spartans approached the pedestal, they experienced spatial disorientation in which their path was distorted. Despite their attempts to reach the center as a close group, they found themselves heading off in separate directions. SPARTAN-104 described feeling a sense of vertigo as if he was walking on the ceiling instead of the floor.<ref name="vertigo">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 145''</ref> A test of rolling a ball bearing on the ground showed the floor initially sloped toward the center, but shifted around as the ball bearing rolled until it came to a total stop.<ref name="vertigo"/> [[Kelly-087|SPARTAN-087]] was able to intuitively determine the true direction toward the pedestal, ostensibly the opposite direction.<ref name="vertigo"/> The pedestal in the center is made of the same gold material as the symbols in the corridor. Above it floated a [[Forerunner crystal]], which spun and pulsed a bright glow of sapphire-blue light.<ref name="crystal"/>

The spatial distortion effects near the center of the main chamber may have been generated by a [[baffler]], a Forerunner device used to create geometric distortions to hide an artifact or a location,  or a [[dazzler]], a Forerunner device employing a camouflage technique that causes visual and auditory delusion.<ref>'''[[Halo: Cryptum]]''', "page ???"</ref>

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