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In approximately '''97,495 BCE''' or slightly earlier,<ref group="note">The Halo Array was fired in [[97,445 BCE]]. Mendicant Bias' test-firing of Installation 07 and the Halo's subsequent disappearance took place 43 years before the installation's return during the events of ''Halo: Cryptum'' (''Halo: Cryptum'' page 244 and ''Halo: Primordium'' page 192). ''Halo: Cryptum'' takes place a minimum of seven years before the firing of the Halo Array, which can be extrapolated from a number of statements in ''Halo: Silentium'':<br><br>

It is implied in the description and beginning of ''Halo: Silentium'' that the novel begins several years after the end of ''Halo: Primordium''. On page 193, while testifying to the [[Master Juridical]], Master Builder Faber states that he and his forces held a salient against the Flood for three years after Mendicant Bias' [[Battle of the Capital|attack on the Capital]]. Since the Master Juridical would know how long Faber had been missing since the fall of the Capital, it would be futile for the latter to claim that he had been running his private operation for ''more'' than the time he had been confirmed to be missing. As such, his statement about holding off for three years can be considered the minimum figure for the duration of his exile. However, it should be noted that Faber may have remained missing for more than that time, as the three years of holding that particular salient may have constituted only a portion of the operations he undertook during his exile.<br><br>