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Preceding the Halo Array's distribution across the galaxy, Chakas was commanded by the [[Ecumene Council]] to abandon all connection with his former station. As the installation monitors were being given their new assignments aboard a Lifeworker vessel stationed over the lesser Ark, the IsoDidact met with Chakas for one final time and the two had a brief conversation before they parted ways. It was also here that the installation monitors received their final names, with Chakas being assigned the name 343 Guilty Spark by the IsoDidact. The IsoDidact asked Chakas if he would fire the rings, were it his decision; Chakas remained silent,<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 313-314''</ref> but would continue to ponder the Didact's question for the millennia to come. Over a hundred thousand years later, Spark would cite this query to [[John-117]], whom he had evidently mistaken for the IsoDidact.<ref name="twoB">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref> | Preceding the Halo Array's distribution across the galaxy, Chakas was commanded by the [[Ecumene Council]] to abandon all connection with his former station. As the installation monitors were being given their new assignments aboard a Lifeworker vessel stationed over the lesser Ark, the IsoDidact met with Chakas for one final time and the two had a brief conversation before they parted ways. It was also here that the installation monitors received their final names, with Chakas being assigned the name 343 Guilty Spark by the IsoDidact. The IsoDidact asked Chakas if he would fire the rings, were it his decision; Chakas remained silent,<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 313-314''</ref> but would continue to ponder the Didact's question for the millennia to come. Over a hundred thousand years later, Spark would cite this query to [[John-117]], whom he had evidently mistaken for the IsoDidact.<ref name="twoB">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[Two Betrayals]]''</ref> | ||
From that point forward, Spark became the designated guardian and custodian of Installation 04.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' - ''[[Terminal | From that point forward, Spark became the designated guardian and custodian of Installation 04.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' - ''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal Two|Terminal 2]]''</ref> When the Array was activated, with Installation 04 being the first to fire, Spark received a signal from a nascent, previously-unknown civilization broadcasting its first transmission into deep space, and was saddened by the realization that they would be wiped out before they even had the chance to travel to the stars and make contact with other beings. At the same time, large portions of Spark's memory were automatically suppressed for the sake of compartmentalization as a precaution in the event the Flood and its ancilla-corrupting [[logic plague]] were to resurface. This caused him to forget much of his past life aside from the knowledge required in his duties as caretaker of Installation 04.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 329-330''</ref> | ||
===Intermediate period=== | ===Intermediate period=== | ||
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{{Quote|Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Am I the only intelligence left? Waiting here on this ring for a rebirth never truly conceived. Guarding a weapon with no targets... A weapon I can tune to any target.|343 Guilty Spark lamenting his loneliness and isolation during his prolonged post as Installation 04's caretaker.}} | {{Quote|Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Am I the only intelligence left? Waiting here on this ring for a rebirth never truly conceived. Guarding a weapon with no targets... A weapon I can tune to any target.|343 Guilty Spark lamenting his loneliness and isolation during his prolonged post as Installation 04's caretaker.}} | ||
After the firing of the Halo Array as a last resort against the Flood, 343 Guilty Spark was alone in a galaxy void of sentient life. During the eons he spent monitoring Installation 04, he began to display signs of [[rampancy]] due to crippling loneliness, especially after communications with the other Installations had ceased. During his unintentional exile, he would begin to recollect his time spent with the Forerunner, their war with the [[Flood]], decisions they made, and decisions he believed they should have made.<ref name="terminal">'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' -[[Terminal | After the firing of the Halo Array as a last resort against the Flood, 343 Guilty Spark was alone in a galaxy void of sentient life. During the eons he spent monitoring Installation 04, he began to display signs of [[rampancy]] due to crippling loneliness, especially after communications with the other Installations had ceased. During his unintentional exile, he would begin to recollect his time spent with the Forerunner, their war with the [[Flood]], decisions they made, and decisions he believed they should have made.<ref name="terminal">'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' -[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal 4|Terminal 4]], [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal 5|Terminal 5]], and [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal 7|Terminal 7]]</ref> During this time, Guilty Spark's mind fragmented considerably, becoming split among many separate personality-streams, partly in an attempt to contain and forestall the development of rampancy.<ref name="p372">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 372''</ref> | ||
After two cycles of hibernation, Spark found that he had become bored; something he had not believed he, as a monitor, was capable of. Aware of the [[Rampancy|risks]] involved with losing operational focus, Spark began to divert his attention elsewhere. For his own amusement, he began experimenting on his Installation, ejecting entire sections of matter from the ring's surface into space, intending to later rebuild them.<ref name="terminal"/> | After two cycles of hibernation, Spark found that he had become bored; something he had not believed he, as a monitor, was capable of. Aware of the [[Rampancy|risks]] involved with losing operational focus, Spark began to divert his attention elsewhere. For his own amusement, he began experimenting on his Installation, ejecting entire sections of matter from the ring's surface into space, intending to later rebuild them.<ref name="terminal"/> | ||
===Alien encounters=== | ===Alien encounters=== | ||
Circa [[40,000 BCE]], an [[Unidentified alien vessel|alien vessel]] crash-landed in Installation 04's [[Sector 1215]]. Though anxious to find answers for whether the Forerunners' plan to reseed life in the galaxy had been successful, Spark acted in accordance with protocol, blocking the distress signal sent out by the ship and not attempting to make contact with any possible occupants. No lifeforms exited the wreckage and the distress signal eventually terminated, offering Spark no answers. Afterwards, the monitor had a containment sarcophagus constructed around the ship. Disappointed by his failure to learn about the outside galaxy, Spark resolved to be more flexible in his adherence to protocol should outside life ever encounter his ring again.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' - ''[[Terminal | Circa [[40,000 BCE]], an [[Unidentified alien vessel|alien vessel]] crash-landed in Installation 04's [[Sector 1215]]. Though anxious to find answers for whether the Forerunners' plan to reseed life in the galaxy had been successful, Spark acted in accordance with protocol, blocking the distress signal sent out by the ship and not attempting to make contact with any possible occupants. No lifeforms exited the wreckage and the distress signal eventually terminated, offering Spark no answers. Afterwards, the monitor had a containment sarcophagus constructed around the ship. Disappointed by his failure to learn about the outside galaxy, Spark resolved to be more flexible in his adherence to protocol should outside life ever encounter his ring again.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' - ''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal 6|Terminal 6]]''</ref> | ||
During his long isolation, Spark had little to no contact with other intelligent beings, and spent most of his time maintaining his installation. However, over time, Spark observed one or more spacefaring species visit Installation 04. These species landed on and explored the ring, recorded their findings and eventually left without breaching Flood containment.<ref name="cftu">'''[[Conversations from the Universe]]''', ''343 Guilty Spark's Log''</ref> These interactions did not please Spark, leading to him threatening anything that came near the installation.<ref name="h2a term 1">'''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''', ''[[Terminal | During his long isolation, Spark had little to no contact with other intelligent beings, and spent most of his time maintaining his installation. However, over time, Spark observed one or more spacefaring species visit Installation 04. These species landed on and explored the ring, recorded their findings and eventually left without breaching Flood containment.<ref name="cftu">'''[[Conversations from the Universe]]''', ''343 Guilty Spark's Log''</ref> These interactions did not please Spark, leading to him threatening anything that came near the installation.<ref name="h2a term 1">'''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''', ''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal One|Terminal 1]]''</ref> | ||
By the time the ring was rediscovered by UNSC and Covenant forces, 343 Guilty Spark had been present on Installation 04 for 101,217 "local years",<ref name="quirk"/> and during that time had conducted over one trillion simulated, and one actual firing of the installation. | By the time the ring was rediscovered by UNSC and Covenant forces, 343 Guilty Spark had been present on Installation 04 for 101,217 "local years",<ref name="quirk"/> and during that time had conducted over one trillion simulated, and one actual firing of the installation. | ||
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[[File:Refumee & Spark.png|thumb|300px|right|343 Guilty Spark discusses Halo's true purpose with [[Sesa 'Refumee]].]] | [[File:Refumee & Spark.png|thumb|300px|right|343 Guilty Spark discusses Halo's true purpose with [[Sesa 'Refumee]].]] | ||
{{quote|Excellent! I believe I see assistance approaching...|343 Guilty Spark}}<ref>'''[[Conversations from the Universe]]''', page 1</ref> | {{quote|Excellent! I believe I see assistance approaching...|343 Guilty Spark}}<ref>'''[[Conversations from the Universe]]''', page 1</ref> | ||
After Halo's destruction, Guilty Spark escaped into space, reflecting upon what had happened to both himself and his Installation. He then traveled to a Forerunner [[Threshold gas mine|gas mining facility]] in [[Threshold]]'s atmosphere, whose refitting as a [[Flood research facility]] he had overseen eons past.<ref name="oracle"/> There, he encountered a Covenant artifact retrieval group led by [[Sesa 'Refumee]]. After a brief confrontation with several members of the lower castes of the Covenant, a Sangheili recognized him as an "Oracle" and took him to their leader.<ref group="note">In the Halo Waypoint video [https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/detail/f99d83df-50e2-4b77-8cc2-96df1a107956/the-long-road-home The Long Road Home], it was originally stated that 343 Guilty Spark had been captured by Sesa Refumee's soldiers after the Battle of Installation 04. However, the [[Terminal | After Halo's destruction, Guilty Spark escaped into space, reflecting upon what had happened to both himself and his Installation. He then traveled to a Forerunner [[Threshold gas mine|gas mining facility]] in [[Threshold]]'s atmosphere, whose refitting as a [[Flood research facility]] he had overseen eons past.<ref name="oracle"/> There, he encountered a Covenant artifact retrieval group led by [[Sesa 'Refumee]]. After a brief confrontation with several members of the lower castes of the Covenant, a Sangheili recognized him as an "Oracle" and took him to their leader.<ref group="note">In the Halo Waypoint video [https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/detail/f99d83df-50e2-4b77-8cc2-96df1a107956/the-long-road-home The Long Road Home], it was originally stated that 343 Guilty Spark had been captured by Sesa Refumee's soldiers after the Battle of Installation 04. However, the [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|eleventh Terminal]] of ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' later revealed that the Monitor was quickly accepted among the Covenant, even after killing two Kig-Yar. 343 Guilty Spark was not captured but rather welcomed as an Oracle.</ref> Guilty Spark then proceeded to educate these soldiers about the true purpose of Forerunner creations, including the Halo rings.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''' - ''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal 11|Terminal 11]]''</ref> Exposed to the truth, Sesa 'Refumee took a new, critical view on the [[Great Journey]] and, gathering other similarly minded [[Sangheili]] and [[Unggoy]], founded [[Sesa 'Refumee's heretic faction|a new sect]] that denounced the [[San'Shyuum|Prophets]] and their Great Journey as false. Setting up a base in the gas mine over Threshold, the group would soon be branded as "heretics" by the Hierarchs. Guilty Spark spent a great deal of time with 'Refumee, educating him on the true purpose of the Halo rings while 'Refumee in return shared with Spark the history of the Covenant and the [[Arbiter]]s in particular. Guilty Spark recognized that the selection of the Arbiters was a manipulation by the Prophets, eliminating potential political enemies while using them at the same time to quell rising problems in the Covenant. The two also discussed who to share the information with, but the one Sangheili 'Refumee believed could be trusted, [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee, [[Supreme Commander]] of the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]], was almost certainly dead.<ref>'''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''' - ''[[Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminals]]''</ref> | ||
Such a state of affairs could not be tolerated for long by the Covenant and soon action was taken to eliminate the Heretics. This was accomplished quickly and quietly by the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]] and a team of special operations troops. Ironically, the Arbiter was Thel 'Vadamee, the very Sangheili 'Refumee believed could be trusted with Guilty Spark's revelations. The Arbiter was surprised by the appearance of an "Oracle," but rather than allow Guilty Spark to tell him the truth, 'Refumee used Guilty Spark's appearance as a distraction to attack and was killed by the Arbiter, taking with him all that he had learned from Guilty Spark. In the aftermath, Guilty Spark was captured by [[Tartarus]] and given to the Prophets aboard [[High Charity]].<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', campaign level ''[[The Oracle]]''</ref> | Such a state of affairs could not be tolerated for long by the Covenant and soon action was taken to eliminate the Heretics. This was accomplished quickly and quietly by the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]] and a team of special operations troops. Ironically, the Arbiter was Thel 'Vadamee, the very Sangheili 'Refumee believed could be trusted with Guilty Spark's revelations. The Arbiter was surprised by the appearance of an "Oracle," but rather than allow Guilty Spark to tell him the truth, 'Refumee used Guilty Spark's appearance as a distraction to attack and was killed by the Arbiter, taking with him all that he had learned from Guilty Spark. In the aftermath, Guilty Spark was captured by [[Tartarus]] and given to the Prophets aboard [[High Charity]].<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', campaign level ''[[The Oracle]]''</ref> | ||
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File:GuiltySparkAnniversary.png|343 Guilty Spark in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''. | File:GuiltySparkAnniversary.png|343 Guilty Spark in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''. | ||
File:HCEA-343GuiltySpark.png|343 Guilty Spark in ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''. Note the changed Marathon symbol. | File:HCEA-343GuiltySpark.png|343 Guilty Spark in ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''. Note the changed Marathon symbol. | ||
File:Spark Construct Communicate.jpg|343 Guilty Spark communicating with a [[Truth and Reconciliation's AI|Covenant AI]] in [[Terminal | File:Spark Construct Communicate.jpg|343 Guilty Spark communicating with a [[Truth and Reconciliation's AI|Covenant AI]] in [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> terminals]]. | ||
File:Spark lazer Keg-yar.jpg|343 Guilty Spark kills an attacking [[Kig-Yar]] in the [[Threshold gas mine]]. | File:Spark lazer Keg-yar.jpg|343 Guilty Spark kills an attacking [[Kig-Yar]] in the [[Threshold gas mine]]. | ||
File:H2A Spark.png|343 Guilty Spark's in-game appearance in ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''. | File:H2A Spark.png|343 Guilty Spark's in-game appearance in ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''. | ||
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