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This Video describes the various Flood Contaiment Facilities: their purpose, design, and fail-safes.
This Video describes the various Flood Contaiment Facilities: their purpose, design, and fail-safes.
===Transcript===
===Transcript===
Prior to the firing of the Halo Array, dormant specimens of the Flood were captured and contained for research as per [[Containment Protocol|Forerunner protocol]]. The Forerunners recognized that because the origins of the Flood was mysterious and elusive, it was entirely possible that the parasite might one day resurface in the Milky Way Galaxy. So rather than simply fire the Halo Array, they took the risk of securing specimens and keeping them dormant in containment facilities buried deep within the Halo rings themselves, their hope that one day a cure could be discovered and the Flood’s threat nullified. These containment facilities may vary per ring, but all incorporate numerous safety mechanisms and security systems to ensure that they are not easily unlocked. Accessible through a bunker-like aperture and by way of a deep elevator shaft, the Flood containment facilities were further hidden behind many locked [[door]]s and many advanced security protocols. There, the Forerunners could observe individual specimens of the Flood, captured during the course of the war and held in suspended animation, as well as studying them [[Cold Storage|within environment generated by the parasite]]. Some [[Flood research facility|research sites]] were even held high above the ring’s surface, [[Lockout|locked out]] in a remote and inhospitable environment, like the clefts of a frigid mountain side. With foresight that even ''these'' advanced precaution could be compromised, the Forerunners established and distributed a litany of alternative restraint systems designed to limit the Flood’s movement across the ring. A series of [[Sentinel Wall|large defensive walls]] and immense chasms would divide the surface of Halo, the latter typically only traversable through the activation of a hard-light bridge, and, by Forerunner design, the [[Forerunner weather station|local weather systems]] would aggressively batter the contaminated portions of the installation with frigid and inclement weather in an effort to slow the parasite’s collective growth. In the end, despite all of these efforts, the Flood would still escape. Containment on both Installation 04 and Installation 05 would fail, and the Flood would once again threaten the galaxy, halted only by the [[Jacob Keyes|sacrifice]] [[Miranda Keyes|of]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|a]] [[Thel 'Vadam|brave]] [[John-117|few]].
Prior to the firing of the Halo Array, dormant specimens of the Flood were captured and contained for research as per [[Containment Protocol|Forerunner protocol]]. The Forerunners recognized that because the origins of the Flood was mysterious and elusive, it was entirely possible that the parasite might one day resurface in the Milky Way Galaxy. So rather than simply fire the Halo Array, they took the risk of securing specimens and keeping them dormant in containment facilities buried deep within the Halo rings themselves, their hope that one day a cure could be discovered and the Flood’s threat nullified. These containment facilities may vary per ring, but all incorporate numerous safety mechanisms and security systems to ensure that they are not easily unlocked. Accessible through a bunker-like aperture and by way of a deep elevator shaft, the Flood containment facilities were further hidden behind many locked [[door]]s and many advanced security protocols. There, the Forerunners could observe individual specimens of the Flood, captured during the course of the war and held in suspended animation, as well as studying them [[Cold Storage|within environment generated by the parasite]]. Some [[Flood research facility|research sites]] were even held high above the ring’s surface, [[Lockout|locked out]] in a remote and inhospitable environment, like the clefts of a frigid mountain side. With foresight that even ''these'' advanced precaution could be compromised, the Forerunners established and distributed a litany of alternative restraint systems designed to limit the Flood’s movement across the ring. A series of [[Sentinel Wall|large defensive walls]] and immense chasms would divide the surface of Halo, the latter typically only traversable through the activation of a hard-light bridge, and, by Forerunner design, the [[Weather spire|local weather systems]] would aggressively batter the contaminated portions of the installation with frigid and inclement weather in an effort to slow the parasite’s collective growth. In the end, despite all of these efforts, the Flood would still escape. Containment on both Installation 04 and Installation 05 would fail, and the Flood would once again threaten the galaxy, halted only by the [[Jacob Keyes|sacrifice]] [[Miranda Keyes|of]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|a]] [[Thel 'Vadam|brave]] [[John-117|few]].


==The Control Room==
==The Control Room==