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'''''The Anatomy of Halo''''' is a documentary series on [[Halo Waypoint]]. The videos concern certain aspects of the [[Halo Array]], such as the rings' foundational structure, as well as facilities of importance, including the [[Library]], the [[Sentinel manufacturing facility|Sentinel Factory]], the [[Flood Containment Facility]], the [[Cartographer]], and most important of all, the [[Control Room]]. | '''''The Anatomy of Halo''''' is a documentary series on [[Halo Waypoint]]. The videos concern certain aspects of the [[Halo Array]], such as the rings' foundational structure, as well as facilities of importance, including the [[Library]], the [[Sentinel manufacturing facility|Sentinel Factory]], the [[Flood Containment Facility]], the [[Cartographer]], and most important of all, the [[Control Room]]. | ||
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This video describes the function, architecture, and operation of the Control Room. | This video describes the function, architecture, and operation of the Control Room. | ||
===Transcript=== | ===Transcript=== | ||
Easily the most important aspect of any given Halo installation, the Control Room is the location where the Halo Array is activated and fired. In order for this to occur, a Reclaimer, or human, must first acquire the Activation Index located in the Library facility, then reunify the index with the Control Center’s Core. Though both of these require the actions of a Reclaimer, the Index itself can easily be transported by any individual or artificial intelligence. Recognizing its vulnerability should the Flood ever escape, the Forerunners typically designed the Control Center to be an extravagant citadel, heavily fortified and well defended. Accessed by traversing a number of corridors and gates, the Control Room proper is generally a series of platforms focused on the holographic representation of the Installation and any nearby [[Threshold|planetary]] [[Substance|bodies]]. The Control Center is visually the most impressive of Halo’s facilities, tapping into the looming, angular qualities of Forerunner design. But even there physical shape cannot compare with the latent power the Control Room contains. At the center of this room is usually a pedestal representing the Core, into which the index is inserted to activate Halo. Once reunification is achieved, the Ring prepares to amplify its Neural Disruption effect by way of three [[Phase pulse generator]]s, allowing it to fire deep into space. Though their firing mechanisms can be tunned to specific ends, the Array’s individual rings are engineered to fire up to 25,000 light years in every direction , transmitting the pulse effect to other Installations which initiate their mechanisms in response. The result: complete eradication of all sentient life within the galaxy, an act which was initiated only once, a hundred-thousand years ago. If the Activation sequence is interrupted on any Ring, a fail-safe mode is triggered and superluminally communicated to all Installations. When this occurs, the halo Array’s fail-safe can only be reset or fired from one location: Installation 00, also known as the Ark. This very event took place after the Arbiter and [[Commander]] Miranda Keyes [[The Great Journey |prevented Delta Halo from firing]], [[Battle of Installation 00|forcing the struggle for Halo to the Ark]], where the Covenant and the Flood would finally meet their end. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/Detail/the-anatomy-of-halo-part-1/7c85a916-e1d0-4c8c-9cdd-7a3a8940baaf '''Halo Waypoint''' ''The Anatomy of Halo: Part 1''] | *[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/Detail/the-anatomy-of-halo-part-1/7c85a916-e1d0-4c8c-9cdd-7a3a8940baaf '''Halo Waypoint''' ''The Anatomy of Halo: Part 1''] | ||
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*[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/Detail/the-anatomy-of-halo-part-5/84dc4f1c-4e18-4cf3-9da1-fb1098802754 '''Halo Waypoint''' ''The Anatomy of Halo: Part 5''] | *[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/Detail/the-anatomy-of-halo-part-5/84dc4f1c-4e18-4cf3-9da1-fb1098802754 '''Halo Waypoint''' ''The Anatomy of Halo: Part 5''] | ||
*[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/detail/the-anatomy-of-halo-part-6/78ab696e-de0b-4ec5-8a75-3f2fe94752b9 '''Halo Waypoint''' ''The Anatomy of Halo: Part 6''] | *[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/detail/the-anatomy-of-halo-part-6/78ab696e-de0b-4ec5-8a75-3f2fe94752b9 '''Halo Waypoint''' ''The Anatomy of Halo: Part 6''] | ||
==See also== | |||
*[[Heroes Never Die]] | |||
[[Category:Video Documentaries]] | [[Category:Video Documentaries]] | ||
