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[[File:BasisCentered.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Basis as seen in space.]]

'''Basis''' is the largest [[natural satellite]] orbiting the gas giant [[Threshold]] in the [[Soell]] system and is silvery-gray in color.<ref name="sybex-halo">'''[[Halo Story Bible]]''': '''Halo'''", ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets]]'', ''Chapter 5'', page 63</ref> The diameter of this moon is {{Convert|23848|km|mi}},<ref>[http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/sloftus_planetscale '''halo.bungie.org''': ''Halo-verse Planetary Scale'']</ref> double that of [[Earth]]. Basis has a gravitational pull equivalent to that of Earth. [[Installation 04]] was positioned in the [[Lagrange point]] between Basis and Threshold.<ref name="sybex-halo"/> After Installation 04's destruction, the [[Covenant]] [[Heretics]] built a [[Burial Mounds|makeshift camp]] on Basis, amid the wreckage from Alpha Halo.<ref>'''Halo 2''', in-game flavor text for ''[[Burial Mounds]]''</ref> Debris from Installation 04 often rained down on Basis, creating small craters on the moon's surface.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 72''</ref> During the [[Skirmish over Threshold]], [[Cortana]] maneuvered [[John-117]]'s [[GA-TL1 Longsword]] into the [[gravity well]] of the moon to slingshot the fighter around Basis to avoid Covenant attacks.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 61''</ref>