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{{Quote|Isolate and contain.|Henry Lamb reiterates one of the project's goals, specifically with regard to Zeta Halo's [[activation index]].}}<ref name="HHITD1"/> | {{Quote|Isolate and contain.|Henry Lamb reiterates one of the project's goals, specifically with regard to Zeta Halo's [[activation index]].}}<ref name="HHITD1"/> | ||
The '''Zeta Halo project''' or '''Zeta Halo operation''' | [[File:HI E318 HaloRing.png|thumb|right|350px|Installation 07 is the last remaining ring of the originally twelve-strong Senescent Array.<ref name="HM29">''[[Halo Mythos]]'', ''page 29''</ref>]] | ||
The '''Zeta Halo project''' or '''Zeta Halo operation''' was a [[Unified Earth Government]] initiative to study, decommission, and occupy [[Installation 07]], the fourth [[Halo Array|Halo ring]] to be discovered by modern humanity.<ref name="HHITD1"/><ref name="HHITD2"/><ref name="HOSFM99"/> Overseen by Doctor [[Bob Casper]], it involved both a scientific outpost and a large military presence.<ref name="HHITD1"/><ref name="HOSFM99"/> The project was first launched in early [[2555]] and within a few months its researchers discovered a countdown signaling the imminent activation of the entire Halo array.<ref name="HHITD1"/><ref name="HHITD2"/> In the years which followed the averting of this near-crisis, what was originally only around three hundred researchers grew to include [[UNSC Armed Forces|armed forces]] of the [[United Nations Space Command]].<ref name="HHITD1"/><ref name="HOSFM99"/> | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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===Project=== | ===Project=== | ||
{{Quote|no=two|q1=Every Halo has a monitor, right? Like [[343 Guilty Spark]] on Alpha Halo, for instance. So why can't we find one here? As much as we've searched this place, we've consistently come up empty. And it hasn't found us, which is even more surprising, given the time we've spent here. It leaves me wondering whether there simply isn't one here, or if it's hiding for some reason.|Henry Lamb|q2=For some reason? I would think the reason would be obvious, at least one of them. Human and Covenant interactions on these installations have not always been the best. If the monitor of this Halo is aware of that, it might be inclined to steer clear of us. I know I would.|Luther Mann|Two researchers speculate regarding the apparent absence of Zeta Halo's monitor.}}<ref name="HHITD1"/> | {{Quote|no=two|q1=Every Halo has a monitor, right? Like [[343 Guilty Spark]] on Alpha Halo, for instance. So why can't we find one here? As much as we've searched this place, we've consistently come up empty. And it hasn't found us, which is even more surprising, given the time we've spent here. It leaves me wondering whether there simply isn't one here, or if it's hiding for some reason.|Henry Lamb|q2=For some reason? I would think the reason would be obvious, at least one of them. Human and Covenant interactions on these installations have not always been the best. If the monitor of this Halo is aware of that, it might be inclined to steer clear of us. I know I would.|Luther Mann|Two researchers speculate regarding the apparent absence of Zeta Halo's monitor.}}<ref name="HHITD1"/> | ||
[[File:117649.PNG|thumb|right|300px|By March of 2558 multiple claims against Installation 07's monitor had been filed by [[343 Guilty Spark]].<ref name="WaypointCatalog>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/query-catalog-old/7fbf60e8-92f7-4826-ac2a-ab1b5e4e3603/posts?page=6 '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''CATALOG INTERACTION'']</ref>]] | |||
ONI set about conducting research on the vast interior world that composed the inner workings of Zeta Halo shortly after its location was revealed.<ref name="HHITD1"/> No expense was spared for the project, as there was lots of territory to cover and the risk of something being overlooked was great. In addition to the researchers delivered to the ring, hundreds of automated probes began to be used to scan every canyon, riverbed, and facility. As had been the protocol for other Halo installations, a primary goal of the project was the isolation and containment of the [[activation index]].<ref name="HHITD1"/> As such, finding the [[library]] was of great importance. Ideally, all important facilities would be quickly located and secured. Ultimately the Halo's [[control room]] could provide all the necessary information and some of the critical functions the humans sought. Despite much searching, the ring's library, [[control room]] and [[monitor]] were still yet to be located by early March. On [[Installation 04|Alpha]], [[Installation 05|Delta]], and [[Installation 03|Gamma Halo]]s the control room had been the largest uniform structure near the [[phase pulse generator]]s, but these also remained undiscovered. As for the lack of a monitor, [[Henry Lamb]] wondered if perhaps there simply may not be one or if [[117649|it]] might be hiding for some reason. [[Luther Mann]] figured that if it were hiding, one obvious reason for it to do so would be [[Battle of Installation 04|the]] [[Battle of Installation 05|recent]] [[Raid on Installation 08|history]] humanity and the [[Covenant]] shared with the Halo rings. A monitor remaining hidden didn't sound consistent with the historic understanding they had of the [[ancilla]]s, but both men had to admit consistency was by no means mandatory and that it was possible this ring had been made differently for reasons they didn't understand. This early into the ring's exploration it was already apparent that clear and subtle differences distinguished it from the others in the [[Halo Array|array]], after all. Some clear differences on a meta level dealt with the physical infrastructure and material composition of the ring itself, but other far subtler ones involved things like the architectural aesthetics of various building structures and machinery or even the machine language of its distributed systems. Zeta Halo, as a whole, was unlike any other such installation anyone was familiar with. Mann and Lamb theorized that it may have been constructed before all the others, incorporating lessons learned from previous Halo architecture, or that it could have come first and served as a sort of prototype.<ref name="HHITD1"/> It was not until much later that year that a [[Halo: Primordium|data drop]] recovered from deep space revealed the [[Installation 07#Background|real reasons]] for Installation 07's marked differences.<ref name="HR13">''[[Halo: Renegades]]'', ''Chapter 13''</ref> | ONI set about conducting research on the vast interior world that composed the inner workings of Zeta Halo shortly after its location was revealed.<ref name="HHITD1"/> No expense was spared for the project, as there was lots of territory to cover and the risk of something being overlooked was great. In addition to the researchers delivered to the ring, hundreds of automated probes began to be used to scan every canyon, riverbed, and facility. As had been the protocol for other Halo installations, a primary goal of the project was the isolation and containment of the [[activation index]].<ref name="HHITD1"/> As such, finding the [[library]] was of great importance. Ideally, all important facilities would be quickly located and secured. Ultimately the Halo's [[control room]] could provide all the necessary information and some of the critical functions the humans sought. Despite much searching, the ring's library, [[control room]] and [[monitor]] were still yet to be located by early March. On [[Installation 04|Alpha]], [[Installation 05|Delta]], and [[Installation 03|Gamma Halo]]s the control room had been the largest uniform structure near the [[phase pulse generator]]s, but these also remained undiscovered. As for the lack of a monitor, [[Henry Lamb]] wondered if perhaps there simply may not be one or if [[117649|it]] might be hiding for some reason. [[Luther Mann]] figured that if it were hiding, one obvious reason for it to do so would be [[Battle of Installation 04|the]] [[Battle of Installation 05|recent]] [[Raid on Installation 08|history]] humanity and the [[Covenant]] shared with the Halo rings. A monitor remaining hidden didn't sound consistent with the historic understanding they had of the [[ancilla]]s, but both men had to admit consistency was by no means mandatory and that it was possible this ring had been made differently for reasons they didn't understand. This early into the ring's exploration it was already apparent that clear and subtle differences distinguished it from the others in the [[Halo Array|array]], after all. Some clear differences on a meta level dealt with the physical infrastructure and material composition of the ring itself, but other far subtler ones involved things like the architectural aesthetics of various building structures and machinery or even the machine language of its distributed systems. Zeta Halo, as a whole, was unlike any other such installation anyone was familiar with. Mann and Lamb theorized that it may have been constructed before all the others, incorporating lessons learned from previous Halo architecture, or that it could have come first and served as a sort of prototype.<ref name="HHITD1"/> It was not until much later that year that a [[Halo: Primordium|data drop]] recovered from deep space revealed the [[Installation 07#Background|real reasons]] for Installation 07's marked differences.<ref name="HR13">''[[Halo: Renegades]]'', ''Chapter 13''</ref> | ||
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By [[2558|October 2558]] Zeta Halo's caretaker protocols were still impossible to predict or control and both its monitor and library remained elusive.<ref name="HOSFM99"/><ref group="note">In [[2014]] the user from [[343 Industries]] answering questions on [[Halo Waypoint]] under the username of [[Catalog]] addressed a question about the status of [[Installation 07]]'s quarantine by indicating that [[Sangheili]] had implemented containment and sterilization protocols there and provided records of these to human naval authorities. The in-universe date on which this statement was oriented was [[2558#March|March 3, 2558]]. It is highly likely that the reference to the ring's quarantine, itself referring to the way it was left at the end of ''[[Halo: Primordium]]'', caused Catalog to mistakenly think the questioner was asking about [[Installation 05]].</ref> These oddities left many questions yet unanswered as to the function and role of the ring within the larger array. By then, the large contingent occupying Zeta Site had taken on a military character in addition to a scientific one and had constructed facilities on the ring's surface.<ref name="HOSFM99">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', ''page 99''</ref><ref name="HLSTHA">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYaxRoAf96s&feature=youtu.be '''YouTube''': ''Halo Lore Stream: The Halo Array'']</ref> | By [[2558|October 2558]] Zeta Halo's caretaker protocols were still impossible to predict or control and both its monitor and library remained elusive.<ref name="HOSFM99"/><ref group="note">In [[2014]] the user from [[343 Industries]] answering questions on [[Halo Waypoint]] under the username of [[Catalog]] addressed a question about the status of [[Installation 07]]'s quarantine by indicating that [[Sangheili]] had implemented containment and sterilization protocols there and provided records of these to human naval authorities. The in-universe date on which this statement was oriented was [[2558#March|March 3, 2558]]. It is highly likely that the reference to the ring's quarantine, itself referring to the way it was left at the end of ''[[Halo: Primordium]]'', caused Catalog to mistakenly think the questioner was asking about [[Installation 05]].</ref> These oddities left many questions yet unanswered as to the function and role of the ring within the larger array. By then, the large contingent occupying Zeta Site had taken on a military character in addition to a scientific one and had constructed facilities on the ring's surface.<ref name="HOSFM99">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', ''page 99''</ref><ref name="HLSTHA">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYaxRoAf96s&feature=youtu.be '''YouTube''': ''Halo Lore Stream: The Halo Array'']</ref> | ||
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==Protocols== | ==Protocols== | ||
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*''[[Halo Mythos]]'' {{Im}} | *''[[Halo Mythos]]'' {{Im}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{Im}} | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:UNSC projects]] | [[Category:UNSC projects]] | ||
