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 {{quote|The records don't always stay the same. Sometimes they change. It is not known why."<br>"Like real memories.|[[IsoDidact|Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting]] and [[Chakas]] discussing the Domain<ref name="c167">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 167-168''</ref>}}
-The Domain had its own set of rules and restrictions it rarely violated. Forerunners could only view information that they already knew or what was otherwise available to them, namely data stored in the Domain in recent times. The deepest records contained in the Domain could not be accessed, due in no small part because information in the Domain was not static: the records changed over time as new visits by newer generations laid new layers of information which settled into its own patterns and sought to make itself more complete.<ref name="s182">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 182''</ref> These changes were regarded as sacred, and were never reversed or corrected.<ref name="c167"/> Over long periods of time, older information in the Domain ultimately became unintelligible to all Forerunners, even Haruspis.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 58''</ref> Due to these anomalies, the Domain was not commonly used as means of communication; messages could be inexplicably altered on the way.<ref name="c125">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 125''</ref>
+The Domain had its own set of rules and restrictions it rarely violated. Forerunners could only view information that they already knew or what was otherwise available to them, namely data stored in the Domain in recent times. The deepest records contained in the Domain could not be accessed, due in no small part to the fact that information in the Domain was not static: the records changed over time as new visits by newer generations laid new layers of information which settled into its own patterns and sought to make itself more complete.<ref name="s182">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 182''</ref> These changes were regarded as sacred, and were never reversed or corrected.<ref name="c167"/> Over long periods of time, older information in the Domain ultimately became unintelligible to all Forerunners, even Haruspis.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 58''</ref> Due to these anomalies, the Domain was not commonly used as means of communication; messages could be inexplicably altered on the way.<ref name="c125">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 125''</ref>
 The Domain retained partial impressions of individuals who had visited it in earlier times. Forerunners connected to the Domain could access these essences, although they only manifested themselves as abstract echoes like emotions or memories as opposed to complete personalities.<ref name="s255"/> The Forerunners also viewed the Domain as a form of afterlife, believing that the "essences" of individuals [[Mind transfer|passed]] into the Domain upon death.<ref name="p234">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 234-235'' (''"But to all of us there is a time like this, when the Domain seeks to confirm our essences, and for you, that time is now"'')</ref><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page '' (''"You have come to remove me. Please do. I have been so long with the Domain that I will quickly pass into it-and I can think of no more suitable fate for Haruspis."'')</ref><ref name="s275">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 275'' (''"I hear our ancillas perform their own mantra, and wonder if perhaps in the Domain there is any distinction between machine and living being."'')</ref>