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==History== | ==History== | ||
Created by the Forerunners, these devices would eventually be found by the [[Covenant]] during their thousands of years of searching for Forerunner relics. By the year [[2525]], only four of these beacons had been found by the alien hegemony. Due to this and their abilities, they were considered deeply sacred, kept within the [[Beacon Keeper's Vault]], along with their reception units. Their sole purpose within the Covenant was to be given to fleets heading to unknown space to announce the presence of a [[Halo Array|Halo ring]], if one was found. More then five thousand [[Cycle|cycles]] prior to 2525, a Covenant fleet, with one of these beacons vanished, ultimately transmitting from deep within the [[Milky Way|galactic core]]. Thanks to the dense star density and strong gravity, it was beyond the Covenant's ability to retrieve and was called the " Fabled Lost Beacon" afterwards<ref name="OB5"/> | Created by the Forerunners, these devices would eventually be found by the [[Covenant]] during their thousands of years of searching for Forerunner relics. By the year [[2525]], only four of these beacons had been found by the alien hegemony. Due to this and their abilities, they were considered deeply sacred, kept within the [[Beacon Keeper's Vault]], along with their reception units. Their sole purpose within the Covenant was to be given to fleets heading to unknown space to announce the presence of a [[Halo Array|Halo ring]], if one was found. More then five thousand [[Cycle|cycles]] prior to 2525, a Covenant fleet, with one of these beacons vanished, ultimately transmitting from deep within the [[Milky Way|galactic core]]. Thanks to the dense star density and strong gravity, it was beyond the Covenant's ability to retrieve and was called the "Fabled Lost Beacon" afterwards<ref name="OB5"/> | ||
During the first months of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Hierarchs entrusted two of the three remaining beacons with fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee on his campaign into human territory, as they claimed clues to finding the Halo rings could be found there. During the [[Attack on Zhoist]], one of these beacons was lost when the ship it was on, ''[[Almighty Persuasion]]'' was destroyed. The remaining one would be taken back to High Charity when Nizat was brought back for debriefing. Here he would suggest using it as a way to wipe out [[ONI]]<ref name="OB5"/> | During the first months of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Hierarchs entrusted two of the three remaining beacons with fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee on his campaign into human territory, as they claimed clues to finding the Halo rings could be found there. During the [[Attack on Zhoist]], one of these beacons was lost when the ship it was on, ''[[Almighty Persuasion]]'' was destroyed. The remaining one would be taken back to High Charity when Nizat was brought back for debriefing. Here he would suggest using it as a way to wipe out [[ONI]]<ref name="OB5"/> | ||