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*[[Monitor]] [[117649 Despondent Pyre]]<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/query-catalog-old/7fbf60e8-92f7-4826-ac2a-ab1b5e4e3603/posts?page=10#post100 ''Halo Waypoint'' - ''Query: Catalog'']</ref> {{c|destroyed}}{{Ref/Reuse|Hi}}

'''Installation 07''', also known as '''Zeta Halo''',{{Ref/Reuse|HitD1}}<ref name="source">[[:File:H3 halo inner ring title.PNG|Halo 3 Texture files: ''halo inner ring'']]</ref> originally known as '''Gyre 11''' by the Forerunners,{{Ref/Novel|Id=POL9|POL|Chapter=9}}, and '''Oth Koronn''' by the [[Banished]],{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=444}} is one of the [[seven]] rings in the [[Forerunners]]' [[Halo Array]], located in the [[Sagittarius Arm]] of the [[Milky Way]] galaxy.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} Unlike the other six remaining Halo installations, which were constructed as a separate array of rings with the diameter of 10,000 kilometers,{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=329}} Installation 07 is the only surviving ring from the original main array of twelve 30,000-kilometer-wide Halos.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=325}} However, the installation's diameter was reduced to 10,000 kilometers after most of its superstructure was discarded as a result of heavy damage.{{Ref/Novel|Id=prim344|Pri|Page=344}} [[117649 Despondent Pyre]] was assigned as the [[monitor]] of Installation 07, and would remain in this position until her destruction during [[Battle for Zeta Halo|a conflict]] between the [[UNSC]] and [[Banished]] that began in late [[2559]].{{Ref/Level|Id=Conservatory|Hi|[[Conservatory]]}} The [[submonitor]] [[Adjutant Resolution]] took over as the caretaker of the installation following his superior's destruction.{{Ref/Level|Id=Spire|Hi|[[Spire]]}} It was during this conflict that Installation 07 would once again be heavily damaged, this time purposefully by the [[smart AI]] known as [[Cortana]].{{Ref/Level|Id=Silent Auditorium|Hi|[[Silent Auditorium]]}}

After Installation 07 had been officially considered missing for 43 years, the Master Builder had a second Halo ring transported to the primary [[San'Shyuum]] world [[Janjur Qom]] and authorized its activation to suppress [[Battle of Janjur Qom|a rebellion]], wiping out all but few of the San'Shyuum.{{Ref/Note|In ''[[Halo: Primordium]]'', while explaining what has gone on to [[Chakas]], [[Genemender-Folder-of-Fortune]] tells him that Installation 07 was used to sterilize [[Janjur Qom]]. However, this contradicts ''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'' where [[IsoDidact|Bornstellar]] realizes that [[Faber]] has lost a Halo. Furthermore, on page 275 of ''Cryptum'', the Halo in the [[San'Shyuum home system]] is specifically identified as a second installation.}} However, he failed to foresee the consequences of this decision. Immediately following the firing, many of the [[Warrior-Servant]]s and [[Lifeworker]]s assigned to serve under Faber's [[Builder]] forces openly rebelled against the Master Builder, viewing his actions as a grave offense against the [[Mantle]]. This rebellion was, for the most part, violently suppressed by Faber's [[Builder Security]] forces and the remaining Warriors and Lifeworkers were given a choice to either serve Faber or be killed. Some chose to ally with the Master Builder while those loyal to the Council continued to resist, sabotaging power stations and other facilities in an attempt to cripple the installation from within.{{Ref/Novel|Id=p305|Pri|Page=305}}

During the destruction event that shattered a portion of the ring at the hands of Cortana, Installation 07 itself was moved from the Ephsu system to an unknown location{{Ref/Reuse|OI09}}{{Ref/Novel|RP|4}} by Cortana.{{Ref/Novel|Id=RP268|RP|30}} [[Lieutenant]] [[TJ Murphy]] speculated that it could've been moved clear across the galaxy or even into [[intergalactic space]].{{Ref/Novel|RP|13}} UNSC survivors on the ring, who continued to mount a sporadic resistance against the Banished, had no way to call for reinforcements, but the Banished were similarly stranded even though they still had warships at their disposal. Over the next six months, the Banished, now led by War Chief [[Escharum]], Atriox's mentor and second-in-command, hunted what remained of UNSC forces and investigated the ring. At first demoralized by Atriox's loss and dismissive of his idea the ring could propel the Banished to glory, Escharum's faith in his protege was rekindled by the discovery of a repository of [[cylix]]es, one of which contained the genetic template of the [[Harbinger]], whom he set about reviving.{{Ref/Game|Id=Hi|Hi}} During this time, the UNSC team dubbed the [[boat crew]] enlisted the help of [[Monitor]] [[117649 Despondent Pyre]] and [[Submonitor]] [[091 Adjutant Veridity]] to send a superluminal message to UNSC space with the ring's current coordinates and tactical status in order to call in reinforcements to stop the Banished. During [[Battle of the beacon tower|a battle]] at one of the ring's [[beacon tower]]s, the team managed to send the message and escape with the help of Veridity, albeit at the cost of [[Ensign]] [[Isaiah Cameron]] and Lieutenant TJ Murphy.{{Ref/Novel|RP|34}}{{Ref/Novel|RP|35}}{{Ref/Novel|RP|36}}{{Ref/Novel|RP|38}}

In May [[2560]], [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]] was recovered by [[Fernando Esparza]], the pilot of ''[[Echo 216]]'', from where he was floating near the ring after having been thrown off of the ''Infinity'' by Atriox six months earlier. The Master Chief engaged the Banished across Installation 07's surface, rallying the surviving UNSC forces and eliminating Escharum and many of his top lieutenants. During the conflict, the Master Chief discovers that Cortana, whom he had been sent to Installation 07 to capture and destroy, had been the one to destroy part of the ring in order to keep Atriox and his forces from activating it, apparently killing Atriox in the process. The Banished release the Harbinger who was imprisoned on the ring for eons, but the Master Chief manages to kill her and continues his campaign against the occupying Banished forces. During this time, the Master Chief and the Weapon discover that time apparently moves differently on various parts of the ring, emerging from the [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]] three days after entering it despite only a much shorter time passing for them.

Installation 07's primary mapping facility was an enormous structure extruding from one of the edge walls.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=319-320}} The damage proved to be so severe that the original Cartographer was destroyed, and its function was transferred to the former Mendicant Bias' core by the Librarian and Zeta Halo's ancillas.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL15}}

The primary extension of Mendicant Bias was housed in a massive facility deep beneath Installation 07's surface, accessible via anti-gravity gondolas which traveled through an enormous, 20-30-kilometer-diameter circular opening in the ring's landscape. After passing through an undetermined void within the ring's bowels, the transit vehicles settled in an enormous chamber whose floor was a green-glowing maze of hard light paths resembling a spiderweb.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=278-283}} Mendicant Bias itself was based in a mobile structure featuring its core crystals and a large green eye, moving on legs of hard light.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=287-288}} It was here that the humans were eventually gathered and thoroughly examined by Mendicant Bias before the final effort to cancel the ring's failsafe orbit.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=288}} After the installation's retake by the IsoDidact and Mendicant Bias' transfer away from the ring, the Primordial was detained in a chamber located near Mendicant Bias' former core, the [[Metarch-class ancilla|Metarch]]'s data crystals now dark and inert.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=356}} The Primordial was imprisoned in a hemispherical chamber 531 meters in diameter within an arena 104 meters wide, locked in a cage of intermeshed black rods housing a [[slipspace bubble|temporal manipulation mechanism]]. The cage was located on a round elevated platform in the center of the arena.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Page=359}} The core was transformed by order of the Librarian into [[the Monument]], a new home for the various essences, imprints and damaged submonitors left over from the civil war on the ring. With the destruction of Zeta Halo's Cartographer, its function was transferred to this location.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL15}}

The Silent Auditorium is a large structure located in the segment of the installation that was shattered during the [[Battle for Zeta Halo]]. The Auditorium's central chamber collapsed immediately following the death of The [[Harbinger]] at the hands of [[John-117]].{{Ref/Reuse|Hi}}