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'''Beacons''' are equipment used by the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] in the extraction of the [[Helium|helium-3]]. Fifty stories tall and as wide as five city blocks, a Beacon is shaped like a perfectly symmetrical beehive floating atop four antigravity "stilts", tended by [[Yanme'e]] [[Unmutuals|workers]]. The term "Beacon" is a [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] designation - whatever the Covenant know the equipment as is unknown. Helium-3 was trapped in a second mantle formed over the original object during the spallation-heavy [[terraforming]] process of UNSC colonies. During the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Covenant would set up Beacons on conquered UNSC worlds to extract and refine this helium-3, converting it into pure energy for transmission to nearby [[Battle Group|battlegroups]]. One such Beacon was located on [[Verge]] in [[2552]], used to power Covenant warships [[Battle of Tribute|blockading]] [[Tribute]], [[Battle of Verge|destroyed soon after]] by [[Team Black]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''' - ''[[Blunt Instruments]]''</ref> | '''Beacons''' are equipment used by the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] in the extraction of the [[Helium|helium-3]]. Fifty stories tall and as wide as five city blocks, a Beacon is shaped like a perfectly symmetrical beehive floating atop four antigravity "stilts", tended by [[Yanme'e]] [[Unmutuals|workers]]. The term "Beacon" is a [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] designation - whatever the Covenant know the equipment as is unknown. Helium-3 was trapped in a second mantle formed over the original object during the spallation-heavy [[terraforming]] process of UNSC colonies. During the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Covenant would set up Beacons on conquered UNSC worlds to extract and refine this helium-3, converting it into pure energy for transmission to nearby [[Battle Group|battlegroups]]. One such Beacon was located on [[Verge]] in [[2552]], used to power Covenant warships [[Battle of Tribute|blockading]] [[Tribute]], [[Battle of Verge|destroyed soon after]] by [[Team Black]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''' - ''[[Blunt Instruments]]''</ref> | ||
==List of appearances== | |||
*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]'' | |||
**''[[Blunt Instruments]]'' {{1st}} | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:Covenant technology]] | [[Category:Covenant technology]] | ||