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The Halos were constructed by the Forerunner [[Builder]]s several hundred years after the Flood had first been encountered and driven from the Milky Way. The most extreme faction of Builders, which at the time controlled the [[Forerunner Council]], claimed that more extreme measures should be used to protect the galaxy against a possible Flood resurgence. Although they faced strong opposition from the [[Promethean]]s, including [[the Didact]], the faction won the approval of the Council and commenced work on the Array. | The Halos were constructed by the Forerunner [[Builder]]s several hundred years after the Flood had first been encountered and driven from the Milky Way. The most extreme faction of Builders, which at the time controlled the [[Forerunner Council]], claimed that more extreme measures should be used to protect the galaxy against a possible Flood resurgence. Although they faced strong opposition from the [[Promethean]]s, including [[the Didact]], the faction won the approval of the Council and commenced work on the Array. | ||
Twelve Halos were commissioned by the [[Master Builder]], [[Faber]], but only | Twelve Halos were commissioned by the [[Master Builder]], [[Faber]], but only one of them survived to be used in the Forerunners' final plan. Another array of six installations remained under the Librarian's control at Installation 00. | ||
===Forerunner-Flood War=== | ===Forerunner-Flood War=== | ||
The first test of a Halo installation was conducted by [[05-032 Mendicant Bias]], who fired one of the weapons at [[Charum Hakkor]] on a low power setting. He then took the Halo with him as per his mission to assault the [[Gravemind]], but both he and the ring vanished and were not seen for another 43 years. | The first test of a Halo installation was conducted by [[05-032 Mendicant Bias]], who fired one of the weapons at [[Charum Hakkor]] on a low power setting. He then took the Halo with him as per his mission to assault the [[Gravemind]], but both he and the ring vanished and were not seen for another 43 years. | ||
The other eleven Halo installations were taken to the Forerunner [[Capital]] during the tribunal against Master Builder Faber, where it was to be decided whether to decommission them. However, in the midst of the trial, Mendicant Bias, turned rampant by the Gravemind, appeared with the twelfth Halo and assaulted the Capital. He attempted to seize control of the remaining Halos and fire them, but was only able to control five. One of those five was destroyed by the combined tidal forces of the Capital, the firepower of the Forerunner fleets, and the stress of a recent [[Slipstream space|slipspace jump]]. Seven of the Halos were | The other eleven Halo installations were taken to the Forerunner [[Capital]] during the tribunal against Master Builder Faber, where it was to be decided whether to decommission them. However, in the midst of the trial, Mendicant Bias, turned rampant by the Gravemind, appeared with the twelfth Halo and assaulted the Capital. He attempted to seize control of the remaining Halos and fire them, but was only able to control five. One of those five was destroyed by the combined tidal forces of the Capital, the firepower of the Forerunner fleets, and the stress of a recent [[Slipstream space|slipspace jump]]. Seven of the Halos were recalled to Installation 00 via slipspace jump, yet only one escaped before the portal collapsed. | ||
Little else is known of their extensive history, though it is known that at least one was functional for 101, 217 local years.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''page 238''</ref> After exhausting every other strategic option, their creators had no choice but to activate the Halos' main weapons, terminating all sentient life in the galaxy.<ref name="great journey"/> | Little else is known of their extensive history, though it is known that at least one was functional for 101, 217 local years.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''page 238''</ref> After exhausting every other strategic option, their creators had no choice but to activate the Halos' main weapons, terminating all sentient life in the galaxy.<ref name="great journey"/> | ||