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===Halo Array=== | ===Halo Array=== | ||
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[[Image:Delta Halo.jpg|thumb|200px|[[ | [[Image:Delta Halo.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Installation 05]], the second Halo discovered by the UNSC and the Covenant.]] | ||
The Halo installations are planet-sized artificial worlds, shaped like a ring. The interior surface contains a breathable atmosphere and seemingly natural terrain, including oceans, lakes, mountains, forests, and tundras. Underneath this is a support layer, upon which this terrain has been put in place, consisting of a vast grid network of metallic plates that provide the base. Though centripetal forces may provide at least some of a Halo installation's gravity, it also uses artificial gravity generators to generate [[Earth]]-like gravity.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', ''page 14''</ref> | The Halo installations are planet-sized artificial worlds, shaped like a ring. The interior surface contains a breathable atmosphere and seemingly natural terrain, including oceans, lakes, mountains, forests, and tundras. Underneath this is a support layer, upon which this terrain has been put in place, consisting of a vast grid network of metallic plates that provide the base. Though centripetal forces may provide at least some of a Halo installation's gravity, it also uses artificial gravity generators to generate [[Earth]]-like gravity.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', ''page 14''</ref> | ||
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[[Image: | [[Image:Onyxbetter.jpg|thumb|250px|Artificial planet [[Onyx]], before its destruction.]] | ||
The Forerunners were also adept at creating artificial planets in a variety of ways. They were capable of speeding up natural planetary formation by collapsing an asteroid field into a molten mass of a twenty-megameter range, and then form it into a protoplanet which could be fully cooled in less than ten thousand years.<ref name="c221">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 221''</ref> | The Forerunners were also adept at creating artificial planets in a variety of ways. They were capable of speeding up natural planetary formation by collapsing an asteroid field into a molten mass of a twenty-megameter range, and then form it into a protoplanet which could be fully cooled in less than ten thousand years.<ref name="c221">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 221''</ref> | ||