Forerunner socket system

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During the development of Halo 5: Guardians, a system was concepted and drawn up by 343 industries for inclusion in the game, though was ultimately cut while being conceptualised for unknown reasons.^[1]

History

The Forerunner Socket System was a weapons system cut from Halo 5: Guardians. It was a system to be used by mainly the Forerunner faction for their weapons and vehicles. The cores would have been able to be swapped out of the vehicles and weapons, but would not be able to be swapped between the vehicles or weapons.

Socket Cores

Weapon Core: Beam

The beam core which was apart of the mega cores designed for the Forerunner vehicles also cut from Halo: 5 the cut core was to fire a continuous beam of Hard light.

Halo 5 Guardians Weapon Core.png

Concept art of the Weapon Core

Ability Core: Shield Array

The shield array mega core was designed for the Forerunner vehicles also cut from Halo: 5 the cut core was to produce a blue hard light shield in front of a small area on the vehicle.

Halo 5 Guardians Ability Core.png

Concept art of the Ability Core

Deployer Core: Enemy Spawn

The enemy spawn mega core was designed for the Forerunner vehicles also cut from Halo: 5 the cut core was to produce Sentinel like pods that would hunt down and attack enemies.

Halo 5 Guardians Deployer Core.png

Concept art of the Deployer Core

Socket tank

Gallery

Halo 5 Guardians Socket Weapons.png

Concept art of possible Socket Weapons
Halo 5 Guardians More Socket Weapons.png

Concept art of more possible Socket Weapons

Sources

^ Imgur, Halo 5: Guardians concept art (Retrieved on Jun 9, 2016) [archive]

[1] Imgur, Halo 5: Guardians concept art (Retrieved on Jun 9, 2016) [archive]

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