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[[Image:Delta Halo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|One of the [[seven]] Halos]] | [[Image:Delta Halo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|One of the [[seven]] Halos]] | ||
The Halo Array is a network of seven<ref>343 Guilty Spark: "Collectively, the seven-"</ref> [[Wikipedia:Orbitals (The Culture)|Orbitals]], concentric artificial | The Halo Array is a network of seven<ref>343 Guilty Spark: "Collectively, the seven-"</ref> [[Wikipedia:Orbitals (The Culture)|Orbitals]], concentric artificial rings built by the [[Forerunners]], an extinct technologically advanced race. The two known Halo installations, referred to as [[Alpha Halo]] and [[Delta Halo]] respectively, orbit [[Threshold|gas]] [[Substance|giants]], though it is not known whether this is the case of all the Halos, and Alpha Halo maintained an atmospheric mining facility until [[The Oracle (Level)|it was destroyed]] by the Covenant<ref>[[Halo 2]], [[The Oracle (Level)]]. </ref>Though separated by thousands of light-years, the seven installations are networked together and capable of remote activation at an [[Installation 00|Alderson Disk]] outside the galaxy. The array was designed by the Forerunners to eradicate sentient life from [[Milky Way Galaxy|the galaxy]], thereby denying the [[Flood]] a source with which to expand, and starving it to death to prevent its spread, and each Halo has a maximum effective range of 25,000 light-years.<ref>343 Guilty Spark: "Technically, this installation has a maximum effective range of 25,000 lightyears."</ref> The exact means the array uses to conduct this "mass sterilization protocol"<ref>Why naturally the Flood is simply too dangerous to release, and mass sterilization protocols may again need to be enacted.</ref> are unknown, though it is assumed to utilize energy in some form.<ref>343 Guilty Spark: "Reclaimer, please understand that that interfering with the wave generation process will severely damage this installation.</ref> | ||
The Halo Array has been fired once in known history, approximately 100,000 years ago, by the [[Didact]]<ref>Iris Array Recorder Data </ref> in order to stop the [[Flood]] from overwhelming the galaxy. Despite being the networks builders, the Forerunners were killed in this last suicidal option to save the rest of the universe from a worse fate.<ref>343 Guilty Spark: "After exhausting every other strategic option, my creators activated the rings. They, and all additional sentient life in three radii of the galactic center, died, as planned."</ref> The array has nearly been activated twice since - [[Alpha Halo]] was almost activated by the [[Master Chief]] before being deactivated by [[Cortana]], while [[Delta Halo]] was activated by Commander [[Miranda Keyes]], forced by the [[Jiralhanae]] [[Chieftain]] [[Tartarus]], neither of which were successful. A [[Installation 04 (II)|replacement]] Halo for the destroyed Alpha Halo was activated outside of the array's range, eliminating the freed Flood, but did not activate the rest of the array.<ref>[[Halo 3]], [[Halo (Level)]]</ref> | The Halo Array has been fired once in known history, approximately 100,000 years ago, by the [[Didact]]<ref>Iris Array Recorder Data </ref> in order to stop the [[Flood]] from overwhelming the galaxy. Despite being the networks builders, the Forerunners were killed in this last suicidal option to save the rest of the universe from a worse fate.<ref>343 Guilty Spark: "After exhausting every other strategic option, my creators activated the rings. They, and all additional sentient life in three radii of the galactic center, died, as planned."</ref> The array has nearly been activated twice since - [[Alpha Halo]] was almost activated by the [[Master Chief]] before being deactivated by [[Cortana]], while [[Delta Halo]] was activated by Commander [[Miranda Keyes]], forced by the [[Jiralhanae]] [[Chieftain]] [[Tartarus]], neither of which were successful. A [[Installation 04 (II)|replacement]] Halo for the destroyed Alpha Halo was activated outside of the array's range, eliminating the freed Flood, but did not activate the rest of the array.<ref>[[Halo 3]], [[Halo (Level)]]</ref> | ||