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===Activation=== | ===Activation=== | ||
On [[2552#November|November 3, 2552]], during the [[Battle of Installation 05]], a signal was sent to this Halo from [[Installation 05]], putting the | On [[2552#November|November 3, 2552]], during the [[Battle of Installation 05]], a signal was sent to this Halo from [[Installation 05]], putting the former—as well as the entire Array—on standby mode. Installation 07 was then ready to fire on demand.<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', campaign level ''[[The Great Journey]]''</ref> | ||
===Deactivation and later history=== | ===Deactivation and later history=== | ||
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===Ecology and environments=== | ===Ecology and environments=== | ||
{{Quote|We feed the flies, the flies feed the bats and birds and the fish. It is [[Librarian|the Lady]]'s way.|[[Kirimt]]<ref name="p172">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 172''</ref>}} | |||
[[File:Halo ring 6.png|thumb|250px|The surface of Installation 07 in 2552.]] | [[File:Halo ring 6.png|thumb|250px|The surface of Installation 07 in 2552.]] | ||
As a sanctuary of Lifeworker specimens like the rest of the Halos, Installation 07 was home to numerous transplanted species of flora and fauna from various worlds, including life native to [[Earth]].<ref name="p57">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 57''</ref> These included bees,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 43''</ref> mosquitoes,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 164''</ref> rabbits<ref name="p57"/> and edible scorpions larger than [[Chakas]] had seen in his home region of [[Marontik]].<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 41''</ref> Installation 07 had not been fully finished by 100,000 BCE; when complete, it would have accommodated even more transplanted beings.<ref name="p318"/> | As a sanctuary of Lifeworker specimens like the rest of the Halos, Installation 07 was home to numerous transplanted species of flora and fauna from various worlds, including life native to [[Earth]].<ref name="p57">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 57''</ref> These included bees,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 43''</ref> mosquitoes,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 164''</ref> rabbits,<ref name="p57"/> bats<ref name="p172"/> and edible scorpions larger than [[Chakas]] had seen in his home region of [[Marontik]].<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 41''</ref> Installation 07 had not been fully finished by 100,000 BCE; when complete, it would have accommodated even more transplanted beings.<ref name="p318"/> | ||
Among its vast amount of different flora the ring was home to one peculiar type of enormous tree with thick thorns that made passage impossible in forests where the trees were thickly spaced. The trees' trunks were brown and green, and several meters thick. Ten or twelve meters up the thorns were supplanted by tiny branches that formed a dense canopy.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 127-128''</ref> Several hours before dawn, the spikes would withdraw into the trunks, allowing passage through the forest, thrusting out again at first light. A forest of these trees was traversed by Chakas, Vinnevra and Gamelpar during their journey on the ring; the trio made it out just in time before the dawn.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 129-132''</ref> | Among its vast amount of different flora the ring was home to one peculiar type of enormous tree with thick thorns that made passage impossible in forests where the trees were thickly spaced. The trees' trunks were brown and green, and several meters thick. Ten or twelve meters up the thorns were supplanted by tiny branches that formed a dense canopy.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 127-128''</ref> Several hours before dawn, the spikes would withdraw into the trunks, allowing passage through the forest, thrusting out again at first light. A forest of these trees was traversed by Chakas, [[Vinnevra]] and [[Gamelpar]] during their journey on the ring; the trio made it out just in time before the dawn.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 129-132''</ref> | ||
On the other side of the forest there was a salty ocean spanning the width of the ring.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 132-133, 246''</ref> The sea was home to massive aquatic creatures smooth and gray in general aspect with fins and rounded, blue and purple appendages edged with lobes branching off into sets of smaller and smaller lobes. The flesh that comprised the lobes resembled milky glass full of bubble-like jewels. These creatures observed Chakas, Vinnevra and Gamelpar for hours while they crossed the ocean in a wooden boat but did not attack.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 158-160''</ref> | On the other side of the forest there was a salty ocean spanning the width of the ring.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 132-133, 246''</ref> The sea was home to massive aquatic creatures smooth and gray in general aspect with fins and rounded, blue and purple appendages edged with lobes branching off into sets of smaller and smaller lobes. The flesh that comprised the lobes resembled milky glass full of bubble-like jewels. These creatures observed Chakas, Vinnevra and Gamelpar for hours while they crossed the ocean in a wooden boat but did not attack.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 158-160''</ref> | ||
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;Lifeworker Central | ;Lifeworker Central | ||
The nexus of Lifeworker operations on the installation, Lifeworker Central<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 266''</ref> was a large structure with a cavernous interior built near a body of water with rocky cliffs several kilometers on the other side. Like many other locations on the ring, the hard light structures | The nexus of Lifeworker operations on the installation, Lifeworker Central<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 266''</ref> was a large structure with a cavernous, dim interior built near a body of water with rocky cliffs several kilometers on the other side. Like many other locations on the ring, the hard light structures within—including walls, balconies, windows, roadways and walkways—were suffering frequent power outages and flickering uncontrollably. The Central was accessible via a rail transit system as well as anti-gravity gondolas on the waterfront, which housed a wide dock platform. After the crisis at the Capital, several of the boats at the dock had partially sunk.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 268-269''</ref> | ||
;[[Flood research facility|Flood research facilities]] | ;[[Flood research facility|Flood research facilities]] | ||
Known to the local humans collectively as the "[[Palace of Pain]]", these facilities were the thousands of former Lifeworker biological stations converted into Flood research centers by the [[Faber|Master Builder]]. In practice, they were under the administration of [[Mendicant Bias]], working under the [[Primordial]]'s instructions.<ref name="p357"/> One of these research facilities was an enormous square pillar leaning against one of the edge walls, its top obscured by clouds.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 106''</ref> The Primordial personally observed crowds of humans—made docile by controlling their ''geas'' via beacons—being herded into the structure by [[war sphinx]]es.<ref name="p109"/> | Known to the local humans collectively as the "[[Palace of Pain]]", these facilities were the thousands of former Lifeworker biological stations converted into Flood research centers by the [[Faber|Master Builder]]. In practice, they were under the administration of [[Mendicant Bias]], working under the [[Primordial]]'s instructions.<ref name="p357"/> One of these research facilities was an enormous square pillar leaning against one of the edge walls, its top obscured by clouds.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 106''</ref> The Primordial personally observed crowds of humans—made docile by controlling their ''geas'' via beacons—being herded into the structure by [[war sphinx]]es.<ref name="p109"/> | ||
; | ;Genemender Folder of Fortune's station | ||
The [[Lifeworker]]s maintained many outposts and reserves across the ring where they monitored and tended to the local life.<ref name="p168"/> Genemender Folder of Fortune's station was located in what appeared to be a primitive human village, the Forerunner technology of the outpost itself hidden by a [[dazzler]] or [[baffler]].<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', '' | The [[Lifeworker]]s maintained many outposts and reserves across the ring where they monitored and tended to the local life.<ref name="p168"/> [[Genemender Folder of Fortune]]'s station was located in what appeared to be a primitive human village, the Forerunner technology of the outpost itself hidden by a [[dazzler]] or [[baffler]].<ref name="p174">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 174-175, 186''</ref> The huts in the village—including a central hall—were were constructed of log, elevated above the ground by pillars and accessible via stairs or ladders.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 174-175''</ref> After the crisis on the ring escalated Genemender began to scan and archive the humans' minds, occasionally allowing them to simulate physical interaction in bodies of hard light. Hard light projectors were also used to maintain the village in a superficially pristine condition; in truth, however, the buildings had dilapidated considerably and the area had overgrown with tall grass.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 201''</ref> The interior of Genemender's station had a high, round ceiling and corridors branching off from the central chamber. The station also housed the machinery used for the mind-state scans; the archived human essences were stored in cylindrical [[Durance]]s inside the station.<ref name="p174"/> | ||
;Lifeworker beacons | ;Lifeworker beacons | ||
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;Mendicant Bias' core | ;Mendicant Bias' core | ||
The primary extension of Mendicant Bias was housed in a massive facility deep beneath Installation 07's surface, accessible via anti-gravity gondolas which traveled through an enormous, 20-30-kilometer-diameter circular opening in the ring's landscape. After passing through an undetermined void within the ring's bowels, the transit vehicles settled in an enormous chamber whose floor was a green-glowing maze of hard light paths resembling a spiderweb.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 278-283''</ref> Mendicant Bias itself was based in a mobile structure featuring its core crystals and a large green eye, moving on legs of hard light.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 287-288''</ref> It was here that the humans were eventually gathered and thoroughly examined by Mendicant Bias before the final effort to cancel the ring's failsafe orbit.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 288''</ref> | The primary extension of Mendicant Bias was housed in a massive facility deep beneath Installation 07's surface, accessible via anti-gravity gondolas which traveled through an enormous, 20-30-kilometer-diameter circular opening in the ring's landscape. After passing through an undetermined void within the ring's bowels, the transit vehicles settled in an enormous chamber whose floor was a green-glowing maze of hard light paths resembling a spiderweb.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 278-283''</ref> Mendicant Bias itself was based in a mobile structure featuring its core crystals and a large green eye, moving on legs of hard light.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 287-288''</ref> It was here that the humans were eventually gathered and thoroughly examined by Mendicant Bias before the final effort to cancel the ring's failsafe orbit.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 288''</ref> After the installation's retake by the IsoDidact and Mendicant Bias' transfer away from the ring, the Primordial was detained in a chamber located near Mendicant Bias' former core, the [[metarch]]'s data crystals now dark and inert.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 356''</ref> The Primordial was imprisoned in a hemispherical chamber 531 meters in diameter within an arena 104 meters wide, locked in a cage of intermeshed black rods housing a [[slipspace bubble|temporal manipulation mechanism]]. The cage was located on a round elevated platform in the center of the arena.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 359''</ref> | ||
;Rail transit system | ;Rail transit system | ||