Phoenix Logs/Forerunner/Terminus

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This Forerunner structure is a vital node in the Ark's defences and must be

preserved at all costs.

After the Halo Array eradicated the Flood threat and the Forerunners

disappeared, the Ark lay dormant and untouched for millennia.

When the Human-Covenant war spilled over onto the Ark, the installation's

threat assessment systems began an exhaustive recording and indexing of

events in an effort to anticipate dangers and prepare adequate

countermeasures to deal with similar challenges in the future.

These threat assessments compare modern battle records against all

catalogued historical conflicts, cross-referencing them with updated information

and calculating probable outcomes. The systems performing these assessments

are powered by the Terminus structures, the loss of which could result in the

corruption of centuries of analysis, compromising the Ark's long-term ability to

defend itself.