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*Strato-Sentinels were originally planned to appear in ''[[Halo 3]]'', but wound up being cut from the game. | *Strato-Sentinels were originally planned to appear in ''[[Halo 3]]'', but wound up being cut from the game. | ||
*One of the concepts for the remake of [[Lockout]] had the map set in the partially destroyed insides of a Strato-Sentinel orbiting the Ark's resource moon. | *One of the concepts for the remake of [[Lockout]] had the map set in the partially destroyed insides of a Strato-Sentinel orbiting the Ark's resource moon. | ||
*The name of the Strato-Sentinel is | *The word "Strato" in the Sentinel's name is most likely derived from [[Latin]], as "Stato" is the ablative form of "Stratus", meaning "stretched out" or "extended".<ref>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stratus</ref> It would make sense, as the Strato-Sentinel is much larger than any previously seen Sentinel variant. | ||
*The name of the Strato-Sentinel could also be a reference to the ''B-52 Stratofortress'', a large United States Air Force jet, or the ''B-47 Stratojet'', another large American plane. | |||
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The Strato-Sentinel was a Forerunner Sentinel variant. They were designed to strip mine the resource moon located in the middle of Installation 00 [1], to help in the the construction of the replacement Installation 04, and were also used in the construction of the Portal on Earth, in the present-day country of Kenya [2].
Trivia
- Strato-Sentinels were originally planned to appear in Halo 3, but wound up being cut from the game.
- One of the concepts for the remake of Lockout had the map set in the partially destroyed insides of a Strato-Sentinel orbiting the Ark's resource moon.
- The word "Strato" in the Sentinel's name is most likely derived from Latin, as "Stato" is the ablative form of "Stratus", meaning "stretched out" or "extended".[3] It would make sense, as the Strato-Sentinel is much larger than any previously seen Sentinel variant.
- The name of the Strato-Sentinel could also be a reference to the B-52 Stratofortress, a large United States Air Force jet, or the B-47 Stratojet, another large American plane.
Image
- StratoSentinel.jpg
A concept of the Strato-Sentinel.
A Strato-Sentinel as seen in Halo 3: The Cradle of Life.