The Package (data storage unit): Difference between revisions

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(The article is currently about the particular storage device used on Reach, which does not appear in Initiation. Maybe the article Should the article be adjusted to be about the type of storage unit instead?)
("The Package" is Cortana. The cylindrical device containing her data crystal chip is just an armored matrix. Hence it's not a data storage unit at all, but a storage unit for a data storage unit. :))
 
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<center>''For other uses, see [[The Package (disambiguation)]].''</center>
[[File:HReach-Package-DataStorageUnit.png|thumb|350px|The data storage unit.]]
{{Quote|Get the Package to the ''Autumn''!|[[Carter-A259]] to SPARTAN-B312}}
'''The Package''' was the code name for a data storage unit used by [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] to store a fragment of the [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] [[Cortana]]. During the [[Fall of Reach]], [[Noble Team]]'s final objective, and ultimately that of [[SPARTAN-B312]], was to get the Package, and the sensitive data it contained, off the planet on the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}.<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[The Package (level)|The Package]]''</ref>
 
The Package was a reinforced metal cylinder with a hollow section in the center, which contained a [[data crystal chip]]. The fragment of Cortana that was within the Package contained the "latchkey discovery" made by [[Laszlo Sorvad]] and the information decrypted from the [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|Forerunner artifact]] below [[SWORD Base]]. Because Noble Six's [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V(B)|Mark V[B] armor]] lacked the [[SPARTAN neural interface|neural interface upgrades]] necessary to integrate an AI with the MJOLNIR's systems, Cortana must be carried via the Package.<ref>''''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]'''</ref>
 
==Trivia==
*In the level ''[[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level)|The Pillar of Autumn]]'', Noble Six hooks the Package to his/her back armor, much like an [[Armor Abilities|armor ability]].
*In ''[[Halo: Initiation]]'', [[Admiral]] [[Kovalic]] carries a base AI in a storage device similar to the Package.
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Package Concept.png|Concept art of the data storage unit.
File:HaloReach - The Package.jpg|Dr. Halsey removing the Package from its storage terminal.
File:Halsey holding Cortana Fragment.jpg|Halsey holding the Package.
File:Reach 7804700 Full.jpg|[[SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six]] examining the data storage unit.
File:Package hipoly.png|A high-polygon 3D model of the storage unit.
File:Package.png|Another view of the unit.
</gallery>
 
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Reach]]'' {{1st}}
 
==Sources==
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[[Category:Human technology]]

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