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[[File:HINF-TimeDialation.png|300px|thumb | [[File:HINF-TimeDialation.png|300px|thumb|John-117 near a ring artifact after killing The [[Harbinger]].]] | ||
'''Totem | '''Totem Rings'''{{Ref/Game|HI|Forge/Halo Infinite|Forge|Detail=Totem Ring [[Forge objects|object]] name}} were a type of artifact found on [[Installation 07]] by [[John-117]] and [[the Weapon]]. These rings were linked together and contained runes older than the Forerunners with data hundreds of thousands of years old.{{Ref/Game|Id=hafh|HI|Forerunner Audio log|Detail=Monitor Reports - Artifact VII}} | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The Totem Rings | The Totem Rings are made of stone, with runes inscribed on their surfaces. The rings radiate energy and contain primordial data about Installation 07, and its connection to the imprisonment of the [[Xalanyn]] species.{{Ref/Twitter|Halo|1530172271935082497|Halo|Quote=Ancient stone rings serve as ‘Forerunner Archives,’ containing primordial data about Zeta Halo and its connection to the final great crime committed by the Forerunners to secure the future they had decided for the galaxy. #FictionFriday|D=29|M=05|Y=2022}} | ||
The Banished learned that the totem rings weren't created to stand vast ages of time{{Ref/Game|Id=Outpost11|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Outpost_Intel_4|Banished Audio Logs|Detail=Outpost Intel - 11: Slow and Steady}}, with Spartans [[M. Jaide]] and [[Rosado]] identifying their signal spikes as Forerunner.{{Ref/Game|Id=UNSCOutpost11|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Outpost_Intel_3|UNSC Audio Logs|Detail=Outpost Intel - 11: A Hastly-Assembled Plan}}{{Ref/Game|Id=UNSCOutpost12|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Outpost_Intel_3|UNSC Audio Logs|Detail=Outpost Intel - 12: Hitching a Ride}} | |||
===History=== | |||
During the period of 100,000 years after the firing of the Halo rings and the imprisonment of the Xalanyn, Installation 07's [[Monitor]], [[117649 Despondent Pyre]] took interent in these stone rings.{{Ref/Game|Id=Artifact4|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Monitor_Reports|Forerunner Archives|Detail=Monitor Report - Artifact IV}} Believing the rings contained a warning written in runes, Despondend Pyre wondered about who left them in Zeta Halo.{{Ref/Game|Id=Artifact5|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Monitor_Reports|Forerunner Archives|Detail=Monitor Report - Artifact V}} After studying them and translate their runes as "Enemy Within", the Monitor concluded that the rings were older than herself and the [[Forerunner]]s themselves.{{Ref/Game|Id=Artifact6|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Monitor_Reports|Forerunner Archives|Detail=Monitor Report - Artifact VI}} | |||
By [[2560]], the [[Banished]] started to studying them on the [[Annex Ridge (location)|Annex Ridge]] research facility, believing their secrets were the key to control Zeta Halo.{{Ref/Game|Id=Outpost12|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Outpost_Intel_4|Banished Audio Logs|Detail=Outpost Intel - 12: Whispers from the Past}} After discovering the Banished studying those rings and transporting them into an unknown location, Spartans Jaide and Rosado hijacked a [[Barukaza Workshop siege-hauler]] carrying three ring artifacts;{{Ref/Reuse|UNSCOutpost11}} the transport and the artifacts were later reported as lost by the Banished commander [[Zeretus]].{{Ref/Reuse|Outpost12}} | |||
In May 2560, [[John-117]] and [[the Weapon]] started to find some of these totem rings and record some of Despondent Pyre's studies about them. The Master Chief also discovered the Annex Ridge outpost and attacked it in order to stop the Banished from learning more about Zeta Halo and the stone rings. He destroyed the facility's fuel silo, causing a chain reaction that destroyed a nearby Barukaza Workshop siege-hauler before it could transport several Ring artifacts offsite.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Annex Ridge|HI|Reformation|Annex Ridge}} | |||
After killing the [[Harbinger]], the Master Chief and the Weapon entered a portal, only to end up across Zeta Halo near some more ring artifacts three days later.{{Ref/Quest|Hi|Endless|Silent Auditorium}} | |||
Other totem rings were also found by the UNSC's [[511th Infantry Division]] in [[Fragmentation|a remote region]] of Installation 07. | |||
==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||
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===Ring 01=== | ===Ring 01=== | ||
[[File:HINF Artifact1Audio.png|thumb | [[File:HINF Artifact1Audio.png|thumb|Audio symbol from the first artifact.]] | ||
{{Quote|no=two | {{Quote|no=two | ||
|1=The Weapon | |1=The Weapon | ||
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===Ring 02=== | ===Ring 02=== | ||
[[File:HINF Artifact2Audio.png|thumb | [[File:HINF Artifact2Audio.png|thumb|Audio symbol from the second artifact.]] | ||
{{Quote|This data is strange. I'm not even certain all of it is [[Forerunner]], strictly speaking. Strands of this code are older than Zeta Halo itself. Possibly older than the Forerunners themselves. For all we know about them, there's so much we don't.|The Weapon analysing the second ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | {{Quote|This data is strange. I'm not even certain all of it is [[Forerunner]], strictly speaking. Strands of this code are older than Zeta Halo itself. Possibly older than the Forerunners themselves. For all we know about them, there's so much we don't.|The Weapon analysing the second ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | ||
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===Ring 03=== | ===Ring 03=== | ||
[[File:HINF Artifact3Audio.png|thumb | [[File:HINF Artifact3Audio.png|thumb|Audio symbol from the third artifact.]] | ||
{{Quote|Can data feel lonely? Because this data feels lonely. Existing for a hundred thousand years-- alone. What use is all the power in the universe without someone to talk to?|The Weapon analysing the third ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | {{Quote|Can data feel lonely? Because this data feels lonely. Existing for a hundred thousand years-- alone. What use is all the power in the universe without someone to talk to?|The Weapon analysing the third ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | ||
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===Ring 04=== | ===Ring 04=== | ||
[[File:HINF Artifact4Audio.png|thumb | [[File:HINF Artifact4Audio.png|thumb|Audio symbol from the fourth artifact.]] | ||
{{Quote|This thing is old... Very old. And full of data. Well, if you can call it data. Most of it is encrypted in ways I don't understand, but I was able to figure out one small part. There are more out there. I can... "feel" them communicating.|The Weapon analysing the fourth ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | {{Quote|This thing is old... Very old. And full of data. Well, if you can call it data. Most of it is encrypted in ways I don't understand, but I was able to figure out one small part. There are more out there. I can... "feel" them communicating.|The Weapon analysing the fourth ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | ||
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===Ring 05=== | ===Ring 05=== | ||
[[File:HINF Artifact5Audio.png|thumb | [[File:HINF Artifact5Audio.png|thumb|Audio symbol from the fifth artifact.]] | ||
{{Quote|There's evidence of an entire civilization that once inhabited this Ring. But... not Forerunner. Older. Different. |The Weapon analysing the fifth ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | {{Quote|There's evidence of an entire civilization that once inhabited this Ring. But... not Forerunner. Older. Different. |The Weapon analysing the fifth ring artifact.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HIRDialogue}} | ||
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===Ring 06=== | ===Ring 06=== | ||
[[File:HINF Artifact6Audio.png|thumb | [[File:HINF Artifact6Audio.png|thumb|Audio symbol from the sixth artifact.]] | ||
{{Quote|no=three | {{Quote|no=three | ||
|1=The Weapon | |1=The Weapon | ||
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===Ring 07=== | ===Ring 07=== | ||
[[File:HINF Artifact7Audio.png|thumb | [[File:HINF Artifact7Audio.png|thumb|Audio symbol from the seventh artifact.]] | ||
:'''The Weapon''': "''This is hard to explain.''" | :'''The Weapon''': "''This is hard to explain.''" | ||
:'''John-117''': "''Try me.''" | :'''John-117''': "''Try me.''" | ||
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==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}} | ||
*''[[Halo: The Rubicon Protocol]]'' | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
{{Ref/Sources}} | {{Ref/Sources}} | ||