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-{{era|H3}}
+{{Status|Canon}}
-{{Ratings}}
+[[File:H3_Blackout_Overview.jpg|thumb|250px|UNSC Weather Station Z/41.]]
-'''Weather Station z/41''' is a [[United Nations Space Command]] facility in the Arctic on [[Earth]] <ref>http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13413</ref>. It is the setting for the ''[[Halo 3]]'': ''[[Legendary Map Pack|Legendary Pack]]'' map, ''[[Blackout (Level)|Blackout]]''.
-In the Weekly Update that unveiled Blackout, some of the Bungie guys joked that it was a "stupid and arbitrary name" with "no significance", and left it to the fans to find their own meaning in the name z/41.
+'''UNSC Weather Station Z/41''' is a remote [[United Nations Space Command]] weather research facility based in the [[Wikipedia:Arctic Circle|Arctic Circle]] on [[Earth]].<ref name="legendary">[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/halo3/content.aspx?link=H3LegendaryMapPack '''Bungie.net''': ''Legendary Map Pack'']</ref><ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/earth '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Earth'']</ref>
+==Background==
+It is involved in taking glacier core samples from the ice below. The station has a [[Wikipedia:Doppler radar|Doppler radar]] facility for taking wind speed measurements, and includes a platform for aerial transport.<ref name="blackout">[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13413 '''Bungie.net''': ''Legendary Map: Blackout'']</ref> Overhead, the Aurora Borealis can be seen flickering through the sky.{{Ref/Reuse|legendary}}
+The station seems to be an abandoned drilling platform converted for use as a weather station, located near an ice shelf. It is divided into four "towers", labeled Maintenance, Communications, Barracks and Laboratory. The station was rumored to store alien lifeforms. The station served as the location for a [[War Games]] [[Blackout|simulation]].{{Ref/Reuse|universe}}
+==Trivia==
+*The facility is the setting for the ''[[Halo 3]]: [[Legendary Map Pack]]'' map, ''[[Blackout]]''. Its predecessor in ''[[Halo 2]]'', ''[[Lockout]]'', was a [[Forerunner]] facility created to study [[the Flood]].
+*Bungie Environmental Artist [[Paul Russel]], who worked on ''Blackout'', stated the following about the facility's designation: ''"The setting is a UNSC Antarctic weather station with the completely arbitrary and stupid number z/41, it means nothing. Until the fans write some fictional significance into it and we eventually have to reverse engineer it into our canon. Thanks a lot, fans."''{{Ref/Reuse|blackout}}
+==List of appearances==
+*''[[Halo 3]]'' {{1st}}
 ==Sources==
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-[[Category:UNSC]]
+[[Category:Earth]]
-[[Category:Places]]