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[[File:Alien ship 2.png|thumb|300px|An overhead view of the ship after its crash-landing.]] | [[File:Alien ship 2.png|thumb|300px|An overhead view of the ship after its crash-landing.]] | ||
A '''spacefaring vessel''', belonging to an unknown species, crash landed on [[Halo Array|Halo]] [[Installation 04]] around [[40,000 BCE]]. | A '''spacefaring vessel''', belonging to an unknown species, crash landed on [[Halo Array|Halo]] [[Installation 04]] around [[40,000 BCE]].{{Ref/Game|Id=terminal5|HCEA|Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#The Terminals|Terminal 5}}{{Ref/Game|Id=time|HCEA|Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#The Terminals|Terminal 6|Quotee=04-343 Guilty Spark|Quote=I have now endured 60,000 years without word from outside the Array.}} | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*This ship's crash landing may have been previously alluded to in ''[[Conversations from the Universe]]'', in which Guilty Spark states that other species had visited the installation prior to the Covenant's arrival. However, it is unlikely that he refers to this incident specifically, as the other races recorded what they encountered on the Halo and then left. | *This ship's crash landing may have been previously alluded to in ''[[Conversations from the Universe]]'', in which Guilty Spark states that other species had visited the installation prior to the Covenant's arrival. However, it is unlikely that he refers to this incident specifically, as the other races recorded what they encountered on the Halo and then left. | ||
*After a ''[[Halo Waypoint]]'' forum user joked that the vessel's slipspace capabilities indicate that it was not built by "dogs, cats, [or] certain bears", the administrator known as | *After a ''[[Halo Waypoint]]'' forum user joked that the vessel's slipspace capabilities indicate that it was not built by "dogs, cats, [or] certain bears", the administrator known as [[Catalog]] facetiously replied, "Query Answer: No known Tier 2 species matching suggested morphology [re: ursus sapiens]."{{Ref/Site|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/what-species-crashed-on-installation-04/e5cbb75d-10af-43d9-a909-3d4be341cc4e/posts?page=2|Site=Halo Waypoint Forums|Page=What species crashed on Installation 04?|D=29|M=12|Y=2019|LocalArchive=Catalog/Archive/2014#What species crashed on Installation 04?}} ''Ursus sapiens'' is a hypothetical binomial nomenclature meaning "wise bear". The joke was later referenced in the name of the achievement—[[Bearly Contained]]—from ''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]'' that requires the player to activate Terminal 6 on [[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]. | ||
**Catalog also stated that the ship's hull pattern bears similarity to the designs used by [[seven]] distinct species. | **Catalog also stated that the ship's hull pattern bears similarity to the designs used by [[seven]] distinct species.{{Ref/Site|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/catalog-interaction/4c3e1c6f-6519-4ee0-83a4-4bac13bf07a3/posts?page=14|Site=Halo Waypoint Forums|Page=Catalog Interaction|D=21|M=10|Y=2018|LocalArchive=Catalog/Archive/2014#Post_.236}} | ||
*The overhead view of the crashed ship closely resembles a [[masseffect:Reaper|Reaper]] (particularly of the ''Sovereign'' class) from the [[masseffect:Mass Effect|''Mass Effect'' universe]]. | *The overhead view of the crashed ship closely resembles a [[masseffect:Reaper|Reaper]] (particularly of the ''Sovereign'' class) from the [[masseffect:Mass Effect|''Mass Effect'' universe]]. | ||