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The beacon tower is a Forerunner structure most notably found on the surface of the Halo rings. They serve multiple purposes, including ring-wide communication to aiding in the activation process of the ring's primary firing mechanism. As such, the towers are built to channel, convert, and refine energy streams of almost any types; this typically manifests in the form of a pulse of energy being fired towards the sky.[1]
Overview
Architecture
Beacon towers are large delta-shaped structures typically with a cleave down the approximate center where a beam is emitted. They fire beams upwards—in the case of the Halo installations, they fire toward the center of the ring,[2] and in the case of Installation 00, they simply fire up into space.[3] The towers typically feature an open-air platform,[2][3] while some occasionally host an interior room in its center or an underground chamber.[4]
Function
Beacon towers can serve several uses. On Requiem, beacon towers are used as stations for delivering navigation data[5] and function as part of the shield world's teleportation grid, featuring teleportation portals that can transport objects to various other parts of the installation.[6] On Installation 07, the beacon towers are designed to channel, convert, and refine energy streams of virtually any type. The Halo's beacon towers assist in ring-wide communication[1][4] and also aid in the activation process of the installation primary weapon, among a multitude of other purposes.[1]
The beacon towers can be used to send superluminal messages into space. A data key generated by 117649 Despondent Pyre performed a security override on one of Zeta Halo's beacon towers to remove the lockout that Cortana had placed upon it before then using adaptation protocols to instruct the tower to send a superluminal message into human-occupied space with the ring's current galactic coordinates and the site's pertinent data.[7]
Trivia
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- If the player manages to stand at the top of a beam tower, over the chute in which the beam shoots from, the beam can either kill him/her, sending the player over a hundred feet in the air, or completely pass through the player. When killed by the beam, it will say "(Player) was killed by the Guardians". In Halo 3, however, the beams coming from the beam emitters (except in Valhalla) will not kill the player, no matter what. This is most likely due to gameplay reasons.
- Beam emitters are objectives to be captured the Domination multiplayer mode of Halo Wars 2.[8]
Gallery
Concept art
Halo 4 concept art of a Forerunner "beam hole".
Concept art for a beam emitter in Halo 4.
Concept art of beacon towers for Halo Infinite.
More concept art.
Concept art of a beacon tower on Installation 07 in Halo Infinite.
More concept art of a beacon tower on Installation 07.
Screenshots
The first beacon tower discovered by the Master Chief on Installation 04.
A beacon tower on Valhalla.
A beacon tower on Installation 04.
A beacon tower on Requiem.
The beam emitter on Apex 7.
A beacon tower on Installation 07 in a pre-release build of Halo Infinite.
An ultrawide shot of the same beacon tower at a different time of day.
List of appearances
- Halo: Combat Evolved (First appearance)
- Halo: The Flood
- Halo 3
- Halo: Reach
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
- Halo 4
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Halo Infinite
- Halo: The Rubicon Protocol
Sources
- ^ a b c Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 353
- ^ a b Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level Halo
- ^ a b Halo 3, multiplayer map Valhalla
- ^ a b Halo Infinite, campaign mission Reformation: The Sequence
- ^ Halo 4 - Spartan Ops, episode Catherine, level Spartan Mountain
- ^ Halo 4 - Spartan Ops, episode Didact's Hand, level Rally Point
- ^ Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 34
- ^ Halo Wars 2 Open Beta