Z classification system
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The Z- or Zeta-classifications are a system of classification employed by the United Nations Space Command for cataloguing Forerunner technology and materiel.[1] The system serves as a counterpart to the UNSC's type classification system used for cataloguing Covenant technology.
Overview
The cataloguing system used by UNSC analysts for Forerunner technology sees a given item designated with a Z-, followed by a numerical string. Known strings range from low double digits to quadruple digits, with no apparent indication the numbers employed have any particular inherent meaning (unlike, for example, the Type-designation system's correspondence with the year of cataloguing). Z-classifications are given to a wide array of technology ranging from infantry weapons to Sentinels to even spacecraft.
Z classifications
0-100
101-1000
- Z-110 Directed Energy Pistol/Exotic
- Z-130 Directed Energy Automatic Weapon
- Z-180 Close Combat Rifle/Asymmetric Engagement Mitigator
- Z-250 Directed Energy Engagement Weapon
- Z-330 Independent Actuation Defense Escort/Heavy
- Weapon/Anti-Materiel Z-390 High-Explosive Munitions Rifle
- Z-400 Pursuit Disruption Grid Generator
- Z-510 Directed Energy Focus Weapon
- Z-520 Encounter-Mitigation System
- Z-750 Special Application Sniper Rifle
1001-10,000
- Z-1500 Automated Systems Drone
- Z-1500 Exoatmospheric Multirole Fighter
- Z-2500 Automated Protection Drone
- Z-4190 Temporal Protective Enfolder/Stationary Shield
- Z-5080 Short-Range Spectrum Augmenter/Vision
- Z-8060 High-Impact Particle Weapon
- Z-8250 Anti-ship Exterior Defense Network
- Z-9930 Information Vector Console
Sources
- ^ YouTube - Halopedia Archive, 343 Social Stream - Halo Array Lore Stream (4 April 2018): "The Z, the Z-designations for Forerunners, Forerunner constructs [...], that's the human - the Zeta designations for these robots" - Kenneth Peters
