Installation 04 is the official name of the fictional ring-shaped space station called Halo (or Alpha Halo in full) in the Halo: Combat Evolved video game. == The station == Halo is one of seven giant space stations built by the Forerunners. It is first and foremost a weapon, intended to destroy the parasitic The Flood (Halo) threat by wiping out all its possible hosts, i.e. all intelligent life in its range. While that range is "only" approximately 25,000 light years, the activation is thought to trigger the other six Halo stations, extending the range to the entire Milky Way. Ironically, the Flood is apparently still alive only on those space stations. Aside from the Flood the only thing "alive" on Installation 04 is its "Monitor", 343 Guilty Spark. Discovering the true purpose of the Halo Fortress Worlds, the Master Chief and Cortana decide to initiate an explosive chain reaction of the Pillar of Autumn's nuclear fusion engines, which creates an explosion large enough to destroy Halo. Its shattered fragments are still entering Threshold's atmosphere and littering its moon, Basis. == Astronomy == The "Ringworld" of Halo is much smaller than Larry Niven Ringworld, and in fact is much closer in scale and structure to Iain M. Banks' Culture Orbitals. While the diameter of Niven's Ringworld is close to the diameter of Earth's orbit of 300 million km, and the standard Banks Orbital is around 14 million kilometers in diameter, the 10,000 km diameter of Halo is much closer to the diameter of Earth itself, which is 12,756 km. Ringworld has a star similar to our Sun in its center, whereas Halo is orbiting a planet but does not encircle it. Besides the very beautifully sculpted landscape on Halo's surface, the sky is also worthy of attention. Depending on the viewpoint, you can see the star, a moon (called Basis), a gas giant (called Threshold), and the band of Halo itself, which looks like a street into the sky. In the course of the game, neither Threshold nor Basis is reachable, all action takes place on or in Halo. Halo is positioned on a Lagrange point of Threshold and Basis, directly between the two celestial bodies, but closer to Basis. Fictional locations Forerunners Halo Megastructures
129.15.138.194 recently took out a lot of information about the LaGrange points being incorrectly represented in the game. I can understand his reasoning, but one could also argue that it was valuable information, or, at least, moderately interesting. It should have been summarized or shortened, not taken out, I think. User:LockeShocke 17:20, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
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Installation 04 is the official name of the fictional ring-shaped space station called Halo (or Alpha Halo in full) in the Halo: Combat Evolved video game. == The station == Halo is one of seven giant space stations built by the Forerunners. It is first and foremost a weapon, intended to destroy the parasitic The Flood (Halo) threat by wiping out all its possible hosts, i.e. all intelligent life in its range. While that range is "only" approximately 25,000 light years, the activation is thought to trigger the other six Halo stations, extending the range to the entire Milky Way. Ironically, the Flood is apparently still alive only on those space stations. Aside from the Flood the only thing "alive" on Installation 04 is its "Monitor", 343 Guilty Spark. Discovering the true purpose of the Halo Fortress Worlds, the Master Chief and Cortana decide to initiate an explosive chain reaction of the Pillar of Autumn's nuclear fusion engines, which creates an explosion large enough to destroy Halo. Its shattered fragments are still entering Threshold's atmosphere and littering its moon, Basis. == Astronomy == The "Ringworld" of Halo is much smaller than Larry Niven Ringworld, and in fact is much closer in scale and structure to Iain M. Banks' Culture Orbitals. While the diameter of Niven's Ringworld is close to the diameter of Earth's orbit of 300 million km, and the standard Banks Orbital is around 14 million kilometers in diameter, the 10,000 km diameter of Halo is much closer to the diameter of Earth itself, which is 12,756 km. Ringworld has a star similar to our Sun in its center, whereas Halo is orbiting a planet but does not encircle it. Besides the very beautifully sculpted landscape on Halo's surface, the sky is also worthy of attention. Depending on the viewpoint, you can see the star, a moon (called Basis), a gas giant (called Threshold), and the band of Halo itself, which looks like a street into the sky. In the course of the game, neither Threshold nor Basis is reachable, all action takes place on or in Halo. Halo is positioned on a Lagrange point of Threshold and Basis, directly between the two celestial bodies, but closer to Basis. Fictional locations Forerunners Halo Megastructures
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129.15.138.194 recently took out a lot of information about the LaGrange points being incorrectly represented in the game. I can understand his reasoning, but one could also argue that it was valuable information, or, at least, moderately interesting. It should have been summarized or shortened, not taken out, I think. User:LockeShocke 17:20, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
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