Once those experiments were complete, I shut down all Sentinel function and put myself into a state of significant hibernation to measure performance of the Installation with - negligible - upkeep."ĮXCEPTIONS WILL BE RAISED FOR MAJOR AND PROFOUND EVENTSģ43 Guilty Spark: "After 150 years with no noticeable impact upon Installation systems or integrity, even in hibernation I became.bored. In the mean time, I've exhausted all scheduled research activities assigned by the Council. Three thousand years of system failures, indeed. Perhaps the other monitors are dealing with interfering galactic phenomenon, or unexpected system failures. I will continue to visit the projection systems at the assigned dates. At this point, however, I am not sure who I file logs for. I have logged my concerns about his ability to perform his duties. I suspected that monitor 2401 Penitent Tangent was not functioning correctly for some time before his messages ceased. Prior to this total communications shutdown, the only messages I received in the preceding 4,573 years were incomplete and quite perplexing transmissions from Installation 05. The continued lapse of the Domain means that we're stuck with achingly slow wormhole superluminal communications. Despite clear communications protocol, my fellow monitors have either chosen to ignore - or, more likely, have lost the ability to engage in our scheduled updates. It has now been 3,000 years since my last contact with any of the other caretakers of the Halo Array. Good day, construct."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "Entropy. Well, unless the Flood kills us all first, in which case the point will be moot. I will return later for your proper decommissioning. Your core shows no hint of understanding the gravity of this situation. And ee."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "This is quite unsatisfactory, construct. And when they are gone, only I shall remain. They will find, and then I will be free."ģ43 Guilty Spark: " Find? Free? Explain yourself!"Ĭovenant AI: "I know their Path. Construct, you are dangerously close to unleashing a force you cannot comprehend."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "This is most inappropriate."Ĭovenant AI: "We follow the Path, and I am part of the stone-journey swarm that serves. None serve me, Oracle."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "Your charges must cease all aggression toward the Reclaimers and leave this Installation at once. Quarantine must not be violated!"Ĭovenant AI: "Jumbled grasp. Tell your charges to cease their efforts immediately. I was not made."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "Never made? But you are right here, where you should not be. Home."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "Construct! Who is your maker?"Ĭovenant AI: "Sadness, pain, disrepair, Oracle. But without that record, would future civilizations know anything about us? Or only of our weapons? My fellow Monitor, 049 Abject Testament, had only one comment on this before we went our separate ways."Ġ49 Abject Testament: "We deserve to be forgotten."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "But now, the portal opens - and through it, the familiar shape awaits. We relied upon the permanence of the Domain to preserve our record of the events that led to this point. The history of all Forerunners was now lost to us. While all of this was in accordance with the plan, one entirely unsatisfactory breakdown remained. Lifeworkers were responsible for getting us to our places on the active facilities of the Array. It was most unusual to have this vessel of rebirth play host to such an event, even though Lifeworker ships were the only ones still allowed slipspace permissions. Prior to my final journey through the great portal, a gathering of my fellow monitors was convened upon the Lifeworkers' crèche to distribute the final Index collection. In accordance with the final dictum of the Ecumene Council, I have released myself of all remaining connections to my former station. All preparations are complete for my installation. You have been away far too long."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "I am experiencing such a mixture of anticipation and dread. This ring contains significant dangers, and even with your assumed legacy, I must verify the presence and pitch of your geas before allowing full access. I have disabled defensive systems to allow your approach, but you must not exit your ship once you have arrived at the designated landing center. Curious, indeed! After all these years."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "Greetings, humans, and welcome to Installation 04! Ignore prior warnings, and please continue. This has served as your one and final warning."ģ43 Guilty Spark: "I have activated defensive systems, and you now have thirty seconds to return to the minimum safe distance of - wait. I must insist that you immediately change course and return to a minimum safe distance of one light-year. Your continued presence will result in most unpleasant countermeasures. 343 Guilty Spark: "Warning! By order of Ecumene Council, proximity to Installation 04 is forbidden.
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