00特区

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00特区
整体概述
位置:	Intergalactic space, over the galactic plane, 262,144 light years from galactic center
操作概述
类型:	方舟特区
功能:	Conservation installation, Lifeworker research station, Halo construction foundry and remote activation facility
附属Al:	000 悲寂孤寞 模板:C
建造日期:	大约公元前 98,445-公元前 97,445
严重损坏:	2552年12月11日 模板:C
构造信息
直径:	127530 公里
表面温度:	-30°C 至 50°C (-22°F 至 122F°)
重力:	1G
日长:	35.3 小时 模板:C
大气成分:	1.0 (N2, O2, Ar)

Miranda Keyes: "Where would someone go to activate the other rings?"

343 罪恶火花: "...Why, the Ark, of course."

— 343 罪恶火花 对 Commander Miranda Keyes

'00特区，也称为方舟（Installation 00, Ark），有时翻译为航点，是一个先行者特区，从中可以激活整个光环阵列。00特区还作为光环阵列战略脉冲的潜在避风港，并在必要时作为构建替代光环的设施。方舟位于银河系外，距离银河系中心约2¹⁸（262，144）光年。 [9]虽然后来被普遍称为"方舟"，但00特区最初是被确定为方舟的两个装置之一，另一个是较旧的大方舟。因此，00 特区也被称为小方舟，以区别于更大的大方舟，其铸造厂生产了直径 30，000 公里的原始环带阵列，而不是 10，000 公里宽的 00特区铸造厂。 Installation 00, also known as the Ark and sometimes translated as Waypoint, is a Forerunner installation from which the entirety of the Halo Array can be activated. Installation 00 also functions as a potential safe haven from the Halo Array's strategic pulse, and as a facility to construct replacement Halos if necessary. The Ark is situated outside the galaxy, about 2¹⁸ (262,144) light years from the galactic center. Although later universally known as "the Ark", Installation 00 was originally one of two installations identified as Arks, the other being the older greater Ark. Due to this, Installation 00 was also referred to as the lesser Ark to differentiate it from the much larger greater Ark, whose foundry produced the original array of rings 30,000 kilometers in diameter, as opposed to the 10,000 kilometer-wide foundry of Installation 00.

简述

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Installation 00 sending the Halo Array through a slipspace portal during the Forerunner-Flood war.

The Ark was designed with a number of functions, one of which is to remotely activate the Halo rings from outside the array's blast radius. Installation 00 can be placed on standby mode via a fail-safe system that is activated by an aborted firing such as the one that occurred at the end of the Battle of Installation 05. In addition to serving as the firing control center for the Halo array, Installation 00 functioned as an automated factory to construct Halo installations, thereby ensuring that the Halo Array was always ready to fire. While originally designed solely as a construction and control center for the Halos, due to the Librarian's influence, the Ark was given a secondary function as a safe haven for life in the galaxy in the case of a galaxy-wide activation of the Halos; this is also the source of the name "the Ark". Knowing that the Array would defeat the Flood through sterilizing the galaxy of any neurologically complex life, the Forerunners planned to preserve all life by storing it on the Arks and other preservation facilities. According to this plan, known as the Conservation Measure, the Librarian was to index every sentient species in the ecumene and bring specimens of each to the Ark. These sentient species would be stored on the Ark and would later be reseeded on their original homeworlds after the Halo Array had been activated. 模板:Clear 方舟的设计具有多种功能，其中之一是从阵列的爆炸半径外远程激活光环。00特区可以通过故障安全系统置于待机模式，该系统由中止的发射激活，例如05特区战役结束时发生的发射。除了作为光环阵列的发射控制中心外，安装 00 还充当了建造光环安装的自动化工厂，从而确保光环阵列始终处于开火准备之中。 [11][12]由于智库长的影响，方舟最初只设计为光环的建造和控制中心，但在全星系激活光环的情况下，方舟被赋予了作为银河系生命避风港的次要功能：这也是"方舟"这个名字的来源。 [13]知道阵列将通过对任何神经复杂的生命的星系进行绝育来战胜洪魔，先行者计划通过将其储存在方舟和其他保存设施上来保护所有生命。根据这个被称为保护措施的计划，图书馆员将索引艾秋敏每一个有知觉的物种，并将每个物种的标本带到方舟。这些有知觉的物种将储存在方舟上，并在光环阵列被激活后在原来的家园上重新种子。

历史

先行者-洪魔战争

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The IsoDidact activates the Halo Array from Installation 00's citadel.

"Every vessel we can fill, we send to the Ark. I dare not cease the mission. Not now, not until I've done all I can. Each one of these souls is finite and precious. And I'm close. Close to saving them all."

— 智库长给新星宣教士的信息

Like the rest of the newer, more efficient Halo Array, Installation 00 was constructed sometime between 98,445 BCE and 97,445 BCE under orders of Master Builder Faber, to address problems with the greater Ark and its larger Halos. While plans for the second Ark had existed for some time, its construction was delayed by the Old Council to avoid the Builders from gaining too much power. The lesser Ark, as it was known at the time, was designed to produce smaller but much more powerful Halo rings, which could be transported more efficiently and could deal far more widespread damage. Until the very last days of the Forerunner-Flood war, the lesser Ark, its new Halos, and its location were kept a well-guarded secret; only the most top-tier Forerunners knew of its existence, and the only one who knew the exact coordinates of the installation was Faber. Whereas the greater Ark acted as the Forerunners' final line of defense and command center, the lesser Ark would serve the function of a last fallback point where its own array of rings could be swiftly distributed to their designated locations across the galaxy and fired to cleanse the galaxy of all sentient life as a last resort.

In the endgame of the Forerunners' war with the Flood, the Forerunner 模板:级 Mendicant Bias, which had been corrupted by the Gravemind and defected to the Flood, attacked and destroyed the greater Ark, killing the majority of the remaining Forerunners who had taken refuge there. Using coordinates provided by the Master Builder, a handful of survivors, including the IsoDidact, managed to escape to the lesser Ark where they prepared their weapons of last resort. In order to buy the IsoDidact time, the Librarian traveled to Earth, broadcasting a feint transmission intended to draw the Flood's attention to her. She spent her last days in the plains near Mount Kilimanjaro, near the site of the slipspace portal to Installation 00. Mendicant Bias knew of the secret Ark and how to access it through the Keyships, though he did not know of its exact location. In order to devise the best possible defense against Mendicant Bias, the Forerunners deployed Offensive Bias, a military AI formerly in control of the greater Ark and Mendicant's replacement, and sent it to counter Mendicant Bias' fleet in advance before it could reach the Ark. While Offensive Bias engaged Mendicant's fleet, the IsoDidact completed preparations for the Halo Array and fired the rings from the Ark, purging the galaxy of all life.

Following the Array's firing, Offensive Bias defeated Mendicant Bias within minutes. Offensive decided to spare the last portion of its opponent and delivered it to Installation 00 for study. There, the remaining Forerunners, led by the IsoDidact, held a trial for the AI for betraying the ecumene. The Didact decided to keep Mendicant alive as it had intimate knowledge of the Flood and could be called upon in case of their return. Bias was entombed in the installation with only one thought allowed to him: atonement. 与其他较新的、更高效的光环阵列一样，安装 00 是在公元前 98，445年至公元前 97，445 年之间根据主构建者 Faber的命令构建的，以解决大方舟及其较大光环的问题。虽然第二个方舟的计划已经存在了一段时间，但老委员会推迟了其建设，以避免建筑商获得过多的权力。 [15]较小的方舟，因为它当时是众所周知的，旨在生产更小，但更强大的光环，可以更有效地运输，并可能处理更广泛的损害。直到前卫-洪水战争的最后几天，较小的方舟，它的新光环，以及它的位置都保守着一个严密的秘密：只有最顶级的先行者知道它的存在， 唯一知道安装的确切坐标的人是费伯。虽然大方舟充当了先行者的最后一道防线和指挥中心，但较小的方舟将充当最后一个回退点的功能，在那里，它自己的环阵列可以迅速分布到银河系的指定位置，并作为最后的手段发射来清洁所有有知觉生命的星系。 [16]

在先行者与洪水战争的结局中，被坟墓腐蚀并叛逃到洪水中的先行者级人工智能门迪坎特偏见，攻击并摧毁了大方舟，杀死了在那里避难的大多数剩余的先行者。利用建筑大师提供的坐标，少数幸存者，包括伊索迪达特号，设法逃到较小的方舟，在那里他们准备了最后的武器。为了购买伊索迪特时间，图书管理员前往地球，广播一个假传输，旨在吸引洪水的注意她。她在乞力马扎罗山附近的平原上度过了最后的日子，靠近"安装00"的滑空间入口。门迪坎特·比亚斯知道秘密方舟，以及如何通过钥匙船访问它，虽然他不知道它的确切位置。为了设计出对门迪坎特偏见的最佳防御，先行者部署了进攻性偏置，一个军事人工智能以前控制大方舟和门迪坎特的替代品，并提前发送它来对抗门迪坎特比亚斯的舰队之前，它可以到达方舟。当进攻性偏见与门迪坎特的舰队交涉时，IsoDidact完成了光环阵列的准备，从方舟发射了环，清除了所有生命的星系。

阵列开火后，进攻偏置在几分钟内击败了门迪坎特偏见。进攻决定放过对手的最后一部分，并将其交付到安装00进行研究。在那里，其余的先行者，由伊索迪达克人领导，因背叛了天体而对AI进行了审判。Didact决定让门迪坎特活着，因为它对洪水有深入的了解，并可能被要求在他们回来的情况下。偏见被埋在装置中，只有一个想法允许他：赎罪

00特区战役

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The Fleet of Retribution and Truth's fleet meet above the Ark.

主条目: 00特区战役

Immediately following the Prophet of Regret's botched invasion of Earth on October 20, 2552, the Prophet of Truth dispatched a Jiralhanae-led fleet to continue the assault and to uncover what he believed to be the Ark. By November 17, the Covenant had uncovered the structure they had spent the last month unearthing. Truth, through his Forerunner Dreadnought, activated the device, which was actually just a portal-generating structure which led to Installation 00.

Truth led his fleet through the portal; after defeating a Flood invasion of the town of Voi, a joint United Nations Space Command - Sangheili strike force followed the Prophet's forces. Upon their arrival on December 11, the latter force were attacked by the Covenant, which held a 3:1 numerical advantage. Despite this, the Sangheili Fleet of Retribution crushed Truth's forces.

After engaging the Covenant across the installation, Spartan John-117 and Arbiter Thel 'Vadam entered the citadel, where they found Truth, who had become infected by the Flood and deactivated the array. Soon after 'Vadam killed the Prophet, effectively destroying the Covenant and ending the war, he, the Master Chief, and 343 Guilty Spark, the former monitor of Installation 04, discovered that a replacement Installation 04 was being constructed by the Ark's Foundry. The Spartan and the Arbiter soon rescued the AI Cortana, who held Installation 04's Activation Index, from the Flood-infested Covenant capital city, High Charity. They, with Sergeant Major Avery Johnson, assaulted the Halo's Control Room to activate the ring, destroying both the Flood and the remaining Covenant forces. They succeeded, though Johnson was killed by the monitor. While Guilty Spark refused to allow his new Halo to be destroyed, he also implied that he was protecting the Ark. The partially constructed installation's activation tore the ring apart and severely damaged the Ark. 2552年10月20日，悲怆先知拙劣地入侵地球之后，真相先知立即派遣了一支由吉拉哈纳领导的舰队继续进攻，并发现了他认为是方舟的东西。到11月17日，星盟已经发现了他们上个月发掘的结构。真相，通过他的先行者无畏，激活了设备，这实际上只是一个门户生成结构，导致安装00。

真理带领他的舰队通过门户：在击败洪水入侵沃伊镇后，联合国空间司令部-桑盖利联合打击部队跟随先知的部队。 [18]在12月11日抵达时，[1]后一支部队受到《公约》的攻击，该公约以3：1的数字优势。 [9]尽管如此，桑盖利报应舰队粉碎了真理的力量。

在将圣约穿过装置后，斯巴达人约翰-117和仲裁者塞尔·瓦达姆进入城堡，在那里他们发现了真理，他们被洪水感染并停用了阵列。在瓦达姆杀死先知，有效地摧毁圣约和结束战争后不久，他，主酋长，和343罪火花，安装04的前显示器，发现一个替代安装04正在建设方舟的铸造厂。 [11]斯巴达人和仲裁者很快从洪水泛滥的圣约首都，高慈善救出了AI Cortana，谁持有安装04的激活指数。 [19]他们与艾弗里·约翰逊少校一起袭击了光环控制室，以激活环，摧毁了洪水和剩余的圣约部队。他们成功了，尽管约翰逊被监视器杀死了。虽然罪恶的火花拒绝让他的新光环被摧毁，他也暗示他正在保护方舟。部分构造的装置的激活将环拆开并严重损坏方舟。

战后

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000 Tragic Solitude observes the heavily damaged Ark.

In March 2553, the Office of Naval Intelligence deployed an automated probe-carrying spacecraft to the damaged Ark using advanced slipspace technology. The ship arrived in November and dispersed its probes, although all communications with the devices were cut off after initial transmissions confirming the Ark's survival. In response, the 模板:UNSCShip was sent from Luna in December 2553 to conduct a more thorough investigation of the installation's ravaged surface. Due to the damage dealt to the Ark's life support systems and its artificial sun, heavily inclement weather became the norm.

The UNSC Rubicon carried several remote contact teams, who landed on the damaged Ark and attempted to find the source of the mysterious signal. After about eight days, contact with all teams was lost; only one team, RCT-06, returned, having sustained heavy casualties and carrying with them a device of unknown nature. The armature's origin was subjected to debate, but it was believed by the team to be the source of the beacon picked up by the initial investigative group. The device, actually a broken, barely active monitor, began to relate its past life as a human: Chakas. Though the ship's ONI attaché initially doubted the veracity of the monitor's account, the science team leader pointed out that it was consistent with the "Bornstellar Relation" found on Onyx.

Eventually, the monitor revealed that it was none other than 343 Guilty Spark himself. Claiming that he knew the location of the Librarian, whom he believed to be alive, Spark subsumed the ship's AI, knocked out the crew via the life support systems, and hijacked the ship. Communications with the Rubicon halted within 48 hours of its last report. Search and rescue teams were then deployed to the site, but reported no findings.

The last of its ground team, Bobby Kodiak, was left stranded when the Rubicon left, and mortally wounded by attacking chaefka. It was then that he was contacted by the Ark's monitor, 000 Tragic Solitude, who had survived the Ark's devastation and sought to repair the station and get revenge. Offering him a chance to live, Tragic Solitude rescued Kodiak and mended his body with cybernetics, turning him into a cyborg and putting him under the monitor's control. For the following two years, Tragic Solitude partially repaired the Ark and prepared for an attack on the galaxy. Tragic Solitude was able to repair the Ark end of the Portal at Voi and increase its power so that the portal would transport objects near-instantaneously between Earth and the Ark, but he couldn't activate the portal as the firing of Installation 08 had severed the monitor's control over it. 2553年3月，海军情报局利用先进的滑行空间技术，将一艘自动载人飞船部署到受损的方舟上。这艘船于11月抵达并分散了探测器，尽管在确认方舟幸存的最初传输后，与这些装置的所有通信都中断了。作为回应，联合国安理会于2553年12月从露娜派出鲁比肯，对该设施被破坏的表面进行更彻底的调查。 [20]由于方舟的生命支持系统及其人造太阳受到损害， 严重恶劣天气成为常态。

联合国安理会的鲁比肯携带了几个远程联络小组，他们降落在受损的方舟上，并试图找到这个神秘信号的来源。大约八天后，与所有团队失去了联系：只有一个小组，RCT-06，返回，遭受了重大伤亡，并随身携带了不明性质的设备。该军备的起源受到辩论，但小组认为，这是最初调查小组捡到的灯塔的来源。 [21]该设备，实际上是一个破碎的，几乎没有活跃的显示器，开始将其过去的生活作为一个人：查卡斯。虽然该船的 ONI 随员最初怀疑监视器帐户的真实性，但科学小组组长指出，这与在 Onyx上发现的"天星关系"是一致的。

最终，班长透露，这是无非是343罪火花自己。Spark声称他知道图书馆员的位置，他相信他还活着，他潜入了船上的AI，通过生命支持系统将船员击沉，并劫持了船。 [22]与鲁比肯的通信在上次报告发布后48小时内停止。搜救队随后被部署到现场，但没有报告任何发现。 [21]

最后一支地面队，鲍比·科迪亚克，在鲁比肯离开时被困，由于攻击查夫卡而受了重伤。这时，方舟的班长，000悲剧孤独，谁幸存下来方舟的破坏，并试图修复站和报复。悲剧孤独给了他一个生存的机会，拯救了科迪亚克，用网络学修补了他的身体，把他变成了一个机器人，把他置于监视器的控制之下。在随后的两年里，悲剧孤独部分修复了方舟，并准备攻击银河系。悲剧孤独能够修复Voi门户的方舟端，并增加其功率，使门户能够在地球和方舟之间瞬间传输物体，但他无法激活门户，因为安装08的发射切断了监视器对它的控制

Operation: FAR STORM

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N'tho 'Sraom and Frank Kodiak engage morolaath during Operation: FAR STORM.

模板:Main In 2555, the Ark was partially restored and Tragic Solitude enacted its plan. Using Kodiak to activate the process, Tragic Solitude initiated a countdown to the rings' firing in several weeks. This was so that someone within the Milky Way galaxy would open a portal to the Ark in an attempt to stop the countdown, allowing the monitor to dispatch its Retriever Sentinels to kill all sentient species and mine their planets to repair the Ark. The countdown was discovered on the intact Halo rings soon after and a human-Sangheili joint task force departed to the Ark through the Portal at Voi. The expedition's ship was intercepted and brought down above the Ark by Tragic Solitude's Retrievers, but the crew survived and managed to reach the Array's control center and stop the countdown. However, the portal was still open and Tragic Solitude deployed a fleet of Retrievers to Earth in an attempt to mine the Sol system's worlds, causing heavy damage to the region surrounding the portal as well as the UNSC Home Fleet. However, the UNSC-Sangheili crew managed to thwart the monitor's plan and the Retrievers were recalled, with the monitor ending up destroyed. UNSC reinforcements were deployed through the portal to the Ark soon after and rescued the expeditionary crew. With Solitude destroyed and the Retrievers now dormant, the UNSC began to establish research facilities on the Ark and study the Sentinels in hopes that they could be commanded to continue repairing the installation by strip-mining lifeless systems so that no one would be harmed in the process. 在2555年，方舟部分恢复和悲剧孤独颁布其计划。利用科迪亚克来激活这个过程，悲剧孤独在几周内开始了戒指发射的倒计时。这样，银河系内有人会打开一个通往方舟的入口，试图阻止倒计时，允许监视器派遣它的猎犬哨兵杀死所有有知觉的物种，并挖掘他们的行星来修复方舟。倒计时不久后在完好无损的光环上被发现，一支人-桑盖利联合特遣部队通过沃伊的门户前往方舟。探险队的船被悲剧孤独号的猎犬拦截并击落在方舟上，但船员们幸存下来，并设法到达了阵列的控制中心并停止了倒计时。然而，该门户仍然开放，悲剧孤独部署了一队猎犬到地球，试图挖掘太阳系统的世界，造成严重的破坏，周围的门户地区以及联合国安理会家庭舰队。然而，联合国安理会-桑盖利船员设法挫败了监测员的计划，检索人员被召回，监测员最终被摧毁。不久之后，联合国安理会增援部队通过通往方舟的入口部署，并营救出远征船员。随着孤独被摧毁，猎犬现在处于休眠状态，联合国安理会开始在方舟上建立研究设施，研究哨兵，希望他们能够被命令继续用无条纹采矿系统修复装置，以便在这个过程中不会受到伤害

Repairing the Ark and research

In 2557, a human research team traveled to the Ark aboard Eden Rising to establish a permanent base on the Ark, the Henry Lamb Research Outpost. The scientists reactivated the dormant Retriever Sentinels which were dispatched to lifeless systems to strip-mine them for the needed resources and under the guidance of the Smart AI Isabel, began nudging along repair efforts. However, over time, the process became fully automated and the scientists could simply sit back and watch the wonder of a world being reborn. Within three months of the establishment of the Henry Lamb Research Outpost, there would be a new shift in the outpost's surroundings as the Sentinels repaired and rebuilt the Ark. Dense forests sprang up from pit-black, barren terrain over the course of a week and archeologist Nathaniel Palmer monitored a particularly virulent strain of weed that was checked by the reintroduction of voracious, insectoid parasites before it could strangle the budding plants nearby. The Ark showed itself to be remarkably adaptable to change, with Palmer witnessing as giant tectonic plates rearranged, shifted and unfolded to form a new pathway across a chasm. 模板:Clear 2557年，一个人类研究小组前往伊甸园上升号上的方舟，在方舟上建立永久基地，亨利·兰姆研究前哨。科学家们重新激活了被派往无生命的系统的休眠猎犬哨兵，以剥离它们以获取所需的资源，并在智能AI Isabel的指导下，开始推进修复工作。 [24]然而，随着时间的推移，这个过程变得完全自动化，科学家可以坐下来观看世界重生的奇迹。 [25] 亨利·兰姆研究前哨站成立后三个月内，哨所周围将发生新的变化，因为哨兵们正在修复和重建方舟。 茂密的森林在一个星期内从坑黑的贫瘠地形中涌现出来，考古学家纳撒尼尔·帕尔默监测到一种特别致命的杂草株，通过重新引入贪婪的昆虫寄生虫来检查这种杂草株，然后它才能扼杀附近的萌芽植物。 [26]方舟显示自己非常适应变化，帕尔默见证了巨大的构造板块重新排列，移动和展开，形成一条跨越鸿沟的新路径。 [27]

New arrivals

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Captain James Cutter and Dr. Ellen Anders survey the Ark from high above it.

"And now the Ark's defenses stir, sensing the shadow of a threat that moves in spaces Her eyes cannot see, intent on seizing the great factory of the Forerunners."

— Curator on the Created and the Banished

Following the Created takeover of human space on October 28, 2558 the Ark's failsafe measures prevented Cortana and her allies from being able to access the installation. A month later, the Banished, led by the Jiralhanae warlord, Atriox, laid siege on the UNSC bases on Installation 00, among them the Henry Lamb Research Outpost. Shortly after the Banished's attack, the 模板:UNSCShip, drifting in space for 28 years, was abruptly transported to the Ark by a mysterious entity. Those on board the Spirit of Fire came into conflict with the forces of the Banished on the surface soon after. During the battle, it was discovered that the Ark had constructed a new replacement Halo, which was launched by Professor Ellen Anders in an effort to deploy it to the Soell system and raise a distress beacon to the UNSC. However, the Halo was intercepted on the way to Soell by a Created Guardian, while the forces of the Spirit of Fire and the Banished remained in conflict on Installation 00.

During this time, the Flood, who had survived aboard the ruins of High Charity, were inadvertently released by Voridus and Pavium when they breached the containment shield around the structure with a Scarab and deactivated the Ark's Sentinel defense network in the process. The Flood began a second rampage on the Ark, forming a Proto-Gravemind that quickly began turning into a Gravemind. Voridus and Pavium managed to reactivate the Sentinel defense network and with the help of a Retriever Sentinel, killed the Proto-Gravemind before it could finish its transformation into a Gravemind. With the Proto-Gravemind dead, the Banished and the Ark's Sentinels were able to contain the Flood once again and seal off High Charity.

In October 2559, more Banished forces and members of the Keepers of the One Freedom manage to open a Slipspace portal to the Ark from Reach and travel through it. The portal closes behind them, but Veta Lopis and the Ferrets follow them through, sending ONI a message about their actions through Blue Team along with the fact that Atriox's return is expected.模板:Ref/Novel模板:Ref/Novel 模板:Clear 2558年10月28日"创造"号接管人类空间后，方舟的故障安全措施阻止了Cortana和她的盟友进入该装置。 [28]一个月后，由吉拉尔哈纳军阀阿特里奥克斯领导的被放逐者围攻了联合国安理会第00号设施基地，其中包括亨利·兰姆研究前哨。 [29]在被放逐者袭击后不久，在太空中漂流了28年的联合国安理会火精神被一个神秘的实体突然运到方舟。"火之灵"号上的人员不久后就与被放逐的部队在水面上发生冲突。在战斗中，人们发现方舟建造了一个新的替代光环，这是艾伦·安德斯教授发起的，目的是将其部署到索埃尔系统，并升起一个遇险信标给联合国安理会。然而，光环在前往索埃尔的路上被一个被创造的守护者截获，而火神和被放逐的部队在安装00时仍然处于冲突之中。 [5]

在此期间，在高慈善废墟上幸存下来的洪水被沃里杜斯和帕维姆无意中释放，当时他们用斯卡拉布冲破了建筑物周围的防护罩，并在此过程中停用了方舟的哨兵防御网络。洪水开始对方舟的第二次狂暴，形成了一个原墓，迅速开始变成一个坟墓。沃里杜斯和帕维乌姆设法重新激活了哨兵防御网络，并在一名猎犬哨兵的帮助下，杀死了原墓主，然后才得以完成向"坟墓人"的转变。随着原墓的死，被放逐者和方舟的哨兵能够再次控制洪水，并封杀高慈善组织。 [30]

2559年10月，更多的被放逐的部队和"一个自由守护者"的成员设法打开一个从到达方舟到方舟的滑行门户，并穿过它。门户网站关闭他们身后，但维塔洛皮斯和费雷特跟随他们通过，通过蓝队向奥尼发送信息，他们的行为，以及事实，Atriox的回归是预料之中的

Design details

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The avatar icon of 000 Tragic Solitude

Installation 00 resembles a massive flattened dish with a series of eight curved arms, known as spires, four large and four small, arranged around its rim, similar to the petals of a flower. The entire upper surface is terraformed, with oceans, forests and deserts. Installation 00 is 模板:Convert in diameter and thus one of the largest known Forerunner constructs. Spread throughout the installation are hundreds of refugia, artificial biomes designed to sustain diverse flora and fauna as part of the Conservation Measure. Each of these refugia are separated by massive quarantine walls. Twelve refugia are located on the central hub, while an additional twenty are located on the arms of the structure. The various refugia are intended to mimic common planetary environments - one such refugia known as the Halo Refugia bore a notable similarity to Earth's climate, though much more extreme; mountains are higher, chasms are deeper and the sea and sky are a deeper blue.

At the center of the installation is the Foundry, an enormous circular facility used to construct Halos. The core of the 10,000-kilometer-wide Foundry is a hollow space, home to a stripped remnant of a material-rich celestial body used to obtain the vast amounts of resources required for the construction of a Halo ring. When active, the Foundry generates so much heat that the Ark requires multiple cooling stations. At least two such systems span a snowy gorge; it is possible that the massive cooling systems caused this icy climate.

Like the shield worlds, Installation 00 possesses an artificial sun.

Like the Halos, Installation 00 features multiple Cartographer facilities, map rooms that can pinpoint any location on the installation. Similarly to the Halos, the Ark features a control room from which the array could be activated. This facility, known as the citadel, is protected by a system of energy shield barriers that encircle the center of the disk. These barriers are controlled by towers that circumscribe the center of the installation.

The Ark also possesses a vast network of power grids beneath its surface. These grids can be tapped into by structures on the surface known as Power Nodes when extra locational power is needed in emergencies. These nodes were co-opted by UNSC and Banished forces in 2559, though Banished Power Extractors were also able to tap into these power networks. 安装00类似于一个巨大的扁平菜与一系列八个弯曲的手臂，被称为尖顶，四个大和四个小，排列在其边缘，类似于花瓣。整个上表面是地形，有海洋，森林和沙漠。 [9][11]安装 00 直径为 127，530 公里（79，243 英里），因此是已知最大的先行者结构之一。 [4]在整个装置中分布着数以百计的假生物群系，这些生物群系旨在维持各种动植物，作为保护措施的一部分。这些反驳都由巨大的隔离墙隔开。 [6]十二个反驳位于中央枢纽，而另外二十个位于结构的臂上。 [33]各种反驳意在模仿常见的行星环境——一种被称为光环雷富吉亚[34]的反驳与地球气候有着显著的相似性，尽管更为极端：山更高，鸿沟更深，大海和天空更深的蓝色。 [34]

安装的中心是铸造厂，一个巨大的圆形设施，用于建造光环。这个10，000公里宽的铸造厂的核心是一个空心空间，是一个被剥去的残骸的家园，这个残骸是一个材料丰富的天体，用来获取建造光环所需的大量资源。当活动时，铸造厂产生如此多的热量，方舟需要多个冷却站。至少有两个这样的系统横跨一个雪峡谷：大规模的冷却系统可能导致这种冰冷的气候。 [35]

像盾牌世界一样，安装00拥有人造太阳。 [9][11][12]

与光环一样，安装 00 具有多个制图器设施，地图室可以精确定位安装中的任何位置。 [9][36][37]与光环类似，方舟具有一个控制室，可以从中激活阵列。这个设施，被称为城堡，是由一个能源盾屏障系统，包围着圆盘的中心保护。这些障碍由限制安装中心的塔控制。 [11]

方舟在其表面下还拥有庞大的电网网络。当紧急情况下需要额外的位置电源时，表面称为"电源节点"的结构可以利用这些电网。这些节点在2559年被联合国安理会和被放逐的部队选中，尽管被放逐的电力提取器也能够进入这些电力网络。 [38][39]

防御

Similar to most Forerunner installations, the Ark had its own monitor, 000 Tragic Solitude, charged with the facility's defenses. For the most part, Solitude reacted little when humanity and the Covenant arrived at the Ark, though when 343 Guilty Spark attempted to access the Ark's systems during the Battle of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude threatened to add the monitor to the facility's targeting ledger if he persisted. After the Ark was severely damaged by the destruction of Installation 08, the latest on a line of destroyed Forerunner relics, Solitude grew bitter and viewed all sentients in the galaxy as incapable of being peaceful. The arrival of the Human-Covenant War to the installation additionally prompted the activation of Terminus', structures that are designed to perform tireless cataloging, recording of indexing of events in an attempt to prepare countermeasures and defences for future possible scenarios. These records are cross-references with existing records of historical events and battles to perform simulations and predictions of potential outcomes - losing a terminus would result in a massive loss of operational capability for the installation.

The Ark's small defenses were Aggressor Sentinels created by numerous Sentinel factories just like at the rings. The Retriever Sentinels could also be used offensively, though they were not usually outfitted with weapons until Solitude began arming them. The Ark was also guarded by armigers, humanoid defense droids that were capable of attacking with energy rifles and staves. Tragic Solitude could also take control of the Ark's wildlife and even people through manipulating their brain waves.

After the Battle of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude had a containment shield erected around the ruins of the Covenant holy city of High Charity to contain any surviving Flood within. He also had the Ark's Sentinels raze the perimeter and modify the refugia so that no sentient life survives nearby to deprive the Flood of any host bodies in close proximity to their prison.

Another method of defense are particle cannons upon the Ark's surface. After discovering the location of one through one of the Ark's Cartographers, the smart AI Isabel had Professor Ellen Anders use it to attack the 模板:Class Enduring Conviction. The cannon alone wasn't powerful enough to destroy the ship, but after thirty minutes of sustained fire could take down its shields and leave the ship vulnerable to other methods of attack.

The Ark also possesses a Sentinel defense network that coordinates Sentinels to assemble and attack anything deemed a threat to the Ark. Isabel utilized the network to destroy the Enduring Conviction by firing the assault carrier's energy projector at the Ark, alerting the Sentinels in the area. Prior to the launch of Installation 09, the security protocols was heightened to finalize the preparation for the launch to its original site and as the part of protocol, the Sentinels release Retriever Sentinel to cleanse the Installation from the threat, including the UNSC and the Banished. During an operation led by Major Vaughan, a Controller Sentinel attacked anyone it deemed a threat, even the UNSC, due to constant abuse of the teleportation network before the Spirit of Fire's arrival. Voridus managed to shut down the Sentinel defense network around High Charity's crash site, but at the price of the Flood being released from the ruined city after he breached the containment shield with a Banished Scarab. When the network was reactivated, the Sentinels resumed their duties and aided the Banished in defeating the Flood, enabling them to enact the containment protocol once again. 与大多数先行者装置类似，方舟有自己的监视器，000悲剧孤独，负责设施的防御。在大多数情况下，当人类和圣约到达方舟时，孤独反应甚微，尽管当343罪恶火花在安装00战役期间试图进入方舟的系统时，悲剧孤独威胁说，如果他坚持的话，将监视器添加到设施的目标分类账中。 [40]方舟被08号装置的破坏严重破坏后，孤独变得痛苦起来，认为银河系中的所有知觉都无法和平。 [23]人-圣约战争的到来，进一步促使总站的激活'，结构旨在执行不知疲倦的编目，记录事件索引，试图为未来可能的情况准备对策和防御措施。这些记录与现有历史事件和战斗记录交叉引用，以执行模拟和预测潜在结果 - 失去终点站将导致安装操作能力的巨大损失。 [41]

方舟的小防御是侵略者哨兵创建的许多哨兵工厂就像在环。猎犬哨兵也可以进攻性地使用，尽管在孤独开始武装它们之前，它们通常没有装备武器。方舟也由武装人员守卫，人形防御机器人，能够用能量步枪和支架攻击。悲惨的孤独也可以通过操纵他们的脑电波来控制方舟的野生动物，甚至人们。 [23]

安装00战役后，悲剧孤独有一个遏制盾牌竖立在圣城高慈善的废墟周围，以遏制任何幸存的洪水里面。他还让方舟的哨兵夷平周边，修改反驳，使附近没有有知觉的生命存活下来，以剥夺洪水中任何靠近其监狱的宿主尸体。 [42]

另一种防御方法是方舟表面的粒子炮。在通过方舟的制图师之一发现其中一个位置后，[36]聪明的AI伊莎贝尔让艾伦·安德斯教授用它来攻击CAS级攻击航母"持久定罪"。光是大炮不足以摧毁这艘船，但经过30分钟的持续火力射击，它就可以拆除它的盾牌，使船容易受到其他攻击手段的攻击。 [43][44]

方舟还拥有一个哨兵防御网络，负责协调哨兵组装和攻击任何被认为对方舟构成威胁的东西。伊莎贝尔利用该网络向方舟发射攻击航母的能量投影仪，向该地区的哨兵发出警报，从而摧毁了"持久信念"。 [45]在安装09发射之前，加强了安全协议，以最后确定发射到其原始地点的准备，作为协议的一部分，哨兵释放猎犬哨兵，以清除安装的威胁，包括联合国安理会和被放逐。 [46]在沃恩少校领导的一次行动中，一名主计长哨兵攻击了任何它认为有威胁的人，甚至是联合国安理会，因为在火精神到来之前不断滥用传送网络。 [47] 沃里杜斯设法关闭了高慈善的坠机现场周围的哨兵防御网络， 但代价是洪水从被毁的城市释放后， 他打破了隔离盾牌与被放逐的疤痕。当网络重新激活时，哨兵们恢复了他们的职责，并协助被放逐者战胜了洪水，使他们能够再次颁布遏制协议。 [30]

环境

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A surface view of Installation 00's arms. The installation's artificial star can be seen in the sky.

The Ark has a habitable surface on each of its spokes and on the majority of the inner circle, apart from the foundry. This terrain was intended to support cataloged life forms prior to being reseeded throughout the galaxy. These landscapes and biomes are as diverse as those of Earth and of the Halos, including deserts, taiga, and deciduous forests. Several bodies of water occur across the installation. As such, the Ark can sustain its own ecosystem, providing a variety of habitation for many kinds of life.

Like most Forerunner constructs, the Ark's atmosphere is similar to that of Earth, being mostly comprised of oxygen and nitrogen. This means that all known sentient species, with the exception of the Unggoy, can survive on the surface without any form of protection. As with the Halos, Installation 00 features a widely varying range of climates.

As the Ark is located outside the galaxy, isolated in a black void of space, there are no nearby natural sources of light to power the installation and facilitate the survival of biological organisms on its surface. To counter this problem, the Ark is equipped with an artificial structure consisting of a bright, sun-like light, with several metal arms jutting from its center. The light source "scans" over certain areas to generate day/night cycles, further contributing to the growth of vegetation and controlling weather patterns. A standard day on the Ark is 35.3 hours long, though this can be adjusted.

The activation of Installation 08 inflicted substantial damage to the Ark. While some life support units remain intermittently active, they were in severe disrepair. Combined with the artificial sun's weakened output, weather conditions on the surface have became highly volatile. Most indigenous fauna have perished, either from the Halo pulse itself or the extreme weather that came afterwards. However, some wildlife survived and were seen during Operation: FAR STORM. After the destruction of 000 Tragic Solitude, Luther Mann stated a belief that it was in fact the rogue Monitor who was behind the weather conditions as part of his plan for revenge. Once Tragic Solitude was destroyed, the weather returned to temperate conditions.

While under repair by Retriever Sentinels, there would be a new shift in the Ark's surroundings as the Sentinels repaired and rebuilt the Ark. Dense forests sprang up from pit-black, barren terrain over the course of a week and a particularly virulent strain of weed was checked by the reintroduction of voracious, insectoid parasites before it could strangle the budding plants nearby. The Ark showed itself to be remarkably adaptable to change, with giant tectonic plates rearranging, shifting and unfolding to form a new pathway across a chasm. Having begun in 2557, the process was completed by the arrival of the Spirit of Fire in 2559, leaving the Ark fully repaired and habitable again, though wreckage from the Battle of Installation 00 persisted across the Ark's surface. 除了铸造厂外，方舟的每个辐条和大部分内圈都有一个可居住的表面。这一地形旨在支持在被重新种子整个星系之前编目的生命形式。 [48]这些景观和生物群系与地球和光环的景观和生物群系一样多样化，包括沙漠、[9]泰加、[11]和落叶森林。 [49]安装中发生了几具水体。因此，方舟可以维持自己的生态系统，为多种生命提供各种居住。

与大多数先行者构造一样，方舟的大气层与地球的大气层相似，主要由氧气和氮气组成。这意味着，除翁戈伊物种外，所有已知的有知觉物种都可以在表面生存，而无需任何形式的保护。与光环一样，安装 00 具有各种气候。

由于方舟位于银河系外，被隔离在一个黑色的空间空隙中，附近没有自然光源为安装提供动力，并促进其表面生物体的生存。为了解决这个问题，方舟配备了一个人工结构，由明亮的太阳般的光线组成，几个金属手臂从其中心伸出来。光源"扫描"某些区域，生成日/夜周期，进一步促进植被的生长和控制天气模式。 [50]方舟上的标准日长35.3小时，不过这可以调整。 [6]

08号装置的启动对方舟造成了重大破坏。虽然一些生命支助单位仍然间歇性地活跃，但它们严重失修。加上人造太阳的衰弱输出，表面的天气条件变得高度不稳定。大多数土著动物已经消亡，无论是从光环脉冲本身或随后的极端天气。 [21]然而，一些野生动物幸存下来，并在行动期间看到：FAR风暴。 [23]在000悲剧孤独被摧毁后，路德·曼恩表示相信，事实上，作为报复计划的一部分，是幕后黑手是天气状况的幕后黑手。一旦悲剧孤独被摧毁，天气恢复温和的条件。 [51]

在"猎犬哨兵"的修复下，随着哨兵们修复和重建方舟，方舟周围的环境将发生新的变化。 密集的森林在一周内从坑黑的贫瘠地形中窜出，在它可能扼杀附近萌芽的植物之前，重新引入贪婪的昆虫寄生虫，检查了一种特别致命的杂草株。 [26]方舟显示自己非常适应变化，巨大的构造板块重新排列，移动和展开，形成一个新的路径跨越鸿沟。 [27]始于2557年，2559年火神的到来完成了这一过程，使方舟完全修复并重新适应，尽管安装00战役的残骸一直留在方舟表面。 [5]

Slipspace portals

A major aspect of Installation 00 was its ability to send and receive objects via slipspace portals. Late in the Forerunner-Flood war, the rebuilt Halo array was dispersed throughout the galaxy through the use of these portals.

In order to ensure the safety of humanity, the Librarian established a portal-generating structure near Mount Kilimanjaro on the human homeworld of Erde-Tyrene. During the Human-Covenant War on November 17, 2552, the Covenant forces under the command of the Prophet of Truth utilized this portal, sparking the Battle of Installation 00. The portal was damaged by the firing of Installation 08 and shut down while the 模板:UNSCShip was still in transit. The portal was eventually repaired and used again in 2555 by Tragic Solitude, though he could not activate its doorway to Earth from the Ark's end due to the firing of Installation 08 severing his control over it. Tragic Solitude managed to increase the power to the portal exponentially, causing travel between Earth and the Ark to be almost instant. After the start of the Created conflict, the Ark's failsafe measures closed it again to keep the Ark out of Cortana's hands. Professor Ellen Anders was unable to figure out how to reactivate it from the Ark, necessitating the launch of Installation 09 in an effort to make contact with the UNSC. Following the departure of Anders and the Halo ring, Captain James Cutter felt that the portal should remain closed until the Spirit of Fire could fully evaluate the Banished threat to it. Cutter ordered Isabel to start investigating the portal's controls in case they needed to open or close it again.

An unknown entity at the Ark generated a portal to transport the 模板:UNSCShip, which had drifted in interstellar space for 28 years, to the installation in 2559.

After hijacking the 模板:UNSCShip, 343 Guilty Spark used one of the Ark's remaining active portals to return the ship to the galaxy in an effort to find the Librarian. However, after its return to the Milky Way, the Rubicon crashed on Geranos-a.

There is another Slipspace portal on Reach that the Keepers of the One Freedom and some of the Banished were able to access in October 2559.模板:Ref/Novel模板:Ref/Novel

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Production notes

• The Ark was known as "Waypoint" during the production of Halo 3. This name was later rendered canonical by the Halo Waypoint forum administrator 模板:Plain (posing as the Forerunner entity of the same name).
• In early conceptual stages, artist Paul Russel did not want to make the Ark significantly larger than a Halo ring. One of his early concepts of the Ark design incorporated a cradle for a Halo installation in the center, with four sleek arms one one side of the ring, along with several beams leading to a central hub structure situated on the other side.
• In Origins, the Ark and the Halos are depicted without land on their surfaces during the activation of the Halo Array. This is likely due to Cortana's interpretation, or an instance of artistic license, as both Halo: Silentium and the terminals in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary show that the Ark and the Halos had fully terraformed surfaces prior to the activation of the Array.
• The Ark as a concept has existed since the development of Halo: Combat Evolved. Bungie artist Marcus Lehto produced several sketches of structures for the Ark concept, that would later go on to be refined and considered during the development of Halo 2. These concept images both depict the Ark as a structure within the ground, a concept later instead used for the design of the Portal at Voi in Halo 3.
• One of the early concepts for the Ark produced in Halo 3, depicting a Forerunner circular structure encasing a regular planet, was later reused in Halo: Escalation Issue 23 for the design of an as-yet unnamed Forerunner installation.

References

• The history and name of the Ark are a reference to the Biblical story of Noah, who was instructed by God to build an Ark to save specimens of every animal on Earth from a great flood. The name may also be a reference to Ark of the Covenant, which, according to the Jewish Torah and the Biblical Old Testament, contains the stone tablets of the ten commandments. It is the holiest object of the Jewish faith.
• The Ark has some similarity to the concept of an Alderson disk. However, an Alderson disk is much larger and has a star in the center.

Gallery

• H3 Ark Planetoid Concept.jpg

  Early concept art depicting a planetoidal Ark.

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  The prior concept, reused for the design of a structure in Halo: Escalation.

• H3 Ark Concept 1.jpg

  Early concept art of Waypoint, former name of the Ark.

• H3 Ark Concept 2.jpg

  More concept art for Waypoint. The structure in this version of the concept was designed to not have many elements bigger than the Halo it was constructing.

• H3 Ark Dynamic Concept.jpg

  Concept art of the Ark from the surface.

• H3 Ark Dynamic Night Concept.jpg

  View of this version at night.

• H3 Ark Desert Concept.jpg

  Concept art of a desert on the installation.

• H3 Ark Structure Concept.jpg

  Concept art of a structure on the installation.

• H3 Ark Warthog Concept.jpg

  Concept art of Warthogs on their way to a Forerunner building after Installation 08's reveal in Halo 3.

• H3 - Ark and 04B.jpg

  Concept art depicting the Ark and Installation 08 in Halo 3.

• H3 Installation00 Full.jpg

  The Ark in Halo 3

• ARK2.jpg

  The size of the Ark compared to that of Earth and a Halo installation.

• ArkScaleComparison.gif

  Comparison of the Ark to a modern Halo installation and Earth.

• Arklandscape.JPG

  The desert near the Ark's Cartographer facility.

• Ark.JPG

  A holographic representation of the Ark.

• Sheltered Valley.jpg

  A small mountain clearing near the Citadel.

• Narrows01.jpg

  A view of one of Installation 00's cooling systems.

• Ark light source.jpg

  The Ark's artificial sun.

• Ark 4.jpg

  A view of most of Installation 00's surface.

• TerminalArkArray.jpg

  The Ark along with the Halo installations prior to their activation.

• HOSFM Installation 00 forerunner symbol.png

  The symbol representing Installation 00.

• HaloLegends-Origins-ArkHalo.png

  Installation 08 over the Ark, a Halo 3 concept art reused for Halo Legends: Origins.

• Hunters in the Dark full cover.jpg

  The partially destroyed installation in 2555 on the cover of Halo: Hunters in the Dark

• HM - SOF and Ark.jpg

  Installation 00 in Halo Mythos.

• HW2B-Arkholo.gif

  A hologram of the Ark in Halo Wars 2.

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• Halo: First Strike
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