User:Echo 1125/Halo: Our Eternal Task

Halo: Our Long Voyage
''12:48, November 14th, 2565. Outer Milky way, Sentinel Factory ‘FV-29739A’, in orbit of Installation 00''

High above the scorched and gouged surface that had once been a gem in the Forerunner Crown, one of the massive arms had be severed by a section of the Halo and was now slowly being dismantled by monolithic Strato Sentinels that sought after the rich materials that could rebuild the facility to its former glory. To the Forerunner’s credit the facilities inner structure had been spared for the destruction that had left her surface a molten heap of slag, countless eons of Forerunner history erased in an instant by the ones that were to Inherit her Majesty. What little Flood spores that were left had been long since scorched from the Ark’s surface.

Drifting silently amongst a swarm of metal shards that had once been the Core of Installation 04B lay a single sentinel, picking up the debris that was Guilty Spark. Protocol had dictated every action that the facility now took to repair the Ark and rebuild the network that had reigned over the flood for generations. The Sentinel rotated slowly, its pincer arms latched onto the AI core matrix of Guilty spark. A search light erupted from its central light, bathing the desolated chamber in a faint glow as it tried to locate a sub objective that had been implanted during the units activation.

//'''Locate Reclaimer, tag ID 294853. Contained in Slipspace pod'''

Alas the Sentinel could not fully understand this objective, its programming could only allow for it to understand this anomaly in the mission objective, requesting data from a sub-processor that had yet to reply to its request. In a few moments it located its objective, a floating Slipspace pod that was normally located under a large metal plate. The lack of processor had been an issue for almost all basic drones, only providing enough processor capacity for basic operations and a lesser ability of creativity in combat and repairs. According to its processor update an emergency protocol was supposedly in effect that would upgrade selected Sentinels until at least on AI could be restored and bring chaos to order.

>>'''Sentinel: RR-I394K-Major. Return to (Primary Sentinel Production Facility)'''

>> Ignore Recent order, Deposit core in Production Facility

RR-I rotated, its scanner locating a second sentinel unit appearing to recover the pod. A sudden control take over of its navigation thrusters alarmed the unit, a request of reasoning fallen on deaf data processors. RR-I scanned the factory as it slowly drifted into the massive bay, a Constructor tearing the core from its pincer. A large docking arm latched onto its central module and dragged it towards a manufacturing complex.

<>Inquiry incorrect please resend.

A needle thin spike slipped into its data jack and its core processor died, sending the unit into what would be considered Unconsciousness.

--Awakening from an eternal sleep--

''14:21, November 15th, 2565. Outer Milky way, Sentinel Factory ‘FV-29739A’, in orbit of Installation 00''

>>System restart in progress...

//System Boot data: Sentinel Observer Frame

//Alert Multiple augments have been made to core system.

RR-I’s central optic pulsed into life, its processor sending dozens of error messages to its mind a second. RR-I scanned the area, it was present inside the main hanger, a unidentified error came to its core. ‘Alarm?’ it tired to recognise, multiple new error messages were trying to bypass the others and gain priority.

>>Request data on unregistered modifications.

To its reply a surge of data swarmed its processor and stalled thought processors for a moment. This data did not come from the Ark’s Sentinel Sub command hub rather ‘his?’ own mind. RR-I scanned the multiple active platforms that formed a network of data, each addressing it as he. Data surged through it regarding to each task every sentinel was undertaking, confusing the sentinel as it tried to disable what it thought to be an obvious glitch.

>>'''Command Rejected, data required for units main purpose. Please allow for software update completion and updating of critical operation system'''.

//Movement systems are restricted until data is processed and understood.