User:Ivea 'Quiton/L0-142 Recondite Docent

L0-142 Recondite Docent was a Forerunner AI active throughout the Forerunner-Flood War and the Human-Covenant War.

Duties
He was initially charged with the acquisition and updating of information for the Bestiarum. His other major duty takes place after any Halo activation; the reseeding of life across the galaxy. Thus, after the first Halo event, Recondite Docent would have been the one who released the samples of life from the Ark back into the galaxy.

He was assistant to the Librarian (as he was her construct), and was able to halve her workload and increase the number and volume of entries by sixty-four point three percent and additionally correct approximately ninety-eight point two percent of all errors in the registry.

Curiously, his current singular overriding objective is to keep the “Reclaimers” safe from harm and in particular from the Flood; perhaps to ensure that some survive to activate the Halo Array if the Flood were to break containment.

Description
Docent is not unlike the other known Forerunner AIs; higher-pitched, rapid voices, at one moment incredibly focused on their duties, the next moment wandering off to explore and learn. He is quite the servant of knowledge and would pursue even the most specific and seemingly worthless of details along the most dusty and unclear of trails.

Actions During the Human-Covenant War
On one of his interstellar knowledge voyages he stumbled across a world littered with Forerunner artifacts… and a small colony of humans. The Covenant had sent in a SpecOps team to destroy the humans and secure the artifacts (now among them an Oracle!). Before the fighting escalated, Docent intervened on the humans’ behalf, revealing the truth to the Sangheili. Logic and proof prevailed and the Sangheili departed to overthrow the San ‘Shyuum and reform the Covenant. Docent and Chris raced to Earth upon receiving an emergency signal from the Sangheili, arriving days after the Second Battle of Earth began.

Trivia

 * His designation can be broken down to reveal more details about him. "L" implies he worked with the Librarian; ".0142" is 7 raised to the -1 power.  Assuming the traditional numbering sequence of the Monitors hold, he is the Monitor of Installation -2 (whatever that may be).
 * His name can also be analyzed for more information. "Recondite, according to www.dictionary.com, means "beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding".  "Docent, from the same source, can be interpreted as "a person who is a knowledgeable guide, especially one who conducts visitors through a museum and delivers a commentary on the exhibitions".  Put together, his name probably means that he is an extremely knowledgeable AI.
 * He is fluent in nearly every known language since his creation, numbering upwards of five trillion forms of communication, ranging from spoken words to bioluminescent emissions to pheromone releases to technological programming/coding. He also is intimately familiar with every culture that has arisen since the first Halo event most intimately, although protocol strictly forbids him from interfering with their natural evolution and societal progression.