User:Mordant Song/The Infinite Loop

Pre-Rediscovery
Installation 15 (Omicron Halo) was a ringworld originally designed by the Precursors to reset the galaxy if it were ever to get out of hand. It was discovered by the Forerunner, and they added a Monitor and Sentinels to it to ensure its safety. Omicron Halo was a particle breaker, in other words, it fired a shot that would break anything and everything within the galaxy down to dust, including its self. Omicron Halo had two managers, 42 Contrite Kindle who was a Monitor, and Mordant Song, a stationary computer left by the Precursors.

About 2000 years before the Human-Covenant War a coding malfunction occured in all new Sentinels manufactured at Omicron Halo, in which several guarding the Index added by the Forerunner exploded, leaving the Installation without an Index. This caused much grieving and embaressment for 42 Contrite Kindle, who became Rampant in the aftermath of the destruction of the Index.

Rediscovery
A few years before the Sangheili Seperatists, a once famed Sangheili General, named Tran 'Kelohee, left the Covenant after overhearing a conversation between the Prophet of Truth and the Prophet of Fortune.

Amazed and astonished, Tran 'Kelohee stole a Lich and left for Sangheilios. However, the charts onboard the Lich were misleading, and he wound up discovering Omicron Halo.

Upon touching Omicron's surface, he was greeted warmly by 42 Contrite Kindle, who told him that he was the Installation's Reclaimer, as his mother's ancestors were Forerunner. However, the Covenant managed to track down Tran Kelohee's Lich and atempted to claim Installation 15 for themselves.

The Battle of Installation 15
The sudden movement of many Covenant ships scared the UNSC, and they sent Recon Squadron, lead by two Spartans, Delta 518 and Juliet 059, to investigate. Upon arriving, they were immediantly shot out of the sky and their frigate, the UNSC Persephone plumeted to the surface of the ringworld.

With few survivors, all living crew members were evacuated and took refuge in...