589 Curious Puzzle

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589 Curious Puzzle Biographical information Began service  c. 101,760 BCE Gender Masculine Normal color Green Political information and functions Era(s) Forerunner-Flood War Post-War era Created Conflict Affiliation Forerunner Ecumene (Formerly) Grono 'Yendam Primary Function Maintaining the Cleanser (Formerly)
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"Even though maintaining the Cleanser was my main directive for over a hundred millennia, protocol stated that I do whatever it takes to protect the device from falling into the wrong hands. As was the case when I was forced to destroy the objective I was supposed to protect. But it had the desired outcome to stop those who wished to use it for their own gain."

― 589 Curious Puzzle

589 Curious Puzzle is a Forerunner Ancilla that formerly served as the monitor of a Forerunner doomsday device designated the Cleanser. It was created by a Builder with the title of the Architect. After lying dormant with its intelligence stored directly inside the Composer, Puzzle was awakened by Covenant pirates under command of Grono 'Yendam. Finding out their attempts to use the Cleanser against the Reclaimers, Puzzle directed the Cleanser to lock-down, Creating an energy shield that saved Spartan Benjamin Nishurd when he destroyed the ship it was on. Years later, the Created would find a partial remnant of Puzzle's core and store it inside of an Ancilla shell, thus bringing the AI back. Puzzle would eventually deduce that since the Created wanted the Mantle for themselves, and that humanity had created them, the Reclaimers were to fault. With this, the partially rampant Ancilla eventually joined up with Grono as a mercenary, lying low from the Created, which wanted 589 to help them unlock more secrets of the Forerunners.

Non-Canon Sources

Curious Puzzle participated in Survival of the Fittest Season 7 and Season 8.

During Season 7, Puzzle was slated to go up against Actene's Diana and kill her. However, due to the season's cancellation, he never made an appearance

During Season 8, Curious Puzzle was a member of Fireteam Red-Echo with HyperZergling's Rick-077 and Caleb Butler, as well as Lieutenant Davis's Jerrold Pershing. Despite butting heads with the three of them due to his mistrust oh humans, he cooperated with the supersoldiers and helped them track down Fireteam Blue-Hotel in the Southern Overgrowth. After a failed negotiation, the two teams fought, with Puzzle observing them from overhead. After waiting for the perfect moment, he saved Rick-077 from CaptainRicko's Jace-G282 by breaking his shields using a Sentinel Beam. Gloating about the inferiority of his opponents' combat skins, Puzzle was caught off guard when Sonasaurus's Autel 'Vadamai impaled him on a Ria'kun from behind, having snuck up on him with active camouflage. Thrown into a berserk rage, Puzzle subsequently burned down a large segment of the Southern Overgrowth, forcing both teams to retreat.

Afterwards, Puzzle and the rest of Fireteam Red-Echo were teleported into the Cosmopolis onto the Transit railway system. Using his experience with Forerunner technology, Puzzle activated the Transit so the team could use it to reconnoiter the city, but they were ambushed in the control car by Fireteam Red-Alpha. Navisiul97's Bulwark-Memento charged in, inadvertently destroying the Transit's control console in an attempt to eliminate Puzzle, before swatting the Monitor into a wall. Puzzle rebounded into Bulwark, forcing the Mgalekgolo back. Puzzle continued to fight the gestalt, being slammed back several times (once colliding with Falkeno's Riko 'Kasamee, which unintentionally allowed Caleb Butler to kill him). As the fight continued, Fireteam Blue-Hotel appeared once more, this time operating a Falcon VTOL. Dealing severe damage to the Transit and killing Rick-077 in the process, the gunship forced Puzzle to take cover with Jerrold Pershing and conspire to remove the aircraft from play.

Puzzle played his part in Pershing's plan by harassing one of the Falcon's gunners, Spartan-D042's Callum-B042, provoking the Spartan-III into lashing out in order to pull him out of his seat and drop him to his death. With the Falcon neutered, Pershing was able to disable the Falcon with an EMP grenade, causing it to crash into the Transit. Intent on helping Pershing clean up any remaining resistance, Puzzle was ambushed yet again by Autel 'Vadamai, who had just recently killed Caleb Butler. Now knowing the Sangheili's tricks, Puzzle easily countered Autel's attacks while returning his own to great effect. With Autel severely injured, the Monitor prepared to finish him off, only for Sonasaurus's Fira 'Demal to shoot his exposed core with a Particle Beam Rifle, causing the Ancilla to explode. 589 Curious Puzzle finished in 31st place.

Appearances

• Halo: Assassination Games

Non-Canon

• Survival of the Fittest
  • Season 7
  • Season 8 (Fireteam Red-Echo, Top 31)