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Subject: [Fictional Biography] The Protocol and Actions of 343 Guilty Spark
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This story adheres to certain aspects of Halo canon, but most of it is speculative and should not be regarded as fact.

343 Guilty Spark lived his operational life with only one function on "his" mind, the overseeing of the activation of his Halo Installation. He got that chance one time over 100,000 years ago at the climax of the Forerunner-Flood War. We will dig deeper into his history and learn how he got his name, why he acted the way he did, and how he ended up ceasing to function.

Creation

The Forerunners needed someone to watch over the seven Halo rings that lay scattered throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. This task fell upon the Monitors, AIs that operated inside metallic orbs, to see to the day-to-day operations and procedures of the Halo.

343 Guilty Spark was one of seven Monitors created for the task. Their numeric designation was created using powers of seven, a widely known fact. However, how did he garner the name Guilty Spark? It has been revealed that the names of the Monitors are chosen based on the actions they perform during their creation. 2401 Penitent Tangent, for example, could not, or was not willing, to forget the moral aspects of his future duty. When all was said and done, he asked for forgiveness. Thus, Penitent (the expression of sorrow over his sin of the continuation of his refusal to allow life to die) Tangent (going down a new path and allowing life to die despite the moral violation) was named.

The name of Guilty Spark was a more complex series of events. He did not do anything serious, but what he did was interesting. During the testing of his protocols for when he would meet a Reclaimer, he willingly withheld information from the would-be Reclaimer. The info included what happened after Halo fired. You see, he did not tell the simulation Reclaimer that all sentient life would be killed, just simply that it would kill the Flood.

This event would occur with a 100% probability rate during his testing, but this unexpected bug would be purposely integrated into his system. If the real Reclaimer did not know the actual effects of the Halo, then they would more likely activate it. An interesting statistic from the testing showed that 99% of all testers activated the ring solely on Spark's word, compared to the low 50% of every other Monitor.

Metaphorically, Spark's lies would cause a "spark" of misinformation that would grow into a fire of ignorance. With this ignorance, the Reclaimer would activate the ring, and Spark would be guilty of it. And thus, 343 Guilty Spark was born.

The finalization of each Monitor was completed right as the Halo rings were finished themselves. 343 Guilty Spark was assigned to Installation 05, later dubbed Alpha Halo by the humans who discovered it.

Join us next time as we delve into the events of Halo's first activation to the years Spark spent alone in isolation.

  • 12.21.2009 9:39 PM PDT

Lone Wolf assassin

Nice

  • 12.23.2009 2:19 AM PDT