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Subject: latchkey/artifact on reach?

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after looking everywhere for this

is the latchkey the artifact on reach?

also is the artifact basically a computer with all forerunner knowledge?

and if so did it tell cortana the co ordinates to where the halo reach was?

  • 03.10.2011 4:18 PM PDT

The artifact had the coordinates to halo.

Things changed a bit. The artifact at cote d'azur had coordinates to reach, which in turn had the coordinates to halo.

[Edited on 03.10.2011 4:28 PM PST]

  • 03.10.2011 4:26 PM PDT

The latchkey unlocks the Babd Catha Forerunner structure, letting humans see its secrets.

  • 03.10.2011 4:28 PM PDT

Have you seen my mind anywhere? I seem to have lost it...

0x0 x0x 0x0 000 000 x0x 000
x0x 0x0 0x0 0xx 000 0x0 000
x0x x0x x00 0xx 0x0 x0x 0x0

I have seen you future

Before Halo: Reach Cortana got the coordinates for Installation 04 from something in the Côte d'Azur Museum of Natural History.

Many took Halo: Reach to mean that the coordinates came from the artifact beneath SWORD base. This is never directly stated in the game, but if it was true than there would be yet another plot hole.

As for the "latchkey discovery", it is kind of hard to know exactly what it is since we are never told. A latchkey is simply a key, usually to something outside or latch operated. This could mean that the latchkey discovery was a way to open something (ark maybe). The only problem with this is that it would make the discovery useless for humanity in the long run since Cortana is on High Charity for that part of the story.

Posted by: Wazooty
The artifact had the coordinates to halo.

Things changed a bit. The artifact at cote d'azur had coordinates to reach, which in turn had the coordinates to halo.

Ummm... Humanity was on Reach long before Cortana discovered the purpose of the artifact on Côte d'Azur.

Y'know Reach being Humanity's largest and closest colony and all...

[Edited on 03.10.2011 4:33 PM PST]

  • 03.10.2011 4:31 PM PDT