343 Guilty Spark
343 Guilty Spark is an artificial intelligence who features in Halo.
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Biography
343 Guilty Spark was constructed over 9,000 years ago during the time of the Forerunners where he was created to be one of their Monitors.
The Master Chief first comes into contact with Guilty Spark in a swamp area on Halo soon after encountering the Flood, a parasitic infestation accidentally released on the surface of Halo. Guilty Spark informs the Chief that he is the Monitor of the ringworld, and that he requires the Chief's help in preventing the Flood from escaping the ring. Using Halo's teleportation grid, 343 Guilty Spark teleports himself and the Master Chief to the Library, a vast complex that contains the Index, Halo's firing key. After battling through successive waves of Flood with the assistance of the Guilty Spark's robotic Sentinels, the Master Chief is able to claim the Index, upon which Guilty Spark teleports them to Halo's control room. Guilty Spark instructs him on how to activate Halo, explaining that such a task is too important for a construct such as himself to perform. As the Master Chief inserts the Index into the control panel, Cortana, having been left in the control room previously by the Chief, abruptly takes the Index before the firing sequence can be triggered.
Cortana explained to a confused Master Chief that Halo is not designed to kill the Flood; it is designed to kill their food. Food, in this case, means any biomass of sufficient size to sustain the Flood, which includes all sentient life in the galaxy. Guilty Spark gladly confirms this: the firing of the Halo installation they are on will cause the eradication of all sentient life within 25,000 light years, and in turn will cause the other identical installations to fire, thus killing all sentient life within three galactic radii of the Milky Way galaxy. This revelation convinces the Master Chief to abandon Guilty Spark's plan. With Cortana in possession of the Index, and Master Chief in possession of Cortana, Guilty Spark orders the Sentinels to kill him but "save the head", which contains Cortana's A.I. chip and thus the Index. The Chief nonetheless escapes, and heads to the crashed wreckage of the Pillar of Autumn in order to detonate the ship's reactors, destabilizing the ring. Despite the best efforts of the Monitor to halt the Chief (thus saving Earth's historical record stored in the Autumn's memory banks), the vessel's fusion reactors go critical, destroying much of the ring. Guilty Spark begrudgingly admits in his log that though unseemingly, the explosion did prevent the Flood from escaping, and left the ruined ring behind.
Following the destruction of Installation 04, Guilty Spark travels to a Forerunner gas-mining facility in the atmosphere of the gas-giant Threshold, which Installation 04 orbited. On it, he meets a Covenant Elite named Sesa 'Refumee and discloses the purpose of Halo to him. Realizing that the "Great Journey" the Covenant Prophets speak of is the extermination of the entire galaxy, 'Refumee rebels against the Covenant. When the Arbiter is sent to kill the "Heretics", he is engaged by the Sentinels and encounters Guilty Spark (whom he refers to as the Oracle). Once the Heretic leader is dead, the Brute Tartarus arrives and captures Guilty Spark. The Covenant Hierarchs use Guilty Spark to find out how to activate Delta Halo. With Delta Halo's Index secured, Tartarus, Guilty Spark, and the Reclaimer needed to activate the ring- a captured Miranda Keyes- head to the ring's control room, where they are confronted by the Arbiter and his new ally, Avery Johnson. In the ensuing struggle, Keyes is able to stop the firing of Halo, but Guilty Spark informs them that since the rings were unexpectedly shut off, failsafe protocols have begun. All remaining Halos can be activated remotely- from a place called the Ark.
He later returned where he saved the Master Chief from a Flood form. He claims that all of his pre-programming has been rendered useless now that his installation is destroyed, and promises to help the Master Chief in any way as the Chief is still a Reclaimer- humanity is, in fact, descended from the Forerunner. Guilty Spark repairs the message Cortana left on a Flood-controlled ship, and tags along with the humans and Elites who head through a slipspace portal which leads to the Ark. Here, Guilty Spark leads the Master Chief and allies through the installation. After the Prophet of Truth is killed, Guilty Spark reveals that construction of a new Halo is underway to replace the one that the Master Chief destroyed. When Sergeant Avery Johnson attempts to fire the ring prematurely, Guilty Spark informs them it will destroy both the Installation and the Ark, to which Johnson replies, "Deal with it". Without warning, his eye changes color from usual blue to red, fatally wounding Johnson with an energy beam from his eye. Guilty Spark continues to attack, determined to protect "his" ring from destruction. The Master Chief subsequently destroys the A.I. in order to activate the ring and stop the Flood, once and for all.
Overview
Personality and attributes
To the Covenant, he came to be referred to as one of the Oracles.
His mandate was the maintenance of the Halo and preventing the spread of the Flood.
Much of his actions were dictated by protocols set by his makers.
Powers and abilities
As a Monitor, Guilty Spark was created by the highly advanced Forerunner civilisation where he was an ancillia artificial intelligence.
He was able to fire powerful energy beams from his optical receptor that could kill or wound his targets.
Guilty Spark was placed in control of Halo Installation 04 where he maintained all its functions and commanded its many constructs.
Notes
- 343 Guilty Spark was created by Bungie where he was voiced by actor Tim Dadabo and featured in the setting of the Halo universe
- In an interview on Game Informer, Dadabo commented, ""They basically gave me a script and said, "Ok. This is 343 Guilty Spark. He’s called the monitor. He is a flying orb and he incredibly intelligent. He is an A.I. You are basically a very nice C3P0 with a maniacal mission. You don’t know this yet but he’s going to get very very dark." So in the back of your mind you always have to have this dark mission, but you have to sound very friendly."
Appearances
- Halo: Combat Evolved:
- Halo 2:
- Halo 3:
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