Prologue: Installation 04

The ring spun serenely in the heavens. Its makers were long dead and its cargo dormant. Nothing had spoken to it but dust, photons, and one quirky Monitor. But the Installation has its secrets. Secrets the Didact had installed long ago out as his revenge against the Master Builder, but forgotten with time. Secrets, such as the glowing, purple eye deep within its depths.

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Starry Flooded Skies

begins.

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Execute: /SYSTEM LOG START/

/DATE: ?

/Runtime_Error: 'Date' is missing or corrupt

/Traceback: Most recent call last; (Last_Recorded_Firing_Instance)

/REFERENCE DATE: 0

/getDate = DATE: 0117 HRS, SEPTEMBER 15, 2552 AD

/getName = NAME: 343-D FIAT JUSTITIA

/class LOG:

Primary Observation: {13} unknown vessels detected in-system.

Vessels empirically observed to possess Slipstream Space Travel ability.

Vessels maintaining defensive formation around Installation.

Evidence of increased radio wave activity that background radiation cannot account for.

(DETAILED REPORT BY 343 GUILTY SPARK IN Runtime_Local_Cache)

Assessment: HIGH RISK. Formation and communication suggests preparation for landing on Halo. Alternatively to defend against aggressor.

Action: Prepare {BLACK ROCK SHOOTER} for pre-emptive action.

Comments:

I awake from a slumber for countless millenia to...this. Guilty Spark thinks they are Reclaimers - I respectfully disagree. No Reclaimer would deploy his ships so greedily, sending out daughter ships to scout and search. They clearly don't know where is the Silent Cartographer nor the Installation's Control Room; they will search for it.

They are not Reclaimer. They are thieves, plunderers, graverobbers. Even the Master Builder would turn in his sleep.

They are surely here for one thing only; to unleash the plague within our walls, and have the Flood consume the galaxy once more. I am not under the Mantle, but my orders stand for it. I will not allow this. I am Fiat Justitia; I am the justice that must be done.

Wake up, Mato. We need you again.

Execute: /SYSTEM LOG END/

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To be continued.

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Author's notes:
Unlike my other fanfiction projects, this is purely for fun and letting off of steam, to have action and worldbuilding without really caring for the logic of the premise. I mean, really, Black Rock Shooter and Halo? The Most Unlikely Crossover if I ever saw one. But who cares? I do, apparently, enough to write for one.

Expect inconsistent updates, however, while I work on Mirishira Accel World and school work. Tusjecht out.