#installation 04

[broken-wings-and-bastard-kings]

[lauren-116]

“Happy Little Installation” 🌲🪐💙

I finally finished this piece and honestly, I’m really proud of it.

I wanted to try painting a Halo ring from a softer, more natural landscape approach, kind of inspired by Bob Ross-style acrylic paintings, but with that ancient Forerunner wonder tucked into the scene. Snowy mountains, mist, trees, stars, the ring stretching into the sky, and one quiet glowing terminal waiting in the grass.

This started as me just trying to trust the process, and somehow it turned into a peaceful little Halo dreamscape.

A happy little mountain scene… with a massive alien megastructure casually bending reality overhead. 😂

Fan art inspired by Halo. Painted by me. 💜

[halopedia]

Lore Thursday — Xeno Orders

The "xeno orders" are a UNSC document outlining procedures and regulations pertaining to the discovery of alien artifacts. The destruction of The Knowing on Ariel and Cortana's possession of Alpha Halo's Activation Index violated these orders.

The UNSC Charter for Xenoarcheological Artifact Recovery and Quarantine, also colloquially known as the "Xeno orders", is a document issued

[ur-haruspis]

INSTALLATION 04 // ALPHA HALO

The inner surface was a mosaic of greens, blues, and browns—trackless desert; jungles; glaciers and vast oceans. Streaks of white clouds cast deep shadows upon the terrain. The ring rotated and brought a new feature into view— a tremendous hurricane forming over an unimaginably wide body of water. Equations scrolled furiously across Cortana as she studied the ring. She checked and rechecked her numbers—the rotational speed of the object and its estimated mass. They didn’t quite add up. She ran through a series of passive and active scans . . . and found something. “Captain,” Cortana said, “the object is clearly artificial. There’s a gravity field that controls the ring’s spin and keeps the atmosphere inside. At this range— and with this gear—I can’t say with one hundred percent certainty, but it appears that the ring has an oxygen- nitrogen atmosphere and Earth- normal gravity.” “If it’s artificial, who the hell built it . . . and what in God’s name is it?” Cortana processed that question for a full three seconds, then finally answered: “I don’t know, sir.” Captain Keyes took out his pipe, lit it, and puffed once. He examined the curls of smoke thoughtfully. “Then we’d better find out.”

[poptartportfolio]

Birthday on Installation 04!

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Last year I got Jeff Steitzer to bring one of our inside jokes to life for Liams birthday, and though I'm a bit early on giving him his gift this year, I just couldn't wait!

So happy birthday Liam, I love you BIG <3

[korloniumcrystals]

[nicoversity]

“The Ring” - Illustration by Orioto

via deviantART

[monitorchakas]

Umm........

Monument Valley?!On a halo ring????

I mean I get why the librarian would want to preserve this place 😆🤣