Blue Horizon

== Overview ==
Blue Horizon was a rampant A.I. who was decommissioned, then recovered, on Meridian Collective Station T13 by a squad of Spartan IVs who came from the UNSC Mockingbird. He is in a stable condition, and manages the design processes aboard T13, producing equipment for the UNSC under direct orders from surviving ONI command in an attempt to fight back against the Created.
== Rampancy ==
When the UNSC first discovered Blue Horizon, he was in the midst of developing rampancy. Station T13 which housed the A.I. was beginning to fall into disrepair, several main chambers had to be sealed off by insta-shell foam sprayers. Despite the state of the station and of his "mind", Blue Horizon was recoverable. His A.I. matrixes were backed up and set to cycle out the active matrix with a fresh one as it neared the end of its operational life span. However the systems maintaining the facility, and his matrixes, suffered critical failure leading to his rampant state over time. 
== Decommission Operation ==
In 2558, Captain Reina Belís of the UNSC Mockingbird, sent a squad of Spartan IVs via pelican dropship into the T13 space station. The decision was made after direct orders from ONI prohibited the use of explosives and naval guns on the station, wanting to use its powerful manufacturing plants for the war effort against the Created(and later the Banished). Station T13 contains five main rings, the first two are the outer rings, designed for easy access by human personnel. The inner two rings are more locked down, and traversing them is far more difficult as they only contain emergency access tunnels for engineers and mechanics. The only exception is the security office which is directly linked to the main access tunnels and the second outer ring. The fifth ring of the station is less of a ring and more of a core, housing complex A.I. matrix hardware, virtual environment simulation computers, extensive manufacturing plants, and large stores of raw materials. 
The first three Spartans (group one) infiltrated the most accessible and habitable chamber of the outer ring of the station; the crew quarters. The other two (group two) made their way to exterior antenna and broadcasting systems but encountered automated turrets and had to retreat until they could be disabled by group one. Inside the outermost ring, group one made their way into the crew quarters and found no dead or surviving crew among the dormitories. They then proceeded to the security office located toward the right wing of the second most inner ring. 
During group one's traversal of the interior, group two fought off several automated drones, and were successful in requesting a jamming module from the UNSC Mockingbird, although the package was destroyed by stray debris surrounding the station. Group two improvised and used the concentrated interference of their single-beam communication systems to disrupt the sensor array controlling the automated turrets. After having disrupted the turrets' ability to aim, they closed in and destroyed them with small arms fire. Group one made its way toward the security office despite group two's success as they are fed increasingly hostile threats over the station intercom by Blue Horizon. Group two found and destroyed the broadcast systems, and traversed the exterior of the station to disable any large defense cannons they could find. 
Group one is then separated by a sudden door closure activated by Blue Horizon, resulting in two Spartans being removed from the squads leader. The squad leader began conversing with the A.I. while he was trapped, and eventually lost composure. The back and forth threats between the squad leader and Blue Horizon came to a close as the Spartan was ejected by the rampant A.I. via a series of airlocks and loading arms used for moving large cargo. The squad leader's body was recovered post-operation, but the armor and bones were crushed by the loading arms, and several concussive blows from tumbling through debris. Squad leader was declared MIA(KIA).
After being being separated, the remaining Spartans regrouped on the station's now secured exterior. Following Captain Reina's instructions, they established new communications with Blue Horizon. The UNSC Mockingbird threatened the A.I. with total destruction with fire from its MAC cannon, and attempted to reason with it until it had exhausted it's dwindling power reserves. The Spartan squad was then instructed to slowly make its way back into the facility providing select power to only necessary parts of the facility that were needed to progress further inward. Eventually, backups of the A.I.'s matrixes were cycled correctly with a jumpstart from the pelican dropship they arrived on. Over the course of the next 2 weeks the facility would reach full operational capacity with the help of the revived Blue Horizon.
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