UNSC Weather Station Z/41

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UNSC Weather Station Z/41 is a United Nations Space Command weather research facility based in the Arctic region ^[1].

[edit] Background

It is involved in taking glacier core samples and has a Doppler Radar facility for taking wind speed measurements, and includes a platform for aerial transport. ^[2] Overhead, the Aurora Borealis can be seen flickering through the sky ^[3].

The station seems to be an abandoned drilling platform converted for use as a weather station, located near an ice shelf. It is divided into four "towers", labeled Maintenance, Communications, Barracks and Laboratory.

[edit] Trivia

• The facility is the setting for the Halo 3: Legendary Map Pack map, Blackout. Although its predecessor in Halo 2, Lockout, was a facility created to study the Flood. This could lead to thoughts on how humans made something exactly similar to the Forerunner, especially considering its impractical (for humans) designs.
• Bungie tasked the fans with coming up for a back story for Blackout and z/41.
• This is the setting for the machinima "Forecast: the Series"

[edit] Sources

1. ↑ http://www.bungie.net/projects/halo3/content.aspx?link=H3LegendaryMapPack
2. ↑ http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13413
3. ↑ http://www.bungie.net/projects/halo3/content.aspx?link=H3LegendaryMapPack