16807 Embullient Algorithm

16807 Embullient Algorithm was the Forerunner-built Monitor of Halo Installation 06, originally Installation 04 prior to the Monitor Civil War. Algorithm did not formally take part in the war, however he sided with Guilty Guilty in terms of ideals and was therefore one of the seven remaining Monitors when the rest had fled with their rings.

After the firing of the Halo Array, Algorithm lost contact with the rest of the rings, due to the total communications breakdown that occured due to the loss of the Forerunner Domain. Algorithm remained vigilant on his ring for 90,000 years without any kind of trouble, until a rogue Borg Salvage Vessel crash landed on his ring after a nearby EM Storm threw the craft off-course. When a Borg Cube was sent to recover the craft, Algorithm broke protocol and made contact with the invaders, in order to tell them that the ring was far too dangerous and that they should leave.

The Cube, however, just happened to be the personal flagship of the Borg Queen, who was amused by Algorithm's protests and wanted to know more. Complient, Algorithm told her all he knew about the ring and its cargo, and the Borg Queen grew ever more curious. She was well aware of the war between the Flood and the Borg that had taken place thousands of years prior to the activation of the rings, and shocked Algorithm by telling him the true origins of both the Flood and the Borg - the Precursors.

Algorithm was sufficiently distracted during this time to neglect his duties, and Borg scouts investigating the rings accidently released the Flood stored there. Despite a lack of biological hosts, the Flood in its pure form still managed to overpower the Borg and ran amok about the installation. Desperate, the Monitor called out all Enforcers and Sentinels to defend Installation 06's Library and prevent the Flood form reaching the co-ordinated stage. Thankfully, the ring's natural surface (an icy, barren wasteland) prevented the Flood from getting very far and it was easily cleansed. Despite this, the Borg still decided the best course of action was to destroy the ring - a decision that was not received well by Embullient Algorithm.

After seeking audience with the Borg Queen to discuss the matter, Algorithm lost his temper, striking down the Queen with a blast of his eye-laser, and critically damaging her ship. Barely escaping alive, the Queen watched as her cube was incinerated by the Sentinels as she slowly drifted away in her pod. Algorithm was satisfied that he had made his mark on the Borg, warning them never to approach his ring or any other ever again.

Algorithm was eventually contacted by humanity and reintergrated back into society, with his ring decommissioned and taken offline by the League.