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The Knowing was a Forerunner AI that served on the planet Ariel.
Background
The Knowing was located behind a series of corridors buried underneath Ariel's mining colonies, and filled with traps, such as wall mounted, motion activated lasers. It's function was to observe, record, and organize information over the course of history. It had presumably been collecting information for the 100,000 years since the Forerunners disappeared after activating the Halo Array.
Biography
During the planet's invasion, ODSTs Dutch and Romeo found The Knowing after their stolen Phantom crash-laded in a room containing the missing colonists, whom the Covenant had been sending through the tunnels to find traps.
Upon entering the Knowing's chamber, it acknowledged their primacy, and offered to answer any questions they had. When it was revealed that the Covenant would be able to use the Knowing's information to destroy the human race "down to [their] last DNA strand", the ODSTs decided to tell the Knowing to self-destruct itself before the Covenant could reach it. Its destruction gave cause for the Covenant to leave Ariel, seeing no reason to remain after their goal had been destroyed.
Appearance
Its appearance is that of a large Monitor hanging upside-down from a position in the ceiling, similar to the monitor in the multiplayer level "Cold Storage".