For this reason the Forerunners quickly abandoned the Composers after the first experiments. In addition to being extremely painful to the individuals undergoing the process, all attempts to restore the essences to biological form failed as the artificial bodies would quickly decay and inevitably die. The plan was to save those afflicted by the Flood by scanning their patterns and removing any traces of the Flood from the digital essence, which would then be imprinted on a new, artificially constructed biological body devoid of Flood infection. In the latter days of the human-Forerunner wars, after the Forerunners' first contacts with the Flood, Master Builder Faber took note of the Composers and planned to use the devices to cure the parasite's victims. The technology was worked on in obscurity for centuries. According to the original design, the Composer would allow old Forerunners to transfer their essences into younger bodies or directly into the Domain's vast realms of information. The process, which was not fully understood by even its Forerunner creators, utilized neural physics, a science mastered by the Precursors - one of select few Forerunner technologies to do so. The Composers were originally designed as a means by which to extract the mental pattern (commonly known as an essence) of a biological being of sufficient neural complexity and converting it into data by broadcasting high-energy fields of entangled sympathies. Despite this, the Composer was later used for a number of purposes beyond its original function. The machine was later appropriated to counteract the Flood, although it failed to save the parasite's victims and was quickly abandoned in this capacity. Categorized as a sublimation device, the Composer was meant to provide seamless transitions between biological and digital states. The Composer is a machine created by the Forerunners to translate an organic being's mental content into machine data. A Composer of minds and souls!' - Forthencho, Lord of Admirals Composer ' The Composer! So many possibilities and capabilities tied up in that strange name. For the Halo 4 level, see Composer (level) for the achievement, see Composer (achievement).

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