Post Human-Covenant War duplicate
An unknown period of time after the end of the Human-Covenant War, a severely damaged duplicate of Spark was discovered by an ONI research group, who took it aboard their ship. Using an AI translator, the ONI team detected a Covenant language stream within the monitor, suggesting that it may have been in prior contact with the Covenant. After properly calibrating their AI translator, they began to interrogate the duplicate monitor, hoping to gain insight into the ancient human-Forerunner relations and the Didact.[20]
The damaged duplicate, acknowledging the humans as "the true Reclaimers" and claiming that his duty was to eventually testify to Reclaimers when given the opportunity,[21] proceeded to describe the events that led up to his former human self becoming a monitor. Over the course of his narrative, he constantly accessed the ship's information stores, breaching the firewalls without effort, much to the ONI team's dismay. After Spark had finished his story, the monitor finally powered down and was jettisoned into space by order of the ONI team commander. Before this, however, he had successfully managed to upload his data stream into the ship's computers, disabled its AI, and took full control of the ship. Claiming that he knew the Librarian was alive and that he had need for the ship and its crew, Spark put them to sleep and set course to where he believed the Librarian could be found.[22]
