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'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Why do you continue to fight us, [[Reclaimer]]? You cannot win! Give us the construct, and I will endeavour to make your death relatively painless and -"

#"Your behaviour is not in accordance with established protocols."

#"Please. Surrender the [[Cortana|construct]] and I will endeavour to make the necessary repairs as quickly as possible."

'''Cortana:''' "Analysing. Fusion reactor number one destabilizing. Use explosives on the other three reactors. That should be enough to trigger a wildcat explosion of the engines."  

Next comes the mess hall. This part is hard. Open the door into the next area, but don't go through. Pop the infection forms first. Now you can just barely peek in and zoom in with your pistol to your left. A Hunter should come storming into the hall and start taking down the Flood. Aim for that bright orange back meat, and start shooting. If just one pistol round gets past his armor, he's dead. No need to wait for the perfect shot. He's too busy with the Flood to notice you. Another Hunter will smash through a door to your right, but he'll soon retreat into the mess hall if you don't kill him first. Follow him and shoot him in the back as he battles the Flood. Grab the health pack ONLY IF YOU NEED IT (remember there are two here) and a few grenades here if you need to. You have to do all this very quickly so you can take advantage of the confusion in the next area. If you're having trouble, don't worry about killing the Hunters. You can get them later. It is better if you get rid of them quickly though. If you look at one of the walls near the health packs you can see a menu. There is another way of killing hunters that is also kind of easy but you have to get perfect timing. Take a shotgun or a pistol and get really close to the hunter. The hunter will bend down and try to ram into you. Walk backwards so the hunter doesn't hit you. The hunter will try to ram into you, and then it will jump up and swing its shield in the air, also trying to hit you wit the shield, so just keep backtracking, and when the shield is in the air, its stomach is unprotected, so just fire like crazy at it. It might take two or three tries, but it'll work, and usually, you don't even lose any health.

Another group of Covenant will enter the room now, so run back to where you originally entered this area. If any Hunters still are still alive, use the multiple doors to the mess hall to get behind them and nail them in the back. Again, peek out and use your pistol to pick off the Grunts. These Elites can be a problem. They throw grenades too. If you are within reach of a Needler, you can use that to get rid of some of them. A generous amount of grenades thrown in their direction will often make them retreat into the hallway they came out of. This leaves you in control of the mess hall, so grab a Needler and a bunch of grenades and take them out from relative safety. Once this group is dead, you can scavenge this area thoroughly. Keep your shotgun and pistol,. Another way of clearing off these evil covenant (I '''HIGHLY''' recommend doing this strategy on legendary) is by temporarily trade your shotgun for plasma pistol, and "noob" combo the elites and pistol snipe the grunts. If you don't know what n00b combo is

it is a charged plasma pistol to kill all the shields and get a headshot to kill the elite. It would also be smart to keep the plasma pistol and trade the pistol for shotgun because of the sentinels. In legendary, the pistol is not very good against the flood because they always respawn.

There are several exits from the tunnels. The far left exit dumps you out into a room with a lot of dead elites and plasma grenades on the ground. The far right exit is blocked, but there's a health pack here along with some frag grenades. Fill up on these goodies while the battle rages outside. There are sentinels and tons of covenant. When the sentinels are dead run outside. A few more sentinels will come out, and run back into your hiding place. Keep doing this and eventually the flood will come out. Hide again and have them fight. If it slows down and there are still covenant and flood, then just run out, chuck a sticky at the flood, and hide again. Keep doing this until they have mainly died off. Just use the rest of the rocket ammo and KEEP THE ROCKET!! It'll make the armory a lot easier. Oh and that is my strategy on legendary I'm not sure if there will be as many waves of enemies on lower levels... Follow the path around and you should come out and see two energy shields in front of you. Head out, pump a few shotgun shells into anything nearby, and take a left. Follow the big red arrows on the ground towards the armory.  

Ahhh, the armory. The sight of all this weaponry brings tears to the eye. Fill up a shotgun and a rocket launcher and get ready to kill some stuff. Towards the back of the room some [[Active Camo]] flood will come after you. They hurt just as much as the visible ones and look even cooler. You're in a room full of shotgun shells and rockets. I think you know what to do. In legendary, it would be a good idea to just pick up the ammo and run. The invisible flood are as good as normal flood, but invisible. That's why I told you earlier to keep the rocket. Head off to engineering when you're through here.

Ahh..., this part of the level. It is SOOO annoying on legendary. The checkpoints that are really spread apart is really annoying. At this point conserving ammo is pointless, so blast away with the shotgun as long as it takes. You can always go back to the armory to restock. And there are eight health packs on the sides of computers on the first floor of the engine room, so have yourself a good old time blowing stuff up.  

After all that, the rest of this run is a breeze. The next hallway leads you to Foe Hammer, but don't stop and wait for her. We all know what happens here. Keep on trucking.