Halopedia:Projects/Reach Mapping
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The Reach Mapping Project aims to cross-reference both in-game and supplementary material to attempt to make sense of Reach's regional structure. The current pages for Viery Territory, Ütközet, Eposz and Alföld and potentially others do not have a clear or consistent hierarchy of locations, which reflects Halo Reach's lack of a consistent approach to detailing locations.
Goals
Current research
Thanks to several sources including the maps included with Dr. Halsey's personal journal, Halo: Outpost Discovery, the Order of Battle seen in the opening cutscene of Tip of the Spear and a Covenant deployment map seen on the bridge of Ardent Prayer, it is possible to begin piecing together a good idea of Reach's landscape and layout.
To begin with, here is a full world map of Reach, taken from the in-game texture used for the holotank of the Covenant corvette.
Thanks to the map provided by the Hall of History in Outpost Discovery (left), we can place the cities of Manassas, New Alexandria, Esztergom, Quezon, Sopron and Casimir. The map provided in Halsey's Journal gives us the locations of SWORD Base (marked SWO), CASTLE Base (marked CAS), Visegrád (marked VIS) and several thus-far unidentified sites.
Outpost Discovery map.
Halsey's map.
These sources combined allows us to place a number of important locations seen in Halo: Reach and supplementary material (Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, Halo: Shadows of Reach, Data Drops etc) with a fair degree of accuracy, and begin piecing together the overall geographical structure of Reach.
Thanks to this information, we can begin collating together other sources and references. One key in helping decipher these locales are the location paths usually seen in the cutscenes of Halo: Reach in the camera views, in the bottom right of the screen (these are provided below). Several other resources are collated below.
Additional resources
- Order of battle (Viery, Reach) - with several locations now named, we can reasonably infer what locations the units in this map were attacking/ defending.
- Covenant deployment hologram - A map shown on the bridge of the Covenant corvette shows a map of Covenant deployments.
- Data Drops - Many of the data drops include location paths for their sender/receiver addresses.
In-game Location Paths
- Visegrad Relay:
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
MT-HDP/RM_OBS/VHC_ABN/FL
RCH/VRY/UTKZT/EPSZ/VISGRD
- ONI: Sword Base
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
AI-ARTC/DIRCT FEED/SAT/REG
RCH/VRY/UTKZT/EPSZ/BD CTH/SL D1
- ONI: Sword Base (OP. White Glove)
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
MT-ARTC/PLAYBACK/CV/SCTY
RCH/VRY/UTKZT/EPSZ/BD CTH/SL D1
- Szurdok Ridge
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
AI-ARTC/DIRCT FEED/SAT/REG
RCH/VRY/UTKZT/SZURDK RDG
- Orbit over Szurdok Ridge
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
AI-ARTC/DIRCT FEED/SAT/REG
RCH/ORBIT/VRY/UTKZT
- Orbit over Mohács
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
AI-ARTC/DIRCT FEED/SAT/REG
RCH/VRY/UTKZT/BARS/MOHACS
- Sabre Testing Facility
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
MT-ARTC/PLAYBACK/CV/SCTY
RCH/VRY/UTKZT/EPSZ/FARKS LK
- Asźod Shipbreaking Yards
HIGHCOM/SPECWAR/GROUP 3
AI-ARTC/DIRCT FEED/SAT/REG
REACH/ALFOLD/UNG/ASZOD
Locations
Checked boxes indicate completion.
See also
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