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{{Era|RW}}

 

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''[[Kikowani Station (level)|Kikowani Station]]'' (following the story)

|player= [[The Rookie]]

{{Article Quote|Find Dare, secure the Superintendent.}}

Completing this level on [[Normal]] or higher unlocks the [[Data Hive (achievement)|Data Hive achievement]] and the [[Chasm Ten]] [[Firefight]] map, which is based on this level.

The Rookie, having found [[Veronica Dare|Dare]]'s distress signal after exploring the city, descends down an underground [[elevator]] shaft into the [[Superintendent]]'s [[New Mombasa Data Center|Data Center]]. He arrives at sub-level 7 of the complex and must fight his way down to sub-level 9, where Dare is hiding. On the way down The Rookie has to defeat a range of Covenant, including Brutes and Drones, during this time the Rookie runs into an NMPD Officer searching for his men. He follows the Rookie until he is killed by either the Drones or the Rookie (Depending on the amount of audio logs found). Once the Rookie and Dare are reunited, Dare informs the Rookie of the true nature of their mission. The two then fight through a [[Yanme'e|Drone]] hive to the Superintendent's core to secure its data as well as "the asset," revealed to a rogue [[Huragok]] named [[Quick to Adjust]] that has taken refuge there. Quick to Adjust has assimilated the Superintendent's data with its own knowledge, particularly the Superintendent's [[Vergil]] subroutine, making it an extremely valuable defector to the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] and a major liability for the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]. [[Edward Buck|Buck]] fortuitously arrives just as Covenant reinforcements attempt to secure the complex, and with his help Dare and the Rookie escort Vergil safely to the surface through heavy resistance.

''View of a dimly-lit room in the Superintendent's Data Center is shown, with an [[elevator]] car on the bottom of its shaft. [[The Rookie]] descends from the elevator shaft, and drops to the top of the elevator car.''

 

''If the player doesn't have 29 of the [[Audio log|Audio Logs]], the officer will stay up as Drones appear.''

*'''NMPD Officer''': "You hear that? Buggers! Down at your level. Oh no! They're up here too! Coming out of the damn vents! Get back! No! Ahhh!"

 

 

 

 

''Alternatively, if the player does have 29 Audio Logs, the officer jumps down with the player.''

*'''NMPD Officer''': "Trooper, hold up a sec. I got to check on a...personnel issue."

''The officer walks up to a door on the left side of the frozen room.''

*'''NMPD Officer''': "What are you, stupid?! I told you wait outside!"

*'''NMPD Officer''': "[[Kinsler]] gave me real specific instructions: Make sure [[Daniel Endesha|the Doc]]'s dead, and make double sure no one knows about it."

*'''NMPD Officer''': "Sorry, friend... You know way too much."

''If the Officer was already killed by the Drones, the door into Endesha's office will remain shut:''

*'''[[Sadie Endesha]] (recording)''': "Something's wrong..."

*'''Dare''': "[[Michael Crespo|Some]] [[Taylor H. Miles|idiots]] [[ONI Alpha Site (level)|blew]] [[ONI Alpha Site|the building]] at the top of the shaft. Woke the whole hive."

''The Rookie jumps through the hole and lands hard, injuring himself slightly. Dare jumps after him. They emerge into a huge room. The two turn into another room with a Covenant patrol. The Rookie and Dare kill all of them and turn right, into a huge cavern like room with Covenant crates all around.''

''Scene cuts back to the Rookie and Dare as they walk to the core. Suddenly, Dare's flashlight shows a small tentacle sticking out of a hole in the core. If the player has 30 audio logs, Dare will raise her pistol but the Rookie stops her and shakes his head. He then whistles to bring the creature out.''  

''If the player doesn't have 30 audio logs, the Rookie will raise his SMG but Dare objects.''

''A long and thin head sticks out from the terminal. The view goes to the pair, where it reveals it's a [[Huragok]].''

*'''Dare''': "Best we can tell? They're prisoners, or slaves. Either way, they don't like the Covenant any more than we do."

 

 

 

 

*'''Dare''': "[[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] calls them Engineers, believes they're some sort of biological supercomputers. If I'm right, this one's taken the Superintendents data and combined it with its own."

''A beeping noise from the core catches their attention. The Huragok floats toward it and uses a tentacle to push a button, revealing a small monitor. The Superintendent zooms in on some Jet Pack Brutes landing on the rooftop. The view goes back to the room. Dare approaches the monitor.''

''Dare pulls the lever on the pistol.''

 

*'''Dare''' ''(to the Engineer)'': "You. Stay behind me. Okay?"

*'''Buck''': "Whoah. Easy does it, Rookie"

*Any weapon the player acquired from the [[supply cache]]s on ''[[Mombasa Streets]]'' will not be carried over into this level; attempting to do so will cause the player to begin the level with the default loadout: [[M7S SMG]], [[M6C/SOCOM]] and two [[M9 fragmentation grenade]]s. Covenant weapons such as the [[Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon|Fuel Rod Gun]] or the [[Type-50 Sniper Rifle System|Beam Rifle]] will carry over.

*This is the only level in the games which the player can use a Flamethrower against non-Flood NPC enemies.

*At the exit of the Drone hive, a lone [[Yanme'e Leader]] occasionally makes a final effort to falter the [[The Rookie|Rookie]]'s progress. It is worth noting that this is the only Yanme'e Leader encountered in the campaign; suggesting it may be the leader of all the Drones encountered in New Mombasa.

*If the player swaps weapons with Dare, she will revert back to an [[M6C/SOCOM]] after finding the Engineer.

*When the Rookie links up with Dare, she comments on "some idiots" blowing up [[ONI Alpha Site|the building]] at the top of the shaft and waking up the whole hive. This is a reference to the level ''[[ONI Alpha Site (level)|ONI Alpha Site]]'' and Dutch and Mickey.

File:H3ODST_DataHiveDataStack_Concept.jpg|Concept art of [[the Rookie]] inside one of the data center's various hallways.

File:H3ODST_HiveCatwalk_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the Rookie on a catwalk inside the terraformed [[Yanme'e]] hive.

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