CEV:The Pillar of Autumn
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Defend the Pillar of Autumn and escape |
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| “ | Escape intact as Covenant forces board your ship. | ” |
The Pillar of Autumn is the first campaign level in Halo: Campaign Evolved. It is a remake of a level of the same name originally in Halo: Combat Evolved.
Plot summary[edit]
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Rally points[edit]
The following rally points can be used on this level to spawn in at a later point in the mission.
| Rally point | Description | Spawn location | Equipment |
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 Alpha |
Unseal the hushed casket. | Mission start. | None. |
 Bravo |
The Captain is waiting for you. | Bridge cutscene. | |
 Charlie |
The way out is through. | In the hallway just before the stair room. | 1x Assault Rifle, 1x Magnum |
Transcript[edit]
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Intro[edit]
Fades into space, the camera rotates to show Threshold and Basis then back to space again. A slipspace portal opens with a damaged Pillar of Autumn leaving it, with two Longsword escorts soaring alongside it. A tracking shot is done with the Longsword flying around the ship.
The camera focus on the bridge of the Pillar of Autumn. Inside the ship's bridge, the camera focuses on Keyes.
- Captain Jacob Keyes: "Cortana, all I need to know is did we lose them?"
- Cortana: "I think we both know the answer to that."
- Keyes: (sighs) "We made a blind jump. How did they—"
- Cortana: "Get here first? The Covenant ships have always been faster. As for tracking us all the way from Reach...at light-speed, my maneuvering options were limited."
Keyes begins pacing around, looking at viewscreens and touching the shoulder of a crewman. Their screen shows Installation 04 in orbit. Keyes then walks back to the viewscreen
- Keyes: "We were running dark, yes?"
- Cortana: "Until we decelerated. No one could have missed the hole we tore in slipspace."
- Cortana: "They were waiting for us on the far side of the planet."
- Keyes: "So, where do we stand?"
Keyes looks at the holotank, and Cortana appears on it shortly after.
- Cortana: "Our fighters are mopping up the last of their recon picket now. Nothing serious."
- Cortana: "But I've isolated approach signatures from multiple CCS-class battle-groups. Make it three capital ships per group... and in about 90 seconds they'll be all over us."
- Keyes: "Well, that's it then. Bring the ship back up to Combat Alert Alpha. I want everyone at their stations."
- Cortana: "Everyone, sir?"
- Keyes: "Everyone."
Alarm klaxon sounds. Crewmen run towards their stations.
- Keyes: "And Cortana..."
- Cortana: "Hmm?"
- Keyes: "...let's give our old friends a warm welcome."
- Cortana: "I've already begun."
Sarge Speech[edit]
The camera cuts to a screen
ALERT EVACUATION IN PROGRESS PROCEED TO NEAREST LIFEPOD IMMEDIATELY
The camera then changes to be near one of the ships armories, panning with marines running past it. In the armory, Johnson is walking into it with the camera slowly focusing on his face.
- Cortana (PA): "Attention, all combat personnel: Please report to your action stations."
- Marine: "Let's go."
- Marine 2: "Take a tour."
- Cortana (PA): "This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill."
- Staff Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson: "You heard the lady! Move like you've got a purpose!"
Marines start picking up weapons and gearing up in the armory and talking along themselves.
- Cortana (PA): "5th Platoon, secure airlocks on Deck 11. 14th Platoon, rendezvous with 22nd Tactical at bulkhead Charlie 14."
Marines get in two lines, facing each other. Johnson walks down the column between the formation.
- Johnson: (Normal) "Once again, it is our job to finish what the flyboys started. When we meet the enemy, we will rip their skulls from their spines, and toss 'em away, laughin'! Am I right, Marines?"
- Johnson: (Heroic) "Men, here is where we show those split-chin squid-head sons-of-bitches that they could not have picked a worse enemy than the human race! We are going to blow the hell out of those dumb bugs, until we don't have anything left to shoot 'em with! And then we are going to strangle them with their own-living-guts! Am I right, Marines?"
- Johnson: (Legendary): "Men, we led those dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep 'em from gettin' their filthy claws on Earth, but we stumbled onto somethin' they're so hot for that they're scramblin' over each other to get it. Well, I don't care if it's God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine or a giant hula hoop, we are not gonna let 'em have it! What we will let 'em have...is a belly full of lead and a pool of their own blood to drown in! Am I right, Marines?"
- Marines: "Sir, yes sir!"
- Johnson: "Uh-huh. Damn right, I am. Now move it out! Double time!"
The Marines break formation and run out of the area, as Johnson follows them slowly.
- Cortana (PA): "Attention, all personnel: We are re-engaging the enemy. External and internal contact imminent."
- Johnson: "All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close...this is gonna be your lucky day."
Shots throughout the ship internally and externally show conflict as crew attempt to rebel the boarders.
- Cortana (PA): "Fireteams: Report to defensive positions Alpha through Sierra. Sensors show inbound Covenant boarding craft. Stand by to repel boarders."
- Private Manuel Mendoza: "Get on it. We can't stop them!"
- Johnson: "Stay cool Mendoza. What do you expect rifleman? You think this little pleasure cruise is going to last forever?"
- Johnson: "Men, keep your eyes downrange, fingers on the triggers, and we'll all go home in one piece."
Cryo[edit]
Cut to a computer screen.
- >X - CORTANA.1.0 - CRYOSTOR. 23.4.7
>(PRIORITY ALPHA)
- Tech Officer Sam Marcus: "Whoa! Sir?"
- >WAKE-UP SERIES STANDBY. SECURITY LOCK (PRIORITY ALPHA)
>ENGAGED
- >X - CORTANA.1.0 - CRYOSTOR. 23.4.7
- Cortana (PA): "Cortana to Cryo Two. Transmitting security code. Bridge out."
- >UNSEAL THE HUSHED CASKET