Conservatory
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| “ | The Banished are searching for something called The Conservatory, which is buried deep within the Halo. Enter it and discover its true purpose. | ” |
Conservatory is the seventh campaign main mission in Halo Infinite, under the third campaign section "Connections".
Overview[edit]
| “ | Chief and the Weapon descend into the Conservatory to discover its purpose. Inside they meet the installation's monitor, Despondent Pyre, who speaks of an entity called the Harbinger before being suddenly abducted. Chief follows but is to late, and finds the Monitor battered and dismantled. Deeper in the Conservatory, Chief and the Weapon come face to face with the Harbinger, who prophesies the return of the Endless. The Harbinger escapes, Master Chief and the Weapon set off in pursuit. | ” |
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and the Weapon entered the Conservatory, fighting through Banished troops inside. They met 117649 Despondent Pyre, the monitor of Installation 07 through a window looking into the Conservatory's main chamber, but the conversation was cut short when the monitor was attacked and captured by Skimmers. They followed in pursuit, overhearing Despondent Pyre pleading with an unknown entity. Arriving at bottom floor of the central chamber, they found Despondent Pyre's chassis broken apart. The two also found out Cortana was talking to Despondent Pyre when UNSC Infinity arrived six months ago in December 2559; Cortana made mention of something that the ring contained something worse than the Flood. The Skimmers returned, attacking the Chief. The Spartan fought his way out of the Conservatory, finally meeting the unknown entity, who introduced herself as "The Harbinger", at the surface. During the brief confrontation, the Harbinger locked John-117's armor, and used the monitor's encephalon to initiate the Reformation. She then fled to the Reformation Spire in the distance, with John-117 in pursuit.
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{Gameplay}
The tunnel takes the Chief underneath the mountain ridge. He comes across a corridor on the right and enters it. The corridor leads to a small room where the Banished have stored various equipment and supplies. The door here is locked but there's a Forerunner control terminal nearby. The Chief accesses the terminal which unlocks the door.
- Weapon: "Welcome to the Conservatory."
The Chief heads through the door and up a ramp.
- Weapon: "I wonder what the Banished are looking for down here."
- John-117: "Let's go find out."
The Chief arrives at a set of doors which have been physically forced apart. He sees a body on the other side.
- Weapon: "Another Spartan. Get me close."
The Chief enters the room and kneels down to examine the fallen Spartan. He picks up a piece of equipment next to the body.
- Weapon: "A Drop wall module. Deployable cover. Resilient but temporary."
The Drop wall module is integrated into the Chief's armor.
John places a hand on the fallen Spartan's shoulder.
- Weapon: "Scan complete. This is Spartan Vedrana Makovich. Armor's been offline for thirteen days. Cause of death is..."
- John-117: "What?"
- Weapon: "An enhanced energy blade. Same as Spartan Stone. There's a pattern emerging. Chief, who's doing this?"
- John-117: "We're going to find out."
He stands back up and continues his journey through the Conservatory.
The Chief heads through the Conservatory, killing any Banished troops he comes across. At one point, he comes across a disabled door.
- Weapon: "Hmmm. It looks like the Banished are trying to stop us moving forward."
- John-117: "Can you open it?"
- Weapon: "Of course... If you can magic up a terminal of some kind. Or find an alternative power source to get this door open."
If the Chief stalls:
- Weapon: "We're stuck here until you find a power source to open that door."
The Chief finds a power seed and inserts it into a nearby Crucible. The door opens.
- Weapon: "There we go. Simple."
The Chief continues his way through the Conservatory, eventually coming across another disabled door.
- Weapon: "Another disabled door. I'll say one thing for the Banished. When they have an idea... they stick with it."
After clearing out the Banished in the room, the Chief finds a power seed and inserts it into a Crucible. The door remains shut.
- Weapon: "Hmmm. It needs more power. Find another one."
Banished reinforcements storm the room. After the Chief deals with them, he locates another power seed and inserts it into a second Crucible. This time, the door opens.
- Weapon: "And it's open. C'mon. Let's go before they get really creative."
The Chief proceeds through the door and enters the next room, which is seemingly empty.
- Weapon: "Wait... Do you hear that? It's coming from up ahead."
The Chief hears a muffled pounding noise coming from somewhere nearby. Spotting a terminal at the end of the room, the Chief approaches it and quickly becomes aware whatever is making the noise is on the other side of the wall directly in front of him. He deploys the Weapon onto the terminal.
{Cutscene}
- John-117: "Open it."
The Weapon complies and raises a hand. The wall, which turns out to be a blast shield covering a glass window, retracts upward. Light pours in from the enormous chamber on the other side of the glass. Although much of the chamber is obscured by a yellowish haze, the Chief and the Weapon still immediately spot the source of the noise: A green-eyed Monitor frantically flying around, desperate to get their attention.
- 117649 Despondent Pyre: (urgent) "Help! Help me! This installation... The Harbinger... exile was absolute. How did she return? It's impossible. This cannot be... I need to go back. Find out what happened."
- Weapon: "We should help her!"
- John-117: "Maybe."
- Despondent Pyre: "No! She is correct. I request your assistance."
Wary of the unpredictability of Forerunner constructs, the Chief raises his weapon, ready to open fire in case the Monitor turns hostile.
- Weapon: "Who are you? What's your name?"
- Despondent Pyre: "I am Despondent Pyre, Monitor of this installation and this is my Conservatory. My Conservatory. This is not right. Perhaps you would- Oh no!"
Her eye turns red as four winged creatures suddenly descend on the Monitor from above and surround her. Two of the creatures are armed with Banished Sicatt Workshop shock rifles. Despondent Pyre tries to escape, but the creatures are too fast.
One of the unarmed creatures grabs the Monitor by her right side and starts pulling down on her. The other unarmed creature grabs her from the left side and pulls up on her. The first unarmed creature rips the side plating off of Despondent Pyre, causing her to burst into flames. At the same time, the armed creature in front of Despondent Pyre fires its shock rifle at her, but misses and hits the other armed creature instead, setting it on fire, and causing it to flee. The damaged Monitor manages to return fire with an energy beam from her eye, destroying the remaining armed creature. The creature still grappling her drags her down into the yellowish haze and out of sight. The other unarmed creature flies after them as pieces of the destroyed creature rain down.
The Chief turns from the window.
- John-117: "Let's go."
- Weapon: "Where?"
- John-117: "Down there."
He uploads the Weapon back into his armor.
{Gameplay}
The Chiefs heads towards a now accessible door on the left.
- Weapon: "What were those flying things?"
- John-117: "New. Dangerous."
- Weapon: "And Despondent Pyre?"
- John-117: "New. Potentially dangerous."
- Weapon: "See. You can be optimistic."
The Chief heads deeper into the Conservatory in search of Despondent Pyre, with resistance from the Banished growing increasingly stubborn. After defeating a large group of enemies, including a Sangheili Warlord, the Chief enters an enclosed room containing a terminal. Accessing the terminal opens a hatch in the floor and the Chief drops down into a larger chamber. Two cloaked Special Operations Sangheili enter through a door, which locks behind them. The two Spec Ops Elites attempt to ambush the Chief, but the Spartan manages to kill both would-be assassins.
The door unlocks and opens again. A pair of Unggoy enter.
- Unggoy: "Alright, did you guys kill him yet? I got dibs on the helmet! Guys?"
The Master Chief quickly kills both Unggoy and heads through the door.
- Weapon: "We're getting close to the bottom. Wait! Listen..."
They hear the panicked voice of Despondent Pyre.
- Despondent Pyre: (off-screen) "Please. Do not do this! It cannot happen. It is wrong!"
A few seconds later, they hear a tortured scream from Despondent Pyre.
The Chief fights his way through another room filled with Banished, including a Jiralhanae Chosen Warrior wielding a UNSC M41 SPNKR. As he exits he hears Despondent Pyre again.
- Despondent Pyre: (off-screen) "This Ring must not be compromised!"
A new voice is heard.
- The Harbinger: (off-screen) "You do not understand what you're hiding. What you are. What compromise means."
Despondent Pyre screams in pain again.
- Despondent Pyre: (off-screen) "I will not relinquish to you the location. The Endless can never return!"
- Harbinger: (off-screen) "We are blameless. The Forerunners set this in motion. I am ending it."
They hear one final tortured scream from Despondent Pyre.
