Editing Echo 216

{{Title|''Echo 216''}}
{{Status|Canon}}
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{{Quote|This is UNSC Pelican Echo 216. Can you hear me?|[[Fernando Esparza]] tries to hail a friendly signal.}}{{Ref/Reuse|DH}}
'''''Echo 216''''' is one or more [[D77 Pelican]] [[dropship]]s of the [[United Nations Space Command]] [[UNSC Armed Forces|Armed Forces]]. During the [[Battle over Installation 07]], it was stolen by civilian contractor [[Fernando Esparza]] who was stranded on board for six months near the shattered [[Installation 07]]. In [[2560#May|May 2560]], Esparza and ''Echo 216'' rescued the [[John-117|Master Chief]] and helped the Spartan and [[the Weapon]] in [[Battle for Zeta Halo|fighting]] the [[Banished]] across Zeta Halo.{{Ref/Game|Id=Hi|Hi}}

==Operational history==
{{Quote|Warning. Warning. Warning. Pressure building in lines four, seventeen, and thirty-three.|An automated alert greets Fernando Esparza as soon as he is jolted awake.}}{{Ref/Reuse|Warship Gbraakon}}
During the [[Battle over Installation 07]], ''Echo-216'' was assigned to the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} as part of the supercarrier's compliment of Pelican dropships. When the [[Banished]] attacked the ''Infinity'' and the [[Jiralhanae]] [[Atriox]] defeated and seemingly killed the [[Spartan]] [[John-117]], contracted civilian maintenance technician [[Fernando Esparza]] panicked at the news and stole ''Echo 216'' to escape the besieged ship. However, without a [[Slipspace drive]], the vessel was only capable of limited sublight travel; with the ''Infinity'' no longer spaceworthy and Installation 07 occupied by Banished forces, ''Echo-216'' and its sole occupant were stranded in space. Not long after the battle, Installation 07 was seriously damaged by a mysterious explosion, and ''Echo-216'' was among those dragged with the massive structure as it jumped to an unknown location, along with a majority of UNSC and Banished forces on and around the ring. 

[[File:Halo Infinite E319 Legendary Cargo.jpg|275px|thumb|Esparza prepares to revive John-117 in Echo 216's troop bay.]]
On [[2560#May|May 28, 2560]], ''Echo 216'' was still present near [[Installation 07]], where it had been adrift in a large debris field for the past six months. Nearly powerless, the ship drifted into a collision with John-117, and the pilot was able to use what little power was left in the ship's internal power source to bring the [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN's]] [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|MJOLNIR (GEN3)]] armor system online. The armor's [[fusion reactor]] in turn almost instantly recharged the Pelican's depleted batteries, restoring functioning to ''Echo 216's'' internal lights and systems. Following this event, an attack generated electrical discharges throughout the Pelican, knocking out the power, and enveloped it in a bright light. The pilot sealed himself in the Pelican's cockpit while John-117 opened the troop bay's external door so that he could go on the offensive. The Master Chief discovered the attack to come from the [[Banished dreadnought]] ''[[Ghost of Gbraakon]]'', attempting to capture ''Echo-216'' for salvage and boarded the vessel which caught the Pelican in a stasis beam. ''Echo 216'' was drawn into a hanger bay where Banished forces attempted to board the ship. Unable to disable the stasis beam, the Master Chief overloaded the dreadnaught's engines which released the Pelican. With the ''Ghost of Gbraakon'' self-destructing around them, the Master Chief raced back to the Pelican while ''Echo 216's'' batteries recharged. The explosions scared off the Banished attempting to board the Pelican, but the hanger's shield went down before power was restored, sucking ''Echo 216'' into the vacuum along with the other contents of the hanger bay. Once power was restored, Esparza returned and picked up the Master Chief who had been sucked out into space as well.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Warship Gbraakon|Hi|Ringfall|Warship Gbraakon}}

After reboarding the Pelican, the Master Chief's armor linked to its systems, using ''Echo 216's'' sensors to scan the nearby space and to locate the source of a transmission on the shattered Halo ring. Against Esparza's objections, the Master Chief had the Pelican's autopilot take them to a sublevel of the damaged ring where Esparza was forced to retreat from approaching Banished ships, but kept in radio contact with the Spartan before losing his signal.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Foundation|Hi|Ringfall|[[Foundation (Halo Infinite)|Foundation]]}} When the Master Chief's signal was reacquired near the wreckage of the {{UNSCShip|Mortal Reverie}}, Esparza informed the Spartan that he would have to clear a landing zone for extraction. The Master Chief cleared the Banished from [[Outpost Tremonius (location)|Outpost Tremonius]], allowing ''Echo 216'' to safely land. The Master Chief revealed that he had recovered [[the Weapon]] to continue the mission to locate Cortana and link up with the scattered UNSC personnel on the ring. Detecting a UNSC distress signal from a Banished structure nearby, the Master Chief ordered Esparza to take him to it,{{Ref/Quest|Id=Outpost Tremonius|Hi|Ringfall|[[Outpost Tremonius]]}} but Esparza was forced to set him down early due to the Pelican drawing too much enemy attention.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Recovery|Hi|Lockdown|[[Recovery]]}}

After capturing several forward operating bases on the ring's surface, Fernando utilized ''Echo 216'' to deliver vehicles and supplies at John-117's request and assist with UNSC logistics, and to transport John-117 himself between objectives.{{Ref/Reuse|Hi}}

After extracting John from a deactivating Forerunner Spire,{{Ref/Quest|Id=Spire|Hi|Connections|[[Spire (Halo Infinite level)|Spire]]}} the Master Chief and Esparza came under fire from [[Kywasky Workshop Gorespike cannon|Banished anti-aircraft cannons]], damaging ''Echo 216'' and causing the Pelican to crash land in the middle of a debris field from the Battle over Installation 07. As the Pelican's systems reset from the shock of the crash, Esparza and the Master Chief split up, with Esparza attempting to salvage a working slipspace drive from a trio of wrecked [[D80 Condor]] dropships in the debris field, and John proceeding to assault the AA guns so that they could safely take off again. However, after the Master Chief destroyed the guns, he discovered ''Echo 216's'' location had been compromised by the arrivals of [[Hyperius]] and [[Tovarus]], twin members of the infamous [[Hand of Atriox]] "Spartan Killers", and rushed back to the crash site to intercept them before they discover Esparza. The Master Chief defeated the Spartan Killers, but was informed by a distraught Fernando that none of the Condors had intact slipspace drives to salvage, leaving ''Echo 216'' hopelessly stranded on the ring; he also lamented having stolen ''Echo 216'' to escape the ''Infinity'', claiming that it could have been used to save other UNSC personnel rather than just himself. After calming Esparza down and reassuring him, the Master Chief had the pilot take them to the next location, the [[Command Spire]] on the ring's surface which could deactivate the ring's repair network.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Pelican Down|Hi|Graveyards|[[Pelican Down (Halo Infinite level)|Pelican Down]]}}

Esparza continued to utilize ''Echo 216'' to support the Master Chief as he attempts to access the Command Spire, eventually taking it to pick the Master Chief up after he finished his task in the structure. However, just as he arrived to extract the Spartan, a cloaked [[Jega 'Rdomnai]] entered the cockpit and hijacked the Pelican,{{Ref/Quest|Id=The Command Spire|Hi|Reformation|[[The Command Spire]]}} steering ''Echo 216'' away from the Master Chief and towards Escharum's headquarters, the [[House of Reckoning (location)|House of Reckoning]], where Esparza was captured and interred as bait to lure the Master Chief into a final battle with Escharum, and the Pelican was impounded to be dealt with later.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Repository|Hi|Reckoning|[[Repository (Halo Infinite level)|Repository]]}} The Master Chief and the Weapon besieged the House of Reckoning, doing battle with and killing both 'Rdomnai and Escharum and rescuing Esparza and the Pelican.{{Ref/Quest|Id=House of Reckoning|Hi|Reckoning|[[House of Reckoning]]}}

After recovering ''Echo 216'', Esparza used it to carry the three away from the House of Reckoning and to the [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]], where The [[Harbinger]] intended to use the partially-completed structure to search for something on the ring. Esparza deployed the Master Chief at the Auditorium, but, due to the heavy defenses set up by the Banished at the site, he ordered Esparza to pull back and wait for his word for extraction.{{Ref/Quest|Id=Silent Auditorium|Hi|Endless|[[Silent Auditorium]]}}

Three days later, after locating the Master Chief's signal again, Esparza tracked down the Spartan and picked him up in ''Echo 216'', preparing to assist the Master Chief in further operations against the Banished on Zeta Halo.{{Ref/Reuse|Silent Auditorium}} Esparza flew the Pelican to ''[[FFG-611]]'', a wrecked {{Class|Mulsanne|light frigate}} that he'd set up home in.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD2|EOD|Chapter=2}}

On June 4, ''Echo 216'' combed the debris field for munitions, particularly an [[Eris tactical nuclear weapon]], while playing cat and mouse with Banished patrols. Some of the recovered munitions were stored on the Pelican while the rest were kept on the wrecked frigate. It then delivered the Master Chief and Joy to one of the island fragments to enact their plan to attack Escharum's funeral.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD4|EOD|Chapter=4}}

On June 5, Esparza picked the Master Chief up after the successful mission and they followed Joy -- in an [[Aggressor Sentinel]] carapace -- as she tracked 'Rdomnai's Phantom to [[Rdomnai Keep]]. ''Echo 216'' dropped the Master Chief off at the base of a mountain peak and stayed on station to wait for the Spartan's return.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD8|EOD|Chapter=8}} After the Master Chief got outside with [[Lucas Browning]], Joy called Esparza for pickup, but he warned her that Banished were incoming and Esparza wasn't sure how long he could stay once he got there. In response, Joy sent a Sentinel to help him. The Sentinel helped ward off the Banshees, but ''Echo 216'' took a hit to the port side from a freshly arriving Banshee. The Chief jumped into the Pelican with Browning as the Sentinels, at the cost of their own destruction, took down the last Banshee.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD12|EOD|Chapter=12}} With the engines having sustained damage, the Chief plugged Joy into ''Echo 216'' who determined that the port fusion drive was inoperable, secondary was at fifty percent and falling and primary stabilizers were down, leaving the Pelican without sixty percent of its thrust capacity. Joy managed to reroute enough for ''Echo 216'' to land in a shadowy fissure on a landmass thirty kilometers away.

With Browning's injuries making changing difficult, Esparza stepped in to help him while the Chief and Joy spent the night conducting repairs. Together, the two managed to get the stabilizer system back online by rerouting power from both secondary engines. While it wouldn't last long, Joy hoped that it would be enough to get the Pelican somewhere safer.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD13|EOD|Chapter=13}} As five Banshees closed in on their position, the Master Chief made a stand to free up airspace for ''Echo 216'' to escape, receiving unexpected help from Spartan [[Tomas Horvath]] who hijacked the last Banshee.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD14|EOD|Chapter=14}}

Horvath subsequently lured eight enemy aircraft away using his captured Banshee, clearing the way for ''Echo 216'' to safely take off.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD15|EOD|Chapter=15}} While the engines sounded terrible, Joy was sure that they'd hold and she directed Esparza to take them to [[Lifeworker Central]] which was clear of the ring's fracture on its stable segment and close enough for the Pelican to touch down before the stabilizers and engines gave out.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD16|EOD|Chapter=16}} Esparza was relieved to be flying away from Banished territory rather than towards it for a change and was surprised to find a very old human settlement. Joy explained to Esparza that humanity was a hundred thousand years older than he knew and humanity's current civilization had simply rediscovered the [[Halo Array]]. Esparza landed the Pelican in a clearing three kilometers from Lifeworker Central and reluctantly agreed to accompany the others rather than staying with ''Echo 216''.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD17|EOD|Chapter=17}} After discovering the existence of a large UNSC encampment there, the Master Chief requested that a mechanic take a look at the Pelican.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD19|EOD|Chapter=19}} While the craft was still left operating on its secondary port engine, the mechanics were able to quick-patch one of ''Echo 216''{{'}}s stabilizers and the damaged power coupling, making the dropship marginally flight worthy.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD23|EOD|Chapter=23}}

With Banished activity gathering on the perimeter of the camp, the Master Chief decided to take Joy, Browning and ''Echo 216'' to continue their mission without continuing to endanger the other survivors. Esparza collected what they needed to resupply the Pelican and refused the Master Chief's offer to stay at the camp as Esparza saw helping the Master Chief as the way he could work his way back from his mistake. The Chief knew that whether Esparza believed it or not, he had already helped tremendously and while the Spartan had dragged Esparza to the surface of the ring, despite his fear, the pilot had been there each and every time rather than running, no matter how much he complained about it. The Master Chief accepted Esparza's help, a choice that Joy also agreed with. While UNSC [[combat team]]s created a diversion to draw the Banished away from Lifeworker Central, the Master Chief's team departed in the Pelican.{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD22|EOD|Chapter=22}}

Esparza flew the Master Chief, Joy and Browning to the [[Lifeworker Archive]] which turned out to be underground in a watershed, arriving when it was fully dark. To both Esparza and the Master Chief's confusion, neither the dropship's lidar nor the lidar in the Spartan's armor picked it up. The Master Chief ordered Esparza to shut off all non-essential systems to avoid detection, and to retreat and lie low at the first sign of trouble. If that were to happen, Esparza was given a rendezvous point where they would meet in twenty-four hours. Esparza gave Browning encouragement as he walked on his own for the first time since Browning's rescue. Giving the pilot a stack of [[C10 charge]]s, the Master Chief ordered him to blow up the Archive entrance if he could if things went bad and the Banished discovered their position. Before the Master Chief, Joy and Browning left, Esparza packed a bag with enough rations, nutrient supplements, a few extra ammo clips and grenades for good measure to last Browning forty-eight hours.{{Ref/Reuse|EOD23}}

On June 7, ''Echo 216'' came under attack by a Banished Phantom, only to have it shot down by a friendly missile. The C10 that Esparza had planted detonated, and a fragment struck the beleaguered port engines, causing the Pelican to lose power. Rapidly losing altitude, Esparza was forced to bring ''Echo 216'' in for a rough landing. As Esparza regained consciousness, the Pelican was boarded by four [[Sangheili]] who made hasty repairs to the flight systems, quickly getting ''Echo 216'' in the air again. However, the Sangheili turned out to be [[Swords of Sanghelios]] who had been on the ''Infinity'' when it was ambushed instead of Banished.{{Ref/Novel|EOD|Chapter=27}} The Sangheili flew the damaged Pelican into the alpine region of one of the island fragments where Esparza was greeted by a group of UNSC soldiers and survivors, including the [[boat crew]], in a sheltered rock canyon.{{Ref/Novel|EOD|Chapter=39}}

Esparza later arrived at the Silent Auditorium in what appeared to be a Banished Phantom instead of ''Echo 216'' to pick up the Master Chief. Esparza called the Phantom a loaner and stated that the Pelican was currently in the shop.{{Ref/Novel|EOD|Chapter=37}}

==Design details==
''Echo-216'' is an older model [[D77 Pelican]],{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P148}} as opposed to the more modern [[D79H Pelican]]s which had previously been assigned to the UNSC ''Infinity''. Though ''Echo-216'' is seemingly equipped with the dumb AI for a D79.{{Ref/Reuse|Pelican Down}} It is armed with a single [[M370 autocannon]] on a chin-mounted pintle, though the weapon is completely non-functional,{{Ref/Reuse|Recovery}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD1|EOD|Chapter=1}} It also has an onboard AI, which monitors the vessel's condition and alerts the pilot to system abnormalities and damage. In a critical incident, the AI can also perform a system reset in response to large shocks or impacts in order to reactivate the vessel after crash-landing.

Like many Pelican dropships, ''Echo 216'' is very robust, surviving months on end in the vacuum of space with heavily depleted batteries and moderate combat against Banished forces, at one point even taking multiple hits from Banished anti-aircraft artillery and crash-landing in the middle of a debris field, and at another point having its flight controls stabbed by an Elite's plasma sword during a hijacking. Despite both of these incidents, the ship remained fully operational and flightworthy after only relatively minor repairs. After the Master Chief's [[fusion reactor]] recharged the Pelican's batteries, it was able to recharge itself after being rendered powerless by the stasis beam of a [[Banished dreadnought]], although the pilot noted that the batteries were charging slowly. Nevertheless, full power was restored within only a few minutes.{{Ref/Reuse|Warship Gbraakon}} Notably, ''Echo 216'' appears to be the only functioning Pelican remaining on Zeta Halo as of 2560, the rest having been shot down or destroyed following the battle between the Banished and UNSC; [[Glibnub]], the Banished [[Unggoy]] in charge of [[Propaganda tower|Propaganda broadcasts]], in particular makes note of this, and claims that the [[Kywasky Workshop Gorespike cannon|Banished AA Guns]] "are very excited about shooting it down," though ''Echo 216''{{'}}s status as the last functioning Pelican at Zeta Halo could simply be another of Glibnub's lies intended to demoralize the remaining UNSC forces.

==Production notes==
{{Quote|Our real, concrete, goal was to speak to the theme of rebirth. The pilot resuscitates Chief. Chief brings life and courage to the pilot. The Pelican is brought back to life by Chief. It speaks to the potential of the world we're creating.|[[Dan Chosich]]}}<ref name="DCHIDH">[http://danchosich.com/halo-infinite-discover-hope '''Dan Chosich''' - ''Halo Infinite: Discover Hope'']</ref>
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==Trivia==
*Echo 216 has the same [[Wikipedia:Terrain awareness and warning system|terrain awareness and warning system]] (TAWS) sounds as [[Wikipedia:Boeing|Boeing]] aircraft.<ref name="HIDemo">[https://youtu.be/HZtc5-syeAk?t=35 '''YouTube''' - ''Halo Infinite | Campaign Gameplay Premiere – 8 Minute Demo'']</ref>

==Gallery==
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===Concept art===
<gallery>
File:HINF Concept Echo216TroopBaySeats.jpg|Concept art of seats and other details in ''Echo 216''{{'}}s troop bay.
File:HINF Concept Echo216TroopBayCeiling.jpg|Concept art of the troop bay's ceiling.
File:HINF Concept CraneRemote.jpg|Concept art of the remote used to operate the crane on the ceiling.
File:HINF Concept Echo216CockpitDoor.jpg|Concept art of the door leading to the Pelican's cockpit.
File:HINF Concept Echo216RearDoor.jpg|Concept art of the rear door.
File:HINF Concept Echo216Midsection.jpg|Concept art of the section between the troop bay and cockpit.
File:HINF Concept Echo216PilotSeat.jpg|Concept art of the Pelican's pilot seat.
File:HI_DH_Echo216_EmergencyLighting_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the troop bay under emergency lighting.
</gallery>

===Pre-release===
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File:HI_DH_FirstPerson.png|The interior troop bay as seen through John-117's HUD.
File:Halo Infinite E319 A Ring Vista.jpg|John-117 peering out the Pelican's cockpit.
File:Halo Infinite E319 A Brand New Fight.jpg|The troop bay door opening for John-117.
File:HI Screenshot PreRelease-JohnAndPilot.jpg|The pilot of ''Echo 216'' and John-117 inside the troop bay.
File:HINF ChiefDemo.png|John-117 in the troop bay after the Pelican crash lands on Installation 07.
</gallery>

===Screenshots===
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File:HINF-S3CampaignMenu.png|John-117 in ''Echo 216''{{'}}s troop bay in the campaign menu.
File:HINF Echo 216 Outpost Tremonius.png|John-117 and the Weapon watch as ''Echo 216'' arrives at Outpost Tremonius.
File:HINF Spire PelicanCatch.png|''Echo 216'' catching John-117 in freefall. 
File:HINF ReformationHolograms.png|John-117 and the Weapon looking at holograms of Reformation Spires onboard ''Echo 216''.
File:HINF EchoInTheDust.png|''Echo 216'', grounded but intact, after being shot down.
File:HINF Ending Echo216.png|''Echo 216'' catches up to John-117 and the Weapon after they were teleported to the other side of Installation 07.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Edge of Dawn]]''

==Sources==
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