Editing Halo: Escalation Issue 7

{{Title|''Halo: Escalation Issue 7''}}
{{Status|RealWorld}}
{{Comics infobox
|prev=Halo: Escalation Issue 6
|next=Halo: Escalation Issue 8
|image=[[File:HaloEscalation7.jpg|250px]]
|writer=[[Brian Reed]]
|artist=*Sergio Ariño (penciller)<br>
*Juan Castro (inker)<br>
*Michael Atiyeh (colorist)<br>
*[[Nicolas Bouvier]] (cover artist)
|publisher= [[Dark Horse Comics]]
|publication= June 25, 2014
|length=32 pages
|ISBN= 
}}

'''''Halo: Escalation Issue 7''''' was released on [[2014|June 25, 2014]] and is the seventh comic in the ''[[Halo: Escalation]]'' series.<ref>[http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/22-707/Halo-Escalation-7/ '''Dark Horse:''' ''Halo: Escalation Issue 7'']</ref>

==Official summary==
{{Article quote|“The Fall of [[New Phoenix]]” — eight months ago, an attack on [[Earth]] left seven million dead, including the family of Spartan Gabriel Thorne. Today the city has been opened from quarantine, and Thorne is going home to see what’s left... and what it has to do with the Master Chief.}}

==Plot synopsis==
Issue #7 opens with Thorne remembering his childhood in New Phoenix and how [[Thorne family|his parents]], both of them [[UNSC Army]] officers, died on [[Alluvion]]. Aboard ''[[Oaxaca Station]]'', Thorne is awakened by [[Tedra Grant|Grant]], who can't sleep well. Thorne and Grant talk about the former's nightmares about the attack on [[New Phoenix]] eight months ago. Despite the immediate reopening of the city, Thorne doesn't want to go. Grant insists that because the ''Infinity'' is under repair and they have nothing to do for three weeks, he should go to New Phoenix, and that she will accompany him as "backup". Two days later, the [[President of the Unified Earth Government|President of the UEG]], Dr. [[Ruth Charet]], presides over the reopening of the city. Thorne and Grant go to the former's house, where Grant discovers a [[holo-still]] of Thorne's graduation as a private with his grandparents and a Master Chief action figure bought by Thorne's grandmother. 

While exploring the house, Thorne enters a room and discovers a holographic panel with Mozart music and a violin belonging to his grandmother. Thorne concludes that his grandmother was practicing violin when the attack occurred. Thorne decides they have had enough and wants to leave, but Grant tells him the story of how she was on her home planet, Arcadia, when it [[Fall of Arcadia|fell]]. Grant tells Thorne that he should be happy to have a home to return to and that his dreams are trying to tell him to relieve all the pain he has inside. Thorne decides he must honor his grandparents and plays his grandmother's violin.

Three weeks later, the ''Infinity'' is fully repaired, and Thorne no longer has nightmares about New Phoenix. He thanks Grant for the support and the ''Infinity'' makes a slipspace jump.

==Trivia==
*''[[Oaxaca Station]]'' is [[:File:Oaxaca Station.jpg|depicted]] with a docked {{Class|Stalwart|light frigate}}, closely mirroring the [[:File:Macstationcairolarge1ki.jpg|appearance]] of [[Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station]] and the docked {{UNSCShip|In Amber Clad}} in ''[[Halo 2]]''.
*Thorne's parents are shown using [[MA5 series|MA5 assault rifles]] (presumably [[MA5D assault rifle|MA5Ds]]), despite the Army's use of the related [[MA37 assault rifle|MA37]].
*This issue was being written during the time Thorne was in ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', by the time the issue was released though, scheduling issues with [[Wikipedia:Ethan Peck|Ethan Peck]] made this impossible.<ref>[[Halo: Escalation]] Library Edition - Commentary</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Halo Escalation 7.jpg|Full cover art.
File:Gabriel Thorne's parents.jpg|Gabriel Thorne's parents fighting on Alluvion.
File:Alluvion glassed.jpg|The Covenant glass Alluvion.
File:Oaxaca Station.jpg|Oaxaca Orbital Defense Platform.
File:Young Thorne playing violin.jpg|A young Gabriel Thorne playing the violin.
File:New Phoenix population composed.jpg|Thorne's nightmare about the New Phoenix Incident.
File:New Phoenix rebirth.jpg|New Phoenix's Rebirth ceremony.
File:HE Ruth Charet.jpg|UEG President Ruth Charet.
File:Escalation-Thorne and Grant in NP.png|Thorne and Tedra Grant at New Phoenix's reopening.
File:HE retina scan.jpg|Thorne enters his home using a [[retinal scanner]].
File:Escalation-Thorne holo.png|A hologram of Thorne with his grandparents.
File:HE Tedra.jpg|Grant examines an action figure of the Master Chief.
File:Thorne remembering his family.jpg|Thorne remembering [[Thorne family|his family]].
File:HE Autumn.jpg|The ''UNSC Infinity'' is fully repaired.
File:HE Stridents.jpg|The ''Infinity'' prepares to depart Earth.
</gallery>

==Sources==
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==See also==
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
[[Category:Canon]]
[[Category:Halo: Escalation]]

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