Audio log (Halo 4)

This article is about the audio logs found in Halo 4. For other uses, see Audio log.

Halo 4 audio logs are terminals that contain in-universe information found in various Halo 4 campaign levels. While most of them are found in Ivanoff Station on the level Composer, some logs are found on other levels as well.

Dawn

Main article: H4:Dawn

Spartan John-117's service record

The console under the walkway.

• Location: Under the very first walkway on the level Dawn.
• Transcript:

• System: This is the service record for Spartan John-117. Would you like to continue?
• System: Frigate [sic] Pillar of Autumn discovers Forerunner Halo Installation 04 and deploys Spartan 117 to protect UNSC A.I. Cortana. Chief uncovers a Covenant plot to fire the weapon, and sacrifices the Autumn to destroy the Halo ring.
• System: Pursuing the Covenant flagship after an attack on earth, Spartan 117 arrives at Installation 05 to find the Covenant erupting into civil war. After preventing the Covenant from firing the ring, 117 followed them back to Earth in search of a Forerunner installation that could activate all the galaxy's Halos.
• System: The Covenant arrive at Earth and open a portal to the Ark, an extragalactic Forerunner installation that can fire the Halo Array. Spartan 117 unites a joint Covenant/UNSC team to pursue the Covenant to the Ark, where he successfully destroys the Installation and prevents the rings from being used.
• System: When Spartan 117 attempts to escape from the Ark aboard the Forward Unto Dawn, the slipspace portal that the ship is passing through collapses.
• System: Aboard the aft section of the dawn, SPARTAN-117 is placed into cryo sleep pending recovery by UNSC forces. A.I. Cortana to remain active as long as is technically feasible.
• System: End of service record.

Systems check

The console in front of the hologram of the Dawn.

• Location: Near the very beginning of the level, in front of the Forward Unto Dawn's hologram.
• Effect: This impacts dialogue later in the mission, as John-117 will acknowledge the weapon systems being online.
• Transcript:

• System: Weapon systems online.
• System: Gravity controls online.
• System: Ship propulsion offline.
• System: Bow hull integrity compromised.
• System: Life support online.

Requiem

Main article: H4:Requiem

The overturned console in the wreckage.

Cortana's origin

• Location: In a wreckage near the beginning of the level. It is near the wreckage the SAW is found.
• Transcript:

• Unknown voice: Catherine Halsey Research excerpt, 11 February 2550.
• Halsey: A interesting factor here isn't that H-1 disabled the viral termination code I had implanted in her matrix. These metrics imply its success wasn't just unlikely, but that even the acceptance of the 7-year life cycle estimates may not apply.
• Halsey: Thus far, I've determined that the unique circumstances of her creation have triggered what I can only refer to as a recessive variant in the A.I. seed.
• Halsey: As her architect, I'm currently at a loss as to the origin of the development of this rogue element. Very curious.

Covenant motivations

The Covenant console in the wreckage.

• Location: In a wreckage near the beginning of the level.
• Note: All dialogue in this Audio log is spoken in Sangheili, and translated into English by Cortana.
• Transcript:

As the player approaches the log.

• Cortana: The console's still got some power in it.

After the player activates the log.

• Cortana: This communication's being broadcast to all Covenant in the area. Let me put it through translation.
• Cortana: Non-believers walk the sacred ground. Purge the heretics, so they not foul the air of Paradise. The time has come to enter the Great Light. The Promethean awakening is nigh, our reward is at hand.
• Master Chief: It sounds like the Covenant were here looking for something.
• Cortana: It's the Covenant. Aren't they ALWAYS looking for something?

Didact

The console on the Lich's hull.

• Location: In the wreckage near the beginning of the level.
• Transcript:

As the player approaches the log.

• Cortana: What is that? Chief, see if that terminal is still active.
• Unknown Sangheili: Didact... (The same word is repeated every few seconds.)
• Cortana: The Covenant have been broadcasting that from an equidistant orbit every 30 minutes for the last three years.
• Master Chief: They've been waiting outside the planet for three years?
• Cortana: Apparently they couldn't get in.

Mantle

The Forerunner glyph.

• Location: In the large chamber with map of Requiem, in the middle on the lowest floor.
• Note: The Forerunner glyph is translated by Cortana. The glyph itself is cosmetically the same as the one found in Halsey's lab on Ivanoff Station in the level Composer.
• Transcript:

• Master Chief: What does it say?"
• Cortana: Guardianship for all living things lies with those whose evolution is most complete.
• Cortana: The Mantle of Responsibility shelters all.
• Cortana: Very interesting.
• Master Chief: Maybe... but it won't get us home.

Infinity

Main article: H4:Infinity