Projects/Reach Mapping

The Reach Mapping Project aims to cross-reference both in-game and supplementary material in an attempt to detail Reach's planetary pages. Obviously, this will involve detailed examinations of all of this material and might spoil details.

The current pages for Viery Territory, Ütközet, Eposz and Alföld and potentially others do not have a clear or consistent hierarchy of locations, requiring detailed maintenance.

Goals[edit]

Current research[edit]

Thanks to several sources including the maps included with Dr. Halsey's personal journal, Halo: Outpost Discovery, the Order of Battle seen in the opening cutscene of Tip of the Spear and a Covenant deployment map seen on the bridge of Ardent Prayer, it is possible to begin piecing together a good idea of Reach's landscape and layout.

Official maps[edit]

To begin with, here is a full world map of Reach, taken from the in-game texture used for the holotank of the Covenant corvette.

Thanks to the map provided by the Hall of History in Outpost Discovery (left), we can place the cities of Manassas, New Alexandria, Esztergom, Quezon, Sopron and Casimir. The map provided in Halsey's Journal gives us the locations of SWORD Base (marked SWO), CASTLE Base (marked CAS), Visegrád (marked VIS) and several thus-far unidentified sites.

Outpost Discovery map.
Halsey's map.

These sources combined allows us to place a number of important locations seen in Halo: Reach and supplementary material (Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, Halo: Shadows of Reach, Data Drops etc.) with a fair degree of accuracy, and begin piecing together the overall geographical structure of Reach.

Thanks to this information, we can begin collating together other sources and references. One key in helping decipher these locales are the location paths usually seen in the cutscenes of Halo: Reach in the camera views, in the bottom right of the screen (these are provided below). Several other resources are collated below.

Resources[edit]

Primary resources[edit]

Halo: Reach - Includes a swathe of visual, audio, and narrative information on Reach since it is primarily set on the planet.
Halo: First Strike - Includes location hierarchies in chapter headers for sections on Reach.
Halo: The Fall of Reach - Includes location hierarchies in chapter headers for sections on Reach as well as other descriptions of the planet.
- Halo: Fall of Reach - Includes location hierarchies in establishing shots for sections on Reach as well as other descriptions of the planet.
Halo: Shadows of Reach - Includes location hierarchies in chapter headers as well as information in the narrative itself.
Halo: Outpost Discovery - In person event that ran during 2019.
- Hall of History - Features some artifacts and information about Reach.

Additional resources[edit]

Order of battle (Viery, Reach) - with several locations now named, we can reasonably infer what locations the units in this map were attacking/ defending.
Covenant deployment hologram - A map shown on the bridge of the Covenant corvette shows a map of Covenant deployments.
Data Drops - Many of the data drops include location paths for their sender/receiver addresses.
Halo: Reach radio conversations - Includes some descriptions and references to various locations
Old Waypoint background image - Contains currently seen Reach locations and previously unmentioned locations also likely on Reach.
Defiant to the End - A Defiant Map Pack trailer.
Assault on the Stars - A Waypoint video about the Halo: Reach campaign.
Day Before - A webfilm showing life on Reach prior to the events of Halo: Reach.
- New Life - One of the shorts part of the film, about a young couple living in Visegrad.
- Spaceport - One of the shorts of the film, about a family saying goodbyes at a spaceport.
- Patrol - One of the shorts of the film, about several UNSC troopers on patrol.
Dr. Halsey's personal journal - A secondary book included with some editions of Halo: Reach. Contains extra papers and other bits of lore related to Reach.
Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series - Includes location info in transition scenes.
Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition) - Some minor Reach location information.
Halo: Empty Throne - Includes a flashback above and minor references to places on Reach.
Canon Fodder - Small details revealed here and there.
Halo: Bella Corsa - Short story with a little bit of info for Reach.

Books[edit]

Chapter headings[edit]

Halo: The Fall of Reach chapter heading paths[edit]

Chapter 3: Epsilon Eridani System, Reach Military Complex, Planet Reach
Chapter 4: Epsilon Eridani System, Reach Military Complex, Planet Reach
Chapter 5: Epsilon Eridani System, Reach Military Wilderness Training Preserve, Planet Reach
Chapter 6: Epsilon Eridani System, Office of Naval Intelligence Medical Facility, in orbit around planet Reach
Chapter 8: Epsilon Eridani System, Reach UNSC Military Complex, Planet Reach
Chapter 24: Epsilon Eridani System, Reach UNSC Military Complex, Planet Reach, Camp Hathcock
Chapter 25: Epsilon Eridani System, Reach UNSC Military Complex, Planet Reach, Omega Wing-Section Three Secure Facility
Chapter 26: Epsilon Eridani System, Fleetcom Military Complex, Planet Reach
Chapter 27: Epsilon Eridani System, UNSC Military Reservation 01478-B, Planet Reach

Halo: First Strike chapter heading paths[edit]

Chapter 1: UNSC vessel Pillar of Autumn, Epsilon Eriani System Near Reach Station Gamma
Chapter 2: Epsilon Eridani System, Unknown Aerial Position, Planet Reach
Chapter 3: Epsilon Eridani System, Orbital Defense Generator Facility A-331, Planet Reach
Chapter 4: Epsilon Eridani System, Longhorn Valley, Planet Reach

Halo: Shadows of Reach chapter heading paths[edit]

Chapter 1: Insertion Run, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 2: Vadász Dombok, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 3: Vadász Dombok, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 4: Tárnoc Gorge, Ujeger Highlands, Vadász Dombok, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 5: Kisköre Manor, Juh Mező Township, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 6: Kisköre Irrigation Tunnel, Juh Mező Township, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 7: Dombräd Springs, Észac Plain, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 8: Infirmary, Logistics Base Gödöllő, Bük Burn Cavity, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 9: Juh Mező Aqueduct, Gödöllő Steppe, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 10: Map Room, Logistics Base Gödöllő, Bük Burn Cavity, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 11: Underglass Approach, Banished Armory, New Mohács, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 12: Banished Armory, New Mohács, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 15: New Mohács, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 16: Old Banished Armor Yard, New Mohács, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 17: Landing Zone Bella, New Mohács, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
- Figyelő Point, Bíbor Cliffs, Highland Mountains, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 18: Végtelen Mászás, Dél Eléri, Arany Basin, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 19: Vanadinite Mountain, Csongrád Region, Highland Mountains, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach
Chapter 20: CASTLE Base Access Shaft, Csongrád Region, Highland Mountains, Continent Eposz, Planet Reach

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