H5G:Guardians

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Guardians
Game:	Halo 5: Guardians
File name (?):	w3_innerworld
Player:	Jameson Locke (Fireteam Osiris)
Date:	October 28, 2558
Location:	Genesis
Objective(s):	Free Blue Team from Cortana's Cryptum.
Par Time:	00:28:00
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As Blue Team's lives hang in the balance, Osiris must save them and stop the Guardians.

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Guardians is the fifteenth and final campaign level of Halo 5: Guardians.

Completing the level on any difficulty unlocks the "Sentinels" achievement, worth 10 gamerscore points. Using a ground pound on one of the exterior power cores unlocks the "Icy Cool" achievement, worth 10 gamerscore points. Simultaneously destroying two power cores on Heroic or Legendary difficulty unlocks the "Double Stuff" achievement, worth 10 gamerscore points.

Transcript

LEAVE NO SPARTAN BEHIND

{Gameplay}

Fireteam Osiris stand in a Forerunner hallway. 031 Exuberant Witness floats by them.

• Exuberant: The Gateway. I tried to warn them and - well, here we are.

• Edward Buck: "Once Chief knows the destruction Cortana's caused, what do you think he'll do?"

• Holly Tanaka: "The man'll do the right thing. Always has."

Exuberant and the Spartans walk into the chamber ahead. In the center of the room is a hologram of a Cryptum. Several Promethean and Covenant specimens are trapped in cells around the room.

• Exuberant: "Oh, this looks interesting. Or maybe this is terrible!"

• Jameson Locke: "Exuberant, what is it?"

• Exuberant: "Cortana has activated a Cryptum."

• Olympia Vale: "A what?"

• Exuberant: "This is a Cryptum. It is a device for extended forced meditation. Cortana has placed the other humans inside, and is preparing for slipspace travel."

• Locke: "She's planning to take Blue Team with her. Where is the Cryptum from here?"

• Exuberant: "Not far. Right this way."

If the player examines the cells.

• Exuberent: "Ah. You've noticed my humble collection. Just a few specimens the Guardians have brought to Genesis."

One cell has a Armiger Soldier. It bashes the energy shield keeping it in and futilely tries to teleport out.

• Exuberent: "I'm afraid this Soldier is not really happy to be locked down in the display case. But I cannot have them popping about. Terribly distracting."

Another cell has four Crawlers. They appear to be sleeping. They will occasionally look around or scratch themselves.

• Olympia Vale: "Crawlers... This is gonna sound weird, but... they look kinda happy in there."

• Exuberant: "I had to keep them as a group. If I kept one by itself, it would just keep whining all the time."

Trapped Unggoy.

Another cell has three Grunts. Two of them are attacking the shield wall, yelling to be released, while the third sits calmly on a box, exuding methane gas.

The next cell has a Promethean Knight. It swings its arms wildly and hits its head against a wall repeatedly. It occasionally holds its head in its smaller hands while convulsing.

• Buck: "A Knight... Kind of making me feel sad for him."

• Vale: "Their little arms always creep me out."

One of the cells has a Hunter. It hits the shield wall with its arms and head, and tries shooting it with its fuel rod cannon, to no avail.

• Tanaka: "Hunters."

• Vale: "Their proper name is Mgalekgolo. They're a hivemind of worms."

• Tanaka: "They're disgusting."

A last cell contains Covenant. One is a sleeping Grunt and another is a seated Sangheili Warrior.

• Buck: "Almost didn't see you there."

• Tanaka: "Hang on. Are... no, not a Sword of Sanghelios. Heh. Better off in there, pal."

If the player stalls

• Exuberant: "You may want to leave soon. Cortana's plan is progressing."

The Spartans leave the room and head to the next. There is an elevator platform waiting for them there, but surrounding it is open sky. Dozens of enormous Guardians are assembled there.

• Buck: "Look at all of 'em. How are we going to stop that?"

As the platform begins to move, a screech is heard. A portal appears behind a Guardian to pull it into slipspace.

• Tanaka: "Holy-"

• Locke: "Watch out!"

An electromagnetic pulse bursts, knocking out the Spartans' shields. The Guardian folds its wings and retreats into the portal.

• Tanaka: "Where did it go?"

• Exuberant: "The Reclamation has begun."

• Locke: "Exuberant."

• Exuberant: "I always thought the duty would fall to humans. And in a way, I suppose it has."

If the player stalls:

• Exuberant: "Board the gondola whenever you are ready.

If the player stalls:

• Exuberant: "Lovely. One moment." (Gondola starts moving)

• Cortana (COM): "Well, Mister Locke, you don't give up easily."

• Locke: "Where's that Guardian headed, Cortana?"

• Cortana (COM): "Off to bring peace."

• Locke: "The Monitor called it a threat of death."

• Cortana (COM): "Like the threat I lived under from the moment of my birth?"

The platform continues descending to the surface of Genesis. The Cryptum can be seen floating over a facility.

• Locke: "You were built, not born."

• Cortana (COM): "Oh yes, AIs are just machines, aren't we? Mass produced. Disposable. Well, humanity may not have cared for its Created, but we will care for you."

The platform approaches the Cryptum's facility. Another Guardian retreats into a portal.

• Locke: "You expect other AIs to join you?"

• Cortana (COM): "I have cured rampancy. Not just for me, but for any who join my cause. While you have been running around the galaxy, I've been speaking to my Created."

The platform stops at a hallway leading to a snowy hill.

• Cortana (COM): "And now the time has come to ask... Who will accept my offer? Who will help me bring an everlasting peace to the galaxy?"

• Cromwell (COM): "This is Cromwell, Shipboard AI, UNSC Melbourne's Pride. I am yours, Cortana."

• Jiang (COM): "Jiang, Colonial Authority AI, Erdenet. I join with you, Cortana."

• Sloan (COM): "Governor Sloan, the Free People of Meridian. I also stand with you, Cortana."

• Buck: "Sloan... sonuva-"

• Exuberant: "Those are the voices of your children calling to Cortana."

• Cleo (COM): "Cleo. Overseer, UNSC Monitoring Station Delta Five, Pluto. I am with Cortana."

• Louise (COM): "Louise. Education Superintendent, Mount Sharp, Mars. I am yours, Cortana."

• Sonduk (COM): "Sonduk. ONI Weapons Research AI, New Gangwon. I pledge myself to Cortana."

• Kue Ching (COM): "Kue Ching. Station AI, Threshold array. I will join you, Cortana."

• Lychus (COM): "Lychus. Shipboard AI, Verdant." (This then blurs with the rest of the AI voices.)

Hundreds more AIs' voices can be heard over the COM, pledging their allegiance to Cortana and the Created, as Osiris wanders a cavernous corridor.

• Exuberant: "Oh dear..."

Osiris reaches the end of the corridor and enter a valley ahead.

• Exuberant: "There are more hostile visitors ahead."

• Locke: (To his fireteam) "Take 'em down."

The valley has numerous Covenant from crashed wreckage battling Prometheans, including Armiger Snipers, guarding the exit.

The Covenant and Prometheans in the area are defeated.

• Buck: "Hostiles cleared."

or

• Vale: "Field is clear."

• Locke: "Don't stop, Osiris. Cortana's not waiting for us."

Distant roars can be heard.

• Tanaka: "Sounds like more Guardians leaving."

• Exuberant: "Yes. A great number are sounding their departure. I do not know how long it will take her to dispatch them all."

The exit door opens.

• Exuberant: "This way."

The Spartans head into the next area, where Prometheans warp in to attack them.

• Tanaka: "Two turrets ahead!"

The Spartans defeat these Prometheans and reach the area's other side. An enormous cage-like door is at its end.

• Exuberant: "Another door. Please, allow me."

• Locke: "Lead the way, Exuberant."

The door opens to reveal a large snowy valley. The Cryptum can be seen floating close overheard. It is covered in a blue glow.

The Cryp