Reach:New Alexandria

This article is about the Halo: Reach campaign level. For other uses of New Alexandria, see New Alexandria (disambiguation).

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New Alexandria
Game:	Halo: Reach
File name (?):	m52
Player:	Noble Six
Date:	August 23, 2552
Location:	New Alexandria, Eposz, Reach
Objective(s):	Neutralize Covenant jammers and provide emergency air support to UNSC forces in the city.
Par Time:	00:20:00 (Master Chief Collection)
Par Score:	22,500 (Master Chief Collection) 10,000 (Halo: Reach)
	Halopedia has a walkthrough guide for this level; see Reach:New Alexandria/Walkthrough.

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Provide air support in a forest of crumbling skyscrapers.

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New Alexandria is the eighth level in the campaign of Halo: Reach. The level has a unique structure: the three main objectives may be assigned to the player in any order, and the minor objectives between these are randomly selected from a larger pool every time the mission is played. The mission requires the player to fly a Falcon, and the player is able to call in a new one should they lose theirs.

Summary

The level takes place on August 23, 2552, several hours after Exodus, in the airspace above the embattled city of New Alexandria. Noble Six meets up with the rest of Noble Team and is informed that the Covenant are jamming all communications to Command. They mount a Falcon and assists Catherine-B320 in destroying the jamming devices.

NOTE: All encounters in this level are randomized. The three jammers are the only consistent parts, and the order in which they need to be destroyed may change between playthroughs.

• One jammer is located at the New Alexandria Hospital. The troopers sent to destroy it are locked in a fight with the Brutes before Noble Six arrives and destroys the jammer.
• Another jammer is located at Club Errera in the Vyrant Telecom Tower. Two pairs of Mgalekgolo stop the troopers, and Noble Six must deal with them before destroying the jammer.
• A jammer is also located in a penthouse at the Sinoviet Center. Troopers assigned to destroy it were killed by Drones (save for a single survivor) and Noble Six must finish the job.

As Noble Six destroys the jammers, Covenant Ket-pattern battlecruisers arrive at New Alexandria and start glassing the city's outskirts.

Between destroying the jammers, Noble Six must also complete secondary objectives which revolve around assisting the UNSC forces in the city. In single player and 2-player co-op there is one task between each jammer, while 3 and 4 player co-op have two objectives simultaneously assigned to the players. These objectives include:

• Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck requests assistance. Buck's exact task varies; he may be rescuing his men from various danger or on a classified mission. In any case, Noble Six is instructed by Kat to escort Buck's Falcon to its destination.
• A team of troopers is under a Covenant attack and requests assistance. Kat instructs Noble Six to kill the Covenant forces in question. The targets may be Jackal infantry, Hunters, Jackal Snipers, Brutes or Banshees. A Pelican extracts the troopers after the enemies have been killed.
• Elites and Engineers are attempting to break into the Misriah Complex from the rooftop. Kat orders Noble Six to take them out before they succeed.
• A Pelican evacuating civilians cannot take off due to Covenant Shade turrets on the nearby rooftops. Noble Six has to destroy the Shades.
• Two Fuel-Rod Cannon Shade Turrets along with numerous Brutes are preventing Pelicans from escaping on top of the oval-like building. Kat orders Noble Six to eliminate them so evacuation operations can resume.
• A mobile jammer is found in an exposed rooftop location. Noble Six must eliminate Covenant forces guarding it and take the jammer out.

After the last jammer is destroyed, Kat receives orders from Colonel Urban Holland that all personnel are to be evacuated through the ONI Headquarters building. However, a group of Shade turrets stationed around the building are preventing any evacuation craft from escaping.

After Noble Six destroys all of the turrets, they meets up with the rest of Noble Team at the ONI HQ. However, they receive an urgent hail from Colonel Holland, informing them that they are being redeployed to Sword Base. Just then, the Covenant begin glassing the city, and the signal is cut off. As Noble Team flees to a radiation bunker, Kat is shot through the back of the head by a Needle Rifle round fired from a Phantom overhead. Her body is dragged into the bunker by Noble Six as the doors close. Three days later on August 26, after the Covenant forces are gone, Noble Team walks outside to be picked up by a Pelican, with Kat's dead body in Carter's arms.

Transcript

{Cutscene}

Noble Six inside the Pelican dropship.

Fades in to Noble Six, alone, sitting inside the troop bay of a Pelican.

New Alexandria, Eposz

August 23, 2552, 18:57 Hours

View switches to the open rear door of the Pelican. Rain pours down while burning skyscrapers and building lights fill the night sky. After staring out for a long time, Six stands up and holsters a M392 Designated Marksman Rifle. The Pelican slows down above a rooftop with two Falcons parked on top. Six steps out and meets Carter while the Pelican flies away.

• Commander Carter-A259: "Your report will have to wait, Lieutenant. The Covenant are jamming all comms to Command. Kat needs your help running a counter-op."

The two Spartans walk to the Falcons, with one already taking off.

• Carter-A259: "It’s good to have you back."
• SPARTAN-B312: "Sorry I came alone."
• Carter-A259: "Make him proud."

Carter turns and slowly walks away as Six stops in front of the Falcon.

{Gameplay}

Fly By Night

• Lieutenant Commander Catherine-B320 (COM): "Get your wings back on, Lieutenant. You’re flying this Falcon."

Six gets in the Falcon and lifts off. A burning skyscraper nearby collapses. The dialogue below will be spoken by Kat if Six hasn't entered the falcon yet

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Here's the situation. Covenant have deployed multiple long ranged comm jammers at high-rises across the city. We can't hear Holland, and he can't hear us. We're totally cut off. Trooper squads have been trying to take the jammers out, but the Covies have dug in tight. When I confirm targets, I need you to hit them - hard.

The following dialogue will be spoken if Six enters the falcon right away.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "The Covenant have deployed comm jammers in high rises across the city. When I find them, you hit them - hard.

Throughout the level, the player is assigned three jammer locations that they must go to: the New Alexandria Hospital, the Sinoviet Center, and the Vyrant Telecom Tower. There are also "emergency missions" given out after destroying the first and second jammer. The order of all major and emergency missions are randomized.

After giving details on the first objective:

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Oh, and don't fall in love with my voice. The closer you are to the jammer, the worse our reception is going to get. Kat out."

New Alexandria Hospital

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Stand by, Six... One of our Trooper squads went silent after the hospital got hit. I'll mark the location. Complete their mission, and take out that jammer."

Six flies to the hospital, sets down on an open landing, and goes inside where they finds a small group of Grunts, Jackals and Brutes, supported by an Engineer. As Six fights through them, they picks up radio transmissions from troopers in the next room.

• Trooper #1 (COM): "Contacts, two at ten o'clock! I'll hold them off 'til you can get to the other side!"
• Trooper #2 (COM): "Through that doorway! Move, move, move!"

Six reaches the hospital's concourse. They engage the Brutes cornering the troopers.

• Trooper #1: "More Brutes! Stay back, you stinking bastards!"

More and more Brutes fall to Noble Six's assault.

• Trooper #1: "I said back off, you nasty son of a bitch!"
• Trooper #2: "Go ahead and try it!"

Noble Six fighting alongside army troopers inside the hospital.

Six finally reaches the troopers, having defeated all the Brutes.

• Trooper #1: "Thanks for the assist, Spartan. Jammer's right over here."

Six overloads the jammer and heads back to the stairs.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Noble Two to Noble Six: I'm showing the hospital jammer offline - nice work. Soon as you can, I need you back in your Falcon."

Suddenly, a group of Elite Rangers fly in and engage Six and the Troopers.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Noble Two to Noble Six: you've got incoming tangos!"
• Trooper #1: "We've got jumpers!"
• Trooper #2: "Damn! Look at 'em move!"

Six and the Troopers defeat the Elites. They then move back up to the stairs, engaging an Ultra Elite and some Skirmishers. They eventually neutralize these hostiles.

• Trooper #1/#2: "We're good here, sir/ma'am. You can head back to your bird."

Six gets back upstairs and into the Falcon. As it takes off, another skyscraper collapses while a Ket-pattern battlecruiser flies overhead. After stopping above the city's outskirts, the cruiser starts to glass the area.

Sinoviet Center

• 7 Delta 19 (COM): "Mayday! Mayday! 7 Delta 19 to all UNSC forces!"
• Catherine-B320 (COM): "What's your status, 19?"
• 7 Delta 19 (COM): "We found the jammer, but we're getting hit! Request immediate assistance! Sinoviet Center is-arggh!"
• Catherine-B320 (COM): "You still with me, 19? 7-Delta 19, do you copy?"

No response.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Six, I'm uploading coordinates now - get to Sinoviet Center. Help those troopers if you can, but get that jammer offline either way."

Six flies the Falcon to Sinoviet Center, fending off some Banshees along the way.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Approaching the objective, Six. Watch for hostile fire."

Noble Six lands the Falcon on the Center's helipad and eliminates some moderate Covenant resistance.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Noble Two to Noble Six, I'm still getting nothing from those troopers. You may have to take care of this jammer yourself."

Six continues their way up, passing by a hologram of a UNSC Frigate.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Six, I'm accessing building schematics. There's an elevator on the North landing."

A Yanme'e scurries out of view just as Six exits the elevator.

Six finds the elevator and takes it up the building. When the elevator reaches its destination, Six steps out and finds the troopers dead. No Covenant are present, however.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Schematics show alternate routes to either sides, Six."

If Six walks to the uppermost level, they can find a shell-shocked trooper cowering in a corner.

• Shell-shocked Army trooper: "Oh, God! I didn't sign up for this! Not aliens, man! That's it, I am out! Seriously, we're fighting aliens now? Innies were bad enough, now we got freakin' aliens? Not me man. I'm out! O-U-T, out! Lemme tell you, whatever you do, don't let them bite you. I hear if one of those little ones bites you, you turn into one! Imagine it, man, we're all going to turn into little methane-sucking freaks! They're going to strap us up with tanks and have us fighting on their side! Not me, man, I'm out! They're not going to get me. No way I'm turning into no squid-faced alien freak! I bet that's what those big monkey-looking Brute things are! They're us, man! They're us, turned Covie and fighting ourselves, man! Oh, God! No way, not me. No way, no way, no way, oh, God, no, no, no, no!"

Six approaches the jammer.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "You're close to the jammer. Destroy it."

Six destroys the jammer, triggering a swarm of hidden Drones.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "It's a trap! Get the hell out of there!"

Noble Six either kills or evades the Drones and gets back to the elevator.

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Thermal looks clear for now, Six. Return to your Falcon and stand by for instructions."

Six takes the elevator back down to the landing platform and returns to the Falcon. Another Ket-pattern battlecruiser flies overhead and begins glassing the outskirts area after arriving at the region's airspace.

Vyrant Telecom Tower

• 4 Charlie 27 (COM): "4 Charlie 27 to Command: request immediate assistance!"
• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Go ahead, 27."
• 4 Charlie 27 (COM): "We're at the Vyrant Telecom tower! Got Hunters between us and the jammer!"
• Catherine-B320 (COM): "Copy, 27 - help is on the way. Noble Six, I'm sending you coordinates for the Vyrant tower. Go get those Troopers unstuck."

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If this is the last jammer (applies to the other two locations as well):

• Catherine-B320 (COM): "This is the last jammer, Six. You're almost there."

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Noble Six flies to the Vyrant Tower and neutralizes the Covenant on the landing platform outside. Six then lands the Falcon, gets off, and heads into the Tower itself.

Six takes on the Mgalekgolo as the troopers take cover.

Inside the tower, UNSC Troopers are fighting four Hunters in Club Errera.

• Trooper #3: "Fall back, four Delta, fall back!"
• Trooper #4: "Defensive positions! Go, we'll cover you!"
• 4 Charlie 27: "Stay down! We've just got to hold out a little longer!"

Six, with some support from the troopers, eliminates the Hunters.

• 4 Charlie 27: "Over here, Spartan. Thanks for the hand, almost out of ammo. Jammer's on the upper level."

If the player stalls:

• 4 Charlie 27: "Jammer's above you, sir."

If all the troopers are dead: