H5G:Reunion

This article is about the Halo 5: Guardians campaign level. For the Halo 5: Guardians Original Soundtrack music of the same name, see Reunion (music).

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Reunion
Game:	Halo 5: Guardians
File name (?):	Cutscene: cin_110 Level: w3_builder
Player:	John-117 (Blue Team)
Date:	October 26, 2558
Location:	Coral highlands, Genesis
Objective(s):	Investigate Genesis and find Cortana.
Par Time:	00:18:00
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Blue Team arrives at the Forerunner world Genesis, where they discover the true reason for the Guardian’s activation.

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Reunion is the seventh campaign level of Halo 5: Guardians.

Completing the level on any difficulty grants the player the achievement "Together Again", worth 10 Gamerscore points. Destroying the Phantom at the Covenant camp on Heroic or Legendary difficulty grants the player the achievement "No Witnesses", worth 10 Gamerscore points. Traversing the canyon section without a Phaeton on Heroic or Legendary difficulty grants the player the achievement "Take a Hike", worth 10 Gamerscore points.

Transcript

{Cutscene}

Establishing shot of the UNSC Infinity, after Fireteam Osiris has escaped from Meridian.

• Thomas Lasky: "There have been five more events following Meridian."

Cut to the Infinity's bridge. Lasky walks to meet with Sarah Palmer and Dr. Halsey, while accompanied by Jameson Locke.

• Lasky: "That's eleven colonies. I need a means to stop this now."

• Locke: "The Warden confirmed Doctor Halsey's theory: Cortana is reactivating the Guardians."

Locke and Lasky reach Halsey's computer, where she's projected images of the Guardian and an alien city.

• Halsey: "But not this one. Not yet. Sunaion. A pre-Covenant religious site on Sanghelios."

• Lasky: "There's a Guardian on the Elite homeworld?"

• Palmer: "If we can get a team on the ground, we can access that Guardian."

• Lasky: "Sanghelios is off limits. The brass wants nothing to do with Arbiter's war."

Roland's hologram appears behind them.

• Roland: "That's because they haven't heard my great idea."

Roland claps his hands. A projection of a sound wave plays above his desk. It then transforms into eight sets of four digit numbers, and Forerunner symbols below them.

• Roland: "That noise is an encoded numerical pattern. Paired quantum phase sets. Slipspace coordinates for a Forerunner map."

• Palmer: "If Locke's team could feed the Guardian the coordinates recorded on Meridian, it would take them to the same place Cortana took the Master Chief."

Palmer looks at Lasky while he ponders.

• Palmer: "Tom. We can stop this."

Lasky stays silent, thinking it over.

• Locke: "But it means going to Sanghelios."

Lasky mulls over their words, then steps out.

• Lasky: "I'll make arrangements."

Lasky walks off the bridge, looking worried. Fade to black.

Fade in on an establishing shot of a green and blue planet. Cut to its surface, where the Guardian from Meridian has parked. Blue Team's Spartans have stepped off it to a platform leading to a building ahead.

Cut to the Spartans on the platform. As they walk towards the doorway, a pulse flashes behind them. They turn to see another Guardian exiting a slipspace portal.

• Kelly-087: "There's another one."

The Spartans watch the Guardian assemble itself, and Frederic-104 looks at John-117.

• Fred: "What's Cortana up to, Chief? Why'd she bring us here?"

John looks back at Fred.

• John: "Let's keep moving."

He turns and walks, and the Spartans follow him.

WAR WAS IN THE GATES

{Gameplay}

• Fred: "Where are we?"

• Kelly: "No comm traffic on any band. No long-range uplinks at all."

• Linda-058: "Long way from nowhere then."

• John: "We were brought to this location for a reason. Search ahead."

If the player stalls:

• Kelly: "We should move. We aren't going to find any answers standing here."

The Spartans head forward into the Forerunner facility ahead. As Blue Team heads up the ramp leading into the structure, a Forerunner console assembles itself ahead of them.

• Any member of Blue Team: "Console lit up as I approached."

The console has a hologram of four circles in an upside triangle pattern. It plays a sound familiar to the Spartans - Oly Oly Oxen Free.

• Kelly or Fred: "What was that? It came from the console."

• Fred: "How many years has it been since we used that signal?"

• John: "Access the console. It's Cortana."

The player extends a hand, hesitant, then drags the lowest circle in the center circle. The console flashes then descends back into the floor from where it assembled. The platform the Chief and Blue Team are standing on moves downward towards the path on the other side of the structure. At the same time a large, circular Forerunner building visible through the window in front starts to activate.

• John: "Cortana. Cortana, do you read me?"

There is no answer.

• Kelly: "No response."

The lift continues downward and eventually stops at the start of a grass covered path leading ahead.

• Kelly: "What is this place?"

• Linda: "Forerunner planet. Beyond that, who knows."

• John: "Wherever we are, Cortana brought us here. She's out there somewhere."

• Fred: "Chief, back on Meridian - there was a lot of destruction. There were civilians."

• John: "I know."

• Kelly: "She may not have known what would happen."

• Linda: "And if she did?"

• John: "We'll learn what's going on when we find her."

The Spartans head down the path ahead. There are many strange plants and rock structures surrounding them, as well as alien animals.

• Kelly: "This place is incredible."

• Fred: "Gives me the creeps."

• Linda: "Bio-readings are unlike anything we've previously recorded. There's a formalness and precision to it all. It seems...artificial, but still organic."

• Kelly: "Halsey would have already started taking samples."

• Fred: "She'd have probably figured out the exact coordinates of this planet by now."

Blue Team continues to head along the path, passing a cliff edge. The circular building can still be seen dimly active nearby.

• Kelly: "Accessing that console activated that large structure. Given the signal we heard, do you think she's over there?"

• John: "Possible."

A dead Grunt, Jeem Ribfi, is on a fork in the path. If the player encounters his dead body.

• John: "Dead Grunt. What are Covenant doing here? Stay alert."

Or if another character approaches it.

• Fred or Kelly: "There's a dead Grunt here. What the hell are the Covenant doing here?"

• John: "Stay alert."

The Spartans proceed ahead to a ledge blocking their view of the canyon below. As they do so, they can hear the voices of Grunts and Elites.

• Sangheili: "This is the land promised by the Prophets!"

If the player encountered the dead Grunt:

• Fred: "There's the rest of the Covenant."

If the player did not encounter the dead Grunt:

• Fred: "Sounds like an Elite. What the hell are the Covenant doing here?"

• John: "Ready up Blue Team."

• Sangheili: "Search the area! Return word of any more survivors!"

• Unggoy: "Are we dead? Is this the end of the world?!"

• Sangheili: "Stop sniveling and move!"

If the Covenant spot the player.

• Sangheili: "The Demon has come!"

• Unggoy: "What are humans doing here?!"

Blue Team eliminates all hostiles.

• Any member of Blue Team: "All clear."

• Linda: "What are the Covenant doing here?"

• Kelly: "They seem confused. I don't think they've been here long."

The Spartans proceed into the next canyon, where more Covenant await. A Phantom is dropping off reinforcements.

• John: "More hostiles. Ready up."

Sometimes if the player stalls.

• Kelly: "I'm curious. I never worked with an AI before. Not like you did with Cortana at least. What's it like, her voice in your head all of the time?"

• John: "It's... unique."

• Kelly: "Care to elaborate?"

• John: "No."

The Phantom flies away as Blue Team attacks. They clear the canyon then head into a tunnel where more Covenant have taken position.

• Sangheili: "Form up! We must not allow the humans to tread in the holy land!"

If the player stalls.

• Fred: "We should move on. Don't want any Covenant patrols getting the drop on us."

More Covenant are further in the tunnel.

• Unggoy 1: "We going inside yet?"

• Unggoy 2: "No. Stupid shield is still in the way."

When they see the player.

• Unggoy: "The Demon! Run!"

Blue Team exits the tunnel. They see another Forerunner gate at the top of the hill.

• Any member of Blue Team: "There's a Forerunner facility here."

• Fred: "Covenant seem to think it should belong to them."

• John: "Break through their line."

The Spartans engage the Covenant, who have set up Shade turrets at the gate.

• Sangheili: "Drive the humans back! This temple is ours!"

Blue Team reaches the top of the hill. An energy shield blocks further passage.

• Any member of Blue Team: "The path is shielded."

When the Covenant troops are defeated, the shield disappears.

• Any member of Blue Team: "Area clear. Move up."

• Any member of Blue Team: "The shield lowered when the last of the Covenant dropped."

• Fred: "Almost like someone was trying to keep the Covenant out."

• Linda: "But not us."

• Kelly: "Assuming we're right and Cortana is on this planet, how did she get here?"

• John: "The Didact's ship was pulled into slipspace. It could have ended up anywhere."

If the player stalls.

• John: "Blue Team, let's move."

Sometimes, if the player stalls further.

• Fred: "So, the new kids."

• John: "The Spartans on Meridian?"

• Fred: "Yeah. They look like the real deal to you?"

• John: "As I said. They were Spartans."

The Spartans head into the temple. Inside another console appears, which also whistles Oly Oly Oxen Free.

• Any member of Blue Team: "The sig