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''(Co-op Change)'' '''Johnson (COM)''': "[[Rtas 'Vadum|The Shipmaster]] will do the same with the Elites."
''(Co-op Change)'' '''Johnson (COM)''': "[[Rtas 'Vadum|The Shipmaster]] will do the same with the Elites."


[[File:H3-MC-Boot-FloodBiomass.jpg|thumb|300px|Flood organic materials stuck on the Chief's boot.]]
''The Chief shakes off some organic material sticking to his boot.''
''The Chief shakes off some organic material sticking to his boot.''


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''The Chief heads through a tunnel littered with bones and skulls, and enters the reactor room. He sees one of the four reactor pylons malfunction and overload. The Chief fights his way through the reactor room, and exits through a door on the other side. He enters yet another hallway.''
''The Chief heads through a tunnel littered with bones and skulls, and enters the reactor room. He sees one of the four reactor pylons malfunction and overload. The Chief fights his way through the reactor room, and exits through a door on the other side. He enters yet another hallway.''


*'''Cortana (Cortana Moment)''': ''(panicking, voice slightly distorted)'' "There will be no more sadness, no more anger, no more envy!" ''(a reference to the three main stages of rampancy.)''
*'''Cortana (Cortana Moment)''': ''(panicking, voice slightly distorted)'' "There will be no more sadness, no more anger, no more envy!"  


*'''Gravemind (Gravemind Moment)''': ''(enraged)'' "You ''will'' show me [[Activation Index|what she hides]]...or I shall feast upon your ''bones''!"
*'''Gravemind (Gravemind Moment)''': ''(enraged)'' "You ''will'' show me [[Activation Index|what she hides]]...or I shall feast upon your ''bones''!"


[[File:Cortanam2.jpg|thumb|300px|Cortana turns green.]]
''The Chief begins to reach the end of the hallway.''
''The Chief begins to reach the end of the hallway.''


*'''Cortana (Cortana Moment)''': ''(speaking in a calm, distorted, monotone voice as though brainwashed. Her image is green.)'' "This is [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[AI serial number|AI Serial Number]] CTN 0452-9. I am a monument to all your sins."  
*'''Cortana (Cortana Moment)''': ''(speaking in a calm, distorted, monotone voice as though brainwashed. Her image is green.)'' "This is [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[AI serial number|AI Serial Number]] CTN 0452-9. I am a monument to all your sins."  
[[File:H3-Cortana-StasisField.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The shielded podium in which Cortana is trapped.]]


''The Chief rushes to the end of the hallway and enters the former [[Sanctum of the Hierarchs]]. There he finds Cortana lying prone in a stasis field in a center podium. He bashes the shield until it finally fails. Cut to black.''
''The Chief rushes to the end of the hallway and enters the former [[Sanctum of the Hierarchs]]. There he finds Cortana lying prone in a stasis field in a center podium. He bashes the shield until it finally fails. Cut to black.''
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*'''John-117''': "Lucky me. Do you still have it?"
*'''John-117''': "Lucky me. Do you still have it?"


[[File:H3-Index and Cortana.jpg|thumb|300px|Cortana shows the index to John-117.]]
''Cortana slowly gets up. As she does, she begins to glow more brightly and the lines of code and equations begin to fall over her surface again. She opens her palm and a hologram of the Index appears above it.''
''Cortana slowly gets up. As she does, she begins to glow more brightly and the lines of code and equations begin to fall over her surface again. She opens her palm and a hologram of the Index appears above it.''


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*'''Cortana''': ''(amused)'' "[[Gravemind (level)|Wait]], you [[Thel 'Vadam|two]] [[Arrival|made]] [[Sierra 117|nice]]? [[Battle of Kenya|What ''else'']] [[Battle of Installation 00|did you do]] [[Human Weakness|while I was gone]]…?"
*'''Cortana''': ''(amused)'' "[[Gravemind (level)|Wait]], you [[Thel 'Vadam|two]] [[Arrival|made]] [[Sierra 117|nice]]? [[Battle of Kenya|What ''else'']] [[Battle of Installation 00|did you do]] [[Human Weakness|while I was gone]]…?"


[[File:H3 High Charity Blowing up.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[High Charity]] is destroyed.]]
[[File:H3 High Charity Blowing up.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''High Charity'' is destroyed.]]


''The Chief and 'Vadam clear the immediate area of remaining Flood, then head outside.''
''The Chief and 'Vadam clear the immediate area of remaining Flood, then head outside.''
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<gallery>
<gallery>
File:H3_HighCharity_Schematic_Concept.jpg|A concept art schematic for the level.
File:H3_HighCharity_Schematic_Concept.jpg|A concept art schematic for the level.
File:MausoleumConcept.jpg|Early concepy art of John-117 looking at Mausoleum of the Arbiter.
File:H3 Cortana Concept 1.jpg|Concept art of the environment in the level.
File:H3 Cortana Concept 1.jpg|Concept art of the environment in the level.
File:H3 Cortana Reactor Concept.jpg|Concept art of the reactor room.
File:H3 Cortana Reactor Concept.jpg|Concept art of the reactor room.
File:H3 Cortana Concept 2.jpg|Concept art of the Master Chief's raid within High Charity.
File:H3 Cortana Concept 2.jpg|Concept art of the Master Chief's raid within ''High Charity''.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_3.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested High Charity.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_3.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested ''High Charity''.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_4.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested High Charity.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_4.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested ''High Charity''.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_5.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested High Charity.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_5.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested ''High Charity''.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_6.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested High Charity.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_6.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested ''High Charity''.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_7.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested High Charity.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_7.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested ''High Charity''.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_8.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested High Charity.
File:H3_Cortana_Concept_8.jpg|Concept art of the Flood-infested ''High Charity''.
File:H3 Gravemind Concept.jpg|Concept art of an encounter between the Chief and the Gravemind.
File:H3 Gravemind Concept.jpg|Concept art of an encounter between the Chief and the Gravemind.
</gallery>
</gallery>
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File:H3-MC-Boot-FloodBiomass.jpg|John-117 finds Flood biomass stuck on his boot upon arrival.
File:H3-MC-Boot-FloodBiomass.jpg|John-117 finds Flood biomass stuck on his boot upon arrival.
File:H3-JohnFlamethrower.jpg|John-117 uses a flamethrower against a Flood combat form.
File:H3-JohnFlamethrower.jpg|John-117 uses a flamethrower against a Flood combat form.
File:H3-Index and Cortana.jpg|Cortana shows the index to John-117.
File:H3-Cortana-StasisField.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The shielded podium in which Cortana is trapped.
File:H3 Arbiter Flamethrower.jpg|Thel 'Vadam, wielding a flamethrower, links up with John-117.
File:H3 Arbiter Flamethrower.jpg|Thel 'Vadam, wielding a flamethrower, links up with John-117.
File:H3-117 and Cortana (Cortana level).jpg|The Chief and Cortana ready to escape on a Pelican.
File:H3-117 and Cortana (Cortana level).jpg|The Chief and Cortana ready to escape on a Pelican.