The Command Spire
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| “ | Shut down the rest of the Spires. | ” |
The Command Spire is the twelfth campaign main mission in Halo Infinite, under the fifth campaign section "Reformation".
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| “ | Chief and the Weapon enter the second Spire, ready to bring the Reformation to a halt. Inside, they learn that the Banished have been working to gain access to a secretive location called the Silent Auditorium. They shut down the Spires and await extraction by the Pilot, when suddenly the Pelican is hijacked by a Spartan Killer and steered north, away from the crumbling facility. The Weapon quickly opens a portal, and escapes with Chief in pursuit of their friend. | ” |
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{Gameplay}
The Chief continues his ascent to the Command Spire via the gravity lift, which runs in parallel with four purple-yellow energy beams (the same color as the beam weapons used by Zeta Halo's Sentinels).
- The Harbinger: "Do you have any idea of what you are interfering with? The Monitor's Encephalon has served its purpose! The Reformation has begun. Nothing can stop it."
The Chief arrives inside the Command Spire.
- Harbinger: "They will be found!"
Aggressor Sentinels attack the Chief as he steps off the elevator.
If the Chief tries to access the terminal before killing all the Sentinels:
- Weapon: (annoyed) "Not now. Sentinels first."
The Chief eliminates the attacking Sentinels.
- Weapon: "Get me to that terminal and we can end this now."
The Chief deploys the Weapon onto the terminal.
{Cutscene}
The Weapon shoots the Chief a cold look, before turning around and hacking the terminal.
- Weapon: (studying the data) "The Spires are all now active." (noticing something) "Oh."
- John-117: "What is it?"
- Weapon: (curtly) "I wasn't talking to you."
She turns her attention back to the data.
- Weapon: "The Reformation is being focused on a specific area called... the Silent Auditorium. Interestingly... all the records of its purpose are missing."
She turns to the Chief.
- Weapon: "The only way up is through there."
She points upward with both hands.
- Weapon: "Let's get this over with."
The Chief starts to reach for the Weapon, but pauses, as if expecting her to say something else. When she remains silent, he uploads her back into his armor.
{Gameplay}
A section of wall lowers itself and splits apart, exposing a shaft through which one of the four energy beams flows.
If the Chief gets too close to the beam:
- Weapon: (apathetically) "Wouldn't get too close to that. Unless you want to die. That beam will incinerate you."
Avoiding the beam, the Chief uses his Grappleshot to climb the various pillars and ledges surrounding the beam.
- Pilot (COM): "Is anyone going to talk about what happened back there?"
- Weapon: "Ask him."
- Pilot (COM): "Chief?"
The Chief doesn't reply.
- Pilot (COM): "I guess not. Well, from what I saw something bad happened. She... you were stuck. In pain. Trapped."
- Weapon: "And he was going to delete me."
- Pilot (COM): (startled) "What? Chief? Really?"
- Weapon: "He doesn't talk much. He's more of what you might call a man of action. Especially when it comes to killing things. Right, Chief?"
The Chief ignores her and continues to climb the energy beam shaft. After reaching the top of the shaft, he steps into an adjacent chamber containing a Crucible. After eliminating the Sentinels patrolling the room, he searches for a power seed.
If the Chief spends too much time wandering around:
- Weapon: (sardonically) "A little lost, huh? Think scanning for clues might help?"
The Chief locates a power seed, retrieves it, and returns to the Crucible. After dealing with another Sentinel patrol, he inserts the power seed into the Crucible. A seal on the center of the floor slides open, enabling the gravity lift below to extend to this section of the Spire. The Chief enters the gravity lift and ascends to the next level.
Arriving at the next level, he finds racks of Banished weaponry, indicating the presence of Banished troops in the immediate vicinity. After arming himself appropriately, he heads up a ramp and discovers a manufacturing chamber behind a glass window. Within the chamber, the Forerunner machinery is assembling the building blocks needed to rebuild the Silent Auditorium.
- Weapon: "The Spire is active. And yes. Before you say it, I know it needs to be shut down but... (in genuine awe) look at it. It's accelerating the Reformation. Creating raw materials and sending them out."
- John-117: "To repair the Ring?"
- Weapon: "Obviously. Or something more specific."
- John-117: "Something dangerous?"
- Weapon: "Probably. Everything has the potential to be dangerous. Right?"
The Chief continues his journey up the Spire and soon encounters Banished troops and the Harbinger's Skimmers. After clearing out these enemies, the Chief uses a Forerunner terminal to unlock a door. Two Jiralhanae Berserkers rush out as it opens.
- Jiralhanae Berserker: "Alert the War Chief! He's breaching this Spire!"
The Chief fights his way through more enemies, including a Sangheili Warlord. He then steps onto a floor portal and is teleported to another section of the Spire. He fights through several chambers where the newly forged building blocks are being transported through the Command Spire.
In the third transport chamber, he overhears a couple of Unggoy conversing.
- Unggoy 1: "I thought we won this war already! Killed all the humans! What gives? We wouldn't be in this mess if stupid Atriox had done his job!"
- Unggoy 2: (hushed tone) "You want the Brutes to hear you talking like that? Keep it down!"
The Chief eventually finds another gravity lift, which he uses to ascend to the next level. He then enters a much larger transport chamber, where he has to fight through Banished, Skimmers, and Sentinels (including Eliminators), all united in defense of the Reformation.
- Sangheili Ultra: "The Silent Auditorium belongs to the Banished! This Ring WILL be ours!"
After defeating all these enemies, the Chief finds another floor portal and teleports to a hallway.
- Pilot (COM): "Are you two done yet?"
- Weapon: "Totally."
- Pilot (COM): "I mean the Spire."
- Weapon: "So did I. Mostly. We're nearly at the top."
- Pilot (COM): "Good, because something is being built... well... rebuilt."
- John-117: "What is it?"
- Pilot (COM): "Something big."
The Master Chief enters the next chamber, where he spots the elevator that will take him to the Command Spire's Observation Platform. There's no light bridge here, so he uses his Grappleshot to cross the chasm. As soon as the Chief lands on the central platform, giant pillars rise all around the elevator, blocking access. A moment later, Adjutant Resolution appears, sporting a new Eradicator Sentinel combat chassis.
- Adjutant Resolution: "Be warned. This configuration is superior to my last."
Or
- Adjutant Resolution: "I regret to inform you that this will be our last encounter."
Or
- Adjutant Resolution: "I will no longer tolerate your interference!"
- Weapon: "Oh, good. Him again."
Sentinels arrive to reinforce the Sub-Monitor.
- Weapon: "And look. He brought friends. Did you hear me? He. Has. Friends."
True to his word, Adjutant Resolution's new combat chassis is much more powerful and durable than the previous version. Nevertheless, after a lengthy battle, the Chief defeats the Sub-Monitor again. Any remaining "friends" promptly self-destruct and the pillars surrounding the elevator lower themselves.
- Weapon: "That's him dealt with. Again. There should be an elevator that will get us up top."
The Chief steps onto the elevator and rides it up to the Observation Platform.
Fade to black.
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