CE:The Maw
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Installation 04, inside the crash site of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn |
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Destroy and escape from the Pillar of Autumn |
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00:15:00 (Master Chief Collection-only) |
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18,000 (Master Chief Collection-only) |
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Halopedia has a walkthrough guide for this level; see CE:The Maw/Walkthrough. |
| “ | Destroy Halo before Halo destroys all life in the galaxy. | ” |
The Maw is the tenth and final level in Halo: Combat Evolved.
The Master Chief makes his way through the UNSC Pillar of Autumn's wreck in order to detonate the ship's fusion reactors and destroy Halo, the Flood, and the Covenant armada, thus preventing the destruction of humans and potentially, all sentient life in the galaxy. Just like the previous two levels, the player has no allies.
In 2026 the level was remade entirely for inclusion in Halo: Campaign Evolved.
Transcripts[edit]
...And the Horse You Rode In On[edit]
{Original Cutscene} {Anniversary Cutscene}
The view skims low over a large body of water, tinted gold by an oncoming sunrise.
View slowly pans up as it flies over the sand, revealing a burnt coastline, and a giant gouge where the terrain has been ripped away and the sea has flooded into the newly-formed canyon. At the top of that canyon rises the massive stern of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, relatively intact.
View circles around the side and front of her, revealing that her nose is hanging just slightly off a massive cliff; the antennae along the bow have been bent and torn away. The entire bow has been severely burnt; the metal is badly scarred. As the view circles around to reveal the ship's starboard side, a damaged and smoking Banshee drifts into view.
Cuts to a view of the ship's exterior through one of the empty Bumblebee airlocks. The damaged Banshee comes into the frame and veers wildly towards the Autumn.
- Cortana: "This thing is falling apart!"
- Master Chief Petty Officer John-117: "It'll hold."
- Cortana: "We're not gonna make it!"
- John-117: "We'll make it."
- Cortana: "Pull up! Pull up!"
The Banshee drops just before reaching the Bumblebee slip and smashes into the side of the Pillar of Autumn, sending debris and fire hurling out madly.
- Cortana: "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
The Master Chief's hand appears from below and grips the edge of the ship, and he looks around the interior before pulling himself up and onto the Pillar of Autumn.
{Gameplay}
- Cortana: "We need to get to the bridge. From there, we can use the Captain's neural implants to initiate an overload of the ship's fusion engines. The explosion should damage enough systems below it to destroy the ring."
As the Master Chief heads for the bridge, he is forced to engage Covenant, Flood, and Sentinels as they battle throughout the corridors. The Pillar of Autumn's mess hall is occupied by a Covenant Special Operations team. The Chief kills all enemies present and eventually, he reaches the bridge.
- Cortana: "The bridge. We made it. Let's get to work."
The Master Chief clears out another Covenant Special Operations team guarding the bridge.
- Cortana: "I need you to upload me into the control systems. The terminal is located next to the main view screen."
{Original Cutscene} {Anniversary Cutscene}
The Master Chief takes Cortana's chip from his helmet and inserts it into the cylindrical terminal near the front of the bridge. Cortana's avatar appears above it. She looks around.
- Cortana: "I leave home for a few days, and look what happens. This won't take long."
She concentrates for a moment, and the main screen flickers to life.
SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE INITIATED
Security protocols met. Begin evac procedures. All secondary and redundant systems shut down effective immediately.
A countdown begins from a random starting point between five and twenty minutes.
- Cortana: "There. That should give us enough time to make it to a lifeboat and put some distance between ourselves and Halo before the detonation."
The Master Chief moves to unplug Cortana from the terminal, but stops abruptly when he hears an all-too-familiar voice.
- 343 Guilty Spark (COM): "I'm afraid that's out of the question, really."
- Cortana: "Oh, hell!"
- 343 Guilty Spark (COM): "Ridiculous! That you would imbue a warship's AI with such a wealth of knowledge! Weren't you worried it might be captured? Or destroyed?"
Cortana concentrates once more.
- Cortana: "He's in my data arrays, a local tap!"
Cuts to 343 Guilty Spark in the engine room. He is scanning a computer console.
- 343 Guilty Spark: "You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all of our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating."
343 Guilty Spark flutters around Engineering, as groups of Sentinels hover around in the background, and scans another console.
- 343 Guilty Spark: "Oh, how I will enjoy every moment of its categorization! And to think that you would destroy this installation, as well as this record... I am shocked. Almost too shocked for words."
Cuts back to the bridge. A tone sounds over the ship's speakers. The countdown timer freezes.
SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE ABORTED
Security protocols restored. Return to duty stations. All systems reset.
- Cortana: "He stopped the self-destruct sequence..."
The Master Chief surveys the bridge carefully with his Assault Rifle, never missing a beat.
- 343 Guilty Spark (COM): "Why do you continue to fight us, Reclaimer? You cannot win! Give us the construct, and I will endeavor to make your death relatively painless, and -"
He is cut off as another tone sounds.
- Cortana: "At least I still have control over the comm channels."
- John-117: "Where is he?"
- Cortana: "I'm detecting taps throughout the ship - Sentinels, most likely. As for the Monitor... He's in Engineering. He must be trying to take the core offline! Even if I could get the countdown restarted... I don't know what to do."
Cortana shrugs her arms in desperation.
- John-117: "How much firepower would you need to crack one of the engine's shields?"
- Cortana: "Not much. A well-placed grenade perhaps, but why-"
