Editing Tsavo highway (location)

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{{Center|''"Tsavo Highway" redirects here. For the campaign level, see [[Tsavo Highway]].''}}
[[File:Highway 2.jpg|250px|thumb|The Tsavo Highway, damaged during the [[Battle of Earth]].]]

'''Tsavo Highway''' {{Ref/Level|Id=H3TH|H3|Tsavo Highway}} was a highway in the [[East African Protectorate]], [[Earth]] that ran from [[Voi]], [[Kenya]] to [[Arusha]], [[Tanzania]].

==Route description==
[[File:Arusha.jpg|thumb|A mileage sign on Tsavo Highway showing distances to Checkpoint 8 and Arusha, Tanzania.]]
The Tsavo Highway begins in the industrial port city of Voi at an intersection with [[Nairobi Road]], a major roadway that continued east to [[New Mombasa]]. The road snakes through the hills west of Voi via tunnels and elevated viaducts, with a [[Crow's Nest|UNSC airbase]] within close vicinity.{{Ref/Reuse|H3TH}} Tsavo Highway runs past [[Voi Municipal Water Pump House 03]] and [[Checkpoint 8]] before descending back down to the flat, dry savannah. Eventually the road reaches the Tanzanian border, and afterwards the city of Arusha. {{Ref/Level|Id=H3THRS|H3|Tsavo Highway|Detail=Road sign decal}}

[[GWC Trans-African Pipelines|Pipelines]] built and operated by the [[Global Water Campaign]] ran alongside the Tsavo Highway, carrying purified meltwater from [[Mount Kilimanjaro]] to be distributed throughout Africa.{{Ref/Site|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13287|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Ghost Town Revealed|D=13|M=10|Y=2014}} This water passes through Pump House 03, which supplied water for the town of Voi.

The Tsavo Highway is maintained by the [[Tterrab Highway Authority]],{{Ref/Reuse|H3THRS}} which is known to have also maintained [[New Mombasa 105 East]], an urban highway that connected northern [[Old Mombasa]] with [[New Mombasa]].{{Ref/Game|H2|Outskirts}}{{Ref/Game|H2|Metropolis}}

==History==
{{Main|Assault on the Tsavo Highway}}
The road within the vicinity of Voi suffered critical damage when the [[Mombasa Tether|New Mombasa space elevator]] collapsed, raining debris such as support rings and cables all over the countryside surrounding New Mombasa. During the [[Battle of Earth]], the [[Covenant]] occupied and barricaded the highway towards Voi with [[Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraith tanks]], [[Barukaza Workshop Chopper|Chopper]]s, and infantry formations.{{Ref/Reuse|H3TH}}

On [[2552#November|November 17, 2552]], [[John-117]] and a band of [[UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marines]] from the [[Crow's Nest (location)|UNSC airbase]] assaulted the highway as they made their way to Voi.{{Ref/Reuse|H3TH}} Ultimately, the Tsavo Highway in Voi's vicinity would be [[Glassing|glassed]] by the [[Fleet of Retribution]] in order to destroy all [[Flood]] that crashed into the city. {{Ref/Level|H3|Floodgate}}

==Trivia==
*Tsavo Highway is the setting of [[Tsavo Highway]], the third [[campaign]] mission of [[Halo 3]].
*Despite its name, Tsavo Highway does not run through the town of [[Tsavo]], but instead the [[Nairobi Road]] as it heads for [[Nairobi]]. 
**Tsavo Highway could instead be named after the contemporary [[Wikipedia:Tsavo West National Park|Tsavo West National Park]], which the road runs through in order to reach Tanzania.
*In [[Halo 3 Epsilon]], a prerelease build of the game, there were road sign decals that mention a '''Checkpoint 4''' that were removed from the final game. <!-- Citation needed!! apparently people aren't really interested at taking a screenshot of a road sign facing the opposite direction players are supposed to go while playing a beta build... hopefully some can get Epsilon running and grab a pic! -->

==Gallery==
===Concept art===
<gallery>
File:H3 Voi Highway Concept.jpg|Concept art of the highway structure.
File:H3 HighwayConcept1.jpg|Concept art of a highway tunnel.
File:H3 HighwayConcept2.jpg|Concept art of a broken section of the highway.
File:H3 HighwayConcept3.jpg|Concept art of a construction zone on the highway.
File:H3 HighwayConcept4.jpg|Concept art of another highway tunnel.
</gallery>

===Screenshots===
<gallery>
File:H3 E3 Tsavo Highway Road.jpg|UNSC forces charge the Covenant-held Tsavo Highway.
File:H3 Tough Luck Pipe.jpeg|The GWC pipelines along the highway.
File:Pumphouse 3.jpg|[[Voi Municipal Water Pump House 03]] near Voi.
File:Chopper encounter.jpg|A section of the highway during the Battle of Earth.
File:Kenya Panorama.jpg|Panorama of the highway and its surroundings.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo 3]]'' {{1st}}

== Sources ==
{{Ref/Sources}}

[[Category:Roads]]
[[Category:East African Protectorate]]