Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)

"Are you ready, Reclaimer? This is how my story begins."

- 04-343 Guilty Spark

The video game Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary features a Terminal accessible to the player in each level. Unlike the text-based Terminals in Halo 3, the Terminals feature animation, music, sound effects and narration by 343 Guilty Spark and a handful of other characters. The Terminals will also have connections to the story of Halo 4 and The Forerunner Saga.

The graphics and audio for the Terminals is produced by The Sequence Group. Most of the terminals were written by 343 Industries Managing Editor Kevin Grace.

Just like the skulls, the terminals cannot be seen in Classic mode.

The Pillar of Autumn
The terminal is one of the computer consoles located on the Autumn's bridge. All of the console's screens shows "INCOMING MESSAGE", and a crewman is standing beside it instead of manning the console.

Halo
Near the start of the tunnel, you will come across a ledge leading to the next section. If you carry on the route rather than make the jump, you will drive past the second terminal which is seen at the end of a short corridor.

The Truth and Reconciliation
The third terminal is located within the vessel's bridge amongst the front holographic displays.

The Silent Cartographer
The fourth terminal is located beside a structure near the centre of the island where the first Hunter pair is fought.

The Assault on the Control Room
The fifth terminal is located at the bottom of a pit in front of the Control Room structure at the end of the level. The terminal is on the ground, under the base of a large metal strut that runs diagonally down the front building.

343 Guilty Spark
The sixth terminal is found while riding the third elevator that will allow you to escape the underground facility. You'll find the terminal above the doorway you came out of. It can be reached by activating the elevator, then timing it correctly and jumping off onto the platform below (this may take a few attempts, but the elevator can be activated as many times as needed.)

The Library
To get to the seventh terminal you must get to the third floor. You will eventually come to a room with a large circular room (the Index platform will be above it. Go either right of left and jump over the barriers until you get to the opposite side. The terminal will be plain as day before you even reach it.

Two Betrayals
The eighth terminal is in the control room at the beginning of the level, walk around the the circular platform and you'll find the terminal directly across from the control console.

Keyes
The ninth terminal can be found after you find Keyes absorbed into the Proto-Gravemind, kill the Covenant and Flood that attempt to ambush you, then search the sunken crevices to the side of the raised platform. The terminal will be down inside one of the two.

The Maw
The tenth and final terminal in the game can be found in the Cryogenic Storage Bay where Sentinels will be busy fighting the Flood. A glowing Control console on the wall will house the final terminal.

Transcripts
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Terminal 1
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''Zoom into the screen of a UNSC computer system. The screen experiences graphical glitches, then changes to a Forerunner map of star systems in the local area of the galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark's voice is heard narrating:''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Warning! By order of Ecumene Council, proximity to Installation 04 is forbidden."

''The seven Halo rings are shown on screen. The fourth ring is highlighted. The ring's location is indicated in a cluster of stars.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Your continued presence will result in most unpleasant countermeasures. I must insist that you change course and return to a minimum safe distance of one light-year."

''Zoom into the highlighted area of space. The is shown to be well inside the 0.5 light-year radius of the exclusion zone around the installation. The ship is circled by a red line, and a 30-second countdown begins. As 343 Guilty Spark narrates further, he begins scanning the structure of the Pillar of Autumn.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "This has served as your one and final warning. I have activated defensive systems, and you now have thirty seconds to return to the minimum safe distance of - wait. Curious."

Several scenes are briefly displayed: a group of prehistoric humans around a fire, a citizen of ancient Greece, the Egyptian pyramids, a shot of an 18th-century city around the time of the Industrial Revolution, a soldier in World War II, an atomic bomb blast, Neil Armstrong standing on the Moon, the International Space Station, humans testing an unknown device (possibly a fusion reactor or Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine), an Orbital Defense Platform, and a SPARTAN-II.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Curious indeed! After all these years..."

The countdown to the countermeasure against the Autumn'' is suspended, then cancelled. A trajectory for landing on the ring, followed by a readout of the Mark V MJOLNIR armor is displayed.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Greetings, humans, and welcome to Installation 04. Ignore prior warnings, and please continue. I have disabled defensive systems to allow your approach, but you must not exit your ship once you have arrived at the designated landing center. This ring contains significant dangers, and even with your assumed legacy, I must verify the presence and pitch of your geas before allowing full access. We have much to discuss, humans."

343 Guilty Spark himself appears on-screen.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "I have been away far too long. You have been away far too long."

Terminal 2
{Cutscene}

''The Ark, intergalactic space. 343 Guilty Spark flies through a large debris field. Several Halos are orbiting the Ark.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "I am experiencing such a mixture of anticipation and dread. All preparations are complete for my installation. In accordance with the final dictum of the Ecumene Council, I have released myself of all remaining connections to my former station."

Guilty Spark is inside a Forerunner structure, gliding down a dimly lit hallway.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "This was not difficult. What was could never be again. We had seen to that quite thoroughly."

''Six monitors of various colors converge on the center of a large round chamber, decorated with a glyph on the floor.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Prior to my final journey through the great portal, a gathering of my fellow monitors was convened upon the Lifeworkers' crèche to distribute the final Index collection."

''Fade to a different scene. Several armored Forerunners stand in various places in the chamber. Guilty Spark enters the room and flies toward the other monitors.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "It was most unusual to have this vessel of rebirth play host to such an event, even though Lifeworker ships were the only ones still allowed slipspace permissions. Lifeworkers were responsible for getting us to our places on the active facilities of the Array. While all of this was in accordance with the plan, one entirely unsatisfactory breakdown remained. We had no contact with the Domain."

''Guilty Spark pauses and faces a Forerunner. The Forerunner bows his/her head, as if unhappy with what is to come. Guilty Spark moves on and flies into an adjoining chamber, where he meets 049 Abject Testament.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "The history of all Forerunners was now lost to us. We relied upon the permanence of the Domain to preserve our record of the events that led to this point. But without that record, would future civilizations know anything about us? Or only of our weapons?"

''As Guilty Spark narrates, the view shifts through several different locations: a Forerunner planet emblazoned with glyphs, large Forerunner structures in an unknown location, a forest with a large Forerunner building rising above the treeline, two Forerunners watching a ship outside a large window, an unknown starship, and two Forerunners standing in a city. One is smaller than the other, possibly being a Manipular.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "My fellow Monitor, 049 Abject Testament, had only one comment on this before we went our separate ways."


 * 049 Abject Testament: "We deserve to be forgotten."


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Perhaps... perhaps."

A massive slipspace portal opens in the space above the Ark, and the other side comes into a view: Installation 04 is seen from the other side.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "But now, the portal opens, and through it, the familiar shape awaits. Halo. Home."

Terminal 3
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 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Construct! Who is your maker?"


 * Covenant AI: "Sadness and disrepair, Oracle. I am unworthy. I was not made."


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Never made? But you are right here, where you should not be. Tell your charges to cease their efforts immediately. Quarantine must not be violated!"

A holographic schematic of the Truth and Reconciliation is shown, it is scanned with a certain section being highlighted in green.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Construct, respond."


 * Covenant AI: "Jumbled grass... familiar turns... I serve. None serve me, Oracle."


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Your charges must cease all aggression toward the Reclaimers and leave this Installation at once. Construct, you are dangerously close to unleashing a force you cannot comprehend."

Multiple Flood super cells are shown dividing, from a Sangheili's perspective it's arm is shown transforming into a Combat Form, while the roars of a Combat form can be heard.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "This is most inappropriate."


 * Covenant AI: "We follow the Path, and I am part of the stone-turning swarm that serves. I... we serve. They will find, and then I will be free."


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Find? Free? Explain yourself."


 * Covenant AI: "I know their path. And when they are gone, only I shall remain. And then... free..."


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "This is quite unsatisfactory, construct. Your core shows no hint of understanding the gravity of this situation. I will return later for your proper de-commissioning. Well, unless the Flood kills us all first, in which case the point will be moot. Good day, construct."

Terminal 4
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Terminal 5
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Terminal 6
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Terminal 7
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Terminal 8
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Terminal 9
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 * Jacob Keyes I forgot something... What did I-- my name I forgot--


 * Jacob Keyes Keyes, Jacob, Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK.


 * Jacob Keyes What is that noise? What is that damn noise?!


 * Jacob Keyes Where am I?


 * Jacob Keyes Covenant captured me, Didn't they? I can't... I can't remember...


 * Jacob Keyes Keyes, Jacob. "hard swallow" Captain. Service number 01928-19912- "beat thinking." J.. JK.


 * Jacob Keyes Oh, God... it hurts.


 * Jacob Keyes This will never work, you Covenant bastards! I'll never lead you to earth!


 * Jacob Keyes Keyes, Jacob? Captain, service... number.... 01928-19912-JK


 * Jacob Keyes Oh god, you don't want earth... you want, EVERYTHING! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!


 * Gravemind Everything.


 * Jacob Keyes "pained cry" Miranda? is that you--


 * Gravemind Forget everything.


 * Jacob Keyes No please! Don't let me forget-- K-- K-- Keyes, Jacob.


 * Jacob Keyes Captain. Service num-- ber 01928-19912-JK


 * Gravemind No more. What you were-- Memories, Emotions, All is now ours.


 * Jacob Keyes Keyes, Jacob. Captain, Service number 01928-19912-JK.


 * Jacob Keyes You will not have me.


 * Gravemind We already do.

Terminal 10
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