The Storm (Level)

The Storm is the fourth campaign mission of Halo 3. Upon completing it on the Normal, Heroic, or Legendary difficulties, the player will earn the "Assault" achievement and 30 Gamerpoints.

Background


It begins with a UNSC Warthog convoy moving to Voi, whose objective is to punch through the Covenant Loyalist anti-aircraft defenses that surround the Ark and allow Lord Hood's small fleet of ships passage to the Prophet of Truth's fleet. UNSC Marine forces, lead by SPARTAN-117 get involved in several pitched skirmishes as they must fight through the industrial zone of Voi, through warehouses and factories and having to survive ambushes by both Covenant foot soldiers and Covenant armor.

After breaking through the industrial area Master Chief met up with a brigade of approximatley 6 Mongoose ATVs and commandeered one with a Marine riding 'shotgun' using a M41 Rocket Launcher. They immediately engaged a squadron of Anti-Air Wraith tanks to secure a landing zone as Brutes on Brute Choppers and Grunts on Ghosts attack them and are constantly reinforced by Phantoms. Above them Hornets and Banshees dogfight for control. Though they take the landing zone the victory was short lived as a Scarab arrived to crush the UNSC forces. After disabling it by boarding it then destroying its power core the UNSC forces prepared to push into a Brute controlled warehouse.

With reinforcements lead by The Arbiter and Sergeant Johnson along with volunteer civilians from a nearby factory, they pushed in, engaging nearly a dozen Brutes armed with Maulers and Brute Shots, a pair of Hunters and a Brute Chieftain wielding a Gravity Hammer. After that they pressed on to the AA site, engaging a small Covenant army defending it. Eventually they punch through, disabling the gun, allowing the UNSC Navy, along with Miranda Keyes, free rein.

Transcript
Cutscene:''The Chief and the Arbiter stand atop a cliff, watching a UNSC fleet hurtle towards the storm surrounding the portal to the Ark. The Covenant fleet is above the ark, with the Forerunner Dreadnaught in the middle of the structure.''

Lord Hood: All ships, fire at will!

''The UNSC fleet charges the Covenant fleet, MAC guns blazing. The Forerunner structure begins to open like a starfish, focusing energy on the Dreadnaught, and fires off a beam of light. The screen blacks out.''

Cortana (VO): This is the way the world ends.

''Fade back in on the scene. A large glowing sphere of light has appeared in the sky. The Arbiter roars. The UNSC fleet's craft are drifting. The Forerunner Dreadnaught rises into the sphere, followed in close order by the Covenant fleet.

Lord Hood: *coughs* What'd Truth just do? *coughs* Did he activate the rings?

Miranda Keyes: No, Sir. But he certainly did something.

Lord Hood: Evac the wounded and regroup. Wherever Truth went---

UNSC officer (possibly Gunnery Sergeant Pete Stacker): Sir, new contact slipping in.

''A Covenant cruiser, smoking with damage and obviously infected, decends nearby from slipspace and hurtles over the heads of the Chief and the Arbiter to crash nearby in Voi.

The Arbiter: What is it? More Brutes?

SPARTAN-117: Worse.

end cutscene

Trivia

 * The Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher from the High Ground multiplayer level can be seen close by the covenant anti-air gun.