Halo (Halo 3 level)

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Halo is the tenth and final campaign mission of Halo 3. In this level, the Master Chief, Arbiter and Johnson make their way towards the Control Room in order to activate the ring using the Index from Alpha Halo. However, Gravemind sends Flood Combat Forms (and later Pure Forms), carried by Flood Dispersal Pods, to try to stop them. This level is also the second mission in the Halo series to bear the name of another mission, following the second mission of the first game. Upon completing it on Normal or higher, the player unlocks the Return achievement. If the player gets 15,000 or more in the meta game, they will unlock the Reclaimer achievement.

Transcript
The Chief, 'Vadam & Cortana's Pelican leaves the Ark's atmosphere, passing the Shadow of Intent.

{Cutscene}


 * Rtas 'Vadum: "We are aboard, Humans and Elites".


 * Unknown Elite Officer : "Will you not come with us, brother?"


 * Thel 'Vadam: "No. This is our fight. And I will see it finished."

The Pelican flies towards the Halo ring.


 * Cortana: "Johnson? Do you have the Frigate?"


 * Sergeant Johnson (Video COM): "Yes ma'am. I'll land her as close to the control room as I can."


 * Cortana: "Safe is better than close, Sergeant Major."


 * Sergeant Johnson (Video COM): "Roger that. And ma'am, It's good to have you back."

''The Pelican arrives at Halo. The Rear Port engine is too damaged for a normal landing. The Master Chief makes a crash landing in a snowy canyon near the Control Room. The Chief and Thel 'Vadam clamber out. From behind the cliffs approaches the Forward Unto Dawn.''


 * Cortana: "Halo. It's so new... unfinished. I'm not exactly sure what will happen when we fire it."

'Vadam tosses the Chief a MA5C Assault Rifle


 * Master Chief: "We'll head for the Portal. And we'll all go home."

Full Circle
Assault on the Control Room.

{Gameplay}

The Chief and 'Vadam mount up to the control room, ensuring they stock up enough supplies from their crashed Pelican.


 * Cortana: "Head through the cliffs."

The Chief and 'Vadam head through the icy caves.

If the Chief does not head to the Control Room at all..


 * Cortana: "The Control Room isn't far!"

If the Chief heads for the Terminal instead..


 * Cortana: "Where are you going?"

When the Chief reaches the Terminal


 * Cortana: "Wait, what's that?"

After accessing the Terminal.


 * Cortana: "How many of these have you found?"

If the Chief re-accesses the Terminal, or takes too long reading it.


 * Cortana: "Come on, Chief, let's get back on track. The Control Room is outside!"

''The Chief and 'Vadam arrive at the Structure. Flood Dispersal Pods begin to drop in.''


 * Gravemind: (Angrily) "DID YOU THINK ME DEFEATED!?"


 * Cortana: "Flood Dispersal Pods! The Control Room's at the top of that tower Chief; go!"

If the Chief has been to the wrong side of the tower for a while.


 * Cortana: "There should be ramps that lead to the top - check the other side!"

The Master Chief and Thel 'Vadam push their way up the tower, but the Flood continues to attack with overwhelming force.

Johnson appears on the cliff with a Spartan Laser, shooting down random Flood.


 * Sergeant Johnson (COM): "I got you covered Chief. Meet you at the top of that tower."

If you head back the other way:


 * Sergeant Johnson (COM): "Careful, I can't cover you on the far side."

Master Chief and 'Vadam continue upward.


 * Sergeant Johnson (COM): "Keep moving, Chief. I've got your back."

''The Master Chief and Thel 'Vadam get closer to the top. Johnson continues his reign of terror from the cliff.''


 * Sergeant Johnson (COM): "Flood are crawling all over that tower; watch yourself."

The Chief reaches the top floor.

Flood jump down the tower and attack 'Vadam.


 * Sergeant Johnson (COM): "Spark? You in there? Open the damn door!"


 * 343 Guilty Spark (COM): "Of course, Reclaimer. Just as soon as you dispose of all proximate Flood threats. I'm afraid containment protocols do not allow..."


 * Sergeant Johnson (COM): (Impatiently) "Yeah, yeah, I hear you!"


 * Cortana: "Was that the Monitor? You didn't tell me he was here. Well, we are finally doing what he wanted."

The Flood continues to stubbornly attack with extreme force on the top floor.

The Chief, Thel 'Vadam & Johnson finally secure the tower.


 * Sergeant Johnson: "Open up! The coast is clear."


 * Cortana (COM): "Not for long. I'm tracking additional Dispersal Pods. They'll be hitting any minute!"


 * Sergeant Johnson: "Chief! Arbiter! Let's move!"


 * Gravemind: "I have beaten fleets of thousands! Consumed a galaxy of flesh and mind and bone!"

As the trio moves inside the Control Room.


 * Gravemind (Gravemind Moment): "Do I take life or give it? Who is victim? And who is foe?"


 * Cortana: "It's trying to rebuild itself on this ring!"


 * Sergeant Johnson: "Hurry! Control Room's close!"

{Cutscene}

''The Chief, Thel 'Vadam & Johnson reach the familiar Control Room. Flood are heard approaching, but the doors seal them out.''


 * Cortana: "Yank me, Chief."

The Chief removes Cortana from his helmet.


 * Sergeant Johnson: "I'm not gonna lose her too."

''The Chief tosses Cortana to Johnson. Johnson heads for the control panel. 343 Guilty Spark appears from above.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (Humming to himself) "Oh, hello! Wonderful news - the Installation is almost complete."


 * Sergeant Johnson: (Uninterested) "Terrific."


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Yes... isn't it? (Short but uneasy silence.) I have begun my simulations. No promises, but initial results indicate that this facility should be ready to fire in just a few more days."


 * Sergeant Johnson: (Impatiently) "We don't have a few more days!"


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (Alarmed) "Bu-bu-but a premature firing will destroy the Ark!"


 * Sergeant Johnson: "Deal with it."


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (Quietly) "Will destroy this Installation."

Guilty Spark suddenly turns red and shoots Johnson with his beam.


 * Sergeant Johnson: (Screams) "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Unacceptable! Unacceptable! Absolutely unacceptable!"

''The Chief rushes to Johnson's aid. 343 Guilty Spark shoots at the the Chief, who is flung backwards and onto the floor. His Energy Shields drop and attempt to recharge. ''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (In hysterics) "Protocol dictates action! I see now that helping you was wrong!"

''Thel 'Vadam, hearing the commotion, moves forward, and 343 Guilty Spark turns on him as well, unleashing his beam on him and knocking him out of the Control Room. He blasts the Chief again as he tries to get back up. With no shields protecting him this time, his armor starts to smoke.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (His eye turns back to blue) "You are the child of my makers. Inheritor of all they left behind. You are Forerunner! But this ring... (Eye turns red again) ...is mine."

{Gameplay}


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "I take no pleasure in doing what must be done."

The Chief fires at 343 Guilty Spark with no effect at all.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "You do not deserve this ring!"

343 Guilty Spark corners the Master Chief.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "I have kept it safe. It belongs to me!"


 * Sergeant Johnson: "Not for long!"

''Johnson shoots 343 Guilty Spark with his Spartan Laser. Caught off-guard, 343 Guilty Spark is blasted away from the Chief.''


 * Johnson: "Kick his ass."

''Johnson passes out. The Chief takes the Spartan Laser to destroy Guilty Spark.''

''343 Guilty Spark rises from the floor, flying at a slightly tilted angle. At this point, 343 Guilty Spark will say four sentences at random.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "You - you cracked my casing!"


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Damage! Damage! That hurt, Reclaimer!"


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "My eye! Do you mean to blind me!?"


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Stop now, before one of us gets hurt!"

''After making the first shot, Spark begins to fly at a more tilted angle, leaking blue plasma from his sides and he begins to spark. Again, the following sentences are in random order.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (Voice breaks, then readjusts itself) "-destroy your Inheritance!" ("Inheritance" is a feature film starring Jen Taylor, who voice-acted as "Cortana")


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Accept your le-gacy!"


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Think of you-ou-ou-our forerunner!"

''Following the second shot, Spark's casing becomes distorted, with pieces of him sheared off. More plasma leaks from his sides and he sparks more ferociously. The right side of his 'eye' has broken off. Once again, the following sentences are said in a random order.''


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (Makes a garbled humming sound)


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (High, crackling voice) "M-m-my pr-precious!" (This is a reference to The Lord of the Rings)


 * 343 Guilty Spark: (Deteriorating, breaking voice) "I a-a-a-am the Monitor of Installation Z-Zero F-Four!"

After making the finishing shot.


 * 343 Guilty Spark: "Oh myyyyyyyyyy-aaahh!"

Guilty Spark explodes, defeated.

{Cutscene}

Master Chief bends over Johnson, who is still - barely - alive;


 * Master Chief: "I'm getting you out of here."


 * Sergeant Johnson: "No... No you're not."

Johnson grabs the Chief's hand with Cortana's chip in his.


 * Sergeant Johnson: "Don't - don't let her go. Don't... ever let her go. (Coughs) Send me out... with a bang."

''Johnson succumbs to his wounds. The Chief takes Cortana from him and lets go of his hand. He stands up, and lets Cortana enter Halo's core, but doesn't let go of Cortana's chip.''

Cortana: (Looks down sadly at Johnson's body) "Chief... I'm so sorry."

''The Master Chief shakes a bit with his hand but quickly stops. Cortana bows her head, eyes closed, and makes a gesture, activating Halo. She uploads herself back into her chip.''

''The Chief places her chip in the back of his helmet, and then turns around. Brilliant beams of light erupt from the Core, and the whole Control Room starts to fall apart. Johnson's body slides off the platform as it begins to fall. The Master Chief runs for the door, which has opened again.''

The Way the World Ends
Pedal to the Metal.

{Gameplay}






 * Thel 'Vadam: "I am sorry, Spartan. But come."

Pieces of the walls around them suddenly explode; and the Master Chief and 'Vadam run for the doorway leading outside; combating a small group of Flood along the way.

The Master Chief and 'Vadam make it back outside.


 * Thel 'Vadam: "Even in death, your Sergeant guides us all."


 * Cortana: "The Dawn. Of course - the Frigate! We still have a chance!"


 * Cortana: "Find the doorway in the cliffs, Chief. The Dawn is on the other side."

The Chief and 'Vadam head along the cliff, encountering Flood and Sentinels, who followed 343 Guilty Spark's lead and turned against them too. They make it inside, and find themselves in the middle of a battle, between Flood and Sentinels.


 * Gravemind: "Resignation is my virtue. Like water I ebb and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed."


 * Cortana: "Don't let this ring be the end of us, Chief."

They make it back outside.


 * Cortana: "There! Johnson's Warthog."

'''Vadam takes the turret. The Chief takes the wheel.''


 * Cortana: "Come on, Spartan - go, go, go!"

As they reach open area, a massive explosion erupts alongside them.


 * Cortana: "Drive, Chief. Head for the Frigate."




 * Cortana: "Come on! Faster!"

The Chief and 'Vadam reach a massive open structure.


 * Cortana: "The Dawn is close. We can make it! As long as the ground doesn't fall out from beneath us..."

The Warthog soon enters inside the interior of a large hallway with ramps.


 * Cortana: "The charging sequence - it's too much for the ring to take!"

They soon reach another open structure where battles between the Flood and a few Sentinels ensues.


 * Cortana: "Halo is ripping itself apart!"

They come upon a large open stretch.


 * Cortana: "Hurry Chief! Don't stop!"


 * Cortana: "Charging sequence at 30%..."

They reach one more open structure, this time a few Flood Pure Forms await them.
 * Cortana: "50%, Chief!"

They reach another hallway with ramps, where a larger battle between Sentinels and the Flood ensues.


 * Cortana: "70%!"

The Chief and 'Vadam makes it out of the hallway battle, where the Frigate can be seen from a distance.
 * Cortana: "80% charged."

They head for the final bend, encountering more Sentinels.


 * Cortana: (Desperately) "90% - firing sequence initiated!"

If the Chief heads to a Grunt Easter Egg


 * Final Grunt: "Hey, Demon! The jerk store called, and they're all out of you! Poor you, stolen at the age of six and conscripted into the military, eeeeegh! ...Okay look, if you let me live, I got the Fist of Rukt. I'll be the bottom! I'll polish your boots. I'll polish your helmet! It's the gas, ha-ha! When I'm on the gas, I don't know what I'm doing half the time!"

The Chief and 'Vadam make it to the final straight stretch to the Forward Unto Dawn, but there's a 70m (230ft) gap to it.


 * Cortana: "Gun it, Chief!! Jump!! Floor it; right into the hangar!!"

{Cutscene}

''The Warthog tumbles and rolls as it crashes into the Frigate's hangar. The Master Chief and 'Vadam recover, then the Dawn shifts. A Scorpion Tank begins sliding towards Thel 'Vadam, who takes cover behind a pile of crates. The tank plows into it. The Chief leaps over the Warthog, looking back, seeing 'Vadam digging himself out of the crates. The Chief nods at him, who nods back. 'Vadam rushes to the bridge while the Chief runs to the hangar panel and plugs Cortana in to start up the Frigate. Her image appears from a Holotank next to the panel.''


 * Cortana: "Hang on!"

Cortana ignites the thrusters at full burn and launches the 'Dawn' at full speed. The Chief grabs onto the terminal. The Dawn leaves Halo's atmosphere. As the Chief holds on for dear life, the Warthog flies out, hitting the Chief, who flies off the panel, then glides down the floor towards the open hangar doors, with Halo beneath. The Chief punches his fist hard into the floor to get a grip, halting near the back end of the hangar. Cortana reaches out her arm towards him, scared of losing him.''


 * Cortana: "Chief!!"

''The Scorpion flies out towards the Chief. He ducks his head just in time as it flies over him, narrowly missing the Chief but smashing the floor behind him and falling back towards Halo. The Chief begins to back climb up to Cortana, finally making it back to the panel. Thel 'Vadam makes it to the bridge and takes control of the ship. The Chief braces behind the panel, plugging Cortana back into his helmet.''


 * Cortana: "If we don't make it--"


 * Master Chief: "We'll make it."


 * Cortana: "It's been an honor serving with you, John."

''Halo's explosion engulfs the hangar in a strobe-binding white light. All goes blank.''

The Storm Has Passed (March 3, 2553)
{Cutscene}

''On a hillside near the Gateway to the Ark, Marines gather. Lord Hood removes his hat, and begins his speech.''


 * Admiral Hood: "For us, the storm has passed. The war is over. But let us never forget those who journeyed into the howling dark and did not return. For their decision required courage beyond measure..."

{Background Memory: The front half of the Forward Unto Dawn enters the Earth's atmosphere, and crashes into an ocean)


 * Admiral Hood: "...sacrifice, and unshakable conviction that their fight, our fight, was elsewhere."

{Background Memory continued: An engineer crew cuts into the Dawn. Thel 'Vadam is freed from the wreckage.}

'Vadam is revealed on the hill, standing solemnly with the Marines.


 * Admiral Hood: "(Concluded) As we start to rebuild, this hillside will remain barren, a memorial to heroes fallen. They ennobled all of us, and they shall not be forgotten."

Admiral Hood puts his hat back on, and salutes.


 * Sergeant Stacker: "Present arms!"

''7 Marines raise their BR55HB SR Battle Rifles (another reference to the number 7) and each fire a single burst of three shots: a 3-volley salute. The view pans over the Ark Portal, now closed and silent, and Mt. Kilimanjaro against the evening sky.''

Later, Admiral Hood and 'Vadam stand alone at the Memorial, which looks like a Pelican wing, decorated with pictures of those fallen, including 'Commander Miranda Keyes' and 'Sergeant Major Avery Johnson'.


 * Admiral Hood: "I remember how this war started. What your kind did to mine. I can't forgive you. But... (he holds out his hand) you have my thanks, for standing by him to the end."

'Vadam slowly shakes Admiral Hood's hand.


 * Admiral Hood: "Hard to believe he's dead."

'Vadam looks away, toward the Shadow of Intent, hovering silently in the sky.


 * Thel 'Vadam: "Were it so easy."

'''Vadam leaves the Memorial. His Separatist Phantom heads back to the Shadow of Intent, hovering above the Gateway to the Ark, which has lowered flat again. 'Vadam meets Ship master Rtas 'Vadum on the bridge, looking at a holographic image of Earth.''


 * Ship master Rtas 'Vadum: "Things look different without the Prophets' lies clouding my vision. I would like to see our own world - to know that it is safe."


 * Thel 'Vadam: "Fear not. For we have made it so."

The Arbiter clenches a fist to his chest.


 * Ship master Rtas 'Vadum: "By your word, Arbiter." (clenches his fist to his chest as well.)

'Vadam takes a seat on the chair, the one used by Rtas 'Vadum.


 * Thel 'Vadam: "Take us home."

The Shadow of Intent'' leaves Planet Earth, to rejoin the remains of the Covenant Separatist fleet in space. Going back to the memorial, the view shows that underneath the print "UNSCDF March 3 2553", the number "117" is scratched in and the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy is taped to the upper right of it as a tribute to Master Chief.''

After Credits
{Cutscene}


 * Cortana: "Chief?! Can you hear me?"

The Master Chief, very much alive, awakes floating in a debris-filled hallway on board the Dawn.


 * Cortana: (Exhaling) "I thought I'd lost you, too."

''The Master Chief looks at a gaping hole in the hallway. He drifts to his Assault Rifle, and holsters it, then begins to drift to the end of the open hallway.''


 * Master Chief: "What happened?"


 * Cortana: "I'm not sure. When Halo fired, it shook itself to pieces. Did a number on the Ark. The Portal couldn't sustain itself. We made it through just as it collapsed."

Forward Unto Dawn is revealed to be sheared in half, floating in a cloud of its own debris, still red-hot from the sudden Slip space slowdown.


 * Cortana: "Well… some of us made it."

The Dawn's remaining half continues to drift aimlessly in unexplored space.

The Chief begins to drift further inside the ship, finding a panel to plug Cortana in.


 * Cortana: "But you did it. Truth and the Covenant...the Flood... (she's plugged into the panel and appears) It's finished."


 * Master Chief: (Turns off his headlight) "It's finished."

Master Chief places his Assault Rifle in one of the rackets on the wall.


 * Cortana: "I'll drop a beacon. But it'll be a while before anyone finds us."

The Chief places himself in one of the cryotubes.


 * Cortana: "Years, even."

The Cryotube door begins to close.


 * Cortana: "I'll miss you."


 * Master Chief: "Wake me....when you need me."

''Cortana smiles back, nodding. The cryotube seals, freezing the Chief and bringing the Halo Trilogy to full circle.''

{Cutscene}

- Legendary Segment: (The back half of the Forward Unto Dawn is seen drifting towards an unknown planet. The planet eclipses a star at first, but the star slowly comes out from behind the planet, casting light upon it momentarily before blinding the view completely.)

Glitches

 * If you kill Johnson before you go into the Control Room, after you kill 343 Guilty Spark, when the door opens, you can see Johnson on the floor wounded and a Flood Infection Form will convert him into a Combat Form. If you kill the Flood before they infect him, he will get up and fight with you, though he won't leave the building (since he's supposed to be dead, he has no scripted path to follow). Though if you push him all the way to the Warthog he should still get on.

Mistakes

 * At the beginning of the level, Thel 'Vadam passes an Assault Rifle to the Chief in the cut scene. However, if the player got to this level by completing the level Cortana right before, the player will start with whatever weapon he/she took from that level or if they have the Cortana Skull, they will spawn with a Spartan Laser.

Easter Eggs

 * There is a Talking Grunt on this level. He tries to make fun of the Master Chief's childhood by mocking how he was kidnapped and forced into the SPARTAN-II Program. This is also a reference to Halo: CE, where the Thirsty Grunt talked on the Warthog run of the last level. He is located just before the Dawn, on an outcropping next to rocks. If you stay to hear what he has to say, you won't be able to complete the level as the ground would have fallen away.

Miscellaneous

 * Completing this level with four people over Xbox Live on Legendary with the Iron skull on and all four players in a Ghost, will make the player achieve the Vidmaster Challenge: Annual Achievement.
 * Instead of being on a set timer during the Warthog Run, the ground will fall out from under you if you linger too long, and the timer varies depending on the player triggering certain checkpoints while on. Something to note, when on one of the circular platforms (on Online Co-op, your friends will respawn, and a Warthog should wait there), the platform will not fall until you start traveling around.
 * Oddly, even though High Charity is destroyed and there are no Flood controlled ships in system, Flood Dispersal Pods somehow fall from the sky. It is possible that they came from the location where Gravemind is rebuilding himself on the ring.
 * If you head over to the large crevasse next to the Control Room in the beginning of the level, you can look down and see an almost endless series of catwalks. You can only explore the crevasse in theater mode. In addition, after destroying 343 Guilty Spark, if you recheck the crevasse it will be distorted by energy waves caused by the rings activation in the control room. This crevasse may be similar to the 'Honeycomb' channels that are used for faster travels, power storage and that Foehammer comes out of in the beginning of the Level, Assault on the Control Room in Halo: CE.
 * The soundtrack for the second half of the level is called "Greatest Journey", however during the MJOLNIR Theme part, there are some musical parts that are not featured in the shipped version of the soundtrack title but they are featured in "To Kill a Demon" and "Three Gates" soundtrack titles.
 * Throughout the fight on the ground floor with the first waves of Flood, a Rocket Launcher and a some Fuel Rod Guns can be found near the lower structures of the tower, each carrying eight Rockets, and 20 Fuel Rods, respectively.
 * When approaching the final terminal, there's another passageway next to it with opened blast doors (not the Lonely Soul). When you enter, it shows a reference which some Halo fans considered as "haunting", as players enter the room they can see a replica of the one of the Phase Pulse Generators like the ones in Halo: Combat Evolved but, it's heavily barricaded with four pillars to prevent anyone from disrupting them like John had in Two Betrayals. In addition, the chamber itself is exactly as it appeared in Combat Evolved but with increased security measures such as, unbreakable glass and four more additional barricades surrounding the protected pulse generator. Thus, solving why the chapter of the level is called "Full Circle", signifying the full circle ending of Installation 04 and the Halo trilogy. However, if you return to this room after the cutscene in which Johnson dies, the barriers are gone, but you are unable to interrupt the beam like in Halo: CE.
 * The comment describing this page "Light the ring. Destroy the Flood", is a contradiction of what the Halos do. They only kill the food of the Flood (Humans, Covenant). So it is likely they didn't mean to kill anybody activating the Halo, but to use the resulting detonation of a pre-mature firing of a Halo to destroy all the Flood on the Ark as well as destroying itself in the process.