Long Night of Solace (level): Difference between revisions

{{Article Quote|Move up the beach and secure the launch facility. Take the battle to the Covenant Super Carrier.}}

Jorge then boards a [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican]] transporting the Slipspace drive, joining Six, the rest of the Sabres and the ''Savannah'' as they move to Covenant-occupied space over Reach to execute the mission. The plan is to board a Covenant {{Class|SDV|heavy corvette}}, place it on an automated refueling course with the supercarrier, and then activate the slipspace drive inside the corvette's hangar in close proximity of the supercarrier, effectively tearing most of the ship apart. Upon locating the Covenant corvette ''[[Ardent Prayer]]'', the ''Savannah'' and the Sabres begin their assault on the ship.

After disabling its engines and eliminating its fighter escort, Six and the Sabre crews board ''Ardent Prayer'', disable its communications and make their way into the [[hangar bay|hangar]], allowing the Pelican carrying Jorge and the Slipspace drive into the ship. Six and the Sabre crews then make their way to the [[bridge]] of the ''Ardent Prayer'' and, after eliminating the command crew, initiate the corvette's refueling run with the ''Long Night of Solace''. Upon returning from the bridge, Six finds Jorge engaged against Covenant forces in the hangar. The Covenant are neutralized, but Jorge soon realizes that the Pelican was damaged in the fighting, leaving it unable to escape the ship. The Slipspace drive is also damaged, and has to be activated manually. Jorge decides to stay behind and activate the drive, sacrificing his own life but saving Noble Six by throwing him/her out of the corvette and down onto Reach, just before the corvette reaches its destination and the Slipspace drive is activated. The activation generates a Slipspace rupture that engulfs Jorge, the corvette, and the central section of the supercarrier and transports them into oblivion. For a very brief period of time, it is believed that the Covenant naval attack force at Reach was entirely neutralized by Jorge's sacrifice, but a massive [[Covenant fleet]] arrives in orbit over Reach just moments later.

[[File:Noble Team Reach.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The rest of NOBLE Team listens to Kat explaining her plan.]]

[[File:NobleBeach.jpg|thumb|right|300px|NOBLE Team charging up the beach.]]

*'''Army Trooper #4''': "We got a [[Type-26 Wraith|Wraith]] on the lower platform!"

''Noble Team reaches the control room, which is filled with dead troopers. A hologram of a Covenant [[SDV-class heavy corvette]] hovers above a [[Holotank|holo-table]]. As they reach the far side of the room, a bulkhead opens to reveal the [[Sabre]]. The building shakes as a pair of Seraphs fly over it.''

[[File:Halo- Reach - Saber Launching.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Noble Six's Sabre takes off from the launch facility.]]

''Multiple [[Type-27 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Banshee Interceptors]] enter the area and are immediately engaged by the Sabres.''

[[File:Reach E310 Campaign10.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cannon and plasma fire flood the void as Sabres defend Anchor 9 from swarms of Covenant craft.]]

[[File:HaloReach - Uppercut Slipspace Drive.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Jorge and two marines prepping the slipspace drive.]]

[[File:HaloReach - Nav Beacon RA-15.jpg|thumb|right|300px|NAV Beacon RA-15 observing the ''[[Ardent Prayer]]''.]]

[[File:UNSC Savannah Firing.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The ''Savannah'' trading broadsides with the ''Ardent Prayer''.]]

[[File:UNSC Savannah moments before explosion.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The ''Savannah'' explodes, being torn into multiple sections.]]

''Jorge removes his dog tags and gives them to Noble Six, grasping his/her hand in farewell.''

[[File:LNoS ends.jpg|thumb|right|300px|With Jorge's sacrifice, the ''Long Night of Solace'' is destroyed.]]

''Before Six can protest, Jorge tightens his grip, lifts the Spartan up with one hand and carries him/her to the shield door. The screen switches to Six's point of view.''

[[File:Reach AssaultCarriers.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Another Covenant fleet arrives above Reach.]]

[[File:HReach-SignalLost.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Signal from NAV Beacon RA-15 lost.]]

*This level was the first campaign level of ''Halo: Reach'' to be unveiled to the public. A shorter version of the level was first showcased in the ''[[Halo: Reach E3 Campaign Demo]]'' during the [[Microsoft]] press conference at [[Electronic Entertainment Expo|E3 2010]]. Some minor parts of the level have changed, such as the player's initial weapons, Carter's line that was moved to ''[[Winter Contingency]]'' in the final game (''"We've been engaged!"''), and the [[Type-32 Ghost]] dropped on the beach by the Spirit dropship.

*This is the first and only level in the series where the player directly engages Seraphs, [[Type-27 XMF|Space Banshees]], and a Covenant starship, a Corvette.