Battle of Installation 04: Difference between revisions

The following day, the crew of ''Pillar of Autumn'' launched an attack on the [[Silent Cartographer]] island, in their attempt to uncover the purpose of the ring. [[Battle of the Silent Cartographer|Fighting their way]] through the heavily defended Covenant positions, the Master Chief and a handful of Marines, supported by Echo 419 and Bravo 22, discovered the location of Alpha-Halo's [[Control Room]]. However, a pair of Covenant Dropships landed and engaged the defenders of the LZ, appearing to kill all the marines that were with the Chief.

Making his way to the Control Room with help from the marines of Fire Team Zulu, Master Chief discovered that the weapons cache that Captain Keyes was looking for was actually a Forerunner base, and that Halo wasn’t a Covenant construct. Master Chief left the Control Room for the swampy areas of the installation. Captain Keyes and Sergeant Johnson had led their two marine squads to the "weapons cache," losing a pair of marines from fire by Covenant defenders. Taking their dogtags and ammo, first squad with Keyes and Johnson continued on while the second squad watched the exit. After a short time, the "weapons cache" Keyes was looking for reveals itself in the form of the [[Flood]]. The Flood attacked second squad who barely got a message to Keyes and escaped. However the message was too late as the Flood attacked Keyes' squad, infecting Keyes and Privates Riley, Kappus, Jenkins, Mendoza, and Bisenti, and about 3 others before a pair of marines got out of the room, one of who was killed just outside and the [[Crazed Marine]] who escaped. Most of second squad escaped, but three marines were separated and six others were killed. The Chief fought his way into Alpha Halo's main Flood containment facility in his mission to stop the newly released Flood. He then attempted to get the surviving 10 marines of Corporal [[Lovik]]'s second squad through the swamp to extraction, but was unsuccessful.