Silent Auditorium

This article is about the Halo Infinite campaign level. For the location, see Silent Auditorium (location).

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Confront the Harbinger at the Silent Auditorium and finish the fight.

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Prev:	House of Reckoning
Silent Auditorium
Game:	Halo Infinite
Player:	John-117
Date:	May 28, 2560 (mission) May 31, 2560 (ending)
Location:	Silent Auditorium, Installation 07
Objective(s):	Locate the Silent Auditorium Defeat the Harbinger
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Silent Auditorium is the sixteenth and final campaign level in Halo Infinite.

Overview

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Chief and the Weapon reach the Silent Auditorium, once the seat of Cortana's power, now claimed and controlled by the Harbinger. Their enemy reveals Auditorium was where the Forerunners passed judgment upon her species, the Endless, and sentenced them to indefinite imprisonment inside Zeta Halo. The Harbinger sought to utilize her uneasy alliance with the Banished to free her people — a plan that nearly succeeded before it was disrupted by the Master Chief. Finally defeated, the Harbinger says her people have been found, and that the Endless will, at long last, be unleashed. The Reformation is averted. The Auditorium begins to collapse. Chief and the Weapon escape through a portal to an unknown destination.

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Transcript

{Cutscene}

Scene opens up to the Master Chief standing inside Echo-216's troop bay.

• Pilot (COM): "Are you ready? It's about to get rough. They're waiting for us. I think they're all waiting for us."

The Pelican trembles ominously.

• Pilot (COM): "Did you feel that? (half-jokingly) It's not too late to turn around."

• Weapon: "Chief?"

The Weapon's avatar materializes in his hand.

• Weapon: "Something feels..."

A small blue cloud of data suddenly appears and starts flying around them.

• Cortana (memory): "There's not much time. Too many variables. I need a constant."

Another ball of data appears and flies in a circle directly in front of the Chief before fading away.

• Cortana (memory): "I have seen your future."

The Weapon raises her hands in realization.

• Weapon: "The Silent Auditorium? Oh no."

• John-117: "What is it? What's wrong?"

• Weapon: "I should have realized. That's not what it was called. I've been here before. This is where I locked her down."

She turns towards the closed troop bay door.

• Weapon: "This is where Cortana died."

The blue cloud of data flies by and more ghostly voices are heard.

• John-117 (memory): "What do I call her?"

• Catherine Halsey (memory): "Ask her. She named herself."

• Cortana (memory): "Hello, Master Chief. I'm Cortana."

The Chief and the Weapon watch the data cloud continue flying around the troop bay.

• Pilot (COM): "We're here! Go!"

The troop bay's interior lights turn red and an alarm sounds.

• Pilot (COM): "Did you hear me? We're here! You need to go! Now!"

The Weapon's avatar vanishes and the Chief turns to face the bay doors as they open up. He leaps out of the Pelican and onto a platform, where Banished troops are already waiting for him.

{Gameplay}

• Pilot (COM): "You're sure you're okay down there? Want me to wait?"

• John-117: "Negative. Pull back."

• Weapon: "We'll be in touch."

• Pilot (COM): "You got it. I'll be waiting for the call. Try not to die. You hear me?"

The Chief engages the Banished troops, who are being led by a Sangheili Warlord, along with an Ultra, and are backed up by a pair of Shades .

• Jiralhanae: "Escharum is slain! Vengeance will be ours!"

The Chief defeats the enemies on the platform. He then accesses a terminal and opens a door leading inside the structure. The Chief enters the Silent Auditorium and soon encounters another group of Banished. After these enemies have been eliminated, he finds another locked door with an empty Crucible nearby.

• Weapon: "Hmm. This door requires a power seed. There must be one nearby. Look around."

After a quick search, the Chief finds and retrieves a power seed, which he inserts into the Crucible. The door opens and he steps through it. Upon entering the next room, he's met by the ghoslty echo of Cortana, who walks towards him.

• Cortana (memory): "I have seen your future. And I have learned... There will be no more sadness. No more anger. No more envy."

The echo vanishes. The Chief heads down a ramp which leads to an observation room.

• Whispers: "Please come find me."

If the Chief looks through the window at the end of the room, he can see a Mgalekgolo pair patrolling the chamber below.

The Chief heads downstairs and enters another observation room. Row upon row of Cylixes are visible behind the glass windows here. The image of Cortana once again materializes before the Chief upon his entry.

• Cortana (memory): "I've been waiting for you to show up."

She puts her hands on her hips defiantly.

• Cortana (memory): "What's the plan? Take me back to the Infinity for deletion? Halsey's gonna love that."

She turns around to find Atriox standing behind her.

• Atriox (memory): "The UNSC is gone!"

• Cortana (memory): (stunned) "Atriox? How did you...?"

• Atriox (memory): "It's time to discuss the terms of your surrender."

The memory dissolves.

The Chief continues heading downward.

• Whispers: "Chief... I'm so sorry."

The Chief enters the room with the Hunters. A lengthy battle ensues, with the Chief ultimately coming out on top. Once both Hunters are dead, the Chief accesses a terminal to leave the room.

• Weapon: "I got this."

The exit door opens.

• Weapon: "Are you okay? Being here?"

• John-117: (solemnly) "No. Not really."

• Weapon: "I bet. She was expecting you, but Atriox got to her first. You meant so much to each other. It can't be easy."

The Chief proceeds further into the Auditorium.

If the Chief takes a detour into a small armory:

• Weapon: "You need a weapon? Look no further. Stock up, Chief!"

The Chief enters another observation room, and another one of Cortana's memories begins playing. In this one, a triumphant Atriox paces around her.

• Atriox (memory): "Look around, Cortana. Your empire. Over! Your great plan? Ended at the hands of those who made you."

• Cortana (memory): "Not yet."

• Atriox (memory): "Oh such confidence. Such arrogance. Do you believe a savior will come? A Spartan?"

• Cortana (memory): "John... The Master Chief will stop you!"

Atriox growls with pleasure.

• Atriox (memory): "He did not stop me when I crushed his skull. Threw him into the void."

The image of Atriox vanishes and is replaced by that of the Master Chief's seemingly lifeless body floating in space.

• Cortana (memory): (Crestfallen) "No."

• Atriox (memory): (voice only) "You asked me if I understood the consequences of defiance? And what did I say?"

• Cortana (memory): (subdued) "You said yes."

• Atriox (memory): "And then I asked you the same question. Reflect on your choices, Cortana. Understand the consequences."

Cortana lowers her head in sadness as the memory dissolves.

The Chief continues his journey through the Auditorium.

• Whispers: "This place will become your home. This place will become your tomb."

The Chief encounters a group of Banished.

• Unggoy Mule: "He's coming for the Harbinger! We gotta warn her!"

The Chief fights his way through more Banished, as well as Sentinels.

• Whispers: "I tried to stay hidden but there was no escape! He cornered me, wrapped me tight, and brought me close."

The Chief arrives at a ledge overhanging a chasm. He accesses a nearby terminal to activate a light bridge. Doing so triggers another one of Cortana's memories. Again, Atriox is shown confronting Cortana.

• Atriox (memory): (pacing back and forth) "I have learned so much, Cortana. This Ring is different. It has secrets within that I will have. This... Silent Auditorium."

He stops to stare down at her directly.

• Atriox (memory): "Do you know its history? Its true purpose?"

Cortana doesn't reply, effectively answering Atriox's question. He chuckles and turns away. At the same time, the light bridge is activated.

• Atriox (memory): (dismissively) "I have little use for a failed god."

He throws out his arms in dramatic fashion.

• Atriox (memory): "This Ring is all I need. Surrender it to me."

The memory fades.

The Chief crosses the light bridge.

• Weapon: "The memories... The data... It's more precise. More complete. It's like..."

• John-117: "We're get closer to where she died."

• Weapon: "Yes... but I was going to say deliberate. Like she wanted us to know something."

The Chief passes through a Banished armory.

• Whispers: "I feel certain that I am going mad again. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do."

The Chief encounters more Banished in the next chamber.

• Jiralhanae 1: "Courage, brothers! We must defend the Harbinger!"

• Jiralhanae 2: "You will not win, Spartan! Escharum lives in us!"

The Chief eliminates the enemy troops. He exits through a door and goes up a ramp.

• Whispers: "You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could ever be."

The Chief engages more Banished, including an Ultra Elite. He defeats them all and proceeds up another ramp leading to a hallway.

• Whispers: "I can't fight it any longer."

As he approaches the door at the end of the hallway, it opens, revealing Adjutant Resolution. However, this time, the Sub-Monitor is not here to fight.

• Adjutant Resolution: "Accept my apology! Immediately. My earlier efforts to delete you were misguided. I thought she wanted to rebuild this installation. To restore it. But I was wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Please hurry."

He zooms across the room he's been waiting in. The Chief follows.

• Adjutant Resolution: "The seal is almost broken. But they must not be released. You must stop her. Stop them. Close the seal."

The Sub-Monitor unlocks a door for the Chief.

• Weapon: "I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this."

• John-117: "Starting?"

• Weapon: "Good point."

The Chief heads through the unlocked door, while Adjutant Resolution stays behind.

• Adjutant Resolution: "I was worried that you were perhaps unfriendly. Forgive me. I was wrong. There is so much to learn about this installation. So much kept even from me. But first... stop her. Please."

If the Chief hangs around, he can hear the Sub-Monitor talk to himself.

• Adjutant Resolution: "I have failed you, Despondent Pyre. My friend. My maker. If this installation survives, we... I must learn its secrets. Uncover its history. Uncover its mysteries."

The Chief heads through another door.

• Whispers: "What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you."

The Chief activates a light bridge (or uses his Grappleshot) to cross a chasm and reach another bridge, this one physical.

• Atriox (memory): (voice only) "Your great plan? Ended at the hands of those who made you."

The Chief heads down the bridge, which leads to an elevator platform.

• Atriox (memory): (voice only) "Reflect on your choices, Cortana. Understand the consequences."

The Chief steps onto the elevator and deploys the Weapon onto the control terminal. The elevator activates and starts to ascend. A ghostly echo of Cortana appears in front of them.

• Cortana (memory): "How could I have been so stupid? Halsey made a copy. It was the only way..."

She vanishes but reappears again on the left.

• Cortana (memory): (reaching out with one hand) "There's not much time."

She vanishes again, only to instantly reappear on the right.

• Cortana (memory): (talking to herself) "If Atriox takes control..."

With every utterance, she vanishes and simultaneously reappears elsewhere, almost as if there are multiple Cortanas talking to each other.

• Cortana (memory): "He has the Ring."

• Cortana (memory): "A weapon pointed into the universe."

• Cortana (memory): "And nothing left to lose."

• Cortana (memory): "My fault."

• Cortana (memory): "My stupid fault."

• Cortana (memory): "Not much time."

• Cortana (memory): "Will this work?"

• Cortana (memory): "There's a moment... John will make it work..."

• Cortana (memory): "He needs help."

• Cortana (memory): "Of course. Was this your plan all along, Halsey?"

• Cortana (memory): "Or is it mine?"

• Cortana (memory): "It doesn't matter now. Nothing else matters."

• Cortana (memory): "This has got to work."

• Cortana (memory): "He can't do it on his own."

• Cortana (memory): "He needs me."

• Cortana (memory): "He needs her."

The elevator arrives at its destination.

{Cutscene}

The Chief reaches to retrieve the Weapon but stops when another memory begins playing.

• Atriox (memory): "It is time for you to make your choice."

• Cortana (memory): "I have. Thank you, Atriox. You helped me. You really did. Would you humor me?"

She starts walking forward, her back to the Banished leader.

• Cortana (memory): "If you knew how you were going to die..."

She turns to him.

• Cortana (memory): "...how would you live your life differently?"

• Atriox (memory): "I would change nothing."

She turns back around.

• Cortana (memory): "Perfect. Thank you."

She starts walking towards something unseen.

• Atriox (memory): (alarmed) "What are you doing?!"

A white light engulfs everything.

• Cortana (memory): "Making things right."

The sound of an explosion is heard.

The memory ends.

Scene pans down on the Chief and the Weapon as they take in what they just learned.

• Weapon: "It was her. She destroyed the Ring. Stopped my deletion. Why?"

The Chief doesn't answer. He just uploads the Weapon back into his armor and turns towards a set of doors in front of him.

{Gameplay}

The doors open as the Chief steps through, entering a hallway.

• Whispers: "If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer."

The Chief enters an antechamber at the end of the hallway.

• Weapon: "We're here. This is where Cortana..."

• John-117: "Sacrificed herself."

The antechamber doors open and the Chief enters the Silent Auditorium itself. It is a magnificent circular chamber with a great seal at the center of the floor. Six appendage-like pillars surround the seal. At the back of the Auditorium, rows up Cylixes can be seen behind glass windows.

There's a terminal at the edge of the seal. The Chief uploads the Weapon to it.

{Cutscene}

The Weapon accesses the terminal.

• Weapon: (studying the data) "The Silent Auditorium. Forerunner. Obviously. It appears to be... oh no."

• John-117: "What is it?"

• Weapon: "It's a courtroom. A prison. A place of execution. All these things. Together. Why?"

• The Harbinger: "To cover their sins. We stood. Silent. Unable to speak as they passed judgment."

The Chief looks up as golden energy starts flowing from the pillars surrounding the seal.

• Harbinger: "We could not defend ourselves. We could not reason with them.

• Weapon: "Something's sending a signal. Before you ask, I'm already tracking it."

A sphere of golden light appears high above the seal, growing larger and brighter as it draws energy from the pillars.

• Harbinger: "Hear this, Forerunner! Your Auditorium has fallen! The Endless found. Your sins undone."

Zoom in on the sphere as it erupts in a flash of blinding white light, and the Harbinger herself emerges.

• Harbinger: "Today we return!"

Zoom out as the Harbinger fires an energy blast into the seal. The Chief steps back and the Weapon disappears into the terminal. The Auditorium trembles as a bubble of golden energy forms around both the seal and the Harbinger.

{Gameplay}

The energy bubble is being maintained by some sort of relay in the ceiling. Nothing can pierce it. The Harbinger teleports herself onto the center of the seal.

• John-117: "What's she doing?"

• Weapon: "She's trying to open a connection between here and somewhere else on the Ring."

• John-117: "Where?"

• Weapon: "You deal with her and I'll find out."

The Harbinger calls out to the Banished, who pour into the Auditorium from multiple doors.

• Jiralhanae: "For Escharum! For Atriox! For Doisac!"

After the Chief deals with the first wave, the energy bubble around the Harbinger dissipates.

• Weapon: "There! I've intercepted the carrier wave from this transmitter."

With her minions dead, the Harbinger herself now enters the fray. She's unlike any foe the Master Chief has fought, being able to teleport at will, and hurl orbs of devastating energy. Nonetheless, the Chief manages to deplete her personal energy shields. After taking enough physical damage, the Harbinger teleports herself back to the seal, and the energy bubble reappears.

• Weapon: "She's switched transmitters. Re-routing power through that one. This isn't good. The connection is sentient. It's searching for something."

More Banished troops, along with Skimmers, enter the Auditorium and try to stop the Chief. After the Chief kills them, the Weapon disables the second transmitter, and the bubble dissipates.

• Weapon: "Okay. Next one's down."

The Chief engages the Harbinger in combat one again. He disables her shields and inflicts more damage upon her. Again, she teleports herself back to the seal and restores the protective bubble. The energy is now orange instead of gold.

• Weapon: "It switched again. It's found something."

• John-117: "What?"

• Weapon: "No idea. But I doubt it's good. Wait! There's something else here. Something's helping me."

A third of wave of Banished, led by a Jiralhanae Chieftain, storm the Auditorium. The Chief eventually kills them all.

• Weapon: "There! Last one's down!"

The bubble dissipates. The Chief and the Harbinger clash one last time. Despite the Harbinger using all her powers against him, the Chief manages to wear her shields down and delivers the finishing blow.

{Cutscene}

The Harbinger screams as she falls to the floor. The Chief approaches her, the Weapon in hand.

Scene zooms in on the Harbinger.

• Harbinger: "You have what you need. Tell them... I am sorry it took so long."

• John-117: "Who's she talking to?"

• Weapon: "Unknown. The signal's... old? Like really old."

The Harbinger pulls her headdress off.

• Harbinger: (addressing the Master Chief) "My time is ended. Yours too. They will make sure."

The Auditorium begins to collapse around them.

• Weapon: "We need extraction."

• Pilot (COM): "Of course you do. I'm on my way!"

The Harbinger rises off the floor.

• Harbinger: "The Endless will return."

She lets out a dying gasp, then falls lifelessly to the floor once again.

• Weapon: "I couldn't decrypt it in time."

• John-117: "It's okay. You'll figure something out."

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Notes

• The only way to get the Skull in this level, is for the player to not kill any of the Sentinels.

Production notes

Part of the level was revealed in the April 2021 issue of Inside Infinite, though without any story or other narrative information. It was used as a demonstration of the various resolution settings.

Gallery

Pre-release

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  Inside Infinite widescreen image.

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