Battle of Installation 04: Difference between revisions

After crash-landing on the Forerunner construct, John-117, the sole survivor of Lima Foxtrot Alpha 43's crash-landing, headed out to get away from Covenant patrols and, under the instructions provided by Cortana, attempted to establish some contact with any surviving human personnel. After evading several patrols and a brief skirmish with a small Covenant [[lance]], John-117 managed to find a group of survivors defending themselves against the aggressive Covenant forces in a Forerunner structure. John established contact with [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Johnson]] and the survivors, and assisted them in eliminating and defeating the Covenant forces, later reinforced by three waves. [[Carol Rawley|Foe Hammer]] of [[Echo 419]] soon arrived to retrieve the survivors after the elimination of Covenant forces. Witnessing three lifepods flying overhead, Cortana instructed Foe Hammer to disengage her Warthog to support the Spartan's efforts in retrieving and securing the survivors. Two Marines assisted the Spartan in the rescue efforts.<ref name="CEHalo">''Halo: Combat Evolved'', campaign level [[Halo (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|Halo]]</ref> At some point, John would find a [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|Terminal]] and record its data.<ref name="ARG-1"/><ref name="ARG-2"/> Around this time, 343 Guilty Spark would begin using the terminals to show the history of the ring.<ref>''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary terminals teaser]]''</ref><ref group="note">Although never confirmed as such, John-117 finds the first terminal on the ring's surface during the events of the level "Halo", which begins the telling of the story of Installation 04. Thus, Guilty Spark's statements in the Terminal Teaser would most logically coincide with this event.</ref>

Only six known members of the ''Pillar of Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew survived the Halo event. A Pelican hiding in the debris field carried four survivors, [[Shiela Polaski|Warrant Officer Shiela Polaski]], Sergeant Avery Johnson, Shock Trooper [[Locklear|Corporal Locklear]], and an [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] [[Lieutenant]], [[Elias Haverson]].<ref name="First Strike"/> John-117 had managed to retrieve three cryo-tubes, one of which contained his fellow Spartan team member, [[Linda-058]]. Linda, who had been clinically dead since the Fall of Reach, was resuscitated at a later time. The people in the other two tubes had died in sleep due to malfunctions. It is not known whether this was a malfunction in one of the cryo storage rooms, or if it happened to almost every tube. Every other person at the battle presumably died when Installation 04 was destroyed.<ref group="note">Marines such as [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Marcus Stacker]] and [[Private]] [[Chips Dubbo]], were seen again in later battles throughout the trilogy, however their canonical statuses remain in limbo; as they are never mentioned in any of the novels nor does any canonical source explain their fates.</ref> The [[Museum of Humanity]] would later list a Sergeant [[Thomas Chang]] as having survived the battle.<ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', [[Believe]] - [[Diorama]]</ref><ref group="note">Thomas Chang's status is uncertain, and it is likely the character was made up by the Museum of Humanity for their display.</ref>