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{{Title|Blue Team}}

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|name = Blue Team

|image = [[File:H5G-Waypoint-Blue Team.jpg|300px]]

|player = [[John-117]] ([[Blue Team]])

|date = [[2558|October 23, 2558]]

|place = Onboard ''[[Argent Moon]]''

|objective = Investigate ''Argent Moon''.

}}

'''Blue Team''' is the second campaign level of ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''.

''Cut to the Pelican's exterior: it is flying towards an abandoned ship drifting in an asteroid belt, the ''[[Argent Moon]]''.''

* '''Fred-104:''' "I haven't seen Chief press himself like this since we were in [[SPARTAN-II training|boot camp]]."

* '''Linda-058:''' "Affirmative."

* '''Fred:''' "You good?"

''Blue Team activates their thrusters and jump out of the Pelican. They maneuver through a cluster of asteroids and head towards ''Argent Moon''.''

* '''Sangheili Storm:''' "The [[Unggoy]] are resisting."

* '''Linda''': "Ship data center is just ahead. We can pull down ''Argent Moon''{{'}}s schematics there."

* '''Fred''' ''or'' '''Kelly''' ''or'' '''Linda''': "Impressive. Looks like they were designing a new stealth class vessel."

* '''Kelly''': "They lost years of expensive R&D with this station."

''If the player stalls.''

* '''Linda''': "Someone didn't want it to be found and sent it in a direction no one would expect."

''The Spartans open a door, to a room where two [[Unggoy]] manage computer terminals.''

* '''Unggoy''': "Humans! How did humans find us?"

* '''Linda''': "We've got a complete set of datasec keys for this station. We should be able to pull down ''Argent Moon''{{'}}s schematics and find a path to Central Control."

* '''John''': "Let's go."

''The Spartans find an elevator leading down to the assembly bay. A ship with torn plating can be seen out its window.''

* '''Fred''': "Scavengers. Taking what supplies they can find. [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|The Covenant]]'s [[Blooding Years|war against]] [[Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter]] must not be going well."

''The elevator opens to a platform, where Covenant troops pass below. A shed door blocks the entrance to their site.''

* '''Any member of Blue Team''': "Contact."

''or''

''If the player stalls.''

* '''Linda''': "Central Control is beyond this bay. Let's go."

* '''John''': "Mark a path."

''The Spartans go into the tunnels, where they encounter Unggoy guards.''

* '''Any member of Blue Team''': "Hostile contact."

''The Spartans exit the tunnels and find a room full of sleeping Unggoy. When the Grunts are killed, the opposite door opens, letting in more Grunts and two Elites who are [[active camouflage|cloaked]].''

* '''Fred''': "Meridian's a backwater. If she's active, what's she doing so far out on the frontier?"

''Blue Team leaves the room and enters another tunnel. As they go further down, they encounter [[suicide Unggoy|suicide Grunts]]. Deeper still, their tunnel shakes. A Mgalekgolo is dimly visible through a window, smacking it and cracking the glass, also knocking a large crate over.''

''The other Hunter dents another window with an arm then its head.''

''A suicide Grunt rushes at them, wielding lit grenades. After the suicide Grunt is a pair of Jackals and another suicide Grunt.''

* '''John''': "Reached level three. One more level down to elevator for Central Control."

* '''Fred''' ''or'' '''Linda''': "Because a pack of Covenant ships just arrived."

* '''Kelly''': "Covenant battlenet just lit up. And I think I know why. Covenant ships exiting slipspace."

* '''John''': "Covenant ships exiting slipspace."

* '''Fred''': "The reactor core is just below us. Let's go."

''The Spartans approach a tube over their waypoint.''

* '''Linda''': "This whole plan fails if that coolant gets a chance to work."

* '''John''': "How do we stop it?"

* '''Fred''': "Do it quick. I'd rather not be here when the station melts around us."

''The Spartans engage the numerous Covenant infantry inside the hangar.''

* '''Linda''': "Marking the Prowler's control panel."

* '''John''': "Hold off the Covenant while we prep for launch."

''Many more Covenant fall in from the roof, mainly Grunts, Jackal Rangers, and a Hunter pair.''

* '''John''': Board now, Blue Team.

''The Spartans get to the boarding point.''

''John looks back, sighs, and then joins them in the ship. Arriving inside, he presses a button to close its bay door. John watches it close.''

''The Prowler flies out of the sinking ''Argent Moon'', away from the expanding fireball, past exploding Covenant ships, through an asteroid field, and then vanishes as its cloaking activates.''

* Eight pieces of [[Mission Intel]] can be found on the level.

* The Black Eye [[skull]] is hidden in the reactor room, inside a secret room reached by climbing pipes and breaking a shed roof.

* Shooting two hidden switches over the vessel Blue Team observes will cause eight Banshees to fly out of it, which will still be there after passing through the data center.

* A Banshee Ultra can be spawned by activating a hidden alien figurine along a pipe at the reactor coolant center, which the player can then hijack since the Banshee does not attack.

** However, this easter egg can only be activated on solo.

=== Production notes ===

* The opening cutscene was first revealed as [[Halo 5: Guardians Blue Team Opening Cinematic|a trailer]] on September 23, 2015.

=== Miscellaneous ===

* Though there is no explanation in the level for what caused ''Argent Moon'' to end up in that condition or the experiments being conducted there, ''[[Halo: Retribution]]'' reveals that it was a [[bioweapon]] program set up by [[Intrepid Eye]] in [[2553]]. Blue Team and [[Veta Lopis]]' [[Ferret]]s thought they had foiled it during [[Operation: RETRIBUTION]] but Intrepid Eye was able to avoid discovery and continue [[Project SLEEPING STAR]] on ''Argent Moon'' undetected. The escape of the [[asteroidea merozoite]] bioweapon caused ''Argent Moon''{{'}}s state during the game. The [[Mission Intel]] reveals some of the history during the bioweapon incident on ''Argent Moon'' while ''Halo: Retribution'' reveals the backstory to the incident.

== Gallery ==

<gallery>

File:H5G-Argent Moon elevator concept.jpg|Concept art of one of the elevators.

File:H5G-Reactor concept.jpg|Concept art of ''Argent Moon''{{'}}s reactor room.

== Sources ==

{{Levels|H5}}