City
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A city is a type of settlement that sapient species create. They were often large and complex. Cities can be built on planets or on Space stations.
The word "urban" is often used to describe city areas.[1]
Types
Human
Prior to the activation of the Halo Array, of humanity's greatest cities was Marontik.
Post-Halo human cities often have transit systems featuring Maglev trains.[2][3][4] Roads for Civilian vehicles were also a common feature of human cities.[5][6] Quite a few cities also prominently hosted Space elevators.[7][8][3] Cities often have their own emergency forces, such as the New Mombasa Police Department, Boston Emergency, or Elysium City Law Enforcement.
Post-Halo human cities are filled with buildings, structures, and other areas often created using metals,[5][9] concrete like materials,[10][11] and wood.[12] Some buildings have landing pads for various aerospace craft.[13][12] Some Post-Halo human cities are actually arcologies. Several examples of this include the Castra Arcology,[14] the Haven arcology.[15][16] and New Mombasa.[note 1]
Post-Halo human cities can be found near water bodies[7][13][3] or nearly totally land locked.[17][6]
For a list of human cities, see here here
New Alexandria, a terraced city on Reach.
New Phoenix, a large city that is part of the United Republic of North America.
Species of the Covenant
- Covenant - Designed as the Covenant's capital, High Charity featured its own city.[18] The Covenant were also known to use derelict Forerunner cities, like with the Ten Cities of Edification.[19]
- Sangheili - The Sangheili made and designed their own cities. In the case of Sunaion, it was a "temple city",[20] with tall buildings that have a minimal footprint.[21] In the instance of the Tower of Ghalod'n, the entire city was mostly a single tower.[22]
- Sanghelios is mostly composed of city-states, led and named after specific Sangheili families.[23][24]
- For a list of Sangheili cities, see here
Sunaion, a seaborne temple city on Sanghelios.
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The Tower of Ghalod'n, a city-tower.
- Kig-Yar - The Kig-Yar had developed at least one major city, Tilu City. It was old and primarily filled with merchants.[25]
Forerunner
Forerunners built their own cities. There were quite a few different types of cities.
The capital of the Ecumene was the city-station of Maethrillian.
Forerunners also built cities on planets, some of which survived the nearly 100,000 year gap from the firing of the Halo Array like the Ten Cities of Edification.[19] Other ground cities of the Forerunners were the ones built on Triniel.[26]
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The city streets of Maethrillian.
Gallery
Concept work of the functions of the different buildings in Sunaion.
Building concepts for New Mombasa.
Building concepts for New Mombasa.
High Charity skyscraper concepts.
Notes
- ^ In this piece of concept art for Halo 3: ODST refers to the large structures in the map as being from an arcology.
Sources
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Universe - New Mombasa
- ^ Halo 2, multiplayer map, Terminal
- ^ a b c Halo: Reach, campaign level, Exodus
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, p. 45
- ^ a b Halo 3: ODST, campaign level, Mombasa Streets
- ^ a b Halo 4, campaign level, Epilogue
- ^ a b Halo 3: ODST, campaign level, Prepare To Drop
- ^ Halo 4, multiplayer map, Skyline
- ^ Halo: Reach, campaign level, Exodus
- ^ Halo: Reach, Remember Reach Webfilm
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level, Prologue
- ^ a b Halo: Reach, campaign level, New Alexandria
- ^ a b Halo 5: Guardians, multiplayer map, Empire
- ^ Bungie.net: Meet the Squad (6/2/2009)
- ^ Halo: Reach Limited Edition, Intersystem News: HAVEN TERROR BOMBING KILLS TWO MILLION
- ^ Halo: Reach, Dr. Halsey's personal journal
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series
- ^ Halo Waypoint: High Charity
- ^ a b Halo: Silent Storm, Chapter 26
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Universe - Sunaion
- ^ Halo 5: Guardians, campaign level, Battle of Sunaion
- ^ Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo, p. 144
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, p. 93
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, p. 58
- ^ Halo: Mortal Dictata, Chapter 6
- ^ Halo: Renegades, Chapter ??
