Halopedia:Projects/Mombasa Mapping
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The Mombasa Mapping Project aims to cross-reference both in-game and supplementary material to attempt to make sense of Mombasa's regional structure.
Goals
Current research
Because their have been many sources, both visually and written, describing and showing off the real world inspired Mombasa area, it is now possible to begin placing, collating and theorising about the landscape of Mombasa.
Official and IRL maps
To begin, Mombasa is actually a real world city with a specific geography. As such, here is an IRL overview of the city. North is up in this image.
The Halo universe has revisited the city several times, in several styles with numerous locations. Here is a collection of various maps, and overhead images from around the city.
A collation of the various sector maps in Mombasa Streets.
The overview of the area of the city seen in Operation A: Orphic Spear in Spartan Strike.
The Mombasa map seen in Terminal.
The entirety of Mombasa island and some of the mainland as seen in Halo 3: ODST.
Overhead of Breakneck from Halo: Reach.
When accounting for real world geography, and placing the fictional locations of the city on top, a rough map can be constructed.
Resources
Primary resources
- Halo 2 - Includes a swathe a lot of visual and narrative information on Mombasa.
- Halo 2: Anniversary - A modernization of some of these elements, providing even more details.
- Palace Hotel - A retelling of some Halo 2 events, providing even more details.
- Halo 3: ODST - Includes a vast amount of Mombasa related information, that comes in audio, visual, and narrative form.
- Halo: Spartan Strike - A new experience providing some new visual information.
Additional resources
- Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa - A comic story that provides some extra visual information.
- Sadie's Story - A complimentary story to main narrative of Halo 3: ODST. Provides some new information.
- Breakneck - A map set in Mombasa in Halo: Reach.
Confirmed information
- Palace Hotel confirms that the tunnels at the end of the long suspension bridge is the Mtangwe Underpass
- Halo Waypoint confirms that Headlong/Section 14 is on the mainland and a monitoring outpost along Nyali, Tudor and New Mombasa island.[1]
Theorycrafting
Hypothetical location placements
- Spartan Strike "On Top of the World" building - Although there are significant design and placement differences, there are number of similarities with this multi-towered building in Halo 2 and Halo 2: Anniversary and the one used as the backdrop for the Spartan Strike level "On Top of the World".
The multi-towered building can be seen on the left.
The multi-towered building on the right.
- Section 21 - Though there are some differences, when accounting for landmark placement and other details it does appear that Section 21 and the built up district with elephant horns might be the same.
The elephant horns district from ODST.
Cleanup
Locations
Checked boxes indicate articles that have been updated with new info and images.
Characters
Double check that locations and location based info is updated on various character related pages.
Battles
See also
Sources
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