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	Message: : : Stage 1: The Pillar of Autumn : Escape intact as Covenant Forces board your ship : Stage 0 was simply to get the opening cutscene out of the way and start the : game proper as this level is longer than the vanilla game, which is why I : considered it a slog on my original Legendary run. I’ll try to keep more : full transcripts of cutscenes to a minimum now. Stage 1 is the Pillar of : Autumn proper. : Unlike the Eternal X Tour of Duty, which is split into game chapters, a Stage : per chapter plank (intro, bad future, success) and Acts representing : levels, Halo’s levels are pretty damn big so one Stage of the Halo LP will : be a single level. Chapters in Halo are little pop-up texts that appear : within levels Half Life style, marking significant sections. Those will be : the Acts here. : Act 1: Reville : After the cutscene we covered last, I emerge from my cryotube automatically, : with Thom Shepherd dressed in a new orange jumpsuit, possibly like the : engineering staff on the Marathon? (Not the airlock technicians) : : Unlike vanilla on Easy and Normal, no sooner have I left the tube than Sam is : attacked and the alarm goes off. “Oh god, they’re trying to get through : the door!” The door explodes again and Sam calls for help as before but : this time he’s attacked by a brute from Halo 2, wielding a bayoneted : grenade launcher called a Brute Shot. : : Shepherd yells for Sam twice before running to the exit door and keying it : open. I follow Thom down the hall to a larger automatic door but an : explosion from some hidden pipes or something in the next hall breaks the : door and sends Shepherd’s dead body flying back the way I came. I jump : over some pipes by an alarm and go past Cryo One. Something else explodes : past the Cryo One hall door, but this one is safe other than the fire it : starts. The blast seems to have dislodged a pair of hoses in a burning : corridor. What’s in those hoses anyway? Hydraulic fluid? Steam? Air? : : Normally there’s an invisible wall but it’s possible to run in there in SPV3 : and get trapped when the blast doors close. The half closed blast door to : the left is fully open in this mod and now I get to see something the : vanilla game doesn’t have: automated ceiling turrets that help us fight : the Covenant. : : Beware of Low-Hanging Defence Turrets. : A poor sap gets blown up by an invisible plasma grenade as he runs from : elites past another hose. Granted, this was a Bob so he just stood in : place like a lemon while the blast door started closing, instead of just : stepping through. Looking at the real HD crewmen in SPV3, they really do : look Bobs from Marathon in full 3D. : : “Thank God, it’s you! Wait, I mean, They’re Everywhere! Heh, heh, heh…don’t : kill me!” : Past the HD Bobs down a dark hall, I run almost headfirst into an elite, : which you normally only see on Easy and Normal. A pair of marines had : taken its shields down, but I can’t help them as I’m unarmed. Some hunters : harass more soldiers and one marine tells me to follow him through the : armoury to the bridge to meet with the captain. It’s here on the floor of : the armoury by some dead bodies that you run into the first of many : Marathon terminals in SPV3. Like with Marathon, they come in the form of : UNSC & Covenant datapads, and Forerunner terminals that resemble the : ones from Halo 4. I’ll be using a guide to find them all as in my past : playthroughs I’ve missed some on a few levels and I want to see them. : : Some of these things you might already know if you read the Fall of Reach or : at least read the Primers I started as an introduction to this LP. I : didn’t mention Keyes’s daughter Miranda from Halo 2 though. She’s the : child of both Jacob and Dr Halsey, though this isn’t often touched upon in : the games. By the bridge, I find the famous bulletin board Easter egg. In : Halo 1, it looks like this: : There’s an Alien reference, the Keep it Clean notice would become the : catchphrase of the Superintendent AI in Halo 3 ODST, the Fight for Her : poster became a subtle ad for Destiny in the same game and there’s a : clever Marathon 1 reference: both Bungie’s old office and a colony ship : with 7 speed manual transmission are for sale. I guess Durandal, after : escaping into the Macroverse post Infinity still has a sense of humour. : Now the board looks like this: : Don’t think I didn’t see that other Destiny reference hiding by the : keyboard. …Whoops, wrong guardians. : The Anniversary version of the bulletin board has a teaser for Halo 4 in the : same style as the future Destiny poster, Jonesy has been found, someone’s : lost a golden egg laying goose and there’s a rock band advertisement that : makes a Uranus joke: : In the original build of SPV3, the board was green and had developer notes on : it, including one that said “Keyes’s face sucks”. They hadn’t finalised : his model at the time nor Cortana’s which was similar to her current one, : but completely opaque, so it made sense. Besides that, the SPV3.1 board : was boring. : Now, there’s something else that needs covered before I talk to Keyes. This : isn’t really in SPV3 itself, but there’s a message being received by the : unmanned computer station on the left side of the bridge. I check it out. : : I’ll be embedding all of those when I find their relative positions, though : some of them are taken up by SPV3 terminals as a reference to them. I go : and talk to the Captain. He says things aren’t going well, even though : Cortana did her best. She doesn’t agree, and says she was able to destroy : 4 out of 12 battleships. She turns to me and asks if I slept well. No : thanks to her driving, I did. Cortana smiles, “So you did miss me.” : : In SPV3.1, she had her mouth open after speaking here, like in vanilla. It : looked weird and a little off to see her HD Halo 4 model moving her mouth : and face with the primitive animations. I’ve gotten used to worse before, : but at least that was fixed here. Just then, the deck shudders as : something strikes us and scary music plays. Or the music was scary when I : was 7 and played it for the first time. : The MAC gun is disabled now and it was Cortana’s last line of defence. Keyes : decides we should abandon ship while he tries to land on the ringworld. : “With all due respect sir,” Cortana says, “this war has enough dead : heroes.” : Captain Keyes locks his eyes with hers and tells her that he doesn’t make the : rules, before sending her off to prepare both a list of places to land, : and herself for a hard transfer. : That’s where I come in: if the Covenant captures Cortana, they will learn : everything they need to about us from her; Force deployments, weapons : research and most of all, the location of Earth. : “The Autumn will continue evasive manoeuvres until you initiate a landing : sequence.” Cortana tells the Captain when she returns. “Not that you’ll : listen, but I’d suggest letting my subroutines handle the final approach.” : Keyes then ejects her memory crystal chip and I insert it into the slot : on my head, just like I did with Durandal in Marathon Infinity. : : What to save and what to throw away? : pr?The first hour is on us both? pr?mr. s?tuck this little kitty into the : impenetrable brainpan? : pr?Contents under pressure. Do not expose to excessive heat, vacuum, blunt : trauma, disintergration, reintergration. hypersleep, humiliation, sorrow : or harsh language? : pr?When the time comes, whose life will flash before yours? : pr?A billion paths are here inside me? : pr?yes, yes, yes, Halsey, 110? : pr?potential, jewels, jewels, yes, jewels?% : There’s a much more appropriate place for that reference in Halo 3, but I : just wanted to be first. Cortana gets a bit flirty as the ice water : feeling of her presence enters my skull. “Hmm, your architecture isn’t : much different from the Autumn’s. ” Don’t get any funny ideas, Cortana. : Despite the fact her similar appearance to Cheetara (the good version that : is) is even clearer in SPV3, I ain’t into Halo R34. : Act 2: AI Constructs and Cyborgs first! : Halo 1 is a bit inconsistent with whether the Chief is a cyborg or not. The : books and later games say he is not, but is chemically augmented. The : closest he gets to being a cyborg is the AI ports in his skull that : Cortana plugs into via his armour. This is a holdover from its story’s : earliest drafts used for Marathon Eternal’s story, in which Halo was a : Marathon 4. Keyes hands me his pistol but warns he doesn’t keep it loaded. : I’ll have to find ammo when I go. : And go I do, jumping below the weapons station and looking out the window at : the Halo ring just to admire it. : : The Halo ring was mind blowing to me as a child as I didn’t think someone : could just build a planet like world, let alone one this shape. Despite : the joke in Stage 0, I didn’t read the Ringworld Trilogy until years : later. The Niven original was much larger, orbited a star, (as opposed to : Halo floating in a Lagrange point between a gas giant and its moon) : simulated night with gigantic “shadow squares” held together with : infinitely sharp cables and its superweapon was forcing its sun to flare : and focusing the plasma and light into a laser which could target : anything. What did they use their giant sun lasers for? Meteorite : defence. : Those bent spikes overhead are the Pillar of Autumn’s Magnetic Accelerator : Cannon by the way. I climb up the ladder behind me out of the pit. Ladders : are very rare in campaign, mostly appearing in multiplayer only. I didn’t : test this in SPV3 but if you kill Captain Keyes once you get ammo for your : pistol and/or kill other bridge crew, Cortana calls invincible marines to : kill you, saying that you’ve gone rampant. You’re then locked on the : bridge and can either hide under the ladder forever or submit to being : shot and/or reload. : There’s pistol ammo on the floor as I leave the bridge, and just in time as a : trio of grunts waits in the hallway. Like with Marathon, your basic gun is : a pistol with a scope that defies most expectations of game pistols by not : being useless. Unlike Marathon, you can actually use the scope! Sadly no : dual wielding though. : Normally the pistol is semi-automatic but I have to actually pull the right : trigger repeatedly to fire it in the mod. Killing the grunts, I help the : marines fight off some more along with elite handlers in a cafeteria and : steal a plasma pistol. It’s basically the fusion pistol. However, the : battery rapidly drains if you hold a charged shot in SPV3, like Halo 3 : onward which sucks. The grunts’ methane tanks seem to catch fire and : explode if shot but the explosion doesn’t appear to be very big. : I also admire the mess hall menu and find an SMG from Halo 2 & the second : human terminal in hall to the right of the entrance door. : : : Wait, that’s a major spoiler for Halo Reach. *facepalm* : https://youtu.be/YWDUEVL0PMI?t=244 : Cortana warns that borders breached the ship’s fire control centre, using as : a line taken and edited from Halo 2, before a boarding craft slams into a : nearby airlock and the covies blow the inner door open with plasma : grenades. : : Cortana notes that the Covenant are clever for using even the lifepod : airlocks as makeshift docking bays once they are emptied. Inside the : boarding craft’s umbilical is an overshield by a sealed iris door and a : covenant terminal next to the airlock. : : There’s the odd switch that can activate turrets if you need them. Just ahead : is a dark hallway that’s blocked off due to the door being broken. Cortana : suggests bashing it open with a melee attack so I do. Inside is my first : armour ability, guarded by an elite, the VISR. It’s identical to the one : in Halo 3 ODST which in turn, is an evolution of the VISR Chip in Marathon : AKA Hypervision, except you can turn it on and off at will. : Ahead is another molested airlock with a covie terminal next to it and a new : SPV3 exclusive powerup by the boarding craft’s inner door, the Reflex : Enhancer which gives you bullet time. : : Just ahead I crouch under a broken blast door just in time to see a pair of : Bobs get slaughtered by grunts and elites. Or they would be if I hadn’t : saved them, thanks to time moving slowly for 30 seconds. “Now you don’t : see me,” I say as sprint to the covenant at the speed of sound, “Now you : do!” There’s a human terminal behind a pillar here. : : He doesn’t know Halsey survived and makes it out as of Halo: First Strike. : And if you’ve played the original Halo 1 or Anniversary, you know that now : he never will. : I swap my SMG for a Battle Rifle, also from Halo 2 but I eschew the Health : Regen for my VISR as I feel I will need it later. Ahead is a staircase : where marines are under attack by brutes, equipped with Brute Shots and my : favourite plasma weapon, but the latter vanished before I could pick it : up. I manage to knock the metal shower cap off of one’s head, and blast : him with my plasma rifle. : : “I would’ve been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence! Maybe then, : you’d be trouble!” : They also drop a new type of grenade: so far I’ve been using plasma grenades : that stick to enemies and vehicles, but not scenery. These new ones are : gravity grenades, which they may as well call portable red matter bombs: : Reminds me of End of the World in New Sonic the Hedgehog, but almost as : bloody as I wanted those black hole deaths to be. Up ahead, the lifepods : begin launching as a volley of red pulse lasers strikes the hull. One of : them skewers the third pod like a marshmallow. : : The blast door into the hall by the pod bay doors seals behind me so any : surviving marines that are following you get left behind. They don’t go : through before it starts closing. It’s a dead end, so Cortana suggests : following the maintenance access-ways in the walls, which are in a : gameplay sense basically air ducts but large enough to walk in and just as : dark. The hatch is guard by stealth elites who carry active camouflage, : which is where my Legendary playthrough first clicked on preliminary : warning lights. I found frag grenades, which come in handy as does the : brute shot. : Covenant patrols outside the exit. In vanilla on Easy & Normal, you don’t : get your motion tracker until this point where the access-ways are used as : an antepiece to teach you to use it, directing you to a dark room where : you learn to melee attack in a similar way, breaking a different door and : then training again on an oblivious grunt, then an elite. On higher : difficulties, the locked doors in the unsafe “exits” open on their own and : you’re expected to know how the motion tracker works, keeping only the : unaware elite after the safe exit. SPV3 keeps the antepieces but also : leaves the doors open, so triggering Cortana’s dialog for the unsafe exits : is risky. : The unware grunt has been replaced with a brute who carries cluster grenades : and a Shredder i.e. a Brute Needler. Needlers fire purple heat seeking : needles that shatter soon after hitting someone. Stick them with at least : 8 at once then they don’t shatter, they explode. : The shredder is a red version that works the same way, but the needles are : slower, track targets better and you need less to make them explode. The : brutes in here become hot furry pin cushions before falling into a second : black hole made when the explosion of my last grav grenade that I threw : coupled with a shredder blast sets off a stray one. There’s yet another : terminal in here. : : Just ahead I find the observation theatres for Cryo One & Two, as well as : Sam’s body. A brute kills another tech in the Cryo One room. Interesting : to note is that in Halo Anniversary, Linda is noted as being in Cryo, : hinting that she may be the co-op character instead of a non-canon chief : clone. Below in the starting room, I see an elite zealot with an energy : sword growling in frustration at the now empty cryotube. As Cortana points : out, it looks like the Covenant wanted to give me a more rude awakening. : : Is that Thel Vadumee i.e. the Arbiter? I’m not sure, as there’s multiple : sword zealots in Halo 1 and Thel is just one of them albeit unseen, but : this specific one could be. 3 explosions rock the ship and injure more : cloaked elites in the burning hall past the cryo chambers. Cortana already : called me out on losing a little health earlier and she is not amused. : “Ask yourself this question: Is what I’m doing right now, helping Cortana : from blowing into tiny, tiny bits?!” Yes, I’m not making this line up, : it’s actually in the mod here. : The good news is stealth elites have no shields in Halo 1 & SPV3, but : they are harder to hit if they have plasma rifles: energy sword ones are : dangerous but they may as well paint a dartboard on their chest. Minor : blue elites do not regenerate their shields in Halo 1, at least vanilla. : If they do, it’s not noticeable. By the burned corpse of the red major : elite, who was caught in the first explosion as I sniped him with my : battle rifle, I find the next covenant terminal. : : A pair of grunts -now a grunt and a stealth elite- hide in the second : maintenance access-way. This is where things start to change from the : original game, as normally you go through the service ducts and find the : final hallways to the lifepod outside. Not here: The duct slopes steeply : upward where the way out used to be and a new chapter loads. : Act 3: A Whole New World : They aren’t kidding: this is the first of the brand new sections added to the : levels. This one feels like it drags on a bit too long, but it’s small : potatoes compared to Assault on the Control Room. The Maw redeems the : Autumn’s new areas though, as we’ll get to in time. There’s brutes outside : the access-ways fighting marines and Bobs. The twisting side halls past : them lead to a dark pit, which I drop into, emerging in a dark corner : behind some deployable energy shields inside either a ship entrance or a : lifepod bay. All the of the pod bays are taken up by boarding craft, : giving the area a car muffler shape. More covies are hiding here. The next : terminal is inside another duct near the pod bay doors. : : Now this elite I do know about unlike the other terminal ones before him: : he’s a minor character in the novelisation who stalks Captain Keyes right : onto his lifepod while invisible, intending to capture him. He fails. : Instead, Keyes gets captured when one of the techs, Dowski, catches on : that they will be taken prisoner instead of killed, so she leads the : Covenant right to them when she tries to desert. Dowski is only half : right: they spare Keyes, but kill the other bridge crew including her, : taking only a small scattering of marines prisoner as well, as we see them : later. : Nosolee also appears to be the zealot that escapes at the end of Reach’s : Winter Contingency level, except dressed in a hideous shade of “nosebleed : during a cold” purple instead of the canon gold zealot armour. : The boarding crafts in the pod bays only have overshields. Around the corner : is a larger cryo chamber with brutes and grunts. Beyond that is a series : of large cargo holds where marines are in dire straits against elites. The : gravity generators are disabled here so while it doesn’t simulate zero G : with 6 degrees of freedom like say, Dusk’s swimming sections, it does use : low gravity from Cairo Station and the Marathon games, creating a unique : sense of verticality the original stage lacks. On the floor of the first : hold is a pair of dark hallways around a barricade to the second one. : The second hold is deeper and I kind of told a lie earlier without meaning : to: SPV3 has more ladders in Campaign than the base game, though the ones : in here are harder to climb for some reason. I hop over the metal chasm : and climb up the tiered storage racks to find another terminal from : Nosolee. Seems he saw me recently. : : At the bottom of the cargo hold is a hallway to the third one. Brutes smash : through the glass to my left with their grenade launchers here. This hold : is told apart by having barred walkways high above that loop around in : spots. : : The marines are grateful for my help, but I’m more concerned with finding the : next terminal. I do find both an overshield and a reflex enhancer in a : side hall behind a broken door, just past where the Sonic 2006 black hole : is in the screenshot, next to a first aid kit, grenades, a dead sangheli : with a plasma rifle, an AR and a DMR from Halo Reach. The latter is : basically a single shot only Battle Rifle, but with better accuracy and a : longer scope. I stick to Halo 2 old faithful for now. The gravity turns : down at certain intervals, which makes jumping around the place a breeze : until it stabilises to 1G again. : Below this cargo hold are a couple of smaller ones. The bottom has a VISR, : ammo, dead marines and another Captain Keyes terminal. : : If you read the primer, those are events from The Fall of Reach. I can say I : have now seen my movie and it is CGI animated like the games instead of : live action like I originally thought, but it’s done to Monty Oum : standards so it’s excellent. I also learned my DVD appears to just be part : 1: It covers the point up to where Spartan Sam dies soon after they get : MJOLNIR. There’s 2 other parts, but I don’t know where to get them on DVD. : (so I can watch them on my Xbox Classic like I did part 1) Operation RED : FLAG is the Prophet kidnapping sting that was the Autumn’s original : mission, as mentioned in Primer Circle 3. : There’s brutes hiding among the strange cylinders of god knows what in the : dark bottom hold, but use of grenades and strategic sniping take them down : and I steal my favourite plasma weapon from one of them. : : See what I mean about the VISR being an evolved Hypervision? That comes in : handy more than a little bit in the dark, especially in ODST as well. : However, armour abilities in SPV3 replace your standard flashlight if : equipped unless passive e.g. health regeneration. Be careful: Unlike Halo : 3 ODST, this VISR uses your flashlight power so it will need to recharge : if it runs out. : There’s the remains of a massacre in the exit hall: covies lie dead among a : fallen server stack and collapsed deployable shield. Through a side hatch : ahead I switch my battle rifle for the DMR in what appears to be a control : room overlooking a second engine room? : : I know they’re recycling assets here but what is the point of this place from : a story perspective? Is this part of the reactors for the other engines or : is it simply a power plant instead of an actual engine room, seen as how : the actual engine room is at the end of the level but behind a currently : locked bulkhead? The next terminal is directly below the control room on a : ledge with 2 barricades. Try not to miss it. : : He doesn’t. Keyes shoots him in the head with a borrowed pistol no sooner : than they have left the ship. They dump Nosolee’s body in a crevice once : they land. Also, the artifact he talks about is the very one with the star : map Cortana used to get here, also discussed in Circle 3 of the Primer. : There’s a pair of elites or brutes here that spawn randomly, but there’s : always sleeping grunts under the terminal platform. Try to melee them all : without being seen, but do it quickly as blast doors at the far end open, : letting in patrols who will likely see you as there’s limited cover. : Just as the coast is clear, a pair of Mgalekgolo aka Hunters breaks through : the side door of the power plant. I’ll show off their SPV3 look later when : they’re not in darkness, but I deal with them and nick their gun. Yes, you : read that right. : Up ahead, some marines defend against a brute blockade in some motor tunnels, : using warthogs you can’t drive on this level for some reason, though the : passenger and gunner seats are fine. There’s a battle rifle in the next : tunnel and the room past that is absolute gold. I have a lot of fun with : black hole grenades here as they can cause hilarious glitches, especially : if an elite gets caught in the event horizon, where you can watch the : blood fly. : : No elites this time, but I can always reload! >:) : : : Once I’m finished playing, I head through the parking bay to an elevator I : take to the final lifepod bay. It’s a big push up here to the one : remaining pod. Sangheli, Unggoy and Jiralhanae (Elites, Grunts and Brutes) : guard the way ahead, coupled with a hunter pair behind a bulkhead door. : Here I get to show off my favourite plasma weapon in Halo, the Brute : Plasma Rifle. : : As I said in the primer, it’s much more powerful than the normal elite one, : red is my favourite color next to black and ultraviolet*, they fire faster : and dual wielding them looks badass as hell. I always wanted a pair of : brute plasma rifle laser tag guns so I could duel wield them while my : brother used our laser tag plasma pistols. While firing faster does make : them overheat more quickly, That’s where duel wielding them comes in, so : you can switch to the other to deal with the juicy meat. It’s more : practical to have a primary brute plasma rifle dual wielded with an elite : one, but I prefer the symmetrical way as it makes me feel like Kurtis : Trent but without the psychokinesis (yet). : The “more powerful” aspect is a lot clearer here to compensate for no dual : wielding, and they also deal fire damage. : *yes, you can see ultraviolet light in the right circumstances despite it : being outside the visible spectrum. Normally it’s seen in bowling alleys : and hospital bathrooms and appears as a neon blueish purple. You only : can’t see it most of the time when the sun’s out as there’s too much white : visible light polluting it (and what’s left of the ozone layer). : Next are the hunters. As discussed in Primer Circle 2, hunters are the : hive-mind “bodies” of little sentient worms called Lekgolo clustered : together. They carry the most common version of the fuel rod cannon : (covenant rocket launcher) and a giant metal snowboard they use as a : shield. The hunter designs are problematic in the main games as their : assault fuel rod cannons have a cool drum magazine where the rods are : loaded in, as seem in that same primer post. : : The problem with the assault cannon version used by hunters comes in Halo 3: : the hunter’s fuel rod cannon design from Halo 3 onward is rubbish. They : change the cool drum magazine to an injector tube design, which makes it : look like either a Connect 4 Cube game or a giant dildo. : : If they wanted to add tubes to it to show off the beam spray they use in Halo : 2 better, they should have kept the drum magazine for the bolt fire and : the gel tubes for the beam only. SPV3 understands that and gives us the : best of both worlds. : : Next to the Halo 2 version of the original drum magazine design, this is the : best Assault cannon version as it merges both the designs into one big : happy killing machine. You can even see the fuel rods in the drum go down : as you fire them, plus killing one hunter and taking his gun lets you kill : the other more easily. I don’t know if a single pistol or sniper round : still works. : The burning door the Mgalekgolo came from leads to another maintenance : access-way, connecting to the original end hallways, now with turrets and : what looks like Elite ultras. Using my stolen fuel rod cannon and brute : plasma rifle, I fight my way to a barricade with frag greneades, the : antepiece in vanilla that teachs you to use them. The lifepod I need to : board is just ahead behind a locked pod bay door. It will unlock once the : covies are dead. I also need to be careful here as the final terminal is : past the pod airlock and getting too close to it once the enemies are dead : ends the level. Thankfully there’s one final service duct to aid with : that. : : Poor Jacob. While his daughter lives on, he never knows his lover did too. As : of Halo 4, only Catherine is left. : A marine falls over as we run for the lifepod, but I scoop him up and toss : him inside. : The pilot who totally doesn’t sound like a clone of Carol Rawley i.e. : Foehammer, rockets the pod out of the bay and into the black. Doesn’t her : armour remind you of someone or something? : : : As most JJ Abrams films prove, they get annoying when they’re overused. : However, my god do properly used and rationed lens flares look good if : the situation makes sense. : : This whole part was so great growing up, that if I had good video editing : software and the knowledge to use it, I’d edit in scenes from Halo all : over the made for TV “special” movie, The Raccoons and the Lost Star, : which both predates Halo and replaces the ringworld with Na Pali. : https://youtu.be/mwQAHYyPmvI?t=312 : One of the marines freaks out when the Pillar of Autumn nearly runs us over : while it gets bombarded with plasma torpedoes. Cortana realises that Keyes : is ignoring her and taking her down manually. What she doesn’t know is : that he actually does hand over to her subroutines just before they hit : atmosphere and take their lifepod. Guess he wanted to take her down as far : as he could safely do himself. : : As we descend to the planet, Cortana asks if I’d rather sit down. There’s not : a lot of room so I’m fine with standing. The pilot starts to have trouble : keeping us on course as there’s something wrong with the airbrake chute. : If Cortana still had fingers inside my head, they’d be crossed. : : : https://youtu.be/YWDUEVL0PMI?t=150 : The lifepod crashes on Halo in a sorry state but the Covenant are not far : behind! Marine squads lay scattered over a large coastal butte, pinned : down by encroaching alien fanatics. But we can’t defend ourselves further : without a base, so this big building in a secret grotto will do! Can we : take Alpha Base from the aliens and rescue the stranded crew? Next time on : Halo SPV3; Stage 2: Halo. Now the adventure evolves.
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