Editing Data Hive

{{Era|RW}}

 

|image=[[File:A ChasmTen.jpg|300px]]

|prev=''[[Mombasa Streets]]'' (chronologically)<br>

|player= [[The Rookie]]

|place= [[New Mombasa Data Center|Data Center]], [[New Mombasa]], [[Earth]]

|objective= Find [[Veronica Dare|Dare]] and secure the [[Superintendent]].

{{Article Quote|Find Dare, secure the Superintendent.}}

Completing this level on [[Normal]] or higher unlocks the [[Data Hive (achievement)|Data Hive achievement]] and the [[Chasm Ten]] [[Firefight]] map, which is based on this level.

The Rookie, having found [[Veronica Dare|Dare]]'s distress signal after exploring the city, descends down an underground [[elevator]] shaft into the [[Superintendent]]'s [[New Mombasa Data Center|Data Center]]. He arrives at sub-level 7 of the complex and must fight his way down to sub-level 9, where Dare is hiding. On the way down The Rookie has to defeat a range of Covenant, including Brutes and Drones, during this time the Rookie runs into a NMPD Officer searching for his men. He follows the Rookie until he is killed by either the Drones or the Rookie (Depending on the amount of audio logs found). Once the Rookie and Dare are reunited, Dare informs the Rookie of the true nature of their mission. The two then fight through a [[Yanme'e|Drone]] hive to the Superintendent's core to secure its data as well as "the asset," revealed to a rogue [[Huragok]] named [[Vergil]] that has taken refuge there. Vergil has assimilated the Superintendent's data with its own knowledge, making it an extremely valuable defector to the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] and a major liability for the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]. [[Edward Buck|Buck]] fortuitously arrives just as Covenant reinforcements attempt to secure the complex, and with his help Dare and the Rookie escort Vergil safely to the surface through heavy resistance.

''View of a dimly-lit room in the Superintendent's Data Center is shown, with an [[elevator]] car on the bottom of its shaft. [[The Rookie]] descends from the elevator shaft, and drops to the top of the elevator car.''

 

 

*'''NMPD Officer''': "You hear that? Buggers! Down at your level. Oh no! They're up here too! Coming out of the damn vents! Get back! No! Ahhh!"

 

 

*'''Superintendent''': "CRIME DOESN'T PAY!"

 

''Alternatively, if the player does have 29 Audio Logs, the officer jumps down with the player.''

*'''Jiralhanae War Chieftan''': "Kill it! Don't let it get past!"

*'''NMPD Officer''': "Trooper, hold up a sec. I got to check on a...personnel issue."

''The officer walks up to a door on the left side of the frozen room.''

*'''NMPD Officer''': "What are you, stupid?! I told you wait outside!"

*'''NMPD Officer''': "[[Kinsler]] gave me real specific instructions: Make sure [[Daniel Endesha|the Doc]]'s dead, and make double sure no one knows about it."

*'''NMPD Officer''': "Sorry, friend... You know way too much."

''If the Officer was already killed by the Drones, the door into Endesha's office will remain shut:''

*'''[[Sadie Endesha]] (recording)''': "Something's wrong..."

*'''Dare''': "[[Michael Crespo|Some]] [[Taylor H. Miles|idiots]] [[ONI Alpha Site (level)|blew]] [[ONI Alpha Site|the building]] at the top of the shaft. Woke the whole hive."

''The Rookie jumps through the hole and lands hard, injuring himself slightly. Dare jumps after him. They emerge into a huge room. The two turn into another room with a Covenant patrol. The Rookie and Dare kill all of them and turn right, into a huge cavern like room with Covenant crates all around.''

''The door at the end leads to a narrow hallway. At the end, a short drop leads to an open door. The door opens to a huge room, with the data center in the middle. A Phantom arrives.''

''Scene cuts back to the Rookie and Dare as they walk to the core. Suddenly, Dare's flashlight shows a small tentacle sticking out of a hole in the core. If the player has 30 audio logs, Dare will raise her pistol but the Rookie stops her and shakes his head. He then whistles to bring the creature out.''  

 

 

''A long and thin head sticks out from the terminal. The view goes to the pair, where it reveals it's a [[Huragok]].''

''The Huragok comes close to them.''

''If the player doesn't have 30 audio logs'':

*'''Dare''': "I spotted this one in the tunnels, watched it access comm lines, security cameras, traffic controls, you name it. Eventually, it holed up here."

''Dare reaches out a hand and puts it close to the Huragok.''

''If the player has acquired 30 audio logs'':

*'''Dare''': "The Slipspace event fried most of the Superintendent's circuits. I thought it might be finishing the job. But now I see that you weren't trying to hurt the Superintendent."

''Dare reaches out a hand and puts it close to the Huragok.''

*'''Dare''': "You were trying to fix it."

*'''Dare''': "[[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] calls them Engineers, believes they're some sort of biological supercomputers. If I'm right, this one's taken the Superintendents data and combined it with its own."

''A beeping noise from the core catches their attention. The Huragok floats toward it and uses a tentacle to push a button, revealing a small monitor. The Superintendent zooms in on some Jet Pack Brutes landing on the rooftop. The view goes back to the room. Dare approaches the monitor.''

''Dare pulls the lever on the pistol.''

 

*'''Dare''' ''(to the Engineer)'': "You. Stay behind me. Okay?"

*'''Buck''': "Whoah. Easy does it, Rookie"

*Any weapon the player acquired from the [[supply cache]]s on ''[[Mombasa Streets]]'' will not be carried over into this level, even if they are low on ammo. Covenant weapons such as the [[Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon|Fuel Rod Gun]] or the [[Type-50 Sniper Rifle System|Beam Rifle]] will carry over.

*Just before entering Sublevel 08, the player will encounter an [[Unidentified NMPD officer|NMPD officer]]. The Superintendent is seen acting strangely towards him, refusing to open data stacks for him and saying phrases like "WARNING! HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPED CONVICTS!" The latter is a reference to the final segment of the level [[The Maw]] in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''.

*This is the only level in the games which the player can use a Flamethrower against non-Flood NPC enemies.

*Two different cutscenes are possible when Dare and the Rookie meet Vergil. The default cutscene plays if the player has not collected all 30 audio logs and shows the Rookie arming his gun and aiming at Vergil before Dare tells him to stand down. If the player recovered all the logs, the cutscene changes to reflect the information gained from reading them. Dare aims at Vergil instead, and the Rookie will motion for her to stand down and whistle for Vergil to come out.

*At the exit of the Drone hive, a lone [[Yanme'e Leader]] occasionally makes a final effort to falter the [[The Rookie|Rookie]]'s progress. It is worth noting that this is the only Yanme'e Leader encountered in the campaign; suggesting it may be the leader of all the Drones encountered in New Mombasa.

*If the player swaps weapons with Dare, she will revert back to an [[M6C/SOCOM]] after finding the Engineer.

File:ODST underground hub.jpg|Concept art of [[the Rookie]] inside one of the data center's various hallways.

File:HiveOverlookConcept.jpg|Concept art of [[Veronica Dare]] inside a chamber overlooking the data core.

File:HiveCatwalkConcept.jpg|Concept art of the Rookie on a catwalk inside the terraformed [[Yanme'e]] hive.

File:Datacenter concept.jpg|Concept art of the [[Superintendent]]'s data core.

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