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{{Status|RealWorld}}
{{Era|RW}}
{{Center|'''Dust and Echoes''' redirects here. For the achievement, see [[Dust and Echoes (achievement)]].}}
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  | name      = Dust and Echoes
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  | album      = ''[[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]''
  | album      = [[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]
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'''Dust and Echoes''' is the twenty-fifth track in ''[[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]''.
'''Dust and Echoes''' is the twenty-fifth included in the ''[[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]''.


==Overview==
==Overview==
The track opens with an eerie ambiance, quickly followed by reversed strings,{{Ref/YouTube|Id=IGN|9ndZbg8Mr-Q|IGN|Halo: Combat Evolved Devs React to Speedrun (Martin O’Donnell, Marcus Lehto)}} which build up to a climax. The eerie ambiance continued, soon joined by the male choir, singing the main melody ''[[The Maw (music)|The Maw]]''. The eerie ambiance briefly returns before strings take over, somberly playing a variation of the ''[[Halo Theme]]''.
This track gives the player the feeling of being alone; that they lost everything and that the victory came at a terrible cost, which it did. Rather than infect the galaxy with the [[Flood]] or activate [[Halo]], which would destroy all intelligent life in the galaxy, the total destruction of the ring was concluded to be the only course of action.  
 
The middle section of the piece features the vocals from ''[[The Maw (music)|The Maw]]''.


==Appearances==
==Appearances==
The reversed strings plays in the opening cutscene of the level ''[[The Library]]'', when the [[activation index]] is shown in the [[Library]]. An extended version of the opening eerie ambiance plays in reverse during the mid-level cinematic of ''[[Keyes]]'', when [[John-117]] retrieves the [[Flood]]-assimilated [[Jacob Keyes|Captain]]'s [[neural implant]]s from the [[Proto-Gravemind]]. The track plays in full during the final cutscene of the level ''[[The Maw]]'', when John-117 escapes the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}.
It plays during the end of the level ''[[The Maw]]'', in the ending cutscene.
 
==Arrangements==
The track has been arranged into the following:
*''[[Wake Me When You Need Me]]'' in ''[[Halo 3: Original Soundtrack]]''.
*''[[Flotsam, Jetsam]]'', ''[[Captain, My Captain]]'', and ''[[Exfiltration]]'' in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary: Original Soundtrack]]''.


==Production notes==
The first part is played in reverse on the level ''[[Keyes]]'' during the cutscene where John-117 retrieves the Flood-assimilated Captain's [[neural implant]]s from the [[Proto-Gravemind]].
The name is derived from [[Cortana]]'s quote upon scanning the vicinity of the destroyed [[Installation 04]], "Just... dust and echoes. We're all that's left."


==Sources==
==Remastered versions==
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It is remastered into the following:
*''[[Wake Me When You Need Me]]'' in the ''[[Halo 3: Original Soundtrack]]''. Both are named after quotes from [[Cortana]] and [[John-117]] during the final cutscene from both games.
*''[[Flotsam, Jetsam]]'' in the ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary: Original Soundtrack]]''.


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