Editing Floodgate (Level)

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{{Article Quote|Stop the [[The Flood|Infestation]].  Find [[Cortana]].}}

{{Level infobox
|prev=''[[The Storm (Level)|The Storm]]''
|next=''[[The Ark (Level)|The Ark]]''
|game=''[[Halo 3]]''
|image=[[Image:H3_Floodgate_Preview.jpg|300px]]
|name='''''Floodgate'''''
|player=[[SPARTAN-117]]
|date= [[2552]]
|place= [[Voi]], [[Earth]]
|Objective=*Stop the [[The Flood|Infestation]]
*Find [[Cortana]]
|enemies=
*Flood [[Combat Form|Human Form]]s
*Flood [[Combat Form|Brute Form]]s
*Flood [[Elite Form]]s
*[[Stalker Form ]]s
*[[Flood Ranged Form ]]s
*[[Flood Tank Form]]s
*[[Flood Carrier Form]]s
*[[Flood Infection Form]]s
}}
[[Image:Flood wall.jpg|thumb|A Flood-infested wall.]]
[[Image:Hood Pelican.jpg|thumb|Lord Hood grimly watches Miranda Keyes as his [[Pelican]] leaves.]]
'''Floodgate''' is the fifth [[campaign]] mission of ''[[Halo 3]]''.

This is also the first level in Halo 3 which you encounter the [[Flood]]. Upon disabling the Anti-Air Gun in [[The Storm (Level)|The Storm]], a Flood-controlled Covenant cruiser crashes in [[Voi]].  In order to eliminate the infestation, [[Master Chief]] and the [[Arbiter]] must overload the crashed cruiser's engines, wiping out the entire city and the Flood with it.

Upon completing it on the [[Normal]], [[Heroic]], or [[Legendary]] difficulties, the player will earn the [[Cleansing (Achievement)|"Cleansing" achievement]] and 30 [[Gamerpoints]].

==Transcript==
{{Spoiler}}
''This transcript is incomplete, and comes from an incomplete source of Floodgate's gameplay''
===01: It Followed Me Home===
'''Cutscene''':''The Chief and the [[Arbiter]] stand atop a cliff, watching a UNSC fleet hurtle towards the storm surrounding the portal to the [[Ark]]. The Covenant fleet is above the ark, with the [[Forerunner Dreadnaught]] in the middle of the structure.''

'''[[Lord Hood]]''': All ships, fire at will!

''The UNSC fleet charges the Covenant fleet, MAC guns blazing. The Forerunner structure begins to open like a starfish, focusing energy on the Dreadnaught, and fires off a beam of light. The screen blacks out.''

'''[[Cortana]]''' (VO): This is the way the world ends.

''Fade back in on the scene. A large glowing sphere of light has appeared in the sky. The Arbiter roars. The UNSC fleet's craft are drifting. The Forerunner Dreadnaught rises into the sphere, followed in close order by the Covenant fleet.

'''[[Lord Hood]]''': *coughs* What'd [[Truth]] just do? *coughs* Did he activate [[The Halos|the rings]]?

'''[[Miranda Keyes]]''': No, Sir. But he certainly did something.

'''[[Lord Hood]]''': Evac the wounded and regroup. Wherever Truth went---

'''[[UNSC]] officer (possibly Gunnery Sergeant [[Pete Stacker]])''': Sir, new contact slipping in.

''A Covenant cruiser, smoking with damage and obviously [[Flood|infected]], decends nearby from slipspace and hurtles over the heads of the Chief and the Arbiter to crash nearby in [[Voi]].

'''[[The Arbiter]]''': What is it? More [[Brutes]]?

'''[[SPARTAN-117]]''': Worse.

''end cutscene''

''gameplay begins''

'''[[Miranda Keyes]]''': The Flood. It's spreading all over the city.

'''[[Lord Hood]]''': How do we contain it?

'''[[Miranda Keyes]]''': Find the crashed [[Flood]] ship, overload its engine core. Either destroy this city, or risk losing the entire planet. 

'''[[Lord Hood]]''': Do it.

'''[[Miranda Keyes]]''': Chief, make your way to the crash site.

''some time later, when entering the city''

'''[[The Arbiter]]''': (unintelligible)

'''[[Marine]] [[Sergeant]] (possibly Stacker){over COM}''': All squads, report!

'''[[Marine]] squad leader {over COM}''': Multiple contacts, unknown hostiles.

'''[[Marine]] {over COM}''': There! Over there! We're surrounded, Sergeant!

'''COM system''': {Flood screams are heard}

'''[[Marine]] {over COM}''': Aaaaah!

''You find a group of Marines in a loading ramp.''

'''[[Marine]] [[Sergeant]]''': Fall back, fall back!

'''Female [[Marine]]''': Sergeant, come on!

''[[Infection Forms]] and [[Combat Forms]] (including the new Brute ones) descend on the Marines, infecting and killing or forcing you to kill them. The female Marine who had spoken earlier is the only survivor.''

'''Female [[Marine]]''' (upon spotting the Chief): About damn time!

''The Marine accompanies you into a building, where you run into a lone Marine fighting off a horde of infection forms. It is possible to save him, but more often than not, he will be mutated before your eyes.''

{{Spoiler End}}


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<div class="thumbcaption">A [[Marine]] gets infected in the level, Floodgate.<small>(Double-click for larger video)</small></div>
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