Editing High Charity (level)

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|game=''[[Halo 2]]'' (<small>''[[Halo 2 Anniversary|Anniversary]]''</small>)

|name='''''High Charity'''''

|image=[[File:HighCharityAchievementArt.jpeg|300px]]

|player=[[John-117]]

|date= [[2552#November 3, 2552|November 3, 2552]]

|place=Inside ''[[High Charity]]''

|objective=Stop [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]] from reaching the [[Keyship|Dreadnought]].

{{Article Quote|[[Cortana]] can handle the [[Activation Index|Index]] - stopping [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]] is up to you.}}

'''High Charity''' is the penultimate ''[[Halo 2]]'' [[campaign]] level. As the [[John-117|Master Chief]], the player must battle their way through the [[Flood]]-infested [[High Charity]] to stop the [[Prophet of Truth]] before he boards the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]]. This is the last level played from Master Chief's perspective in ''Halo 2''; the next and final level, [[The Great Journey]], returns to [[Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter]] as a playable character. This level is also the only time when Master Chief encounters the Flood in combat in ''Halo 2'', and also the only level in the game with no allies aiding the player. It is also the shortest playable campaign level. The [[Halo 2 Skulls|Iron Skull]] can be found on this level.

 

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwSucI4qzU '''{''Cutscene''}''']

''The Master Chief drops down a [[gravity lift]] just in time to see the Phantoms containing the Brute Chieftain [[Tartarus]] and the [[Prophet of Truth]] fly away. He walks over to the [[Prophet of Mercy|High Prophet of Mercy]], who has yet to be killed by the [[Flood infection form|infection form]].''

*'''[[Prophet of Mercy]]''': ''(weakly)'' "[[Earth]]... to finish what we started. And this time, none of you... will be left behind..."

''Master Chief pulls the Flood form off of Mercy and pops it. Mercy gives a strangled cry and dies. [[Cortana]]'s hologram appears on Mercy's throne.''

*'''Cortana''': "That structure, at the center of the city... it's a [[Forerunner Dreadnought|Forerunner ship]]! And Truth is heading straight for it! If he leads the Covenant fleet to Earth, they won't stand a chance. You have to stop him!"

''The view shows ''[[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]'' crashed into a nearby tower.''

*'''Cortana''': "If he does, I'll detonate ''In Amber Clad''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s reactor just like we did the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Autumn]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s. The blast will destroy this city and the ring. Not a very ''original'' plan, but we know it'll work."

[[File:H2A - John and Cortana watch Pelican crash.jpg|300px|right|thumb|John and Cortana watch as a Flood-controlled Pelican dropship crashlands into the tower.]]

*'''Cortana''': "We don't have time for this, Chief. Truth's Phantom is nearing the [[Forerunner Dreadnought|Forerunner ship]]."

''Two [[Unggoy]] [[Unggoy Ultra|Ultra]]s flee out of the door, pursued by a combat form. The Chief fights past them, and meets a cluster of Jiralhanae in the next room. Flood soon attack from behind the Jiralhanae. The Chief battles his way through and soon reaches a gravity lift leading upstairs.''

''The Chief passes through a room with a dead [[Sangheili]] and a dead [[Kig-Yar]] and comes to a massive open room. He stands on a platform in one corner, while other similar platforms are spaced around the room. The Spartan notices a huge array of colored shards of glass, taken from each world the Covenant have [[glassing|glassed]]. Far below, the Mausoleum of the Arbiter is barely visible as mist surrounds it. The Chief watches a skirmish between several Flood Combat Forms with a swarm of [[Yanme'e]] and one Jiralhanae.''

*'''Cortana''': "I'll do what I can to slow the launch sequence, but there's [[05-032 Mendicant Bias|something inside the ship]]...a presence that's fighting back. For a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] construct, it's unusually formidable."

''More Yanme'e enter the area and engage both the Flood and the Master Chief. The Chief activates a series of [[gravity bridge]]s and makes it to the opposite side of the chamber. He defeats several combat forms and leaves the area. As he enters the next room:''

 

''The Master Chief finds that the Flood have already begun to infest the city, the beginning of a process that will ultimately see High Charity converted into a [[Flood hive]]. Flood biomass clings to the walls, and the air is darkened with [[Flood spores]], making navigation difficult. Signs of the constant fighting are evident  everywhere, with Covenant corpses scattered around. He makes his way through a corridor filled with Flood, and then another with battling Flood and Covenant. Ultimately he makes it out into a garden-like area, where Jiralhanae-led Covenant patrol.''

''The Chief makes it to another gravity lift, and takes it too the top. A green conveyor, the [[High Charity conduit|conduit]] can be seen stretching out to the Forerunner Dreadnought in the distance. Multiple Flood forms attack a [[pack]] of Jiralhanae.''

[[File:H2A - Keyship takeoff.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[High Charity conduit|conduit]] leading to the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] resting at the heart of ''[[High Charity]]'' breaks away as the vessel lifts off.]]

''If the Chief continues to stall and not board the ship.''

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1bYEW-pc4 '''{''Cutscene''}''']

[[File:H2A - Cortana watching dreadnought.jpg|300px|thumb|Cortana watches the Forerunner Dreadnought leave ''High Charity''.]]

''The Chief travels through the conduit — a tube of green energy — at an extremely high speed. The conduit disengages as the Forerunner Dreadnought starts to launch, and John hurtles into the ship through a large portal, landing with scrapes flickering off his armor as a large set of [[door]]s closes behind him.''

''Cortana watches the ship rise, and exit through the top of High Charity, where Brute-controlled and Elite-controlled ships are continuing to destroy one another. Soon the Dreadnought enters slipspace, and vanishes.''

== Trivia ==

*If you knock a Combat Form off the side of the ramps of the Phantom dock, it will climb up the walls, similar to the ones that do the same during the elevator ride in The Oracle. But, they cannot jump into the deck.

*There is still a [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantom]] docked on the landing pad at the start of the level, but an energy field prevents you from walking on the back fins. It should also be noted that it has no weaponry.

===Easter Eggs===

{{Main|Easter Eggs}}

*The [[Halo_2_Skulls#Iron|Iron Skull]] can be found on this level.

*In the room with the glass shards hanging from the ceiling after the corridor where you first hear [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]] over the loudspeaker, there is an unknown and hard-to-see switch that looks just like the switches used to activate the gondolas on the level [[Delta Halo (level)|Delta Halo]], as well as the ones used to activate the elevators on the [[The Arbiter|Arbiter]] and [[The Oracle|Oracle]] levels. To see it (with the best view), bring a [[Type-50 Sniper Rifle System|Particle Beam Rifle]] and head to the platform on the other side of the chamber (across from where you entered). Once you get there, head to the glowing panel in the platform (it points to the center of the room). Look to your left at the platform and the door where the [[Yanme'e|Drones]] come from (when you reach the platform). Look at that platform's glowing panel, zoom in to 5x, and look up slightly. You should see the switch around there, and you can zoom in to 10x and see the switch in closer detail. However, there is no known way to get to it (unless by mod) and activate it, so its purpose is unknown.

*The Prophet of Truth talks over the loudspeakers from time to time during the level, one of these times he says that "one final effort is all that remains". This line is repeated by Admiral Hood in ''Halo 3''. This line originates from dialog recording sessions conducted pre-Halo where [[Jaime Griesemer]] is directing [[Jason Jones]] in a painful attempt at a Scottish accent. [http://www.bungie.net/images/News/InlineImages/jasonjones.mp3 An mp3] of the clip is available on [http://www.bungie.net/News/Media.aspx?mid=13877 Bungie.net media player] Bungie.net News: [http://admin.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=922 Bungie Day Memories]. One Final Effort is also the name of a song on the [[Halo 3: Original Soundtrack]].  

* The Flood mass in the Pelican's cockpit isn't a [[Proto-Gravemind]], it's just [[The Flood|Flood]] biomass. Although, there is a possibility that the biomass was a Proto-Gravemind due to the evidence that there are tentacles and roots protruding from it but it may have been destroyed during the Flood infected Pelican's rough landing. It is also suggested that this mass is in fact the pilot.

* In the beginning of the level, [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans]] will appear around the area. They can be approached, jumped on, and shot at but not boarded.

* The [[Yanme'e|Drones]] that engage the [[Flood combat form|Flood Combat Forms]] have a unique brown exoskeleton.

* Just like in Gravemind, the spires that appear in the [[Sanctum of the Hierarchs]] can fall if the anti-gravity generator is destroyed. Like in Gravemind, this can not only be used to provide some cover, but also kill any [[Jiralhanae|Brutes]], [[Unggoy|Grunts]] or [[The Flood|Flood]] (with the right timing). You will also notice that one of them has already fallen, once the elevator reaches the top. (These will provide protection from [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] and Flood fire.)

*During the part where you reach a canyon-like indoor area, if you look out the window, you can see strange tentacles, said to be just another part of Gravemind.

* This is the only level where you can see a [[Flood combat form|Flood Combat Form]] with a [[Type-25 Grenade Launcher|Brute Shot]] and [[Type-25 Directed Energy Rifle/Jiralhanae variant|Brute Plasma Rifle]] in ''[[Halo 2]]''. It is also the only level where Flood can be fought with the aforementioned weapons.

* On [[Legendary]], it is possible to see some invisible [[Flood combat form|Elite Combat Forms]] and [[Flood combat form|Human Combat Forms]] walking around. Typically during the fight in front of the Hierarchs' private quarters as one of the last waves of Flood coming from the elevated platforms. This is the second known instance of invisible Flood, first being the armory on [[The Maw]] in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''.

*High Charity and [[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]] are the only levels in which [[Yanme'e|Drones]] and [[Jiralhanae|Brutes]] can be encountered combating the [[The Flood|Flood]].

File:H2 header - High Charity.png|The level's header image from ''Halo 2''.

File:City.jpg|The Phantoms fly out of the city just as the Chief arrives.  

File:Clad1.jpg|Cortana and John-117 look at the [[UNSC frigate]] ''[[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]''.

File:Ship8.jpg|The ship outside of ''High Charity''.

File:Ship6.jpg|The power conduit the Master Chief rides into the Forerunner Dreadnought.

===Halo 2 Anniversary===

File:Mercycorpse.jpg|The Prophet of Mercy lies dead after the Chief has killed the infection form.  

File:H2AHC.jpg|Flood biomass taking over the city.

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