Editing High Charity (level)

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|game=[[Halo 2]]

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

|image=[[Image:City.jpg|300px]]

|player=[[John-117]]

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

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

|Objective=Stop [[Truth]] from reaching the [[Dreadnought]].

|enemies=

**[[Minor Jackal|Minors]]

**[[Major Jackal|Majors]]

**[[Sniper Jackal|Snipers]]

*[[Yanme'e|Drone]]s

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

'''High Charity''' is the penultimate ''[[Halo 2]]'' [[campaign]] level for the [[Master Chief]]. As the Master Chief, you must battle your way through the [[Flood]]-infested [[High Charity]] to stop the [[Prophet of Truth]] before he boards the [[Forerunner Ship]]. This is the last level you get to play as the Master Chief in ''Halo 2''. This level is also the only time when Master Chief sees the Flood in combat in ''Halo 2'', and also the only level in the game where you have no allies aiding you. You can find the [[Halo 2 Skulls|Iron Skull]] on this level.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrW7TJAyr24 '''{''Cutscene''}''']

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

*'''[[Master Chief]]''': "Your pal. Where's he going?"

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

''Master Chief picks up the Flood form, squeezes it, and the form pops, killing Mercy in the process. [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]]'s hologram appears on Mercy's throne.''

*'''Cortana''': "That structure, at the center of the city... it's a [[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!"

 

 

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

''The Chief and Cortana then watches as a [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican]] crashes on the platform, and soon the [[Flood Combat Form]]s inside the dropship run out.''

===Cross Purposes===

*'''Cortana''': "Flood controlled dropships are touching down all over the city! That creature beneath the Library... that '[[Gravemind]]'... used us. We were just a diversion. In Amber Clad was always its intended vector. There's a conduit connecting this tower to the ship. Head back inside. I'll lead you to it."

''If the Chief wastes time fighting:''

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

''The Chief soon reaches a Gravity lift leading upstairs.''

''After the Chief reaches to the top:''

*'''Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker)''': "Shall we let the [[Flood]] consume our holy city? Turn High Charity into another of their wretched hives? No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood too shall fail."

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

''If the Chief remains in the [[Step of Silence]] for too long:''

*'''Cortana''': "No time to admire the ceiling Chief. Truth's Phantom has reached the Forerunner ship."

''Once the Chief leaves the place where Gravity platforms are:''

*'''Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker)''': "The parasite did not defeat the [[Forerunner]]s... and it shall not defeat us."

*'''[[Gravemind]]''': "Arrogant creature! Your death will be instantaneous, while we suffer the progress of infinitude!"

''Once the Chief reaches a part of a tower.''

*'''Gravemind''': "We exist together, now... Two corpses in one grave."

''Once the Chief reaches a lift:''

'''Cortana''': "Apparently, these are the Prophet Hierarch's private quarters. Their inner sanctum."

*'''Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker)''': "This crisis will not be the end of us. It is but one last hurdle before the journey and salvation!"

''The Chief enters the Inner Sanctum amidst a fight between several Covenant defenses and Flood forms.''

*'''Cortana''': "Brute and Elite ships are engaging one another all around High Charity. I'm running out of options, Chief! I can't stall the launch sequence much longer. The next lift will take you up to the conduit. Hurry!"

''Once the Chief reaches the top via another Gravity Lift:''

[[Image:Forerunner Ship.jpg|200px|The Forerunner ship leaving High Charity from Cortana's point of view.|thumb|right]]

 

*'''Cortana''': "I knew the Covenant was good at re-purposing Forerunner technology, but this is amazing... they've been using the Forerunner ship's engines as an energy source for the city. The ship isn't so much launching as it is disengaging; uncoupling itself from High Charity's power grid - Stopping Truth, that's all that matters!"

*'''Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker):''' "If you will falter, know this... one final effort is all that remains."

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

*'''Cortana''': "We're out of time, Chief! Get on the conduit!"

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

''The Chief enters the conduit on a large green beam of light. The Forerunner ship starts to launch, and he enters through a large portal, landing with scrapes flickering off his armor.''

'''Cortana''': "Chief, when you get to Earth, good luck."

'''Master Chief''': "After I'm through with Truth..."

'''Cortana''': "Don't make a girl a promise... if you know you can't keep it."

''Cortana watches the Forerunner 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 Forerunner ship enters Slipspace, and vanishes.''

== Trivia ==

*When you get to the last room with the green beam across the room to the ship, you can get on the beam by just going on top of one of the Covenant boxes and then jump on the beam and walk forward, but you will have to stop because if you go more forward, the cutscene appears.

*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 [[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, pronged plasma turrets or anything.

===Easter Eggs===

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

*In the Step of Silence (the place with the glass shards hanging from the ceiling after the corridor where you first hear [[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]]. To see it (with the best view), bring a [[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 [[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 darkly lit room decorated with glowing blue crystals is the [[Step of Silence]].

*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] <ref>Bungie.net News: [http://admin.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=922 Bungie Day Memories]</ref>. One Final Effort is also the name of a song on the [[Halo 3 Original Soundtrack]]. It is played when you are on the snowy part of the level [[The Covenant (Level)|The Covenant]] and when you are fighting the two Scarabs.

* The "presence" Cortana is "fighting" is [[Mendicant Bias]], the Forerunner AI from the Terminals in Halo 3.

* The Flood mass in the Pelican's cockpit isn't a [[Proto-Gravemind]], it's just [[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, [[Pelicans]] will appear around the area. They can be approached, jumped on, and shot at but not boarded.

* The [[Drones]] that engage the [[Flood Combat Form|Flood combat forms]] have a unique purple 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 [[Brutes]], [[Grunts]] or [[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]] 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]] with a [[Brute Shot]] and [[Brute Plasma Rifle]] on [[Halo 2]]. It is also the only level where Flood can be combated with the Brute Plasma Rifle.

* 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 [[Drones]] can be encountered combating the [[Flood]].

Image:Clad1.jpg|Cortana and the Chief look at the [[Frigate]] ''[[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]''.

Image:Ship8.jpg|The ship outside of ''[[High Charity]]''.

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