Editing Highlands

{{Era|RW}}
{{Article Quote|A training facility located in the Highland Mountains, where Spartans are born.}}
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|pagegamelabel=HR
|name=Highlands
|image=[[File:Highlands05.jpg|300px]]
|game=''[[Halo: Reach]]''
*[[Defiant Map Pack]]
|location=[[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]], [[Highland Mountains]], [[Viery Territory]], [[Reach]]       
|terrain=Mountain forest, UNSC training facility
|equipment=
|power-ups=
|gametypes=
|playernumber=8-16
}}

'''Highlands''' is one of three maps in the [[Defiant Map Pack]] designed for ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.<ref>[http://majornelson.com/archive/2011/02/14/announcing-the-halo-reach-defiant-map-pack.aspx '''Major Nelson''': ''Announcing the Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack'']</ref> 

==Universe and lore==
{{Main|Military Wilderness Training Preserve}}
Highlands is set in the [[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]] in the aptly named [[Highland Mountains]] on [[Reach]]. From [[2517]] to [[2525]], the [[SPARTAN-II program]] used this area for training the super soldiers on wilderness survival. Outside the map, the [[Big Horn River]] dominates the valley floor and in the distance, several {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}}s can be seen [[glassing]] Reach.

The middle of the map plays host to a [[D77-TC Pelican]] dropship, ''[[Bravo 001]]''. During the [[Fall of Reach]], members of SPARTAN-II [[Red Team]] deployed to the surface of Reach in ''Bravo 001'' to defend the planet's [[orbital defense generator]]s from [[Covenant]] assault. The Pelican was shot down and crash-landed in the Highland Mountains.<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/bts-defiant-map-pack/2458ede3-9d81-406c-a92d-1bfe1306e3da Halo Waypoint: Behind the Scenes - Defiant Map Pack]</ref>

==Overview==
===Layout===
<gallery>
File:HMCC_HR_Highlands_Map.png|Highlands Map.
File:Highlands_1280.jpg|Overhead view of the map.
</gallery>
====Callouts====
The following are locations on the map that are so named on the player's [[heads-up display]] during gameplay:
*Operations
*Motor Pool
*Waterfall
*Communications
*Rock Arch
*Red Base
*Red Tower
*West Cave
*Underpass
*Pond
*Rappelling Towers
*Blue Base
*Blue Tower
*[[Big Horn River]]
*Radio Tower
*Crash Site
*East Cave
*Cliffs
*Out of bounds...

==Production notes==
During development Highlands was known as Training Preserve. Current files on Bungie.net are even labelled as Training Preserve instead of the map's final name.{{Citation needed}}

==Trivia==
*This is one of two maps to feature locations previously described in the novel ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', the other being [[Condemned]].
*In the ringed section of The Big Horn river closest to the downed pelican, there are Koi fish. These fish can be shot and killed.
===Easter eggs===
{{Main|Easter egg}}
*The crashed Pelican's cockpit emits a [[Halo: Reach radio conversations|radio conversation]].

==Gallery==
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<gallery>
File:HR_Highlands_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the map, showing a more lush art direction than in the final map.
File:HR_Highlands_Glassing_Concept.jpg|A concept art piece depicting Covenant ships glassing the surrounding landscape.
File:Highlands.jpeg|A general view of the map.
File:Halo-Reach-Defiant-8.jpg|The east cave.
File:Halo-Reach-Defiant-7.jpg|A battle on the map.
File:Halo-Reach-Defiant-5.jpg|A [[M6 Grindell/Galilean Nonlinear Rifle|Spartan Laser]] shot destroying a [[UH-144 Falcon|Falcon]].
File:Halo-Reach-Defiant-4.jpg|A Spartan destroying a [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshee]].
File:HR Highlands Glassing.png|The Covenant cruisers in the background of the map.
File:HTMCC S5A Wallpaper 2.jpg|A Spartan in an [[AKIS]] helmet and the map as it appears in the ''Halo: Reach'' component of ''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''.
</gallery>

==Sources==
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[[Category:Defiant Map Pack]]