Editing Honor Guard Councilor

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"'''Honor Guard Councilor'''" is a fan-derived term describing a certain Elite seen in the level ''[[Gravemind (Level)|Gravemind]]''. It appears to wear the armor of an [[Honor Guard Ultra]] with the helmet of either a [[Councilor]], an [[Ultra Elite]], or an [[Honor Guard]]. The Elite's appearance can be attributed to a glitch in the game's programming due to a programmer typing in incorrect coding.

== Appearance ==

It appears at the end of the level ''[[Gravemind (Level)|Gravemind]]'', at the fore of the bridge between the [[Mausoleum of the Arbiter]] and the [[Far Tower]]. The Honor Guard Councilor is flanked by two [[SpecOps Elite]]s wielding [[Plasma Rifle]]s or [[Carbines]], but is armed with an [[Energy Sword]] himself.
[[Image:Councillor.jpg|thumb|left|150px|The Honor Guard Councilor battles [[Master Chief]] with swords in the level he spawns in, [[Gravemind (Level)]].]] 
This only occurs after [[Master Chief|the Master Chief]] has killed the [[Ultra Elite]]s, [[Hunter]]s, and [[Brute]]s fighting in the Mausoleum and moved to intercept the [[High Prophet of Truth]].
The Honor Guard Councilor is the last Elite that Master Chief kills.

== Combat ==

The ''Honor Guard Councilor'' is extraordinarily powerful and requires at least two [[Fuel Rod Cannon]] hits to kill or multiple [[Energy Sword]] slashes to down. It was programmed to have the power and skills of a [[Zealot]] and it does. It always wields an [[Energy Sword]].

== Explanation ==

The [[Honor Guard]] [[Councilor]] only appears by mistake in [[Halo 2]]; its appearance was never intentional. The armor the [[Elite]] wears is the result of a bug in the programming of the game. 

Every character was programmed into Halo 2 with variations to increase the realistic feel of the game. These variations would be randomly placed in each level, each time it was played. These variations determined that the Elites would act and sound differently, instead of saying the same things, as they did on [[Halo: Combat Evolved]].

In particular, there are two voice sets for regular Elites. They are '''"_dog"''' (Meaning "dogmatic") and '''"_scl"''' (Meaning "scully"). _dog Elites have the voice clips of [[Norm Woodel]], while _scl Elites have the voice clips of [[David Scully]]. The "Object Properties" tag takes care of what variations of things have; it assigns armor, voices, faces, default health, and such. So in ''most'' maps, the Elites have 2 copies of one rank, one assigned to each voice. For instance, in the level [[Great Journey (Level)|Great Journey]], when you exit your [[Spectre]]/[[Wraith]] there is an Elite saying either;
*"The [[Arbiter (character)|Arbiter]]? I thought he was dead. Hold your fire! The Hunters have come to our aid, Arbiter. They will '''stand''' by our side." In a calm and steady voice, or;
*"The [[Arbiter (character)|Arbiter]]? I thought he was dead. Hold your fire! The Hunters have come to our aid, Arbiter. They will '''fight''' by our side." In a fast and energetic voice.

Therefore, in the case of [[The Great Journey (Level)|The Great Journey]] for example these are all the Elite variations:

*Minor_dog
*Minor_scl
*Major_dog
*Major_scl
*Stealth_dog
*Stealth_scl
*Stealth_Major_dog
*Stealth_Major_scl
*Ultra_dog
*Ultra_scl
*Etc. etc.

However, both sets of variations are not always used. For example, in [[Metropolis]], the voices of all the [[Grunts]] are the same because the designers did not put the [[Brian Posehn]] Grunt variation in the Metropolis Map file, so that all the Grunts only have the voice clips of [[Joseph Staten]] variant. They chose only to use one of the two available variations in the game.
[[Image:Honor Guard Ultra.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Another variation.]]
On most levels, all the programmer has to do is program the Game to produce one [[Minor]] Elite for instance, and the game itself will randomly chose between the Minor_dog and Minor_scl variations, unless otherwise specified. But, only one set of variations exists on the [[Gravemind]] map file. Gravemind is another level like this. It was programmed so that only the _scl type of Elites were in the file. Therefore, every time the programmers wanted an Elite to appear, they would have to add the _scl suffix.

Unfortunately, the programmers accidentally programmed the game to spawn a "zealot_dog" Elite to appear at this point on the level. They had intended for the Elite to be a [[Zealot]], but attached the wrong variation suffix to it. Since this variation was not in the level, the Game can not find it. 

This results in the glitch players see: The Game knows to spawn an Elite with the power and weapons of a Zealot, but it does not know what the armor is supposed to look like. Since white is the default armor color, the game automatically chooses it. Since it does not know what helmet to give the Elite, it randomly chooses between the Councilor helmet, the Honor Guard helmet, and the [[Ultra]] Elite helmet. And apparently on very, very rare occasions, no helmet. The no helmet variation coming from the corpses seen earlier in the level.

Finally, since the game does not understand the [[Sangheili|Elite]] appearance, it automatically enables the "honor guard" armor for some reason. This armor is a feature available on all Elites but is supposed to be disabled on those that are not supposed to wear [[Honor Guard]] armor. The game may even spawn the Elite with the wrong face, [[Half-Jaw]]'s.

== References ==

*[http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=756168 Dojorkan's "Gravemind Freak Elite, finally 100% figured it out"]

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