Editing Sword Base

{{Title|Sword Base}}
{{Status|Gameplay}}
{{Disambig header|the multiplayer map|the base|SWORD Base}}
{{Multiplayer map infobox
|pagegamelabel=HR
|name=Sword Base
|image=[[File:HaloReach - Sword Base.jpg|300px]]
|game=''[[Halo: Reach]]''
|devname=<code>20_sword_slayer</code>{{Ref/File|Id=HREK|HREK|HREK\tags\levels\multi\20_sword_slayer\20_sword_slayer.scenario}}
|location=[[SWORD Base]], [[Eposz]], [[Viery Territory]], [[Reach]]
|terrain=[[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] facility interior<ref name="BWU">[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_040910 '''Bungie.net''': ''Bungie Weekly Update: 04.09.10'']</ref>
|weapons=*[[Designated Marksman Rifle]]
*[[Energy Sword]]
*[[Magnum]]
*[[Needle Rifle]]
*[[Needler]]
*[[Plasma Pistol]] 
*[[Plasma Repeater]]
*[[Shotgun]]
*[[Sniper Rifle]]
*[[Frag Grenade]]
*[[Plasma Grenade]]
|vehicles=
|equipment=
|power-ups=
|gametypes=[[Slayer]], [[Headhunter]]
|playernumber=2-8
}}
{{Article quote|Before [[WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|Winter Contingency]] was declared, ONI spooks kept themselves occupied in this remote installation.<ref name="bnet">[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=maps&cid=28541 '''Bungie.net''': ''Sword Base Preview'']</ref>}}

'''Sword Base''' is a [[multiplayer]] map appearing in ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.<ref>[http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=14167&game_id=7592#img152073 '''ShackNews''': ''Screenshots from Halo: Reach'']</ref>

==Universe and lore==
[[File:HR GuardianLance Plaque.png|left|200px|thumb|A plaque commemorating Operation: GUARDIAN LANCE in the atrium of SWORD Base.]]
The map is set in the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s [[SWORD Base]], situated along the [[Babd Catha Ice Shelf]] of the [[Eposz]] super-continent on the [[Human]] [[Inner Colonies|Inner]] [[Human colonies|Colony]] [[world]] of [[Reach]]. The base was attacked by the [[Covenant]] early in the [[Fall of Reach]],{{Ref/Level|HR|[[ONI: Sword Base]]}} and was destroyed somewhat during [[Operation]]: [[Operation: WHITE GLOVE|WHITE GLOVE]] much later.{{Ref/Level|HR|[[The Package]]}}

Prior to this though, the atrium boasted a minor collection of recovered artifacts and materiel from elsewhere, including those that were recovered in [[Operation: GUARDIAN LANCE]] on [[Jericho VII]].{{Ref/Generic|[[:File:HR GuardianLance Plaque.png|Plaque]] on the map}}
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==Overview==
===Layout===
The map is described as "the stepson of [[Prisoner]] and [[Boarding Action]]". It is a small, asymmetrical slayer map with three [[Gravity Lift|gravity lifts]] and a series of bridges and walkways leading over a central atrium.{{Ref/Reuse|BWU}}<ref>[http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/108/1082381p3.html '''IGN''': ''Halo: Reach -- The Beta Maps'']</ref> It features many external and internal stairways and rooms, making it an appealing map for [[Infection|Infection games]] as there are many strategically controllable areas and vantage points. 
<gallery>
File:HMCC_HR_Sword_Base_Map.png|Sword Base Map.
</gallery>
====Callouts====
The following are locations on the map that are so named on the player's [[Heads Up Display|HUD]] during gameplay:
*Meeting Room
*Atrium
*Processing
*Lobby
*Elbow
*Low Bridge
*Medium Bridge
*High Bridge
*Reception
*Low Vent
*Corner Vent
*Break room
*Attic
*Control Center
*Laboratory
*Collider
*F.S
*High Hall
*Operations
*Operations Hall
*Security

==Production notes==
Sword Base was featured in the ''[[Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta]]''. Sword Base has changed very much from its Beta iteration; the walls around the facility have been destroyed and burnt, with large amount of debris on the ground. The [[Gravity Lift]] in the center has also been weakened.{{Citation needed}}

==Trivia==
Using the [[Forge turret glitch]], one can get behind the large door found on the ground level, and out of the map.

==Weapons==
Grenade Launcher - On east side of the Atrium (Concussion Rifle during Elite Slayer)

DMR - NW part of Damaged Hall, along norther wall of Operations, in NW corner of Lobby, in Corner Vent entrance

Needle Rifle - In Operations Hall, In SE corner of Elbow

Energy Sword - In SE corner of Lobby

Concussion Rifle - On Medium Bridge

Shotgun - Under the stairs in Research

==Gallery==
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of Sword Base (level)}}
===Concept art===
<gallery>
File:HR_SwordBase_Atrium_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the level.
File:HR ControlStation Concept.jpg|Concept art for a mobile control console in the base.
File:HR_GuardianLance_Artifact_Concept.jpg|Concept art of one of the Covenant devices on display in the base.
</gallery>
===Development images===
<gallery>
File:Halo Reach Sword Base.jpg|Atrium.
File:HR Beta SwordBase 02.jpg|Security.
File:Halo Reach Sword Base 03.jpg|Operations.
File:HR Beta SwordBase 04.jpg|Research.
File:Sword Base Overhead.jpg|An overhead view of Atrium.
File:HRMPB SwordBase Headhunter.jpg|Two Spartans approaching skulls during a Headhunter match.
File:HRMPB Swordbase Headhunter 2.jpg|A Spartan losing skulls during a Headhunter match.
File:HRMPB SwordbaseArmorLock.jpg|A Spartan using armor lock.
File:HRMPB SwordbaseBoom.jpg|A Spartan during a battle in the Atrium.
File:HRMPB Swordbase stockpile swordbase flag carrier.jpg|A Spartan firing at another during a Stockpile match.
File:Stockpile on swordbase.jpg|Spartans defending the base during a Stockpile match.
File:HRMPB SwordbaseAssass.jpg|A Spartan assassinating another.
</gallery>
===Screenshots===
<gallery>
File:Sword Base Panorama.jpg|The Sword Base exterior panorama.
File:HR GuardianLance GravityLift.png|A Covenant [[Gravity lift]] recovered in the operation.
File:HR GuardianLance Artifact.png|A Covenant artifact recovered in the operation.
File:HTMCC-HR Infection Sword Base.jpg|A game of [[Infection]] in Sword Base.
</gallery>

==Sources==
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