Editing The Maw

==Summary==
[[Image:Sentinel.jpg|150px|right]]
The Maw is the last campaign level in [[Halo 1]]. The [[Master Chief]] makes his way through the [[Pillar of Autumn]]'s wreck in order to detonate the ship and destroy Halo, [[The Flood]], and the [[Covenant]] once and for all.

'''Warning: Spoilers'''

==Usable Weapons==
*[[Pistol]]
*[[Assault Rifle]]
*[[Sniper Rifle]]
*[[Shotgun]]
*[[Rocket Launcher]]
*[[Frag Grenade]]
*[[Plasma Pistol]]
*[[Plasma Rifle]]
*[[Needler]]
*[[Plasma Grenade]]
*[[Shade]]

==Drivable Vehicles==
*[[Warthog]]
*[[Banshee]](glitch)

==Enemies Faced==
*[[Elites]] (SpecOps)
*[[Grunts]] (SpecOps)
*[[Hunters]]
*[[Infection Form]]
*[[Combat Form]]
*[[Carrier Form]]
*[[Sentinels]]

==Transcripts==
===Part 01: And the Horse You Rode In On=== 

''{Opening cinematic-The camera skims low over a large body of water, tinted gold by a gathering sunset. A very majestic Gregorian chant rises}''

''{The camera slowly pans up as it flies over the water, revealing a burnt coastline, and a giant gouge where the earth has been ripped away and the sea has flooded into the newly-formed canyon. At the top of that canyon rises the massive stern of the [[Pillar of Autumn]], relatively intact. The camera circles around the side and front of her, revealing that her nose is hanging just slightly off a massive cliff, and that the antennae along the bow have been bent and torn away. The entire bow has been burned badly; the metal is scarred. As the camera circles around to reveal the starboard side, a slightly damaged, smoking [[Banshee]] drifts into the screen.}''

''{The camera cuts to a view of the outside through one of the ship's [[Bumblebee]] docking slips. The damaged Banshee comes into the frame and veers wildly towards the Pillar of Autumn.}''

'''[[Cortana]]:''' "This thing is falling apart!"

'''[[Master Chief]]:''' "It'll hold." 

'''Cortana:''' "We're not gonna make it!" 

'''Master Chief:''' "We'll make it." 

'''Cortana:''' "Pull up! Pull up!"

''{The Banshee drops just before reaching the Bumblebee slip and smashes into the side of the ship, sending debris and fire hurling out madly.}''
[[Image:crashlanding.jpg|150px|right|thumb|You did that on purpose, didn't you?]]
'''Cortana:''' ''{sardonic}'' "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" 

''{The Master Chief's hand appears from below and grips the edge of the slip, and he pulls himself up and onto the Pillar of Autumn.}''

'''Cortana:''' "We need to get to the bridge. From there, we can use the Captain's neural implants to initiate an overload of the ship's fusion engines. The explosion should damage enough systems below it to destroy the ring."

''{When you reach the bridge}'' 

'''Cortana:''' "The bridge. We made it. Let's get to work." 

''{When you clear all the Spec Ops Grunts inside}''

'''Cortana:''' "I need you to upload me into the control systems. The terminal is located next to the main viewscreen."

''{Cinematic-The Chief takes Cortana's chip from his helmet and inserts it into the cylindrical terminal near the front of the bridge. Cortana appears above it.}''

'''Cortana:''' "I leave home for a few days, and look what happens. This won't take long."

''{She concentrates for a moment, and the main screen flickers to life. "Self Destruct Sequence Initiated" is displayed across the top, and numbers begin counting down from what is, as far as we can tell, a random starting point between twelve and sixteen minutes.}''

'''Cortana:''' "There. That should give us enough time to make it to a lifeboat and put some distance between ourselves and Halo before the detonation."

''{The Master Chief moves to unplug Cortana from the terminal, but stops abruptly with an all-too-familiar voice}''

'''[[343 Guilty Spark]]:''' "I'm afraid that's out of the question, really."

'''Cortana:''' "Oh, hell."

''{The camera cuts to show 343 Guilty Spark extending arcs of energy across a series of consoles in a large room which, we learn later, is Engineering}'' 

'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Ridiculous! That you would imbue a warship's AI with such a wealth of knowledge! Weren't you worried it might be captured? Or destroyed?"

''{Cut to Cortana}'' 

'''Cortana:''' "He's in my data arrays, a local tap!" 

''{Cut to 343 GS}'' 

'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all of our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating." 

''{343 GS flutters around Engineering, as groups of [[Sentinels]] hover around in the background, and scans another console}'' 
[[Image:Interfacing.jpg|150px|right|thumb|You can't imagine how exciting this is!]]
'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Oh how I will enjoy every moment of its categorization! And to think that you would destroy this installation. As well as this record. I am shocked. Almost too shocked for words."

''{Cut to the bridge. A tone sounds over the ship's speakers}'' 

'''Cortana:''' (with a note of awe in her voice) "He stopped the self-destruct sequence...." 

''{The Chief surveys the bridge carefully with his AR, never missing a beat}''

'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Why do you continue to fight us, Reclaimer? You cannot win! Give us the construct, and I will endeavour to make your death relatively painless and -"

''{Another tone sounds}''

'''Cortana:''' "At least I still have control over the comm channels."

'''Master Chief:''' "Where is he?" 

'''Cortana:''' "I'm detecting taps throughout the ship, Sentinels most likely. As for the Monitor . . . he's in Engineering. He must be trying to take the core off line! Even if I could get the countdown restarted . . . I don't know what to do." (She shrugs her arms in desperation)

'''Master Chief:''' "How much firepower would you need to crack one of the engine's shields?" 

'''Cortana:''' "Not much. A well-placed grenade perhaps, but why-" 
[[Image:grenadetoss.jpg|150px|right|thumb|A well-placed grenade perhaps,...]]
''{She turns to see the Master Chief, who is calmly tossing a frag grenade up and down}'' 

'''Cortana:''' "Okay, I'm coming with you." 

''{A squad of Sentinels descend from above and take position along the shattered windows of the bridge}''

'''Cortana:''' "Chief! Sentinels!" 

''{The Sentinels open fire, shattering the main display and touching off the Chief's shields. The Chief quickly drops behind cover, removes Cortana from the terminal and places her into his helmet, and raises his rifle}''

''{Once you've dispatched the Sentinels and leave the bridge}''

'''Cortana:''' "The ship was heavily damaged when it crashed. Head to the cryo chamber. We should be able to get to the engine room through there." 

'''{When you reach Engineering}''

===Part 02: Light Fuse, Run Away=== 

'''Cortana:''' "Engine room located. We're here."

''{As you run a little farther in}''

'''Cortana:''' "Alert! The Monitor has disabled all command access. We can't restart the countdown. The only remaining option is to detonate the ship's fusion reactors. That should do enough damage to destroy Halo. Don't worry, I have access to all of the reactor schematics and procedures. I'll walk you through it. First, we need to pull back the exhaust couplings. That will expose a shaft that leads to the primary fusion drive core."

''{Throughout this entire sequence, 343 GS mumbles a whole bundle of stuff at you. Here's what he's got on his mind:}''

#You would destroy this installation, as well as this fascinating record?
#Do you require medical attention? 
#Your behavior is not in accordance with established protocols.
#Oh, how touching. 
#Detaching the failsafe just now? 
#Please. Surrender the construct and I will endeavor to make the necessary repairs as  quickly as possible.
#The Flood continue to multiply, Reclaimer!
#Why do you continue to ignore your task? 
#Are you perhaps ill? 
#Why do you continue to resist us, Reclaimer? 
#Inconsistent. 
#This AI construct possesses far too much data. 
#Unacceptable, reclaimer.

''{When you open one of the manifolds}''

'''Cortana:''' "Good! Step one complete! We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor! We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment field surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance." 

''{When you knock out the reactor}''

'''Cortana:''' "Analyzing. Fusion reactor number one destabilizing. Use explosives on the other three reactors. That should be enough to trigger a wildcat explosion of the engines." 

''{When you kill the third reactor, leaving only one left}''

'''Cortana:''' "Keep it up! Only one more fusion reactor to go!"

''{After you destroy the final reactor}'' 

'''Cortana:''' "That did it! The engine's gone critical! Based on the current rate of decay, we should have fifteen minutes to get off the ship; we don't have much time! We should move outside and signal for evac. Accessing schematics . . . there's a service lift at the top of the engine room! It leads to a class 7 service corridor that runs along the ship's dorsal structure. Hurry!"

''{Once you reach the elevator, clear the mass of Spec Ops Covenant descending to meet you, and start the long ride up}'' 

'''Cortana (radio):''' "Cortana to Echo 419, come in Echo 419!" 

'''[[Foehammer]] (radio):''' "Roger, Cortana. I read you, 5 by 5." 

'''Cortana:''' "The Pillar of Autumn's engines are going critical, Foe Hammer! Request immediate extraction! Approach the crash site and be ready to pick us up at external access junction 4C as soon as you get my signal!" 

'''Foehammer (radio):''' "Affirmative. Echo 419 going on station."

''{A few moments later, still on the elevator}''

'''Foehammer (radio):''' "Echo 419 to Cortana. Things are gettin' noisy down there. Everything okay?"

'''Cortana (radio):''' "Negative, negative! We have a wildcat destabilization of the ship's fusion core. The engines must have sustained more damage than we thought! (off radio) Analyzing! We have six minutes (5 minutes if on Lengendary difficulty) before the fusion drives detonate. We need to evac NOW!" 

''{When you reach the top of the elevator}''

===Part 03: Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts=== 

'''Cortana:''' "Activating final countdown timer. When it reaches zero, the engines will detonate. The explosion will generate a temperature of almost 100,000,000 degrees. We don't want to be here when it blows." 

''{When you near the nav marker at which Foe Hammer is supposed to extract you}''

'''Cortana (radio):''' "Cortana to Echo 419! Request extraction now, on the double!"

'''Foehammer:''' "Affirmative, Cortana. Foe Hammer inbound." 

''{When you reach the large open platform}''

'''Cortana:''' "Wait, stop! This is where Foe Hammer is coming to pick us up. Hold position here." (<i>do NOT stop for her if you have already seen this before, since the countdown stops during this, take advantage of it and just keep moving to gain some </i>)

''{Foe Hammer appears around the hull of the Pillar of Autumn, listing badly, on fire, and trailed by a pair of Banshees}''

'''Cortana (radio):''' "Cortana to Echo 419! Two Covenant Banshees are approaching on your six! Evade, say again, evade!"

'''Foehammer (radio):''' "I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday! Airfoil structures have been shot to hell! I can't hold her! I can't hold on!" 

'''Cortana (radio):''' "Echo 419!...(off radio) She's gone. Calculating alternate escape route. The ship's inventory shows one Longsword fighter still docked in Launch Bay 7. If we move NOW, we can make it!"

''{As you come around the final S-curve in the corridor}'' 

'''Cortana:''' "Chief, up ahead there's a gap in the trench! At top speed, we should be able to clear it!"

''{As you reach the bay}''

'''Cortana:''' "That's the ship! Move, we need to get aboard NOW!" 

''{As you reach the ramp leading up to the Longsword platform-cinematic}'' 

''{The Chief makes a break across the platform for the fighter, Flood closing in behind him. He makes it through the open door just before them, and slams the hatch closed as he runs through}'' 

'''Cortana:''' "We're cutting it close!" 

''{The Chief, sprinting for the cockpit, is jarred by an explosion and braces himself against a wall, shaking his head. He reaches the cockpit, jumps into the seat, quickly punches a series of buttons, and takes the controls in his hands}''

'''Master Chief:''' "Here we go." 

''{The Longsword rises above the platform slowly, turning to face the open end of the bay, and lights its engines, rocketing away from the exploding ship The camera cuts to an exterior view of the Pillar of Autumn, as it burns and explosions flare all along its length. A horde of Flood stumble slowly towards it, and the Longsword arrows from the starboard side of the ship away into the sky The camera cuts to follow the Longsword, looking back towards the Autumn as the explosions intensify The Longsword clears the atmosphere, rising away from Halo. The Master Chief stares straight ahead, piloting the fighter as quickly as he can Cut to a frontal view of the Longsword; as it sweeps past the camera, the distant side of Halo is drowned out in a huge light, which grows and grows, and then a massive shock front sweeps through the ring, shattering it into sections In the cockpit, a screen beeps and displays: "Engine Temp Critical"}''

'''Cortana:''' "Shut them down, we'll need them later." 

''{The Chief flips a few switches and the Longsword's engines die, leaving it drifting. Debris from the blast hurtles past it, still hot and glowing}'' 

'''Cortana:''' "Fancy a look?"

''{The Chief rises from his chair and moves to one of the Longsword's windows Halo has broken into a few dozen large fragments, all of which are slowly spinning away from each other. As the Chief watches, one massive fragment comes swiftly from the far side of the ring and collides with another, closer one, and the two go spinning off in a giant gout of fire and debris}''

'''Master Chief:''' (He braces himself against the frame of the Longsword's cockpit) "Did anyone else make it?"

'''Cortana:''' "Scanning." ''(Pause)'' "Just... dust and echoes. We are all that's left." 

(The Master Chief shakes his head and moves back to his seat) 

'''Cortana:''' "We did what we had to do... for Earth. An entire Covenant armada obliterated, and the Flood... we had no choice. Halo. It's finished."

'''Master Chief:''' "No." ''(The Longsword is alone in space, and through the window we can see the Master Chief reaching up to unclip his helmet from the rest of his suit)'' "I think we're just getting started." 

''{The Chief removes his helmet, but the cockpit's frame blocks the view of his head. The camera tracks the longsword for a few a moments, Basis looming large in the background, before panning to focus on a large spiral galaxy hanging in the sky, an ornment emblazoned across the heavens. A few final, dark notes of a cello play, and everything fades}''

(After the credits)

''{A glowing object flies away from halo's wrecage, towards the camera. The Monitor, 343 Guilty Spark, has survived.}''

BONUS ENDING (This is only seen when beating The Maw on Legendary mode)

''{[[Sergeant Johnson]] struggles with an Ultra [[Elite]] for an Assault Rifle, among a multitude of dead [[Flood]] forms with the Pillar of Autumn in the background. They suddenly stop and turn to see the it preparing to explode in the distance.}''

'''Sergeant Johnson:''' "This is it, baby!  (''affectionately'')Hold me."

'''Elite:''' "...mmf"

''{The two embrace as the ship explodes}''

Note: this ending did not really happen in bungie canon, as Sergeant Johnson was actually on a Pelican

==Walkthroughs==
{{Done by '''[http://halosm.bungie.org/tipsntricks/legwalk/ Asmodeus]'''}}

===Part 01:...And the Horse You Rode In On===

You begin this level with a plasma rifle. This is a good thing. Sentinels evidently have a soft spot for the Covenant because any Covenant weapons will really tear them up. If you wait around in the first area long enough, four sentinels will appear and float in from outside. While they're outside they won't fight back so take as many out as you can. Once they're inside, the rest should fall to your plasma rifle easily. Move into the tunnels and look for a hole in the floor. Infection flood will come pouring out of it to greet you. Wait for the carnage to die down below you before dropping down the ladder. 

There should be a diagonal support you can peek over to shoot at this group of sentinels. Duck behind it if your shields get low. There are more infection flood in this area, so make sure to pop them all before moving down the hall. Peering around the corner to your right you'll see a group of flood. Fire off a couple of shots at one of them, throw a grenade, and then run backwards back down the hall gunning them down as they round the corner after you. Throw another grenade or two as necessary. There should be a shotgun and a pistol among the wreckage. Pick them up. 

As you move towards the next area, a door will be smashed open with a ton of flood behind it. Move to the left of the door so they won't be able to see you when it opens. Bounce a frag grenade into their midst, then follow up with your trusty shotgun. There are a lot of flood here, so another grenade thrown far back into the hall and slightly around the corner would be a good idea. Your shotgun will finish the job nicely. 

Next comes the mess hall. Open the door into the next area, but don't go through. Pop the infection flood first. Now you can just barely peek in and zoom in with your pistol to your left. A hunter should come storming into the hall and start taking down flood. Aim for that bright orange back meat, and start shooting. If just one pistol round gets past his armor, he's dead. No need to wait for the perfect shot. He's too busy with flood to notice you. Another hunter will smash through a door to your right, but he'll soon retreat into the mess hall if you don't kill him first. Follow him and shoot him in the back as he battles flood. Grab the health pack (remember there are two here) and a few grenades here if you need to. You have to do all this very quickly so you can take advantage of the confusion in the next area. If you're having trouble, don't worry about killing the hunters. You can get them later. 

You may get a feeling of déjà vu as you enter the mess hall for your first difficult battle of the level, and as before, you should run straight through the chaos. Once safely on the other side of the Covenant, you have a few options. You could just move on to the bridge and leave these enemies behind, but where's the fun in that? We're going to go back in and use our pistol to pick off the grunts. Then you can rush the elite and blast him a few times with the shotgun. Be wary. This type of elite throws grenades. 
[[Image:mawjunction.jpg|150px|right|thumb|You will pass a junction, make sure to note this as you'll be back.]]
Another group of Covenant will enter the room now, so run back to where you originally entered this area. If any hunters still live, use the multiple doors to the mess hall to get behind them and nail them in the back. Again, peek out and use your pistol to pick off the grunts. These elites can be a problem. They throw grenades too. If you are within reach of a needler, you can use that to get rid of some of them. A generous amount of grenades thrown in their direction will often make them retreat into the hallway they came out of. This leaves you in control of the mess hall, so grab a needler and a bunch of grenades and take them out from relative safety. Once this group is dead, you can scavenge this area thoroughly. Keep you shotgun and pistol, but fill up a needler and keep it handy as well. 

There's a health pack on the way to the bridge, but don't grab it until you really need it. There is an elite waiting for you just around the corner, so either stick a grenade to him or fill him full of needles. The grunts around here can be disposed of in any number of ways. Use your imagination. Before you trigger the cutscene, drop your pistol in a safe place, and pick up a Covenant weapon. Any will do. 

If you skip the cutscene, you'll still have the display in front of you for cover. It also stays if you die and restart here. Either way, use it for cover and unload your Covenant weapon on the sentinels. Pick up your pistol and head out. 

The mess hall is now closed off and a new area full of flood has opened. Blast through the first one you see with your shotgun, then leave a grenade for the others as you retreat. The rest will file out of the door after you. Shotgun and grenade as usual. Move through the pile of assault rifles and approach the far door. Wait for the battle to die down before going through. There should be two hunters and an elite left sitting in a pile of grenades. Throw one of your own to soften them up. 
[[Image:floodandcover.jpg|150px|right|thumb|No matter where you go, the Flood will follow you trying to make you waste some ammo.]]
Again, you have a couple of options. You could leave the hunters (and the health pack they're sitting on) behind, or you could kill them. Killing them is actually very easy if you take advantage of a nice little feature in the programming. Move into the next hall and you should trigger a load point. Now go back to the hunters and you should trigger another one on the way. Basically since the hunters were unloaded from memory, they forgot they saw you. So if you're sneaky, you can peek in and shoot them in a weak spot. If they see you, just unload/load them again. This is a great trick for enemies near load spots throughout the game, though it's kind of cheap. If you're too honorable for such a thing, you can always do it the old-fashioned way, huge amounts of damage or dancing with them until they make themselves vulnerable. Anyway, dispose of them then scavenge what you can from this hallway. Grab a Covenant weapon before you go. There are sentinels ahead. 

By now you know the routine. Blast sentinels. Pop flood. Retrieve your old weapon. There are two groups of sentinels here to mow down. 

The next area is the cryochamber. There is one hell of a battle going on in here, so stay back and let the carnage ensue. If you want to make things easier, you can just run straight up the ladder and skip this whole battle, but then you wouldn't get to kill all these flood that deserve death so richly. 

While they're fighting, locate a health pack nearby. You'll have to jump over those same pipes you jumped over when you first started playing Halo. It's on the left, but as usual don't get it until you really need it. 

After the battle dies down, go into the cryochamber and finish off any sentinels with the shotgun. Go up the ladder, then move towards the next area, and you should trigger another wave of flood to enter the room below you. (If you keep at least one of the Sentinels alive, these flood will not spawn.  Try to keep it on the opposite side of the central glass walkway from you.) Drop a grenade down then drop down yourself (after the grenade goes off) and blast a hole through them running through the doors they entered through. Retreat all the way over the pipes to where the health pack is. They should be easy to take out from the safety of these halls. 

Once they are finished, go back up the ladder and move into the control room overlooking the cryochamber. There are more sentinels here. The shotgun is very effective at this close of a range, but be careful of the explosion when they die. The health pack here should be reserved for later use. There's a tough battle waiting in the next hall. On your right as you enter the control room is a door to another little room. This is a great place to hide, reload, and recharge in the upcoming battle. On your left as you entered is a hall full of flood. Ridiculous amounts of flood will come pouring down this hallway. Use your shotgun at medium range and your pistol and grenades at long range and just keep firing. Aim for the carrier flood (the ones that explode). And watch out for flood with rocket launchers. Fall back to your hiding room as often as necessary. Some flood will follow you all the way back here, but at least not all of them will. There will be short breaks allowing you to move forward and pick up ammo before falling back. Eventually they will stop coming. You can try just running through this hall with guns blazing and you'll face fewer enemies, but I'll have to advocate the safer route in this walkthrough. You get to kill more stuff that way. Grab the health pack now if you managed to conserve it throughout the onslaught. 

Move down the hall scavenging and cleaning up any stragglers. Keep going straight and you'll find an overshield tucked away in a dead-end. A group of flood will spawn in this room as you leave, so run quickly out of this room, turn left, and move into the maintenance tunnels. You can kill these flood if you want, but it just makes even more spawn in their place. 

There are several exits from the tunnels. The far left exit dumps you out into a room with a lot of dead elites and plasma grenades on the ground. The far right exit is blocked, but there's a health pack here along with some frag grenades. Fill up on these goodies while the battle rages outside. Flood will just keep coming down this hall, so wait until there are just a couple of Covenant left, then make a break for it. Run across the hall into the door on the other side. Follow the path around and you should come out and see two energy shields in front of you. Head out, pump a few shotgun shells into anything nearby, and take a left. Follow the big red arrows on the ground towards the armory. 

Ahhh, the armory. The sight of all this weaponry brings a tear to my eye. Fill up a shotgun and a rocket launcher and get ready to kill some stuff. Towards the back of the room some [[Active Camo]] flood will come after you. They hurt just as much as the visible ones and look even cooler. You're in a room full of shotgun shells. I think you know what to do. Head off to engineering when you're through here.

===Part 02: Light Fuse, Run Away===
[[Image:POAEngineRoom.jpg|150px|right|thumb|[[Flood]] and [[Sentinels]] will battle around you in the Engine room.]]
At this point conserving ammo is pointless, so blast away with the shotgun as long as it takes. You can always go back to the armory to restock. And there are eight health packs on the sides of computers on the first floor of the engine room, so have yourself a good old time blowing stuff up 

When you have the choice of going right or left, go right. Enter the engine room and go up the ramp to your right. Turn left and head all the way back through the door to level 2. Follow the path up until you reach level 3. You can hit the switches in any order. It doesn't make much of a difference. 

After you hit each switch, jump onto the retracting pipe and ride it back across the room. Drop down for cover, switch to your rocket launcher, and carefully aim a rocket at the bright slits as they're opening up. Make sure you score a hit before moving on. 
[[Image:Lightfuseandcrouch.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Light the fuse while ducking for cover.]]
For one of the vents, there's a set of three barrels you can use to get back up to level 3 without having to go back through the halls. Jump on the blue one turned on its side. Then jump on the yellow one that's right side up. Next jump on the exhaust coupling (the big square pipe). From here you can just barely jump up onto level 3 where the computers are. It helps to run along the left side of the pipe when you make the jump so you don't get pushed off if you miss. This saves you one trip at least. 

Once you're done, Cortana will show you where you to go. Follow her lead, but be careful. Riding the elevator are a couple of grunts with fuel rod guns and a few elites. As the elevator is coming down, aim your rocket launcher for maximum destruction. The elites may survive the rocket, but not your grenades and shotgun. Don't be afraid to retreat here. You're not on a timer... yet. Once everything is dead, move onto the elevator. You should still have at least one rocket and one grenade left. They might be necessary. A few shotgun shells would be good too. Reload everything, switch to your shotgun, and get ready.

===Part 03: Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts===

Grab the first warthog on the right. You should get a health pack on the way. 
If at any point you flip your warthog, get back in and keep driving as quickly as possible. Only shoot something if it's directly in your path. 

Stay in the middle as you enter the first big room. Drop down under the floor, but as you go back up this ramp, steer slightly to one side. When you exit you'll see why. Go around this obstacle then continue down the middle of the path for the rest of this room. 

The first hallway is rather uneventful. Line your hog up to one side so your off-center entering the next room. 
[[Image:Landing Warthog.jpg|150px|right|thumb|The center of this room flips me often...]]
The center way in this room flips me more often then not, so I'm going to suggest the tunnels to the side. Lean even more to your chosen side as you exit these tunnels to get around a wall, then back to the middle to exit. This room and the next hallway are full of sentinels, so when you leave, you might want to take a second to recharge. Better to waste the time recharging than die. 

The next hallway has a short cut through it. Go to the left of the first column, then to the right of the second column, then swing around and take the hall to your left. If you're having a lot of trouble getting in, don't worry about it. It's more important to keep moving. 

The third big room has a wall blocking your way as soon as you enter. Come in at a steep angle and stay close to one of the walls. There's a catwalk here on either side that the warthog can drive on that gets you through the room quickly. After steering around the big wall, you could also take the off-center tunnel down, and then head back to the middle for the rest of the room. Either way works fine. 

The third hall is pretty simple. Get yourself straightened out for the next room. 

The fourth room is nasty. Head through the middle and you'll eventually be stuck with a bunch of pillars in your way. Slalom around them. Go to the left of the first one, then to the right of the next, then to the left, etc. until you're through. Head back to the middle for the rest of this room. 

After all that, the rest of this run is a breeze. The next hallway leads you to Foe Hammer, but don't stop and wait for her. We all know what happens here. Keep on truckin'. 

The next winding hallway has another helpful short cut on the right. Again it's after the second column. Halfway through the short-cut tunnel on your right is another tunnel that leads to the Thirsty Grunt [[Thirsty Grunt|easter egg]], but you can come back to visit it after you beat the game. You'd better keep moving. 

Soon you'll be warned of a big jump ahead. Line yourself up as evenly as you can and floor it. No chance for corrections in mid-flight. There are actually two jumps right in a row here, so keep straight. There's another [[Rex|easter egg]] here right after the first jump, but this one takes even more time, so come back for it later. 

Keep straight and steady and soon you'll see the hangar opening up before you. 
[[Image:Longsword ship.JPG|150px|right|thumb|Now you can ride to your longsword in style.]]
The end is in sight, but you're warthog is blocked by a bunch of junk. You'll have to run the rest of the way. There are a lot of nasty things to hinder your escape, but you can avoid most of them by getting out of the middle area and running alongside it. Few of the combatants will notice you out here. 

If you think you're not going to make it, or just want to have some fun, park your warthog right up against the obstacles and get out. Switch to your rocket launcher and throw a grenade under the warthog. Just after the grenade goes off, shoot the warthog with a rocket and you'll send it flying over the obstacles. Now you can get back in and ride to your longsword in style. 

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+==Summary==
-{{disambig header|campaign level|other uses of "The Maw"|The Maw (disambiguation)}}
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-{{Level infobox
+The Maw is the last campaign level in [[Halo 1]]. The [[Master Chief]] makes his way through the [[Pillar of Autumn]]'s wreck in order to detonate the ship and destroy Halo, [[The Flood]], and the [[Covenant]] once and for all.
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-*''[[The Heretic]]'' {{C|''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection|MCC]]''}}
-|name='''''The Maw'''''
-|image=[[File:HCEA TheMaw Loadscreen.png|300px]]
-|game=''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' {{C|''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary|Anniversary]]''}}
-|devname=<code>d40</code>{{Ref/File|Id=HCEEK|HCEEK|HCEEK\tags\levels\d40\d40.scenario}}
-|player=[[Master_Chief_(gameplay)#Halo:_Combat_Evolved|Master Chief]]
-|date= [[2552#September 20, 2552|September 22, 2552]]
-|place=[[Installation 04]], inside the crash site of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}
-|objective=Destroy and escape from the ''Pillar of Autumn''
-|partime=00:15:00 {{C|''Master Chief Collection''-only}}
-|parscore=18,000 {{C|''Master Chief Collection''-only}}
-}}
-{{Article quote|Destroy Halo before Halo destroys all life in the galaxy.}}
+'''Warning: Spoilers'''
-'''The Maw''' is the tenth and final level in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''.
+==Usable Weapons==
+*[[Pistol]]
+*[[Assault Rifle]]
+*[[Sniper Rifle]]
+*[[Shotgun]]
+*[[Rocket Launcher]]
+*[[Frag Grenade]]
+*[[Plasma Pistol]]
+*[[Plasma Rifle]]
+*[[Needler]]
+*[[Plasma Grenade]]
+*[[Shade]]
-The [[John-117|Master Chief]] makes his way through the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}'s wreck in order to detonate the ship's [[Fusion drive|fusion reactors]] and destroy Halo, the [[Flood]], and the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] armada, thus preventing the destruction of humans and potentially, all sentient life in the galaxy. Just like the previous two levels, the player has no allies.
+==Drivable Vehicles==
+*[[Warthog]]
+*[[Banshee]](glitch)
+==Enemies Faced==
+*[[Elites]] (SpecOps)
+*[[Grunts]] (SpecOps)
+*[[Hunters]]
+*[[Infection Form]]
+*[[Combat Form]]
+*[[Carrier Form]]
+*[[Sentinels]]
 ==Transcripts==
-===...And the Horse You Rode In On===
+===Part 01: And the Horse You Rode In On===
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bpf96l71GE '''{''Original Cutscene''}''']
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUbKN7g9Dyw '''{Anniversary ''Cutscene''}''']
-''The view skims low over a large body of water, tinted gold by an oncoming sunrise.''
-''View slowly pans up as it flies over the sand, revealing a burnt coastline, and a giant gouge where the terrain has been ripped away and the sea has flooded into the newly-formed canyon. At the top of that canyon rises the massive stern of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}, relatively intact.''
-''View circles around the side and front of her, revealing that her nose is hanging just slightly off a massive cliff; the antennae along the bow have been bent and torn away. The entire bow has been severely burnt; the metal is badly scarred. As the view circles around to reveal the ship's starboard side, a damaged and smoking [[Type-26 Banshee|Banshee]] drifts into view.''
-''Cuts to a view of the ship's exterior through one of the empty [[Bumblebee]] airlocks. The damaged Banshee comes into the frame and veers wildly towards the'' Autumn.
-*'''[[Cortana]]''': "This thing is falling apart!"
-*'''[[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]]''': "It'll hold."
-*'''Cortana''': "We're not gonna make it!"
-*'''John-117''': "We'll make it."
-*'''Cortana''': "Pull up! ''Pull up!''"
-''The Banshee drops just before reaching the Bumblebee slip and smashes into the side of the ''Pillar of Autumn'', sending debris and fire hurling out madly.''
-[[File:BansheeCrashCEA.jpg|300px|thumb|Master Chief climbing into a Bumblebee port.]]
-*'''Cortana''': "You did that ''on purpose'', didn't you?"
-''The Master Chief's hand appears from below and grips the edge of the ship, and he looks around the interior before pulling himself up and onto the ''Pillar of Autumn''.''
-'''{''Gameplay''}'''
-*'''Cortana''': "We need to get to the bridge. From there, we can use the [[Jacob Keyes|Captain]]'s neural implants to initiate an overload of the ship's fusion engines. The explosion should damage enough systems below it to destroy the [[Installation 04|ring]]."
-''As the Master Chief heads for the bridge, he is forced to engage Covenant, Flood, and Sentinels as they battle throughout the corridors.  The ''Pillar of Autumn's'' mess hall is occupied by a [[Covenant Special Operations]] team. The Chief kills all enemies present and eventually, he reaches the bridge.''
-*'''Cortana''': "The bridge. We made it. Let's get to work."
-''The Master Chief clears out another Covenant Special Operations team guarding the bridge.''
-*'''Cortana''': "I need you to upload me into the control systems. The terminal is located next to the main view screen."
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_imCZ-b1--U '''{''Original Cutscene''}''']
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNfE0FRSpD4 '''{Anniversary ''Cutscene''}''']
-[[File:MawCountdownCEA.png|thumb|300px|Cortana starts the countdown as the Chief looks on.]]
-''The Master Chief takes Cortana's chip from his helmet and inserts it into the cylindrical terminal near the front of the bridge. Cortana's avatar appears above it. She looks around.''
-*'''Cortana''': "I leave home for a few days, and look what happens. This won't take long."
-''She concentrates for a moment, and the main screen flickers to life.''
-<tt>'''SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE INITIATED'''</tt>
-<tt>'''''Security protocols met. Begin evac procedures. All secondary and redundant systems shut down effective immediately.'''''</tt>
-''A countdown begins from a random starting point between five and twenty minutes.''
-*'''Cortana''': "There. That should give us enough time to make it to a lifeboat and put some distance between ourselves and Halo before the detonation."
-''The Master Chief moves to unplug Cortana from the terminal, but stops abruptly when he hears an all-too-familiar voice.''
-*'''[[343 Guilty Spark]] (COM)''': "I'm afraid that's out of the question, really."
-*'''Cortana''': "''Oh, hell!''"
+''{Opening cinematic-The camera skims low over a large body of water, tinted gold by a gathering sunset. A very majestic Gregorian chant rises}''
-*'''343 Guilty Spark (COM)''': "Ridiculous! That you would imbue a warship's AI with such a wealth of knowledge! Weren't you worried it might be captured? Or destroyed?"
+''{The camera slowly pans up as it flies over the water, revealing a burnt coastline, and a giant gouge where the earth has been ripped away and the sea has flooded into the newly-formed canyon. At the top of that canyon rises the massive stern of the [[Pillar of Autumn]], relatively intact. The camera circles around the side and front of her, revealing that her nose is hanging just slightly off a massive cliff, and that the antennae along the bow have been bent and torn away. The entire bow has been burned badly; the metal is scarred. As the camera circles around to reveal the starboard side, a slightly damaged, smoking [[Banshee]] drifts into the screen.}''
-''Cortana concentrates once more.''
+''{The camera cuts to a view of the outside through one of the ship's [[Bumblebee]] docking slips. The damaged Banshee comes into the frame and veers wildly towards the Pillar of Autumn.}''
-*'''Cortana''': "He's in my data arrays, a local tap!"
+'''[[Cortana]]:''' "This thing is falling apart!"
-''Cuts to 343 Guilty Spark in the engine room. He is scanning a computer console.''
+'''[[Master Chief]]:''' "It'll hold."
-*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all of our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating."
+'''Cortana:''' "We're not gonna make it!"
-''343 Guilty Spark flutters around Engineering, as groups of [[Sentinel]]s hover around in the background, and scans another console.''
+'''Master Chief:''' "We'll make it."
-[[File:Interfacing.jpg|300px|thumb|343 Guilty Spark collects information from the ''Pillar of Autumn's'' systems.]]
+'''Cortana:''' "Pull up! Pull up!"
-*'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Oh, how I will enjoy every moment of its categorization! And to think that you would destroy this installation, as well as this record... I ''am'' shocked. Almost too shocked for words."
+''{The Banshee drops just before reaching the Bumblebee slip and smashes into the side of the ship, sending debris and fire hurling out madly.}''
+[[Image:crashlanding.jpg|150px|right|thumb|You did that on purpose, didn't you?]]
+'''Cortana:''' ''{sardonic}'' "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
-''Cuts back to the bridge. A tone sounds over the ship's speakers. The countdown timer freezes.''
+''{The Master Chief's hand appears from below and grips the edge of the slip, and he pulls himself up and onto the Pillar of Autumn.}''
-<tt>'''SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE ABORTED'''</tt>
+'''Cortana:''' "We need to get to the bridge. From there, we can use the Captain's neural implants to initiate an overload of the ship's fusion engines. The explosion should damage enough systems below it to destroy the ring."
-<tt>'''''Security protocols restored. Return to duty stations. All systems reset.'''''</tt>
+''{When you reach the bridge}''
-*'''Cortana''': "He stopped the self-destruct sequence..."
+'''Cortana:''' "The bridge. We made it. Let's get to work."
-''The Master Chief surveys the bridge carefully with his [[MA5B assault rifle|Assault Rifle]], never missing a beat.''
+''{When you clear all the Spec Ops Grunts inside}''
-*'''343 Guilty Spark (COM)''': "Why do you continue to fight us, [[Reclaimer]]? You cannot win! Give us the construct, and I will endeavor to make your death relatively painless, and -"
+'''Cortana:''' "I need you to upload me into the control systems. The terminal is located next to the main viewscreen."
-''He is cut off as another tone sounds.''
+''{Cinematic-The Chief takes Cortana's chip from his helmet and inserts it into the cylindrical terminal near the front of the bridge. Cortana appears above it.}''
-*'''Cortana''': "At least I still have control over the comm channels."
+'''Cortana:''' "I leave home for a few days, and look what happens. This won't take long."
-*'''John-117''': "Where is he?"
+''{She concentrates for a moment, and the main screen flickers to life. "Self Destruct Sequence Initiated" is displayed across the top, and numbers begin counting down from what is, as far as we can tell, a random starting point between twelve and sixteen minutes.}''
-*'''Cortana''': "I'm detecting taps throughout the ship - Sentinels, most likely. As for the [[Monitor]]... He's in Engineering. He must be trying to take the core offline! Even if I could get the countdown restarted... I don't know what to do."
+'''Cortana:''' "There. That should give us enough time to make it to a lifeboat and put some distance between ourselves and Halo before the detonation."
-''Cortana shrugs her arms in desperation.''
+''{The Master Chief moves to unplug Cortana from the terminal, but stops abruptly with an all-too-familiar voice}''
-*'''John-117''': "How much firepower would you need to crack one of the engine's shields?"
+'''[[343 Guilty Spark]]:''' "I'm afraid that's out of the question, really."
-*'''Cortana''': "Not much. A well-placed grenade perhaps, but why-"
+'''Cortana:''' "Oh, hell."
-[[File:GrenadeTossCEA.jpg|300px|thumb|The Chief proposes using explosives to destabilize the reactors.]]
+''{The camera cuts to show 343 Guilty Spark extending arcs of energy across a series of consoles in a large room which, we learn later, is Engineering}''
-''Cortana turns to see the Master Chief, who is calmly tossing a [[M9 fragmentation grenade|fragmentation grenade]] up and down. She nods reluctantly.''
+'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Ridiculous! That you would imbue a warship's AI with such a wealth of knowledge! Weren't you worried it might be captured? Or destroyed?"
-*'''Cortana''': "Okay, I'm coming with you."
+''{Cut to Cortana}''
-''The Chief reaches for Cortana just as a squad of [[Aggressor Sentinel]]s descend from above and take position along the shattered windows of the bridge.''
+'''Cortana:''' "He's in my data arrays, a local tap!"
-*'''Cortana''': "Chief! Sentinels!"
+''{Cut to 343 GS}''
-''The Sentinels open fire, shattering the main display and dealing a glancing blow to the Chief's shields. The Chief quickly drops behind cover, removes Cortana from the terminal and places her into his helmet, and raises his rifle.''
+'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all of our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating."
-'''{''Gameplay''}'''
+''{343 GS flutters around Engineering, as groups of [[Sentinels]] hover around in the background, and scans another console}''
+[[Image:Interfacing.jpg|150px|right|thumb|You can't imagine how exciting this is!]]
+'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Oh how I will enjoy every moment of its categorization! And to think that you would destroy this installation. As well as this record. I am shocked. Almost too shocked for words."
-''The Chief dispatches the Sentinels and leaves the bridge.''
+''{Cut to the bridge. A tone sounds over the ship's speakers}''
-*'''Cortana''': "The ship was heavily damaged when it crashed. Head to the cryo chamber. We should be able to get to the engine room through there."
+'''Cortana:''' (with a note of awe in her voice) "He stopped the self-destruct sequence...."
-''The Chief heads for Engineering, fighting through a mass of Flood, as well as more Covenant and Sentinels. Eventually he reaches a corridor lined with [[stationary shield generator]]s where a Covenant Special Operations team augmented by a [[Mgalekgolo]] pair hold off against waves of Sentinels and later, Flood. After eliminating all combatants, the Chief makes a brief detour to the ship's Armory to stock up on weapons. Inside the Armory, he is ambushed by a group of Flood, including several cloaked Combat Forms (presumably infected [[Stealth Sangheili]]). He defeats these enemies and hurries to Engineering.''
+''{The Chief surveys the bridge carefully with his AR, never missing a beat}''
-===Light Fuse, Run Away===
+'''343 Guilty Spark:''' "Why do you continue to fight us, Reclaimer? You cannot win! Give us the construct, and I will endeavour to make your death relatively painless and -"
-*'''Cortana''': "Engine room located. We're here."
-''The Chief enters Engineering, which is crawling with Flood and Sentinels. 343 Guilty Spark is also present.''
+''{Another tone sounds}''
-*'''Cortana''': "Alert! The Monitor has disabled all command access. We can't restart the countdown. The only remaining option is to detonate the ship's fusion reactors. That should do enough damage to destroy Halo. Don't worry; I have access to all of the reactor schematics and procedures. I'll walk you through it. First, we need to pull back the exhaust couplings. That will expose a shaft that leads to the primary fusion drive core."
+'''Cortana:''' "At least I still have control over the comm channels."
-''Throughout the firefight, 343 Guilty Spark repeatedly attempts to convince the Chief to spare his Installation:''
+'''Master Chief:''' "Where is he?"
-*"You would destroy this installation, as well as this fascinating record?"
-*"Do you require medical attention?"
-*"Your behavior is not in accordance with established protocols."
-*"Oh, how touching."
-*"Detaching the fail-safe just now?"
-*"Please. Surrender the construct and I will endeavor to make the necessary repairs as quickly as possible."
-*"The Flood continue to multiply, Reclaimer!"
-*"Why do you continue to ignore your task?"
-*"Are you perhaps ill?"
-*"Why do you continue to resist us, Reclaimer?"
-*"Inconsistent!"
-*"Inadequate safeguards."
-*"This AI construct possesses far too much data."
-*"Weren't you worried it might be compromised?"
-*"Unacceptable, Reclaimer!"
-*"Not acceptable, Reclaimer. You must surrender the construct, so that we may return to our appointed task."
-*"Your behavior necessitates repair and revision."
-*"Surrender the construct to me, or I will be forced to take you offline permanently."
-''The Chief opens one of the manifolds.''
+'''Cortana:''' "I'm detecting taps throughout the ship, Sentinels most likely. As for the Monitor . . . he's in Engineering. He must be trying to take the core off line! Even if I could get the countdown restarted . . . I don't know what to do." (She shrugs her arms in desperation)
-*'''Cortana''': "Good, step one complete! We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor! We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment field surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or a [[M41 SPNKR|rocket]]. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance."
+'''Master Chief:''' "How much firepower would you need to crack one of the engine's shields?"
-''The Chief knocks out the first reactor.''
+'''Cortana:''' "Not much. A well-placed grenade perhaps, but why-"
+[[Image:grenadetoss.jpg|150px|right|thumb|A well-placed grenade perhaps,...]]
+''{She turns to see the Master Chief, who is calmly tossing a frag grenade up and down}''
-*'''Cortana''': "Analyzing. Fusion reactor number one destabilizing. Use explosives on the other three reactors. That should be enough to trigger a wildcat explosion of the engines."
+'''Cortana:''' "Okay, I'm coming with you."
-''The Chief destroys two more reactors, leaving only one left.''
+''{A squad of Sentinels descend from above and take position along the shattered windows of the bridge}''
-*'''Cortana''': "Keep it up! Only one more fusion reactor to go!"
+'''Cortana:''' "Chief! Sentinels!"
-''The Chief takes out the final reactor.''
+''{The Sentinels open fire, shattering the main display and touching off the Chief's shields. The Chief quickly drops behind cover, removes Cortana from the terminal and places her into his helmet, and raises his rifle}''
-*'''Cortana''': "That did it! The engine's gone critical! Based on the current rate of decay, we should have fifteen minutes to get off the ship; we don't have much time! We should move outside and signal for evac. Accessing schematics... There's a service lift at the top of the engine room! It leads to a [[Class Seven service corridor]] that runs along the ship's dorsal structure. Hurry!"
+''{Once you've dispatched the Sentinels and leave the bridge}''
-[[File:HCE Zuka Screenshot 6.jpg|thumb|250px|Zuka 'Zamamee and his Unggoy support.]]
-''The Chief reaches the elevator. A [[Covenant Special Operations]] team, led by [[Zuka 'Zamamee]], descends to meet him. He defeats the Covenant and starts the long ride up.''
-*'''Cortana (COM)''': "Cortana to ''[[Echo 419]]'': come in, ''Echo 419''!"
+'''Cortana:''' "The ship was heavily damaged when it crashed. Head to the cryo chamber. We should be able to get to the engine room through there."
-*'''Flight Captain [[Carol Rawley]] (COM)''': "Roger, Cortana. I read you, 5 by 5."
+'''{When you reach Engineering}''
-*'''Cortana (COM)''': "The ''Pillar of Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s engines are going critical, Foe Hammer! Request immediate extraction! Approach the crash site and be ready to pick us up at external access Junction 4C as soon as you get my signal!"
+===Part 02: Light Fuse, Run Away===
-*'''Rawley (COM)''': "Affirmative. ''Echo 419'' going on station."
+'''Cortana:''' "Engine room located. We're here."
-''Explosions continue to rock the elevator shaft.''
+''{As you run a little farther in}''
-*'''Rawley (COM)''': "''Echo 419'' to Cortana. Things are gettin' noisy down there. Everything okay?"
+'''Cortana:''' "Alert! The Monitor has disabled all command access. We can't restart the countdown. The only remaining option is to detonate the ship's fusion reactors. That should do enough damage to destroy Halo. Don't worry, I have access to all of the reactor schematics and procedures. I'll walk you through it. First, we need to pull back the exhaust couplings. That will expose a shaft that leads to the primary fusion drive core."
-*'''Cortana (COM)''': "Negative, negative! We have a wildcat destabilization of the ship's fusion drive core. The engines must have sustained more damage than we thought!"
+''{Throughout this entire sequence, 343 GS mumbles a whole bundle of stuff at you. Here's what he's got on his mind:}''
-''The Chief reaches the top of the elevator.''
+#You would destroy this installation, as well as this fascinating record?
+#Do you require medical attention?
+#Your behavior is not in accordance with established protocols.
+#Oh, how touching.
+#Detaching the failsafe just now?
+#Please. Surrender the construct and I will endeavor to make the necessary repairs as  quickly as possible.
+#The Flood continue to multiply, Reclaimer!
+#Why do you continue to ignore your task?
+#Are you perhaps ill?
+#Why do you continue to resist us, Reclaimer?
+#Inconsistent.
+#This AI construct possesses far too much data.
+#Unacceptable, reclaimer.
-===Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts===
+''{When you open one of the manifolds}''
-''The Chief enters a [[M12 Warthog|Warthog]] garage.''
-*'''Cortana''': "Analyzing... We have six/five minutes before the fusion drives detonate. We need to evac, ''now''!"
+'''Cortana:''' "Good! Step one complete! We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor! We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment field surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance."
-''A six-minute countdown (five minutes on Legendary) begins.''
+''{When you knock out the reactor}''
-*'''Cortana''': "Activating final countdown timer. When it reaches zero, the engines will detonate. The explosion will generate a temperature of almost 100 ''million'' degrees. ''Don't'' be here when it blows."
+'''Cortana:''' "Analyzing. Fusion reactor number one destabilizing. Use explosives on the other three reactors. That should be enough to trigger a wildcat explosion of the engines."
-''If the Chief leaves the Warthog station on foot:''
+''{When you kill the third reactor, leaving only one left}''
-*'''Cortana''': "We can't make it on foot, we need a vehicle!"
+'''Cortana:''' "Keep it up! Only one more fusion reactor to go!"
-''If the Chief continues to leave on foot:''
+''{After you destroy the final reactor}''
-*'''Cortana''': "Alert: we need to keep moving! Get back in the Warthog."
+'''Cortana:''' "That did it! The engine's gone critical! Based on the current rate of decay, we should have fifteen minutes to get off the ship; we don't have much time! We should move outside and signal for evac. Accessing schematics . . . there's a service lift at the top of the engine room! It leads to a class 7 service corridor that runs along the ship's dorsal structure. Hurry!"
-''The Chief drives down the corridor. Flood, Covenant, and Sentinels are fighting all around him. Eventually he nears the site where Foehammer is supposed to extract him. A Spirit flies over and lands.''
+''{Once you reach the elevator, clear the mass of Spec Ops Covenant descending to meet you, and start the long ride up}''
-*'''Cortana (COM)''': "Cortana to ''Echo 419''! Request extraction ''now'', on the double!"
+'''Cortana (radio):''' "Cortana to Echo 419, come in Echo 419!"
-*'''Rawley (COM)''': "Affirmative, Cortana. Foe Hammer inbound."
+'''[[Foehammer]] (radio):''' "Roger, Cortana. I read you, 5 by 5."
-''The Chief arrives at a wide open platform.''
+'''Cortana:''' "The Pillar of Autumn's engines are going critical, Foe Hammer! Request immediate extraction! Approach the crash site and be ready to pick us up at external access junction 4C as soon as you get my signal!"
-*'''Cortana''': "Wait, stop! This is where Foe Hammer is coming to pick us up. Hold position here."
+'''Foehammer (radio):''' "Affirmative. Echo 419 going on station."
-''If the Chief waits for Rawley:''
+''{A few moments later, still on the elevator}''
-''The countdown timer freezes. ''Echo 419'' appears around the hull of the ''Pillar of Autumn'', listing badly and flaming at the engines. A pair of [[Type-26 Banshee|Banshees]] close in on the [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican]].''
+'''Foehammer (radio):''' "Echo 419 to Cortana. Things are gettin' noisy down there. Everything okay?"
-*'''Cortana (COM)''': "Cortana to ''Echo 419''! Two Covenant Banshees are approaching on your six! Evade! Say again, evade!"
+'''Cortana (radio):''' "Negative, negative! We have a wildcat destabilization of the ship's fusion core. The engines must have sustained more damage than we thought! (off radio) Analyzing! We have six minutes (5 minutes if on Lengendary difficulty) before the fusion drives detonate. We need to evac NOW!"
-''An explosion lurches the Pelican. The starboard wing dips, ablaze, and Rawley yells into the speaker as she passes under the platform.''
+''{When you reach the top of the elevator}''
-*'''Rawley (COM)''': "''I'm hit!'' Mayday! Mayday! Airfoil structures have been shot to hell! I can't hold her! I can't hold her!"
+===Part 03: Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts===
-*'''Cortana (COM)''': "''Echo 419''!"
+'''Cortana:''' "Activating final countdown timer. When it reaches zero, the engines will detonate. The explosion will generate a temperature of almost 100,000,000 degrees. We don't want to be here when it blows."
-'''''NOTE''': In the Anniversary subtitles, Cortana says, "Echo 419: Destroyed. That was our only way off the ship."''
+''{When you near the nav marker at which Foe Hammer is supposed to extract you}''
-''Rawley continues to yell into the speaker, her words becoming inaudible as the roar of the damaged engines are heard in the background. She loses control of the Pelican and crashes into the ''Autumn's'' hull, showering the air with debris.''
+'''Cortana (radio):''' "Cortana to Echo 419! Request extraction now, on the double!"
-*'''Cortana''': "She's gone... Calculating alternate escape route."
+'''Foehammer:''' "Affirmative, Cortana. Foe Hammer inbound."
-''The countdown timer resumes.''
+''{When you reach the large open platform}''
-*'''Cortana''': "The ship's inventory shows one [[GA-TL1 Longsword|Longsword]] fighter still docked in [[Launch Bay 7]]. If we move ''now'', we can make it!"
+'''Cortana:''' "Wait, stop! This is where Foe Hammer is coming to pick us up. Hold position here." (<i>do NOT stop for her if you have already seen this before, since the countdown stops during this, take advantage of it and just keep moving to gain some </i>)
-''If the Chief hurries past the platform, Cortana's message is cut short.''
+''{Foe Hammer appears around the hull of the Pillar of Autumn, listing badly, on fire, and trailed by a pair of Banshees}''
-''If the Chief enters one of the maintenance tunnels, he will find [[Thirsty Grunt|a lone Covenant soldier]]:''
+'''Cortana (radio):''' "Cortana to Echo 419! Two Covenant Banshees are approaching on your six! Evade, say again, evade!"
-*'''Thirsty Grunt''': "Ugh... Good thing that food nipple's waiting for me at the starship, cause man; have I worked up a big - grunty - thirst!"
+'''Foehammer (radio):''' "I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday! Airfoil structures have been shot to hell! I can't hold her! I can't hold on!"
-''The Chief comes around the final S-curve in the corridor.''
+'''Cortana (radio):''' "Echo 419!...(off radio) She's gone. Calculating alternate escape route. The ship's inventory shows one Longsword fighter still docked in Launch Bay 7. If we move NOW, we can make it!"
-*'''Cortana''': "Chief, up ahead there's a gap in the trench. At top speed, we ''should'' be able to clear it!"
+''{As you come around the final S-curve in the corridor}''
-''The Chief clears the massive gap, and proceeds to his destination. In Launch Bay 7, Flood and Covenant remnants fight for supremacy. The Longsword fighter is docked at the bay's far end. A barricade forces the Chief to dismount from the Warthog and finish the journey on foot.''
+'''Cortana:''' "Chief, up ahead there's a gap in the trench! At top speed, we should be able to clear it!"
-*'''Cortana''': "That's the ship! ''Move''! We need to get aboard, ''now''!"
+''{As you reach the bay}''
-[[File:PoADestructionCEA.jpg|thumb|300px|The ''Autumn's'' engines detonate.]]
+'''Cortana:''' "That's the ship! Move, we need to get aboard NOW!"
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+''{As you reach the ramp leading up to the Longsword platform-cinematic}''
-''If the timer runs out before the Chief reaches the Longsword:''
+''{The Chief makes a break across the platform for the fighter, Flood closing in behind him. He makes it through the open door just before them, and slams the hatch closed as he runs through}''
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQLPunqvkU '''{''Original Cutscene''}''']
+'''Cortana:''' "We're cutting it close!"
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5tDQGiTd8o '''{''Anniversary Cutscene''}''']
-''Fades to an exterior shot of the ''Autumn'' as it explodes.''
+''{The Chief, sprinting for the cockpit, is jarred by an explosion and braces himself against a wall, shaking his head. He reaches the cockpit, jumps into the seat, quickly punches a series of buttons, and takes the controls in his hands}''
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+'''Master Chief:''' "Here we go."
-''If the Chief makes it to the Longsword:''
+''{The Longsword rises above the platform slowly, turning to face the open end of the bay, and lights its engines, rocketing away from the exploding ship The camera cuts to an exterior view of the Pillar of Autumn, as it burns and explosions flare all along its length. A horde of Flood stumble slowly towards it, and the Longsword arrows from the starboard side of the ship away into the sky The camera cuts to follow the Longsword, looking back towards the Autumn as the explosions intensify The Longsword clears the atmosphere, rising away from Halo. The Master Chief stares straight ahead, piloting the fighter as quickly as he can Cut to a frontal view of the Longsword; as it sweeps past the camera, the distant side of Halo is drowned out in a huge light, which grows and grows, and then a massive shock front sweeps through the ring, shattering it into sections In the cockpit, a screen beeps and displays: "Engine Temp Critical"}''
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_gByN6zSw '''{''Original Cutscene''}''']
+'''Cortana:''' "Shut them down, we'll need them later."
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSxFKf7kugQ '''{Anniversary ''Cutscene''}''']
-[[File:AutumnCriticalCEA.png|thumb|300px|The Chief's Longsword speeds away as the ''Autumn's'' engines go critical.]]
+''{The Chief flips a few switches and the Longsword's engines die, leaving it drifting. Debris from the blast hurtles past it, still hot and glowing}''
-''The Chief, with no weapon in hand, makes a break across the platform for the Longsword, masses of Flood combat forms closing in behind him. He makes it through the open door just before them, and slams the hatch shut.''
+'''Cortana:''' "Fancy a look?"
-*'''Cortana''': "We're cutting it close!"
+''{The Chief rises from his chair and moves to one of the Longsword's windows Halo has broken into a few dozen large fragments, all of which are slowly spinning away from each other. As the Chief watches, one massive fragment comes swiftly from the far side of the ring and collides with another, closer one, and the two go spinning off in a giant gout of fire and debris}''
-''The Chief sprints for the cockpit. He braces himself against a wall as an explosion occurs, shaking his head. He reaches the cockpit, jumps into the seat, quickly punches a series of buttons, and takes the controls.''
+'''Master Chief:''' (He braces himself against the frame of the Longsword's cockpit) "Did anyone else make it?"
-*'''John-117''': "Here we go."
+'''Cortana:''' "Scanning." ''(Pause)'' "Just... dust and echoes. We are all that's left."
-''The Longsword rises above the platform slowly, turning to face the open end of the bay, and lights its engines, rocketing away from the exploding ship.''
+(The Master Chief shakes his head and moves back to his seat)
-''On all difficulties other than Legendary:''
+'''Cortana:''' "We did what we had to do... for Earth. An entire Covenant armada obliterated, and the Flood... we had no choice. Halo. It's finished."
-''Cuts to an exterior view of the ''Pillar of Autumn'', as it burns and explosions flare all along its length. A horde of Flood stumble slowly towards it, and the Longsword arrows from the starboard side of the ship away into the sky. The view cuts to follow the Longsword, looking back towards the ''Pillar of Autumn'' as the explosions intensify.''
+'''Master Chief:''' "No." ''(The Longsword is alone in space, and through the window we can see the Master Chief reaching up to unclip his helmet from the rest of his suit)'' "I think we're just getting started."
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+''{The Chief removes his helmet, but the cockpit's frame blocks the view of his head. The camera tracks the longsword for a few a moments, Basis looming large in the background, before panning to focus on a large spiral galaxy hanging in the sky, an ornment emblazoned across the heavens. A few final, dark notes of a cello play, and everything fades}''
-''On Legendary difficulty:''
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm2a-xxpou0 '''{''Original Legendary Cutscene''}''']
+(After the credits)
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLz8yIe8zW0 '''{Anniversary ''Legendary Cutscene''}''']
-[[File:HCEA Hugging Elite Grope Shock.jpg|300px|thumb|Johnson embraces the [[Hugging Elite]] as the ''Autumn'' explodes.]]
+''{A glowing object flies away from halo's wrecage, towards the camera. The Monitor, 343 Guilty Spark, has survived.}''
-''[[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Johnson]] struggles with an uncloaked Stealth Sangheili ([[Sangheili Zealot]] in ''Anniversary'') for an assault rifle. A multitude of dead Flood forms surround them, with the ''Pillar of Autumn'' in the background.''
+BONUS ENDING (This is only seen when beating The Maw on Legendary mode)
-*'''Staff Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson''': "C'mere you motherf-! I'm gonna... Grrr... ah."
+''{[[Sergeant Johnson]] struggles with an Ultra [[Elite]] for an Assault Rifle, among a multitude of dead [[Flood]] forms with the Pillar of Autumn in the background. They suddenly stop and turn to see the it preparing to explode in the distance.}''
-''They suddenly stop and turn to see the ship exploding in the distance. The Sangheili lets go of the rifle.''
+'''Sergeant Johnson:''' "This is it, baby!  (''affectionately'')Hold me."
-*'''Johnson''': "Oh, shi..."
+'''Elite:''' "...mmf"
-''Johnson turns to the Sangheili (dropping his assault rifle on the ground in ''Anniversary'').''
+''{The two embrace as the ship explodes}''
-*'''Johnson''': "This is it, baby. ''(affectionately)'' ''Hold me''."
+Note: this ending did not really happen in bungie canon, as Sergeant Johnson was actually on a Pelican
-*'''[[Hugging Elite]]''': "...mmf."
+==Walkthroughs==
+{{Done by '''[http://halosm.bungie.org/tipsntricks/legwalk/ Asmodeus]'''}}
-''The two embrace and the Sangheili additionally places his right hand on Johnson's bottom. In ''Anniversary'', Johnson places his left hand on the Sangheili's bottom, and the Sangheili reacts uncomfortably.''
+===Part 01:...And the Horse You Rode In On===
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-[[File:HaloDestructionCEA.png|thumb|300px|The ''Pillar of Autumn'' explodes. Halo is destroyed.]]
+You begin this level with a plasma rifle. This is a good thing. Sentinels evidently have a soft spot for the Covenant because any Covenant weapons will really tear them up. If you wait around in the first area long enough, four sentinels will appear and float in from outside. While they're outside they won't fight back so take as many out as you can. Once they're inside, the rest should fall to your plasma rifle easily. Move into the tunnels and look for a hole in the floor. Infection flood will come pouring out of it to greet you. Wait for the carnage to die down below you before dropping down the ladder.
-''The Longsword clears the atmosphere, flying away from Halo. The Master Chief stares straight ahead, piloting the fighter as quickly as he can.''
+There should be a diagonal support you can peek over to shoot at this group of sentinels. Duck behind it if your shields get low. There are more infection flood in this area, so make sure to pop them all before moving down the hall. Peering around the corner to your right you'll see a group of flood. Fire off a couple of shots at one of them, throw a grenade, and then run backwards back down the hall gunning them down as they round the corner after you. Throw another grenade or two as necessary. There should be a shotgun and a pistol among the wreckage. Pick them up.
-''As the Longsword sweeps past the view, the distant side of Halo is drowned out in a blinding explosion as the ''Pillar of Autumn's'' engines detonate. A massive shockwave sweeps through the Installation. With its structural integrity compromised, the rotating ringworld begins to fragment. An alarm in the Longsword goes off.''
+As you move towards the next area, a door will be smashed open with a ton of flood behind it. Move to the left of the door so they won't be able to see you when it opens. Bounce a frag grenade into their midst, then follow up with your trusty shotgun. There are a lot of flood here, so another grenade thrown far back into the hall and slightly around the corner would be a good idea. Your shotgun will finish the job nicely.
-<tt>'''ENGINE TEMP CRITICAL'''</tt>
+Next comes the mess hall. Open the door into the next area, but don't go through. Pop the infection flood first. Now you can just barely peek in and zoom in with your pistol to your left. A hunter should come storming into the hall and start taking down flood. Aim for that bright orange back meat, and start shooting. If just one pistol round gets past his armor, he's dead. No need to wait for the perfect shot. He's too busy with flood to notice you. Another hunter will smash through a door to your right, but he'll soon retreat into the mess hall if you don't kill him first. Follow him and shoot him in the back as he battles flood. Grab the health pack (remember there are two here) and a few grenades here if you need to. You have to do all this very quickly so you can take advantage of the confusion in the next area. If you're having trouble, don't worry about killing the hunters. You can get them later.
-*'''Cortana''': "Shut them down, we'll need them later."
+You may get a feeling of déjà vu as you enter the mess hall for your first difficult battle of the level, and as before, you should run straight through the chaos. Once safely on the other side of the Covenant, you have a few options. You could just move on to the bridge and leave these enemies behind, but where's the fun in that? We're going to go back in and use our pistol to pick off the grunts. Then you can rush the elite and blast him a few times with the shotgun. Be wary. This type of elite throws grenades.
+[[Image:mawjunction.jpg|150px|right|thumb|You will pass a junction, make sure to note this as you'll be back.]]
+Another group of Covenant will enter the room now, so run back to where you originally entered this area. If any hunters still live, use the multiple doors to the mess hall to get behind them and nail them in the back. Again, peek out and use your pistol to pick off the grunts. These elites can be a problem. They throw grenades too. If you are within reach of a needler, you can use that to get rid of some of them. A generous amount of grenades thrown in their direction will often make them retreat into the hallway they came out of. This leaves you in control of the mess hall, so grab a needler and a bunch of grenades and take them out from relative safety. Once this group is dead, you can scavenge this area thoroughly. Keep you shotgun and pistol, but fill up a needler and keep it handy as well.
-''The Chief flips a few switches. The Longsword's engines shut down, leaving it drifting. Debris from the blast hurtles past it, still glowing.''
+There's a health pack on the way to the bridge, but don't grab it until you really need it. There is an elite waiting for you just around the corner, so either stick a grenade to him or fill him full of needles. The grunts around here can be disposed of in any number of ways. Use your imagination. Before you trigger the cutscene, drop your pistol in a safe place, and pick up a Covenant weapon. Any will do.
-*'''Cortana''': "Fancy a look?"
+If you skip the cutscene, you'll still have the display in front of you for cover. It also stays if you die and restart here. Either way, use it for cover and unload your Covenant weapon on the sentinels. Pick up your pistol and head out.
-''The Master Chief rises from his chair and moves to one of the Longsword's windows. Halo has broken into a few dozen large fragments, all of which are slowly spinning away from each other. As the Chief watches, one massive fragment comes swiftly from the far side of the ring and collides with another, closer one, splitting it in half, and the two go spinning off in a giant gout of fire and debris. Silent explosions spread throughout Halo's remains. The ring has been destroyed.''
+The mess hall is now closed off and a new area full of flood has opened. Blast through the first one you see with your shotgun, then leave a grenade for the others as you retreat. The rest will file out of the door after you. Shotgun and grenade as usual. Move through the pile of assault rifles and approach the far door. Wait for the battle to die down before going through. There should be two hunters and an elite left sitting in a pile of grenades. Throw one of your own to soften them up.
+[[Image:floodandcover.jpg|150px|right|thumb|No matter where you go, the Flood will follow you trying to make you waste some ammo.]]
+Again, you have a couple of options. You could leave the hunters (and the health pack they're sitting on) behind, or you could kill them. Killing them is actually very easy if you take advantage of a nice little feature in the programming. Move into the next hall and you should trigger a load point. Now go back to the hunters and you should trigger another one on the way. Basically since the hunters were unloaded from memory, they forgot they saw you. So if you're sneaky, you can peek in and shoot them in a weak spot. If they see you, just unload/load them again. This is a great trick for enemies near load spots throughout the game, though it's kind of cheap. If you're too honorable for such a thing, you can always do it the old-fashioned way, huge amounts of damage or dancing with them until they make themselves vulnerable. Anyway, dispose of them then scavenge what you can from this hallway. Grab a Covenant weapon before you go. There are sentinels ahead.
-*'''John-117''': "Did anyone else make it?"
+By now you know the routine. Blast sentinels. Pop flood. Retrieve your old weapon. There are two groups of sentinels here to mow down.
-*'''Cortana''': "Scanning." ''(pause)'' "Just...dust and echoes. We're all that's left."
+The next area is the cryochamber. There is one hell of a battle going on in here, so stay back and let the carnage ensue. If you want to make things easier, you can just run straight up the ladder and skip this whole battle, but then you wouldn't get to kill all these flood that deserve death so richly.
-''The Master Chief shakes his head and moves back to his seat.''
+While they're fighting, locate a health pack nearby. You'll have to jump over those same pipes you jumped over when you first started playing Halo. It's on the left, but as usual don't get it until you really need it.
-*'''Cortana''': "We did what we had to do...for [[Earth]]. An [[Fleet of Particular Justice|entire Covenant armada]] obliterated, and the ''Flood''... We had no choice. Halo...it's finished."
+After the battle dies down, go into the cryochamber and finish off any sentinels with the shotgun. Go up the ladder, then move towards the next area, and you should trigger another wave of flood to enter the room below you. (If you keep at least one of the Sentinels alive, these flood will not spawn.  Try to keep it on the opposite side of the central glass walkway from you.) Drop a grenade down then drop down yourself (after the grenade goes off) and blast a hole through them running through the doors they entered through. Retreat all the way over the pipes to where the health pack is. They should be easy to take out from the safety of these halls.
-*'''John-117''': "No... I think we're just getting started."
+Once they are finished, go back up the ladder and move into the control room overlooking the cryochamber. There are more sentinels here. The shotgun is very effective at this close of a range, but be careful of the explosion when they die. The health pack here should be reserved for later use. There's a tough battle waiting in the next hall. On your right as you enter the control room is a door to another little room. This is a great place to hide, reload, and recharge in the upcoming battle. On your left as you entered is a hall full of flood. Ridiculous amounts of flood will come pouring down this hallway. Use your shotgun at medium range and your pistol and grenades at long range and just keep firing. Aim for the carrier flood (the ones that explode). And watch out for flood with rocket launchers. Fall back to your hiding room as often as necessary. Some flood will follow you all the way back here, but at least not all of them will. There will be short breaks allowing you to move forward and pick up ammo before falling back. Eventually they will stop coming. You can try just running through this hall with guns blazing and you'll face fewer enemies, but I'll have to advocate the safer route in this walkthrough. You get to kill more stuff that way. Grab the health pack now if you managed to conserve it throughout the onslaught.
-''The Chief removes his helmet, but the cockpit's frame blocks the view of his head. The view tracks the Longsword for a few a moments, [[Basis]] looming large in the background, before panning to focus on a large spiral galaxy hanging in the sky, an ornament emblazoned across the heavens.''
+Move down the hall scavenging and cleaning up any stragglers. Keep going straight and you'll find an overshield tucked away in a dead-end. A group of flood will spawn in this room as you leave, so run quickly out of this room, turn left, and move into the maintenance tunnels. You can kill these flood if you want, but it just makes even more spawn in their place.
-''Fades to black.''
+There are several exits from the tunnels. The far left exit dumps you out into a room with a lot of dead elites and plasma grenades on the ground. The far right exit is blocked, but there's a health pack here along with some frag grenades. Fill up on these goodies while the battle rages outside. Flood will just keep coming down this hall, so wait until there are just a couple of Covenant left, then make a break for it. Run across the hall into the door on the other side. Follow the path around and you should come out and see two energy shields in front of you. Head out, pump a few shotgun shells into anything nearby, and take a left. Follow the big red arrows on the ground towards the armory.
-''[[Halo: Combat Evolved credits|Credits]] roll.''
+Ahhh, the armory. The sight of all this weaponry brings a tear to my eye. Fill up a shotgun and a rocket launcher and get ready to kill some stuff. Towards the back of the room some [[Active Camo]] flood will come after you. They hurt just as much as the visible ones and look even cooler. You're in a room full of shotgun shells. I think you know what to do. Head off to engineering when you're through here.
-''Cut back to the vast reaches of space; a blue light speeds towards the screen. As it closes in, it is revealed to be the Monitor, having somehow survived Halo's destruction. His blue floods the view as the entire screen fades to white.''
+===Part 02: Light Fuse, Run Away===
+[[Image:POAEngineRoom.jpg|150px|right|thumb|[[Flood]] and [[Sentinels]] will battle around you in the Engine room.]]
+At this point conserving ammo is pointless, so blast away with the shotgun as long as it takes. You can always go back to the armory to restock. And there are eight health packs on the sides of computers on the first floor of the engine room, so have yourself a good old time blowing stuff up
-''Game ends.''
+When you have the choice of going right or left, go right. Enter the engine room and go up the ramp to your right. Turn left and head all the way back through the door to level 2. Follow the path up until you reach level 3. You can hit the switches in any order. It doesn't make much of a difference.
-==Achievements==
+After you hit each switch, jump onto the retracting pipe and ride it back across the room. Drop down for cover, switch to your rocket launcher, and carefully aim a rocket at the bright slits as they're opening up. Make sure you score a hit before moving on.
-The following [[achievement]]s can be unlocked on ''The Maw'' across the [[Xbox 360]] and ''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]'' editions of ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''. The original [[Xbox]] and [[Halo: Combat Evolved (PC port)|PC]] and [[Halo: Combat Evolved for Macintosh|Macintosh]] releases of ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' did not contain achievement unlocks.
+[[Image:Lightfuseandcrouch.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Light the fuse while ducking for cover.]]
-{| class="wikitable"
+For one of the vents, there's a set of three barrels you can use to get back up to level 3 without having to go back through the halls. Jump on the blue one turned on its side. Then jump on the yellow one that's right side up. Next jump on the exhaust coupling (the big square pipe). From here you can just barely jump up onto level 3 where the computers are. It helps to run along the left side of the pipe when you make the jump so you don't get pushed off if you miss. This saves you one trip at least.
-|-
-! scope="col" style="width:135px;text-align:center;" |'''''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' (Xbox 360)'''
-! scope="col" style="width:135px;text-align:center;" |'''''Halo: MCC'' (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S)'''
-! scope="col" style="width:135px;text-align:center;" |'''''Halo: MCC'' (Steam)'''
-! scope="col" style="width:175px;height:20px;text-align:center;" |'''Title'''
-! scope="col" style="width:350px;height:20px;text-align:center;" |'''Unlock requirement'''
-! scope="col" style="width:200px;height:20px;text-align:center;" |'''Games'''
-|-
-|[[File:HCEA Achievement The Maw.png|center|64px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement TheMaw.png|center|114px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement Steam TheMaw.jpg|center|64px]]
-|<center>'''[[The Maw (achievement)|The Maw]]'''</center>
-|Complete The Maw on any difficulty.
-|<center>''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''<br/>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|-
-|[[File:ACH36.png|center|64px]]
-|<center>[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement ThisSideUp.png|center|114px]]</center>
-|<center>[[File:HTMCC Achievement ThisSideUp Steam.jpg|center|64px]]</center>
-|<center>'''[[This Side Up]]'''</center>
-|Complete the Warthog ride of The Maw without being forcibly ejected from the vehicle.
-|<center>''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''<br/>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|-
-|[[File:ACH37.png|center|64px]]
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|<center>'''[[Never Tell Me the Odds]]'''</center>
-|Complete the Warthog ride on the level "The Maw" on Legendary difficulty with at least a minute remaining on the countdown.
-|<center>''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''</center>
-|-
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement AllYouCanEat.png|center|114px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement Steam AllYouCanEat.jpg|center|64px]]
-|<center>'''[[All You Can Eat]]'''</center>
-|Beat the par time on The Maw.
-|<center>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|-
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement ConsumptionJunction.png|center|114px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement Steam ConsumptionJunction.jpg|center|64px]]
-|<center>'''[[Consumption Junction]]'''</center>
-|Beat the par score on The Maw.
-|<center>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|-
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement KilotonsofFun.png|center|114px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement Steam KilotonsofFun.jpg|center|64px]]
-|<center>'''[[Kilotons of Fun]]'''</center>
-|Find the [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|Terminal]] on The Maw.
-|<center>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|-
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement SkulltakerGruntBirthdayParty.png|center|114px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement Steam SkulltakerGruntBirthdayParty.jpg|center|64px]]
-|<center>'''[[Skulltaker Halo: CE: Grunt Birthday Party]]'''</center>
-|Find the [[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary skulls#Grunt Birthday Party|Grunt Birthday Party Skull]] on The Maw.
-|<center>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|-
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement T-Rex.png|center|114px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement Steam T-Rex.jpg|center|64px]]
-|<center>'''[[T-Rex]]'''</center>
-|Find the hidden Rex sign on The Maw.
-|<center>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|-
-|<center>N/A</center>
-|[[File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement ThirstyGrunt.png|center|114px]]
-|[[File:HTMCC Achievement Thirsty Grunt Steam.jpg|center|64px]]
-|<center>'''[[Thirsty Grunt (achievement)|Thirsty Grunt]]'''</center>
-|Listen to the Thirsty Grunt talk about his eating habits.
-|<center>''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''</center>
-|}
-==Production notes==
+Once you're done, Cortana will show you where you to go. Follow her lead, but be careful. Riding the elevator are a couple of grunts with fuel rod guns and a few elites. As the elevator is coming down, aim your rocket launcher for maximum destruction. The elites may survive the rocket, but not your grenades and shotgun. Don't be afraid to retreat here. You're not on a timer... yet. Once everything is dead, move onto the elevator. You should still have at least one rocket and one grenade left. They might be necessary. A few shotgun shells would be good too. Reload everything, switch to your shotgun, and get ready.
-{{Main|Development of Halo: Combat Evolved}}
-''The Maw'' was primarily designed by [[Bungie]] designer [[Tyson Green]]. ''The Maw'' reuses some of the level geometry from the first level ''[[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn]]'', though the ship has noticeably deteriorated after crash-landing on the ring. Early in development, the ship interiors would have been tilted at an angle. However, doing so would have necessitated additional changes to trigger volumes and scripting in the level design, so the ship was ultimately left upright rather than tilted.{{Ref/YouTube|Id=IGN|9ndZbg8Mr-Q|IGN|Halo: Combat Evolved Devs React to Speedrun (Martin O’Donnell, Marcus Lehto)|D=8|M=5|Y=2021}}
-The Warthogs in the Warthog Run have modified gameplay traits, resembling the Warthogs from an earlier build of ''Halo: Combat Evolved''. This was the result of designer [[Jaime Griesemer]] rebalancing the Warthog after the level geometry was already completed, which made it impossible for Warthogs to climb the steep ramps. Subsequently, the Warthogs in the Warthog Run were granted higher acceleration and speed to make it possible to complete the run.{{Ref/Reuse|IGN}}
+===Part 03: Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts===
-Artist [[Paul Russel]] described the Warthog Run as the "''Pillar of Autumn'' Conundrum."{{Ref/Reuse|IGN}} The ''Pillar of Autumn'' has been established as approximately 1.17&nbsp;km long. This, however, contradicts this level where the player must drive along a 3.5&nbsp;km long service corridor that supposedly runs the length of the ship.
+Grab the first warthog on the right. You should get a health pack on the way.
+If at any point you flip your warthog, get back in and keep driving as quickly as possible. Only shoot something if it's directly in your path.
-Cinematic Artists Steve Abeyta animated John-117 stumbling on the Longsword.{{Ref/Film|Id=Commentary|[[Halo 3 Legendary Edition|''Halo 3'' Legendary Edition]], Halo: Combat Evolved developer commentary}} Art Director [[Marcus Lehto]] animated Installation 04's destruction,{{Ref/Reuse|IGN}} supposedly over the course of one night.{{Ref/Reuse|Commentary}} The scene was recreated during a flashback scene in the ''[[Halo 2]]'' campaign level ''[[The Heretic]]''.
+Stay in the middle as you enter the first big room. Drop down under the floor, but as you go back up this ramp, steer slightly to one side. When you exit you'll see why. Go around this obstacle then continue down the middle of the path for the rest of this room.
-The events of the level were later expanded in the novel ''[[Halo: The Flood]]'':
+The first hallway is rather uneventful. Line your hog up to one side so your off-center entering the next room.
-*The unloaded Assault Rifles and Shotguns in the first armory were referenced in ''Halo: The Flood'', in which the surviving Marine forces returned to the ''Autumn's'' wreckage to recover most of its ordnance.
+[[Image:Landing Warthog.jpg|150px|right|thumb|The center of this room flips me often...]]
-*The [[Special Operations Sangheili]] commanding the squad of [[Special Operations Unggoy]] in Maintenance Elevator 07 would be [[Zuka 'Zamamee]]. 'Zamamee was pursuing John-117 during almost the entire duration that he was on Installation 04. However, depending on the level of difficulty, there can be more than one SpecOps Sangheili in the elevator. Unlike in ''Halo: The Flood'', Zuka 'Zamamee is not manning a {{Pattern|Mamua'uda|Shade}} nor is there one nearby.
+The center way in this room flips me more often then not, so I'm going to suggest the tunnels to the side. Lean even more to your chosen side as you exit these tunnels to get around a wall, then back to the middle to exit. This room and the next hallway are full of sentinels, so when you leave, you might want to take a second to recharge. Better to waste the time recharging than die.
-The events of this level occurs concurrently with the ''[[Halo: Fireteam Raven]]'' level ''[[Last Stand (Halo: Fireteam Raven level)|Last Stand]]'', which takes place near the crash site. John-117 makes a brief cameo on ''Last Stand'', in which his Banshee flew over [[Fireteam Raven]] while being pursued by a {{Pattern|Deutoros|Scarab}}.
+The next hallway has a short cut through it. Go to the left of the first column, then to the right of the second column, then swing around and take the hall to your left. If you're having a lot of trouble getting in, don't worry about it. It's more important to keep moving.
-==Trivia==
+The third big room has a wall blocking your way as soon as you enter. Come in at a steep angle and stay close to one of the walls. There's a catwalk here on either side that the warthog can drive on that gets you through the room quickly. After steering around the big wall, you could also take the off-center tunnel down, and then head back to the middle for the rest of the room. Either way works fine.
-===Glitches===
-*During the cinematic onboard the bridge, when the Sentinel Aggressors fire at John-117, his right arm straightened out to the side unnaturally. This was the result of the character model taking damage when playing a custom animation.{{Ref/Reuse|Commentary}}
-*If the player opens the exhaust vent and jump inside it before firing the rocket, the vent will close on the player. The player will take damage and die from the heat. This is easier on co-op, when the second player can fire the rocket.
-*During the Warthog escape on co-op, the weight of the second player manning the turret can cause difficulties making jumps on the large ramps, causing the Warthog to flip over backwards in the air. Having the second player in the passenger seat, however, will keep the Warthog balanced.
-*If the player continues driving after the pick up point where ''Echo 419'' is shot down by Banshees, Cortana will say her line even if Rawley hasn't crashed yet (this is actually a time-saving strategy, but one won't get a checkpoint).
-===Mistakes===
+The third hall is pretty simple. Get yourself straightened out for the next room.
-*The Banshees that attack and follow ''Echo 419'' have open cockpits so they look like no one is piloting them. The Banshees do not actually fire shots that destroy ''Echo 419''. If the player fires at the Banshees, they will not receive any damage and cannot be destroyed until after ''Echo 419'' has passed over the extraction point.
-*In ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', after completing the level the carnage report will show that 4 Brutes were killed. This is because the engines that the player destroys are actually invisible AI that can only be "killed" by explosives. This is how the game detects that an explosive was used and triggers the resulting explosion. The game doesn't know what to classify the AI as in the carnage report, so Brutes are chosen. This may be due to the fact that Brutes are first in an alphabetical list of enemies, so they are chosen by default.
-*The warthog run is far longer than the actual ship, stretching nearly 3 km as opposed to the Autumn's canonical 1.17 km.
-*The bridge at External Access Junction 4C has long been a point of contention among Halo fans due to its perceived role of holding the front and back of the ship.
-===Easter eggs===
+The fourth room is nasty. Head through the middle and you'll eventually be stuck with a bunch of pillars in your way. Slalom around them. Go to the left of the first one, then to the right of the next, then to the left, etc. until you're through. Head back to the middle for the rest of this room.
-*The [[Thirsty Grunt]] appears in this level at one of the tunnels close to the Longsword fighter.
-*In the level's Warthog Run, there is a room under one of the runways that has the word "[[Rex|REX]]" written in [[human]] blood splatters and bullet holes.
-*In ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'', the [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)#Terminal 10|tenth and final terminal]] can be found in the Cryo Bay's second floor, where Sentinels are fighting a large Flood force. The terminal is a computer screen on the wall, similar to the first terminal.
-*The [[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary skulls#Grunt Birthday skull|Grunt Birthday Party skull]] in ''Anniversary'' can be found on one of the pipes in the area where ''Echo 419'' was shot down. The pipe is on the side which the player needs to continue on, and is on the right side. The player is required to use the Warthog as a support to jump on to the pipe so they can reach the end of the pipe.
-===References===
+After all that, the rest of this run is a breeze. The next hallway leads you to Foe Hammer, but don't stop and wait for her. We all know what happens here. Keep on truckin'.
-*The definition of a "maw" is "the throat, jaws, and gullet of a flesh-eating animal." This is a possible reference to either the Flood or the adage: "Victory from the jaws of defeat."
-*In the beginning cutscene, Master Chief crashes his Banshee into the wall and climbs up into the ship. This was referenced in a scene in the ''[[Halo 2]]'' level ''[[The Oracle]]'', where the [[Thel 'Vadam|Arbiter]] crashes a [[Heretic Banshee]] into the wall before climbing it and re-entering the [[Gas Mine]].
-*Part of the opening dialog in which Cortana says "We're not going to make it!" which the Chief replies with "We'll make it" is repeated in the end cutscene of the level ''[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo]]'' in ''[[Halo 3]]''.
-*When the player has destroyed the engines, Cortana will say, "it leads to a class '''[[Seven|7]]'''-service corridor that runs along the ship's dorsal structure."
-*Foe Hammer responds to Cortana's transmission with "Roger, Cortana. I read you, 5 by 5." Five by Five is one of 25 military responses, indicating that radio communications are the best possible. Five by Five in mathematical terms is 5 x 5 which is 25, and 2+5='''7'''.
-*During the elevator ride, just before the Warthog run, Cortana instructs Foe Hammer to pick the Chief up at "External Access Junction 4-C." Considering that C is the third letter of the alphabet, 4C is another reference to '''7'''.
-*The final chapter of the level, "Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts", is referenced in the ''Halo 3'' level ''[[Tsavo Highway]]'' as "Warning: Hitchhikers May Have Jetpacks." It's also referenced by [[Vergil]], who repeats the line as "Warning: Hitchhikers may be escaped convicts" in the ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' level ''[[Data Hive]]''.
-*The dialogue of Cortana where she warns the player about the gap in the trench starts when the player is exactly [[Seven|700]] meters away from [[Launch Bay 7]].
-*This is the only level that has a time limit in the ''[[Halo]]'' first-person games, although when the Warthog Run was remade in ''Halo 3'', the player will die if they linger for too long in an area.
-*What looks like an approaching Flood army in the final cutscene was revealed to be '''seven''' Flood forms in the ''Halo 3'' Legendary Edition DVD cutscene commentary.
-===Miscellaneous===
+The next winding hallway has another helpful short cut on the right. Again it's after the second column. Halfway through the short-cut tunnel on your right is another tunnel that leads to the Thirsty Grunt [[Thirsty Grunt|easter egg]], but you can come back to visit it after you beat the game. You'd better keep moving.
-[[File:FFUUUU ending.jpg|thumb|200px|A second helmet underneath John-117's helmet at the end of the game.]]
-*In the cutscene where the Chief takes off his helmet, he actually has a second helmet on underneath, because [[Bungie]] didn't model a face for him. This can only be seen with the proper modding tools required to alter cutscenes. This was also revealed in the ''[[Halo 3]]'' Legendary Edition bonus disc.
-*If one skips the bridge cutscene before the Sentinels shatter the main display, the display will not be shattered when gameplay resumes, and will not shatter no matter how long the Sentinels or the player shoots at it. This can actually be quite advantageous as it provides the player with additional cover when fighting the Sentinels. If the Sentinels kill the player, the glass may reappear when they respawn.
-*This is the only level where Sangheili Combat Forms will use [[Active Camouflage]]. They will come in from the locked door in the armory, along with several regular Combat Forms. There will sometimes also be several human Combat Forms that have Active Camouflage activated, although there is no known reason for this. Since feral Flood are non-sentient, it is unlikely that they share equipment. The Sangheili Combat Forms are referenced as "floodcombat elite stealth unarmed" in the code, and can be seen in HMT, and with the default tagset of the Halo Editing Kit, and states that these are likely infected Stealth Sangheili.
-*When Halo explodes, it sometimes makes the same gurgling noise made by Flood Combat Forms.
-*Apart from the Legendary ending, the only way one can actually see the ''Pillar of Autumn'' explode is to let the timer run down to zero. A cutscene will show it exploding.
-*Aggressor Sentinels will start coming through Bumblebee airlocks if the player hangs around the airlocks long enough at the beginning of the level.
-==Gallery==
+Soon you'll be warned of a big jump ahead. Line yourself up as evenly as you can and floor it. No chance for corrections in mid-flight. There are actually two jumps right in a row here, so keep straight. There's another [[Rex|easter egg]] here right after the first jump, but this one takes even more time, so come back for it later.
-===''Halo: Combat Evolved''===
-<gallery>
-File:HCE Menu 10 The Maw.png|Preview of the level in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' menu.
-File:HCE PoA Horizon.jpg|The wrecked UNSC ''Pillar of Autumn''.
-File:crashlanding.jpg|John climbing into a Bumblebee port.
-File:HCE SpecOpsGrunts.jpg|Two SpecOps Unggoy in the bridge.
-File:HCE Chief&Cortana.jpg|Cortana speaking to John in the bridge.
-File:grenadetoss.jpg|John holding a fragmentation grenade.
-File:Floodandcover.jpg|John fighting his way through the wreckage.
-File:HCE TheMaw EngineRoomChaos.jpg|Aggressor Sentinels battling the Flood in Cryo B.
-File:HCE Coop VsSpecOpsElite.jpg|Two Spartans fighting a SpecOps Sangheili during cooperative play.
-File:Lightfuseandcrouch.jpg|John destroys one of the fusion cells.
-File:HCE Coop Engineering.jpg|Two Spartans working together to destroy the fusion cells during cooperative play.
-File:Catch.jpg|A SpecOps Sangheili throws a grenade at the Flood.
-File:Landing Warthog.jpg|The Warthog speeds down one of the ramps during John's escape.
-File:HCE Coop WarthogRun.jpg|Two Spartans on a Warthog during cooperative play.
-File:Ship20.jpg|''Echo 419'' gets shot down by a pair of [[Banshees]].
-File:HaloCE-Maw-PoA-Critical.png|John flies a Longsword away from the ''Autumn''.
-File:HCE Legendary Ending 1.jpg|[[Avery Junior Johnson|Johnson]] and the [[Hugging Elite]].
-File:HCE-AlphaHalo-Destruction-screen.jpg|Installation 04 is destroyed.
-</gallery>
-===''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''===
+Keep straight and steady and soon you'll see the hangar opening up before you.
-<gallery>
+[[Image:Longsword ship.JPG|150px|right|thumb|Now you can ride to your longsword in style.]]
-File:HCEA_TheMaw_Hangar_Concept.jpg|Concept art for the Longsword hangar bay.
+The end is in sight, but you're warthog is blocked by a bunch of junk. You'll have to run the rest of the way. There are a lot of nasty things to hinder your escape, but you can avoid most of them by getting out of the middle area and running alongside it. Few of the combatants will notice you out here.
-File:HCEA_TheMaw_Pillars_Concept.jpg|Concept art for the various ramps and pillars in the Warthog run.
-File:HTMCC HCEA Achievement DearDiary.png|Another concept art of the crashed ship.
-File:HCEA Menu 10 Maw.png|Preview of the level in ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' menu.
-File:Autumn.jpg|The ''Pillar of Autumn'' crash site seen from its rear.
-File:AutumnMawCEA.jpg|The ''Pillar of Autumn'' crash site seen from above.
-File:CEAJC.jpg|John-117 and Cortana in the bridge.
-File:HCEA Zuka&SpecOpsGrunt.JPG|Zuka 'Zamamee and a SpecOps Unggoy.
-File:HCEA-Concept-Maw-WarthogRun.jpg|Concept art of the Warthog Run.
-File:HCEA LegendaryEnding.jpg|Johnson prepares to hug the Zealot in the Legendary ending.
-</gallery>
-==Sources==
+If you think you're not going to make it, or just want to have some fun, park your warthog right up against the obstacles and get out. Switch to your rocket launcher and throw a grenade under the warthog. Just after the grenade goes off, shoot the warthog with a rocket and you'll send it flying over the obstacles. Now you can get back in and ride to your longsword in style.
-{{Ref/Sources}}
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