Memento Mori

Template:Article Quote Memento Mori is the fifth episode of Spartan Ops. It was released on December 3, 2012.

Chapters

#	Name	Location	Description
1	Spartan Miller	The Gate	"Infinity Science requests Spartan aid investigating anomalies in Requiem-wide portal system."
2	Nothing Can Go Wrong	The Refuge	"Infinity Science has begun to understand Requiem's portal system and request assistance in its testing."
3	Everything Has Gone Wrong	The Refuge	"The Refuge facility is the focus of heavy enemy activity. Additional UNSC forces are being deployed to the area."
4	The Cauldron Base	The Cauldron	"Forward Base Magma has placed a distress call. Fireteam Crimson is responding."
5	Spartan Thorne	Quarry	"Spartan Gabriel Thorne has been transported to Requiem, without weapons or comms. His current status is unknown."

Opening cinematic

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Fades from black to Galileo Base.

• Palmer (COMM): "Crimson has the situation on the ground covered Majestic, get that package off Galileo Base and back to the Infinity pronto!"

Fireteam Majestic comes out of a building, checking and securing the area around them as they head towards a Pelican.

• Madsen: "So now we're Crimson's delivery service? How come we never get the interesting jobs?"

• DeMarco: "On me Hoya."

DeMarco and Hoya break off from the other three and move forward.

• Grant: "Moving out."

The other three move but a plasma cannon fires at them.

• DeMarco: "Get to cover!!"

Grant, Madsen and Thorne take cover, checking around.

• Grant: "Just had to open your big mouth again, Madsen."

• Madsen: "We're not dead yet Grant."

Another cannon blast barely misses them.

• Grant: "Yet?"

• Demarco: "Regroup on me!"

The three move. As another cannon fires, Grant rolls out of the blast into the buidling but Madsen and Thorne are still out.

• Paul Demarco: "Thorne, Madsen, move it!"

Madsen taps Thorne's shoulder and the two join the rest of their fireteam.

• Thorne: "Anti-air's down!"

• Paul DeMarco: "Yes Thorne, I've noticed!"

As Majestic looks on, a Phantom and a couple of Banshees block their way to the Pelican.

• DeMarco: "Alright Spartans, we're packing up this picnic. Everybody, get to the Pelican! Let's move!"

DeMarco proceeds to move towards the Pelican but Madsen reaches out and stops him.

• Madsen: "Hey, Hey, woah, woah, woah!! We try to fly, we're dead!"

• Thorne: "Hoya."

• Hoya: "Yeah?"

Thorne hands the "Didact's Gift" over to Hoya.

• Thorne: "Take this. Head for lift-off. I've got an idea."

Thorne gets up and runs from the group.

• Madsen: "Uhh?"

• DeMarco: "Thorne, get back here!! That's an order!!!"

Thorne runs over to the building ledge and jumps to catch a Banshee flying between the canal.

• Grant: "We've got this, just go!"

The rest of Majestic squad get up to run towards the Pelican while Thorne appears in the Banshee saluting the team. The view switches to a cliff side overlooking the base. The Phantom immediately explodes, crashing to the ground. Gek approaches Jul 'Mdama who is monitoring the activity.

• Gek: "Shipmaster 'Mdama! The humans have their prize! They are near escape!"

• Jul 'Mdama: "Let them, Gek."

• Gek: "They carry the soul of a Promethean Knight!"

• Jul 'Mdama: "And we have made enough of a display trying to retrieve it."

Cut to black.

HALO: INFINITY

The view cuts to the package sitting on a table as Dr. Halsey studies it.

• Halsey: "Taking a reading."

The package burst open and the cover pieces float mid-air.

• Halsey: "Oh my..."

Cut to Lasky who is looking inside the laboratory from outside.

• Lasky: "Doctor!"

• Halsey: "A moment please."

Dr. Halsey uses her pen to tap one of the floating pieces.

• Halsey: "Intriguing."

• Roland: "Doc, this thing looks... kinda familiar."

• Halsey: "Yes. It's very similar to an A.I. Matrix. But we expected that..."

As Dr. Halsey takes a closer look at the device, which releases an energy burst.

• Halsey: "Woah!"

Dr. Halsey falls to her back as the energy released from the device disrupts the surrounding lights and monitors.

• Lasky: "Dr. Halsey!"

Lasky, Palmer, and Majestic squad rush into the room to help Halsey who pick herself up.

• Halsey: "Roland, freeze all monitors!"

All the monitors freeze frame showing pictures of scenery.

• Roland: "Pictures?"

Thorne approaches one of the pictures which shows several buildings.

• Roland: "Civilian life. Maybe a colony or something."

• Halsey: "Not pictures...memories."

Halsey turns around to look at the device.

• Halsey: "An alien A.I. full of human memories."

• Thorne: "That's New Pheonix."

• Thorne: "I grew up there."

• Roland: "Nah. That can't be right."

Lasky turns to face Palmer.

• Halsey: "You knew this, didn't you, Captain Lasky."

• Lasky: "The UNSC is aware that Promethean's are ancient humans."

• Halsey: "That is not ancient. That is the attack on Earth from six months ago."

Thorne turns around to face another monitor which shows the mysterious Forerunner artifact.

• Thorne: "You knew."

• Lasky: "This is impossible, I..I have no idea how the hell these memories got from Earth to here."

Thorne briefly looks at Lasky before storming out the room.

• Palmer: "Thorne."

Thorne ignores Palmer and leaves the room. Dr. Halsey turns to look at the monitor he last observed.

• Lasky: "What is it, doctor?"

Halsey also sees the artifact. Cut to the artifact. Lasky, Palmer, and Halsey (who is holding her datapad) proceed towards the artifact.

• Halsey: "I suspect we misunderstood the artifact's true purpose."

• Lasky: "And that is?"

• Halsey: "I'm working on it."

Lasky and Palmer stop as Halsey walks closer to the artifact. The view cuts to a blue orb which shows Halsey typing on her datapad. Cut back to Halsey looking down at her datapad.

H:PROMETHEAN SAMPLE..I FOUND EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID I WOULD
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• Palmer: "It's amusing to see you not have the answer to everything, for once."

• Halsey: "Enough has been kept from me. I've decided to start questioning all my prior assumptions."

• Lasky: "Doctor this is as much a surprise to us as it is to you."

• Halsey: "I suspect that's a lie, captain."

Cut back to the blue orb. Jul 'Mdama is seen talking to it revealing that he is the unidentified individual that Halsey was communicating with.

• Jul 'Mdama: "So perhaps we can assist one another. You are familiar with the Librarian?"

• Halsey: "The Librarian?"

• Lasky: "Doctor?"

Palmer walks over to Dr. Halsey and snatches the datapad out of her hand.

• Palmer: "What are you really doing?"

Halsey attempts to get it back but Palmer holds her back. She takes a look at the datapad.

• Palmer: "Who are you talking to?"

Palmer tosses the datapad towards Lasky who catches it.

• Halsey: "You rude-"

Palmer takes out her Magnum and points it at Halsey's head.

• Palmer: "You want rude?"

Lasky scrolls throw the datapad with a pin.

• Lasky: "Palmer, take Dr. Halsey into custody."

Cut back to the view screen. Jul 'Mdama observes Palmer taking Halsey away. Suddenly something activates in the background. Jul turns around.

• Glassman: "Haha! It works!"

Glassman activates the shrine which now has a shield surrounding it. All the Sangheili including Gek proceed to bow.

• Jul 'Mdama': "Glassman?"

• Glassman: "Well at least...something.. works."

Jul 'Mdama stands next to Glassman and both individuals continue observing the shrine. Cut to Thorne who is walking towards the artifact.

• Thorne: "Why did those people see you?"

Thorne touches the artifact which activates.

• Thorne: "What?"

The artifact translocates Thorne to the surface of Requiem. As Thorne gets up, seven Storm troops approach him, activating their energy swords.

Trivia

"Memento Mori" is a Latin phrase that is translated as "Remember your mortality", or "Remember you will die".