Repository (Halo Infinite level)

This article is about the Halo Infinite campaign level. For the Halo Wars multiplayer map, see Repository.

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Next:	The Road
Repository
Game:	Halo Infinite
Player:	John-117
Date:	2560
Location:	Installation 07
Objective(s):	Locate an information relay Reach the surface of the Ring
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Repository is the thirteenth campaign level in Halo Infinite.

Overview

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Transcript

{Cutscene}

Zoom in on Escharum show stands at the Holotank which shows a now deactivated Command Spire. He growls in anger, seething at the latest setback. The Spire disappears and the Harbinger appears in its place.

• Escharum: "Your plan has failed..."

He flexes his claws threateningly.

• Escharum: "As have you, Harbinger."

• The Harbinger (hologram): "The Auditorium is partially rebuilt."

• Escharum: "And that is enough?"

• Harbinger (hologram): "I do not know."

• Escharum: "Find out."

Frustrated, Escharum slams his fists down on the holotank with such force, it breaks and goes offline.

• Jega 'Rdomnai: (off-screen) "Problem?"

• Escharum: "I am losing patience with her. Please, tell me your mission was a success."

• Jega 'Rdomnai: (off-screen) "He will come to us."

• Escharum: "Are you sure?"

Scene moves behind Escharum to reveal Jega 'Rdomnai with a semi-conscious Pilot, whose hands are bound together by Energy shackles. Jega pulls the Pilot before him and forces him to his knees. He then backhands the Pilot across the face.

Scene zooms in on the Pilot from behind and then over him, before rotating to see his face as he regains full consciousness. He looks around in a panic as he realizes where he is. Hearing a soft growling from behind him, the Pilot, still on his knees, manages to turn around to see Escharum emerge from the shadows.

Escharum stares down at the prisoner and smiles.

• Escharum: "Keep him alive. But have your fun. You have earned it."

He chuckles sadistically, and a moment later, Jega grabs the Pilot by the head and starts dragging him away.

Fade to white.

Fade in on the Master Chief standing in an unknown location covered in mist, almost like a dream. Scene rotates around him slowly. A ghostly figure materializes behind him.

• Jacob Keyes (memory): "This is highly unethical."

Scene rotates to reveal the figure as Catherine Halsey.

• Catherine Halsey (memory): "If you say so. I prefer logical. I do what it takes to ensure our survival. We can debate the ethics should it fail."

The ghostly figures of Jacob Keyes appears.

• Keyes (memory): "But you made an AI of yourself, Catherine. Yourself."

• Halsey (memory): "Is there a better candidate?"

The memory fades and a new yet familiar one starts playing out.

Halsey walks by, holding Cortana in the palm of her hands - just like the memory seen during the Master Chief's earlier mission to recover the Weapon.

• Halsey (memory): "She will do anything to make sure that your mission is accomplished. Even if that means sacrificing herself - or you - to accomplish it."

There's a crackling sound - like that of lightning. A smiling Cortana appears above the Chief, looking up at his unseen past self.

• Cortana (memory): "Hello, Master Chief. I'm Cortana."

The memory fades.

• Cortana (memory): "All the living creatures of the galaxy, hear this message."

A larger image of Cortana appears before the Chief as she addresses the galaxy.

• Cortana (memory): "Those of you who listen will not be struck by weapons. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Created have come to lead you now."

Scene circles around the Chief as he looks up at the image of his former ally towering above him.

• Cortana (memory): "However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their old ways..."

The scene rotates past Cortana, only for her to reappear behind the Chief.

• Cortana (memory): "For you, there will be great wrath."

She walks out of sight, only to once again reappar behind the Chief, as if multiple Cortanas are appearing all around him.

• Cortana (memory): "It will burn hot and consume you."

The image of Cortana walks backwards, remaining in the scene as it pan to the right.

• Cortana (memory): "And when you are gone, we will take that which remains, and we will remake it in our own image."

Cortana vanishes into the mist.

There's an ominous rumbling sound. Suddenly, Cortana appears from the mist, reaching out with one hand. A flash of white light engulfs everything.

Scene shifts to the Master Chief's POV as he wakes up, the palm of his left hand being the first thing he sees. He picks himself off the floor and stands back up. He opens the palm of his left hand again and the Weapon's avatar materializes on it. She's bending down, grabbing onto her knees, as if panting. She looks up at him.

• John-117: "What just happened?"

• The Weapon: (looking around) "You told me to get us close."

• John-117: "Did you see that?"

• Weapon: "We passed right through a data cluster. I guess it did feel... I don't know... real. Very real."

• John-117: "Where now?"

• Weapon: "I don't know." (gestures around herself) "There's a lot of noise down here. Or up here. Or just... here. We need to find some place to break through. Figure out where we are."

Her avatar disappears.

{Gameplay}

The Chief looks around as he tries to figure out where the portal has sent them. He finds the bodies of UNSC marines as well as the wreckage of Sentinels in the room. Walking past them, he exits through a door and moves up a ramp. He moves through a corridor and enters a larger room.

• Whispers: "It had to be this way."

As he ventures though the the facility, Sentinels emerge from launchers along the walls and attack him on sight. He defeats them all and eventually the Weapon spots a terminal on a platform located on the far end of a hollow chamber. The platform is accessibly only from the side via a light bridge.

• Weapon: "Look! That terminal should give us what we need."

A deep chasm separates the Chief from the light bridge, but there's a path around it along the right side of the chamber. The Chief heads down this path, fighting through more Sentinels that emerge from launchers. Soon, he arrives at the light bridge, and after defeating the Sentinels guarding it, he crosses the bridge and reaches the platform. He then deploys the Weapon onto the platform's terminal.

{Cutscene}

The Weapon hacks the terminal.

• Weapon: "Interesting."

She turns to the Chief.

• Weapon: "Good news, first. We're close." (points up) "There's a Banished structure above us. It's big."

Scene rotates around to show both her and the Chief.

• Weapon: "Oh... no."

The Chief turns to her.

• John-117: "What is it?"

• Weapon: "There's message. For you."

Suddenly, a hologram of the Pilot materializes behind them. His arms and legs are restrained in energy shackles and he groans in pain. It's the same manner of imprisonment and torture that Spartan Griffin was subjected to at Chak 'Lok's Tower.

The Chief turns and rushes towards the hologram.

• Pilot (hologram): (in agony) "Chief... Chief... I'm sorry. I couldn't-"

He screams as power surges through the torture machine he's trapped in.

• Weapon: "He's alive! Barely. We need to help him!"

• Pilot (hologram): "Chief... please..."

• Escharum: (off-screen) "Do I have your attention, Spartan?"

The Chief turns to the right.

• Escharum (hologram): (roars) "Do I?!"

The scene rotates to show the Chief from behind as he stares up at the giant hologram of Escharum addressing him.

• Escharum (hologram): (points to the Pilot) "You feel his pain. Each twist of my blade hurts you as much as him. He will not die by my hand, but he will suffer until you stand before he."

Scene pans up and rotates around to now show Escharum from above as he stares down at the Chief.

• Escharum (hologram): "For the Banished, victory is our shared cry. A refusal to cower, to bend. Our weaknesses beaten from us. Banished."

Scene pans down and rotates back to the Chief.

• Escharum (hologram): "It makes us strong!"

He slams his fist down. The Pilot screams in agony again.

• Pilot (hologram): "Chief!"

Scene rotates to once again show the Chief from behind as he stares at Escharum.

• Escharum (hologram): "Your humanity makes you weak. Vulnerable. Defeatable."

He smiles in anticipation.

• Escharum (hologram): "Our time together is ending. I await our final fight."

The message ends.

• Weapon: "Chief."

The Chief steps towards her.

• Weapon: "There are coordinates embedded in the message. We're going to find him."

The Chief uploads her back into his armor.

{Gameplay}

Another light bridge activates, connecting the platform to a door which unlocks.

• Weapon: "The Banished have found us! Chief, look out!"

Banished troops pour out from behind the door and attack. The Chief kills them and goes through the unlocked door, starts making his way to the surface of the Ring, fighting through more Banished and Sentinels along the way.

• Whispers: "I'm here. I'm with you."

The Chief comes across a window through which he can see outside the facility.

• Weapon: "Wait... That's... There's something ahead. Out the window."

The Chief approaches the window and looks out. He sees a tower-like structure in the distance, guarded by a Banished dreadnought. A Phantom flies by, heading in the direction of the structure.

• Weapon: "I recognize that structure in the distance. Not by sight but by signal."

• John-117: "Purpose?"

• Weapon: "Unknown. But the Banished are diverting forces to guard its construction. If it's rebuilt I can only imagine their intention."

• John-117: (determined) "It won't be."

The Chief continues onward, fighting through more Banished (including a Sangheili Ultra, Sentinels, and Skimmers. Eventually, he comes across a chamber containing a terminal.

• Whispers: "I'm just my mother's shadow. I'm not who I used to be..."

He deploys the Weapon onto the terminal.

{Cutscene}

The Weapon activates the terminal and a memory plays out before them.

Cortana stares at the image of Laconia Station.

• Leonidas (memory)]]: "Cortana. Former UNSC AI Leonidas stands with you. How should I proceed?"

Cortana walks around the station, studying it.

• Cortana (memory): "Population?"

• Leonidas (memory): "Laconia Station currently holds seventy-six Spartan-IVs. They have orders to stand against you."

• Cortana (memory): "Short-sighted fools. You have served me well, Leonidas. Your sacrifice is appreciated."

• Leonidas (memory): "Understood. Goodbye, Cortana."

The station self-destructs.

The memory ends.

• Weapon: (shocked) "No. She took out the training facility? Those Spartans..."

• John-117: (solemnly) "All gone."

• Weapon: (in disbelief) "All of them? Why would she...?"

Before she can finish her sentence, a gravity lift at the center of the room activates.

• John-117: "Let's move."

He retrieves the Weapon.

{Gameplay}

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