The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level): Difference between revisions

'''The Pillar of Autumn''' is the tenth campaign level of ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. The level takes place on August 30, 2552, near the ship-breaking yards at [[Aszod]].

The Pelican carrying the remaining members of [[Noble Team]] is critically damaged and [[Carter-A259]] is badly wounded. Carter orders [[SPARTAN-B312]] and [[Emile-A239]] to complete the courier mission without him, while he lures the Covenant away from the pair by using the Pelican as a decoy. Emile-A239 and SPARTAN-B312 execute a low-altitude jump from the Pelican outside of the dockyard and are forced to fight their way to the facility. After battling through several Covenant outposts, the two SPARTAN-IIIs are forced to continue their journey through a cave system to circumvent a large group of Covenant forces. Upon reaching the other side, however, they are confronted by a Scarab. Realizing that the Scarab's presence prevents Emile and Noble Six from moving on, Carter rams it with the Pelican, knocking it off a cliff and sacrificing himself in the process. The two SPARTAN-IIIs continue their journey and eventually reach the Aszod shipbreaking facility.

The two SPARTAN-IIIs are then hailed by [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]], whose cruiser, the ''[[Pillar of Autumn]]'', is moored at the facility, and are ordered to clear a landing zone for the Captain, who will use a Pelican to retrieve [[The Package (data storage unit)|the Package]] himself. Emile mans the facility's [[Mass Driver]] to provide covering fire against incoming Covenant Phantoms, while Noble Six and surviving troopers engage the Covenant on the ground. Once cleared, Keyes' Pelican arrives and Captain Keyes retrieves the Package from Noble Six. As the package is handed over, a CCS-class Battlecruiser is revealed to be moving in on the ''Pillar of Autumn''. Keyes orders Emile to fire on the advancing Battlecruiser, however, before Emile can oblige a Phantom attacks the landing zone, destroying one Pelican and deploying a group of Sangheili warriors onto the Mass Driver. Emile successfully kills one of the Sangheili with his shotgun before a second sneaks up behind him and impales him with an energy sword. Still alive, Emile draws out his [[kukri]] and stabs the Sangheili in the neck.

''Emile and Six enter another cave. The bodies of dead troopers litter the cave.''

*'''Trooper''': "SPARTANs! Over here!"

''They clear the front of the shipyards and proceed into the facility. Soon they link up with some more troopers fighting another mass of Covenant''

*'''Trooper #2''': "Sierra, you made it!"

*'''Trooper #2''': "They got this facility covered from all angles. We'll give you covering fire.  Take the flank. There has to be a way around."

*'''Trooper #2''':  "You got it, sir."

*'''Trooper #3''': "We rigged the mass driver up top. We lose that, the ''Autumn'' will have no covering fire. She'll never make orbit."

*When Keyes' Pelican docks with the ''Autumn'' in the end cutscene, [[SPARTAN-II in cryo|one can see a SPARTAN-II inside a cryo-chamber]]. In the November issue of GameInformer, an interview with Marcus Letho confirmed that the Spartan, is in fact, John-117.

File:Covenant_Fleet_Aszod.jpg|A Covenant fleet above [[Aszod]].

File:HaloReach - MACrusher.jpg|A [[Mass Driver]] cannon, manned by [[SPARTAN-B312]], disabling a Covenant [[CCS-class Battlecruiser]].

File:HaloReach - John117.png|The [[SPARTAN-II in cryo]] easter egg in the ''Pillar of Autumn'''s hangar bay.