Mombasa Tether: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Orbital_Elevator.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The New Mombasa Orbital Elevator in ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''.]]

== History ==

[[File:Elevator_standing.png|thumb|right|The orbital elevator still stands, although damaged, after the slipspace event.]]

{{Quote|The Mombasa space elevator!"<br>"It collapsed when the city got glassed."<br>"But the tether was thousands of kilometers high..."<br>"Yeah? Well now it's scattered all over the savannah.|Two [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] discussing the fate of the Space Elevator.}}

== Appearances ==

[[File:SpaceElevator.jpg|thumb|right|The space elevator as seen during the Halo 2 campaign, with [[Prophet of Regret|Regret's]] [[Regret's Carrier|flagship]] holding position nearby.]]

=== ''Halo 2'' ===

At the end of the campaign level Metropolis, the flagship of the [[Prophet of Regret]] flees into slipspace with the ''[[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]'' in hot pursuit. This in-atmosphere jump unleashes a wave of energy that scours the area. Originally this was thought to collapse the tower, but as seen in ''Halo 3: ODST'', this wasn't the case.

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[[Image:OSE landscape.jpg|right|thumb|Shattered rings from the elevator seen on Tsavo Highway.]]

=== ''Halo 3'' ===

The elevator did make an appearance in the final game, with the player fighting through its ruins throughout the level [[Tsavo Highway (Level)|Tsavo Highway]] and even hearing some dialogue concerning its fate from [[UNSC Marine Corps/Gameplay|Marine allies]], who erroneuosly refer to the elevator having collapsed when the city was glassed. As seen in ''Halo 3: ODST'', it collapsed well before the glassing of the city.

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[[File:Collapse_4.jpg|thumb|right|The space elevator breaking and collapsing.]]

=== ''Halo 3: ODST'' ===

*When the elevator snaps, the upper half is sucked into space, while the lower half, as well as some debris from the upper half, is scattered across the landscape. Original concepts show that the tether was supposed to simply fall to the ground in its entirety, instead of the upper half being pulled into space. This was likely changed for realism, as if a space elevator was to be cut at its anchor point on Earth's surface, the outward force exerted by the counterweight would cause the entire elevator to rise upward into an unstable orbit.<ref name="spaceflight"/>

*Several maps of New Mombasa seen during the [[Audio Log]]s in ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' show the Mag-Lev lines from the space elevator's base leading to the Mombasa island. However, as seen in-game as well as several other maps, the train lines lead only to the mainland north of the elevator.<ref name="story"/>

== Gallery ==