Crow's Nest

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Crow's Nest
File:Crow's Nest Ruins.jpg
Game:	Halo 3
Player:	SPARTAN-117
Date:	2552
Location:	UNSC base
	Halopedia has a walkthrough guide for this level; see Crow's Nest/Walkthrough.

File:Operations Room.jpg

Master Chief, Johnson, Keyes, and the Arbiter enter the base's operations room.

Crow's Nest is the second campaign mission of Halo 3.

Upon completing it on the Normal, Heroic, or Legendary difficulties, the player will earn the "Holdout" achievement and 20 Gamerpoints.

Background

The level begins with the Chief and Johnson escaping from the African jungle and landing in an underground UNSC base. As they disembark, several Marines are amazed to see a Spartan. Commander Keyes then informs The Chief and Johnson of the current situation (that Truth has destroyed the UNSC Fleet, and only a few ships are left), all the while walking through hallways littered with wounded UNSC soldiers. They soon reach the Command Center and speak with Lord Hood, discussing a plan for an all out attack on Truth's army. However, the Covenant then jam the Humans communications network along with the rest of the base, shutting off the power. Truth then appears on the main viewscreen, threatening the Humans and telling them their world will burn.

The Covenant then attack and the base "comes under heavy fire" from the Covenant Loyalists. Unable to sufficiently fight off the invaders, Miranda Keyes has a bomb placed in the operating room. Despite an attempt by the Covenant to disable the bomb, it goes off successfully, and all remaining troops, including the Master Chief escape into the base's garage where they survive the explosion.

Transcript

"You are, all of you, vermin. Cowering in the dirt thinking what, I wonder? That you might escape the coming fire? No. Your world will burn until its surface is but glass!And not even your Demon will live to crawl, blackened, from its hole to mar the reflection of our passing!"

Trivia

• There is a argument between two marines voiced by various Red vs Blue actors, which changes depending on difficulty level. On Easy and Normal, it is Jason Saldaña (Tucker) and Matt Hullum (Doc) (listen). On Heroic, it is Geoff Ramsey (Grif) and Gustavo Sorola (Simmons). On Legendary, it is Burnie Burns (Church) and Joel Heyman (Caboose) (listen).

<youtube width="200" height="200">rlGr_vdxKlc</youtube> Listen to the RvB Easter Egg

• It is seen in the Halo 3 ViDoc Et Tu Brute around the 5 minute mark.

• The words spoken by the Prophet of Truth in the E3 2007 trailer of Halo 3 are heard in the cutscene when the Covenant get on the Human communications network.

• On the boxes in the part of the room farthest from the monitors is the number 2401, the number of Installation 5's Monitor.

References

Preceded by Sierra 117

Halo 3 Campaign Missions Crow's Nest

Succeeded by Tsavo Highway