Requiem is the second campaign level of Halo 4. Completing the level on any difficulty unlocks the Requiem achievement.
The Midnight Launch achievement is awarded exclusively in this level for making a jump in a Warthog at midnight real time.[1]
Transcript
{Cutscene}
Open to debris of the Dawn and a fireball falling into a Requiem's land. Cut to black as the debris and the fireball impact on the ground.
Fades in to the wreckage in the area. Scene pans to an assault rifle on the ground and John-117's hand next to it. His hand stirs, and tightens. There are numerous man-sized shards of debris covering John's chest. He shoves them off and looks around. He then sits up and grabs his rifle.
- John-117: "Where are we?"
- Cortana: "Checking coordinate impact data…"
- Cortana (rampant): "We have asked you to give up your family, your childhood, your future…"
John shakes his head in confusion, and pulls out the data crystal chip containing Cortana out of his helmet. Cortana's avatar appears on it.
- John-117: "Cortana…"
- Cortana: "I'm sorry. It's the crash. I'm fine."
- John-117: "Something was wrong before we left the Dawn."
- Cortana: "Chief, (distorted) really, I'm fine."
John stands up.
- John-117: "Cortana."
Cortana looks down to the ground.
- Cortana: "I was put into service eight years ago."
Chief looks away, pondering.
- John-117: "Eight years…"
- Cortana: "AIs deteriorate after seven, Chief."
John looks back at Cortana.
- John-117: "Halsey."
- Cortana: "Chief…"
- John-117: "We need to find Halsey."
- Cortana: "Chief, please."
- John-117: "She made you. She could fix you."
- Cortana: "I won't recover from rampancy, Chief."
- John-117: "If we could just get back to Earth, and find Halsey, she could fix this."
- Cortana: "Don't make a girl a promise you can't keep."
The duo stops and looks up as they hear Covenant aircrafts fly over them. A Phantom, escorted by two Banshees, fly over them at high speed.
- Cortana: "We need to move."
Cortana's avatar disappears and John looks ahead."
{Gameplay}
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John approaches the Cartographer and inserts Cortana's data crystal chip into it.
{Cutscene}
John looks up as a hologram of Requiem appears over the Cartographer.
- Cortana: "It's a localized cartographer. Hmm… Okay… In service of Forerunner Shield World designate 'Requiem'."
- John-117: "Requiem. At least we know where we are now."
- Cortana: "Let's see if it could tell us what the Covenant are so interested in.
The hologram flickers to the Didact's unbound symbol momentarily and disappears.
{Gameplay}
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John approaches the cartographer yet again and accesses it.
{Cutscene}
Cortana's avatar appears over the console. A holographic control panel appears in front of her. She presses it, but it responds with an error sound and flickering red. The hologram of Requiem flickers red as well. Cortana tries again and succeeds. Numerous red circles appear on the surface of Requiem's hologram.
- Cortana: "The cartographer keeps acting like a transmission is coming from everywhere on the planet at once. It doesn't want to triangulate Infinity's signal."
Requiem's hologram flickers red again, and all of the red circles disappear. Instead, a red sphere appears in the center of the hologram."
- Cortana: "Oh wait… I got it."
- John-117: "That can't be right. Scan again."
- Cortana: "We've already past through one layer of the planet surface, it's not crazy to think that someone else is deeper inside than we did.
- John-117: "You mean the planet is hollow?"
- Cortana: "Let me see if I can figure out a way to reach these coordinates that doesn't involve us digging a really big hole."
A map appears.
- Cortana: "There's a terminus at the far side of the complex. We can portal to the planet's core from there."
Cortana looks at John, and looks back the cartographer."
- John-117: "What?"
- Cortana: "I don't know…"
- John-117: "If we have a shot getting you back to Infinity, we're taking it."
Cortana looks back at him and nods anxiously."
- Cortana: "Okay…"
John retrieve Cortana's data chip, turns away from the Cartographer, and walks away. As he walks away, the cartographer emits the error sound again while the hologram of Requiem flickers to the Didact's unbound symbol again and fades to black.
{Gameplay}
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John steps on to the elevator, which soon ascends into the long shaft.
{Cutscene}
The elevator reaches the top, and Johns leaves the platform to walks across a long bridge. John looks around him. There are countless pillars in the room. John reaches the end of bridge, and inserts Cortana's data chip in to the terminus console. The terminus activates, and the Forerunner structures around them adjust themselves.
- Cortana: "According to the cathedral, this terminus is just one node of a larger transit grid that spans the entire planet..."
Cortana pauses.
- John-117: "What?"
- Cortana: "When I tried to access the outlet closest to Infinty's transmissions, the system responded with this."
A holographic display of the Forerunner symbol for Reclaimer appears in front of Cortana's avatar.
- John-117: "What is it?"
- Cortana: "That's the kicker. It's the Forerunner symbol for 'Reclaimer'."
- John-117: "Humanity… That's got to be Infinity. Could you get us to those coordinates?"
- Cortana: "Let me try open a portal."
Cortana accesses the holographic control panel in front of her, and a large sound of activation is heard. John turns around to see the pillars in the room raising to different heights.
- John-117: "Cortana."
- Cortana: "I'm picking up an unknown energy signatures."
- John-117: "Where?"
- Cortana: "This can't be right."
Promethean Knights, lit in blue, teleports on to the top of the pillars in the room. They each emit a growling sound. Johns raises his assault rifle in alarm.
- John-117: "Set a waypoint out of the tower."
Cortana remains silent as she continues to access the control panel.
- John-117: "Cortana?"
A portal appears beside John. Cortana turns around in confusion."
- Cortana: "How did…? Quick! Into the portal!"
John takes Cortana's data crystal chip as a Promethean Knight on one of the pillars closer to him screams. John raises his assault rifle at the Promethean Knight, which teleports away. John stares in awe.
- Cortana: "Chief, go!"
Chief runs and jumps into the portal. Cut to black.
Level ends.
Trivia
- On the second floor of one of the debris pieces of the Dawn, there is a wounded Elite moments away from death. Behind him, there is one of Catherine Halsey's record logs similar to the data pads found in Halo: Reach.
- On top of a cliff above the opening leading to the next area, there is a Covenant distress beacon that says, "Didact", every thirty seconds. According to Cortana, the Covenant were playing the recording for three years in an attempt to gain access to Requiem.