Template:Article Quote Memento Mori is the fifth episode of Spartan Ops. It was released on December 3, 2012.
Chapters
| # | Name | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spartan Miller | The Gate | "Infinity Science requests Spartan aid investigating anomalies in Requiem-wide portal system." |
| 2 | Nothing Can Go Wrong | The Refuge | "Infinity Science has begun to understand Requiem's portal system and request assistance in its testing." |
| 3 | Everything Has Gone Wrong | The Refuge | "The Refuge facility is the focus of heavy enemy activity. Additional UNSC forces are being deployed to the area." |
| 4 | The Cauldron Base | The Cauldron | "Forward Base Magma has placed a distress call. Fireteam Crimson is responding." |
| 5 | Spartan Thorne | Quarry | "Spartan Gabriel Thorne has been transported to Requiem, without weapons or comms. His current status is unknown." |
Opening cinematic
Fades from black to Galileo Base.
- Palmer (COMM): "Crimson has the situation on the ground covered Majestic, get that package off Galileo Base and back to the Infinity pronto!"
Fireteam Majestic comes out of a building, checking and securing the area around them as they head towards a Pelican.
- Madsen: "So now we're Crimson's delivery service? How come we never get the interesting jobs?"
DeMarco and Hoya break off from the other three and move forward.
- Grant: "Moving out."
The other three move but a plasma cannon fires at them.
- DeMarco: "Get to cover!!"
Grant, Madsen and Thorne take cover, checking around.
- Grant: "Just had to open your big mouth again, Madsen."
- Madsen: "We're not dead yet Grant."
Another cannon blast barely misses them.
- Grant: "Yet?"
- Demarco: "Regroup on me!"
The three move. As another cannon fires, Grant rolls out of the blast into the buidling but Madsen and Thorne are still out.
- Paul Demarco: "Thorne, Madsen, move it!"
Madsen taps Thorne's shoulder and the two join the rest of their fireteam.
- Thorne: "Anti-air's down!"
- Paul DeMarco: "Yes Thorne, I've noticed!"
As Majestic looks on, a Phantom and a couple of Banshees block their way to the Pelican.
- DeMarco: "Alright Spartans, we're packing up this picnic. Everybody, get to the Pelican! Let's move!"
DeMarco proceeds to move towards the Pelican but Madsen reaches out and stops him.
- Madsen: "Hey, Hey, woah, woah, woah!! We try to fly, we're dead!"
- Thorne: "Hoya."
- Hoya: "Yeah?"
Thorne hands the "Didact's Gift" over to Hoya.
- Thorne: "Take this. Head for lift-off. I've got an idea."
Thorne gets up and runs from the group.
- Madsen: "Uhh?"
- DeMarco: "Thorne, get back here!! That's an order!!!"
Thorne runs over to the building ledge and jumps to catch a Banshee flying between the canal.
- Grant: "We've got this, just go!"
The rest of Majestic squad get up to run towards the Pelican while Thorne appears in the Banshee saluting the team. The view switches to a cliff side overlooking the base. The Phantom immediately explodes, crashing to the ground. Gek approaches Jul 'Mdama who is monitoring the activity.
- Gek: "Shipmaster 'Mdama! The humans have their prize! They are near escape!"
- Jul 'Mdama: "Let them, Gek."
- Gek: "They carry the soul of a Promethean Knight!"
- Jul 'Mdama: "And we have made enough of a display trying to retrieve it."
Cut to black.
The view cuts to the package sitting on a table as Dr. Halsey studies it.
- Halsey: "Taking a reading."
The package burst open and the cover pieces float mid-air.
- Halsey: "Oh my..."
Cut to Lasky who is looking inside the laboratory from outside.
- Lasky: "Doctor!"
- Halsey: "A moment please."
Dr. Halsey uses her pen to tap one of the floating pieces.
- Halsey: "Intriguing."
- Roland: "Doc, this thing looks... kinda familiar."
- Halsey: "Yes. It's very similar to an A.I. Matrix. But we expected that..."
As Dr. Halsey takes a closer look at the device, which releases an energy burst.
- Halsey: "Woah!"
Dr. Halsey falls to her back as the energy released from the device disrupts the surrounding lights and monitors.
- Lasky: "Dr. Halsey!"
Lasky, Palmer, and Majestic squad rush into the room to help Halsey who pick herself up.
- Halsey: "Roland, freeze all monitors!"
All the monitors freeze frame showing pictures of scenery.
- Roland: "Pictures?"
Thorne approaches one of the pictures which shows several buildings.
- Roland: "Civilian life. Maybe a colony or something."
- Halsey: "Not pictures...memories."
Halsey turns around to look at the device.
- Halsey: "An alien A.I. full of human memories."
- Thorne: "That's New Pheonix."
- Thorne: "I grew up there."
- Roland: "Nah. That can't be right."
Lasky turns to face Palmer.
- Halsey: "You knew this, didn't you, Captain Lasky."
- Lasky: "The UNSC is aware that Promethean's are ancient humans."
- Halsey: "That is not ancient. That is the attack on Earth from six months ago."
Thorne turns around to face another monitor which shows the mysterious Forerunner artifact.
- Thorne: "You knew."
- Lasky: "This is impossible, I..I have no idea how the hell these memories got from Earth to here."
Thorne briefly looks at Lasky before storming out the room.
- Palmer: "Thorne."
Thorne ignores Palmer and leaves the room. Dr. Halsey turns to look at the monitor he last observed.
- Lasky: "What is it, doctor?"
Halsey also sees the artifact. Cut to the artifact. Lasky, Palmer, and Halsey (who is holding her datapad) proceed towards the artifact.
- Halsey: "I suspect we misunderstood the artifact's true purpose."
- Lasky: "And that is?"
- Halsey: "I'm working on it."
Lasky and Palmer stop as Halsey walks closer to the artifact. The view cuts to a blue orb which shows Halsey typing on her datapad. Cut back to Halsey looking down at her datapad.
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- Palmer: "It's amusing to see you not have the answer to everything, for once."
- Halsey: "Enough has been kept from me. I've decided to start questioning all my prior assumptions."
- Lasky: "Doctor this is as much a surprise to us as it is to you."
- Halsey: "I suspect that's a lie, captain."
Cut back to the blue orb. Jul 'Mdama is seen talking to it revealing that he is the unidentified individual that Halsey was communicating with.
- Jul 'Mdama: "So perhaps we can assist one another. You are familiar with the Librarian?"
- Halsey: "The Librarian?"
- Lasky: "Doctor?"
Palmer walks over to Dr. Halsey and snatches the datapad out of her hand.
- Palmer: "What are you really doing?"
Halsey attempts to get it back but Palmer holds her back. She takes a look at the datapad.
- Palmer: "Who are you talking to?"
Palmer tosses the datapad towards Lasky who catches it.
- Halsey: "You rude-"
Palmer takes out her Magnum and points it at Halsey's head.
- Palmer: "You want rude?"
Lasky scrolls throw the datapad with a pin.
- Lasky: "Palmer, take Dr. Halsey into custody."
Cut back to the view screen. Jul 'Mdama observes Palmer taking Halsey away. Suddenly something activates in the background. Jul turns around.
- Glassman: "Haha! It works!"
Glassman activates the shrine which now has a shield surrounding it. All the Sangheili including Gek proceed to bow.
- Jul 'Mdama': "Glassman?"
- Glassman: "Well at least...something.. works."
Jul 'Mdama stands next to Glassman and both individuals continue observing the shrine. Cut to Thorne who is walking towards the artifact.
- Thorne: "Why did those people see you?"
Thorne touches the artifact which activates.
- Thorne: "What?"
The artifact translocates Thorne to the surface of Requiem. As Thorne gets up, seven Storm troops approach him, activating their energy swords.
Trivia
"Memento Mori" is a Latin phrase that is translated as "Remember your mortality", or "Remember you will die".[1]