Halopedia:Projects/Mombasa Mapping
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The Mombasa Mapping Project aims to cross-reference both in-game and supplementary material to attempt to make sense of Mombasa's regional structure.
Goals
Current research
Because their have been many sources, both visually and written, describing and showing off the real world inspired Mombasa area, it is now possible to begin placing, collating and theorising about the landscape of Mombasa.
Official and IRL maps
To begin, Mombasa is actually a real world city with a specific geography. As such, here is an IRL overview of the city. North is up in this image.
The Halo universe has revisited the city several times, in several styles with numerous locations. Here is a collection of various maps, and overhead images from around the city.
A collation of the various sector maps in Mombasa Streets.
The overview of the area of the city seen in Operation A: Orphic Spear in Spartan Strike.
The Mombasa map seen in Terminal.
The entirety of Mombasa island and some of the mainland as seen in Halo 3: ODST.
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Overhead of Breakneck from Halo: Reach.
With all the available information given, rough maps of the city can be constructed.
When starting with for real world geography, and layering the fictional locations of the city on top, a rough map can be constructed.
When starting with the levels and maps and trying to connect each one relative to one another, a different map can be formed.
Resources
Primary resources
- Halo 2 - Includes a swathe a lot of visual and narrative information on Mombasa.
- Halo 2: Anniversary - A modernization of some of these elements, providing even more details.
- Palace Hotel - A retelling of some Halo 2 events, providing even more details.
- Halo 3: ODST - Includes a vast amount of Mombasa related information, that comes in audio, visual, and narrative form.
- Halo: Spartan Strike - A new experience providing some new visual information.
Additional resources
- Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa - A comic story that provides some extra visual information.
- Sadie's Story - A complimentary story to main narrative of Halo 3: ODST. Provides some new information.
- Breakneck - A map set in Mombasa in Halo: Reach.
Confirmed information
- Palace Hotel confirms that (at least the tunnel Master Chief enters) at the end island end of the long suspension bridge is the Mtangwe Underpass.
- It also confirms that Moi Avenue had a junction with this tunnel
- Halo Waypoint confirms that Headlong/Section 14 is on the mainland and a monitoring outpost for Nyali, Tudor and New Mombasa island.[1]
- Based on descriptions and the sequence of events, the domed park is Kilindini Park Cultural Center.
- ODST confirms that Uplift Reserve is the landing site of Solemn Penance.
- Sadie's Story confirms there is a bridge on the other side of the island connecting Tononoka with Obote (the mainland).
Discrepancies
- New Mombasa 105 E Bridge - The large cable-stayed bridge seen in Halo 2/Halo 2: Anniversary is slightly different in design from the one seen in Spartan Strike. Notable issues include width and and differences in median (the one in Halo 2/Halo 2: Anniversary features a metal median while the one in Spartan Strike is glass).
- Mombasa Tether - Mombasa Tether has bee shown to be on it's own island and shown to be a part of either the mainland or Mombasa island itself. Due to these placement differences, it's placement in the skyline in FPS games is often contradictory to other media.
Theorycrafting
Hypothetical location placements
- Spartan Strike "On Top of the World" building - Although there are significant design and placement differences, there are number of similarities with this multi-towered building in Halo 2 and Halo 2: Anniversary and the one used as the backdrop for the Spartan Strike level "On Top of the World".
The multi-towered building can be seen on the left.
The multi-towered building on the right.
- Section 21 - Though there are some differences, when accounting for landmark placement and other details it does appear that Section 21 and the built up district with elephant horns might be the same.
The elephant horns district from ODST.
View from Section 21
Cleanup
Locations
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Characters
Double check that locations and location based info is updated on various character related pages.
Battles
See also
Sources
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