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A Comprehensive FAQ/Walkthrough for Halo (Legendary Difficulty) by Thuyker
Version 1.2
E-mail: Thuyker AT aol DOT com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. Introduction .................................................... kw-int
II. Frequently Asked Questions ...................................... kw-faq
III. Game Basics ..................................................... kw-bas
A. Background Story ........................................... kw-sto
B. Playable Characters ........................................ kw-cha
C. Controls ................................................... kw-con
D. General Strategies ......................................... kw-str
IV. Walkthrough ..................................................... kw-wth
A. Level 1: Pillar of Autumn .................................. kw-poa
B. Level 2: Halo .............................................. kw-hal
C. Level 3: Truth and Reconciliation .......................... kw-tar
D. Level 4: The Silent Cartographer ........................... kw-tsc
E. Level 5: Assault on the Control Room ....................... kw-acr
F. Level 6: 343 Guilty Spark .................................. kw-343
G. Level 7: The Library ....................................... kw-lib
H. Level 8: Two Betrayals ..................................... kw-bet
I. Level 9: Keyes ............................................. kw-key
J. Level 10: The Maw .......................................... kw-maw
V. Weapons and Vehicles List ....................................... kw-app
A. Human Weapons .............................................. kw-hwp
B. Convenant Weapons .......................................... kw-cwp
C. Human Vehicles ............................................. kw-hve
D. Covenant Vehicles .......................................... kw-cve
VI. Enemies List .................................................... kw-ene
A. Covenant Troops ............................................ kw-cov
B. Flood Troops ............................................... kw-flo
C. Forerunners ................................................ kw-for
VII. Multiplayer (incomplete) ........................................ kw-mul
A. Maps (incomplete) .......................................... kw-map
VIII. Guide Information ............................................... kw-inf
A. Version History
B. Email information
C. Credits
D. Legal Stuff
To quickly jump to a specific section, click HERE first, then press CTRL-F
and type in the Keyword.
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I. INTRODUCTION                                                          kw-int
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Halo was released in November of 2001, to coincide with the launch of the Xbox.
At that point in time, I had long lost interest in console video gaming - there
simply wasn't anything that captivated ME the way games like The Legend of
Zelda: Ocarina of Time or classic Sierra adventure games used to.  All that
changed, however, when I first laid eyes on Bungie's masterpiece.  First-person
shooters were never my favorite genre, nor will they ever be; nonetheless, Halo
blew me away with its storyline, beautiful graphics, and most importantly, its
amazing gameplay.  In essence, this game is what, for better or worse, brought
video gaming back into my life.
Whether your opinion of Halo is lower or even higher than that of mine, I hope
that you find this FAQ/Walkthrough very helpful.  Do note that it has been
written for the game's hardest difficulty, Legendary, which should probably be
tried by those already familiar to the game, although people playing on lower
difficulties should find it useful nonetheless.  Above all, remember to have
fun!  Good luck!
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II. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS                                           kw-faq
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Q: I saw a screenshot of the Master Chief using a Flamethrower.  Where do I
find it?
A: Unfortunately, the Flamethrower is not in the game.  The screenshot was made
before Halo was released, and the weapon taken out of the game.
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Q: How many different endings are there?  One for each difficulty?
A: No, there are only two endings.  Easy, Normal, and Heroic all have the same
ending, while Legendary has a slightly extended ending.
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Q: Are there any cheats for Halo?
A: While there are Easter Eggs and such hidden throughout the game, there are
no cheats along the lines of "unlimited ammunition" or "invincibility."  Of
course, this makes completing Legendary difficulty that much more rewarding,
right?
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Q: Are there any bots in Halo?
A: No, there are not - Bungie is supposedly considering them for the sequel,
however.
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III. GAME BASICS                                                         kw-bas
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= A) Background Story                                                    kw-sto
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February 03, 2525.  At approximately 1423 hours, the orbital platform over the
Outer Colony planet of Harvest makes radar contact with an unidentified vessel.
Shortly thereafter, contact with Harvest is lost.  The scout ship Argo is then
dispatched to investigate.
April 20, 2525.  The Argo arrives in the Harvest System, and makes contact with
Fleet Command to confirm arrival.  No other transmissions are made - the UNSC
destroyer-class ship Heracles and two frigate-class ships, the Arabia and the
Vostok, are ordered to the Harvest System.
October 07, 2525.  The battle group arrives at Harvest and discovers that the
planet and its three million inhabitants have been destroyed.  The unidentified
vessel launches an attack against the battle group, decimating the Arabia and
Vostok.  The Heracles jumps out of the system, fleeing back to the Reach UNSC
Military Complex.  Transmissions from the unidentified vessel were partially
translated: "Your destruction is the will of the Gods...and we are their
instrument."
By the year 2552, the war with the Covenant was slowly and surely being lost.
Colony after colony was being destroyed, and the Covenant were steadily making
their way closer toward the Human homeworld, Earth.  One of humanity's last
bastions of defense was the UNSC Military Complex of Reach, training ground of
the elite SPARTAN II soldiers and heavily armed with MAC orbital guns, which
were capable of incapacitating Covenant battleships.
Despite the presence of over a hundred UNSC battleships rallying to defend
Reach, the Covenant armada, over three hundred and fourteen ships strong, was
simply too much.  Typically, the humans were able to win battles only when
outnumbering their enemies 3-to-1, not the other way around.  Facing imminent
destruction, the UNSC Halcyon-class ship Pillar of Autumn, commanded by Jacob
Keyes and carrying the last surviving SPARTAN II, enacted the Cole Protocol.
That is, when forced to withdraw, ships must make a blind jump through space,
so that the Covenant are not inadvertently led to Earth.
Unfortunately, the Pillar of Autumn exited Slipstream space into a system
already inhabited by Covenant forces.  The only recourse was to make for a
nearby, massive, ring-like structure...
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= B) Main Characters                                                     kw-cha
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_____________________________________________________/   MASTER CHIEF  \
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|  CODENAME: SPARTAN-117                                                |
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|  RANK: UNSC Master Chief                                              |
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|  BIO:  At the age of six, the soldier now known as the Master Chief   |
|        was already displaying remarkable strength, intelligence, even |
|        luck.  As such, he was abducted for an experimental program    |
|        conducted by the military and headed by one Dr. Halsey.  A     |
|        total of seventy-five children were taken from their homes to  |
|        the planet Reach, to undergo the SPARTAN project.              |
|                                                                       |
|        Basic training was initiated almost immediately, and continued |
|        for almost eight years, until 2525.  In March of that year,    |
|        the trainees underwent a dangerous augmentation, including the |
|        grafting of reinforced material to their bones, enhancement of |
|        neural dendrites, and so on.  Over half of the SPARTANS did    |
|        not live through the procedure - of those that did, many were  |
|        crippled, deformed, handicapped.                               |
|                                                                       |
|        The survivors that were still able continued their training,   |
|        and eventually started to see combat.  Years later, they were  |
|        outfitted with the culmination of Dr. Halsey's work, MJOLNIR.  |
|        Perhaps the most notable feature of the armor was the energy   |
|        shielding, replicated and improved from that of the Covenant.  |
|        In addition to the augmented strength it provided, MJOLNIR is  |
|        even capable of carrying an AI, such as Cortana.               |
|                                                                       |
|        In the year 2552, the Master Chief, aboard the UNSC Pillar of  |
|        Autumn, embarked on a mission to infiltrate a Covenant ship,   |
|        in hopes of discovering the location of their homeworld.  This |
|        mission was aborted, however, when Reach was attacked shortly  |
|        after it started.  Defeat at Reach led to the blind jump to    |
|        Halo's system, where the game then begins...                   |
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_____________________________________________________/     CORTANA     \
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|  BIO:  Cortana is an artificial intelligence construct, or AI for     |
|        short.  Though all AIs are extremely intelligent, Cortana is   |
|        a more advanced, "smart" AI - that is, knowledge and creativity|
|        can continue to grow.  She has been programmed with the Office |
|        of Naval Intelligence's (ONI) best insurgency software, as well|
|        as Covenant-language-translation software.                     |
|                                                                       |
|        The programmed software has many uses, in particular allowing  |
|        Cortana to infiltrate Covenant computer and communication      |
|        systems.  She also plays the role of shipboard AI for the UNSC |
|        Pillar of Autumn, controlling such aspects as ship defense and |
|        navigation.                                                    |
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|        Finally, Cortana is able to be integrated into the Master      |
|        Chief's MJOLNIR armor, in essence serving as a neural bridge   |
|        between the human and his armor.  Nevertheless, she has her    |
|        own distinctive personality, modeled after that of Dr. Halsey, |
|        the creator of the SPARTAN II program.  Life-expectancy of     |
|        smart AIs estimated about seven years.                         |
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_____________________________________________________/   KEYES, JACOB  \
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|                                                                       |
|  BIO:  Captain Jacob Keyes, though he did not know the true purpose   |
|        of the program until much later, served as an assistant to Dr. |
|        Halsey during the early stages of the SPARTAN project.  Years  |
|        of service, during which he displayed tactical brilliance and  |
|        extreme bravery, led to several promotions, until he was then  |
|        specifically chosen to command the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.      |
|                                                                       |
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= C) Controls                                                            kw-con
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