Battle of Installation 04

悲惨な防衛戦となったリーチの防衛は失敗し、生き残ったUNSCの巡洋艦ピラーオブオータムは地球から遠く離れた宙域にジャンプした。Pillar of Autumnには1,100名のクルーと大勢のODST、海兵隊が乗艦していた。その大型艦が敷居値に到着したのは2552年 9月19日であった。しかしそこにはコヴナント艦隊が待ち伏せをしていたのであった。

オータムはその内の1隻であるTruth and Reconciliationを撃沈した。が、多勢に無勢であり間もなく艦内に敵の強襲揚陸艇が多数侵入したちまち艦内各所で激戦が始まる。時を同じくしてマスターチーフことスパルタン117が目覚め、艦長キース大佐と面会、AIコルタナを連れて艦から離脱していった。チーフの離艦を見届けてオータムは04に墜落した。

[編集] 地上戦

[編集] アルファ基地の奪取

幾つかのODST部隊の指揮官アントニオシルヴァとメリッサマッケイら"ヘルジャンパー" 達がHEVに搭乗しコヴナント制圧下の地域へ降り立ち、エリートら守備隊を圧倒しわずか1名の犠牲者を出したに過ぎず、50名以上射殺した。そして、一帯を完全に占領した。

その際多くのコヴナント軍兵器を鹵獲し基地の防衛戦力を強化していた。

[編集] 裏切り

04にオータムが不時着したとき海兵隊の一部隊が完全に敵を圧倒していたために離脱していった艦のクルー達は敵の攻撃をかわすことができたがコヴナントは彼ら生存者を捕らえようとしていた。生き残ったクルーの一人がコヴナントに投降しようとしていた。一部隊がそのクルーを捕らえてコヴナントに対し投降かどうか決めるよう命じた。

が、コヴナントはそのクルーを即座に捕らえ殺害する。投降は一切認めず、あくまで全滅のみを目的していることを再度UNSC側に思い知らせたのであった。

[編集] Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation

The Master Chief and a platoon of ODSTs were dispatched in the area surrounding the Covenant CCS-Class Battlecruiser Truth and Reconciliation. Using both his S2 AM Sniper Rifle and MA5B Assault Rifle, the Chief fought his way to the ship's Gravity Lift loading zone, where the ship discharged multiple waves of troops and a pair of Hunters. Once inside, the marines were ambushed by sword-wielding stealth elites and other Covenant. After fighting through a storage depot and a large hangar, the marines made it through to the ship's command center, where they killed the Ship Master and many other troops. While the Chief rescued Keyes and three marines, the marines, holding position in the control center, were slaughtered by two more stealth elites. They then fought their way back to the hangar, where Keyes hijacked a Covenant Dropship and flew it out of the hangar.

The survivors also raided a dozen other locations, stealing enemy equipment such as Shades and a large number of Banshees. This would motivate the Covenant to take the humans seriously and place a large amount of effort into stamping out the human forces.

The UNSC forces, led by Lieutenant McKay staged a raid on the crashed Pillar of Autumn, in order to gain extra supplies of rations, weapons, ammunition, and fuel. They succeeded in destroying a large force of Ghosts and a Spirit dropship as well as killing many Covenant troops. They then retrieved a large squad of Warthogs, trailers and four Scorpion tanks from the cruiser's vehicle bays and drove them in a convoy to Alpha Base. At a trio of hills, the Covenant attempted to ambush the humans, attempting to destroy the convoy with Wraith mortar tanks, Banshees and Ghosts. Despite the size of the attack, The Covenant forces only managed to inflict moderate damage before losing the tanks and a large portion of their ground forces to the Scorpions' return fire. The tanks would later see use around the ring world, most notably in the defense of Alpha Base.

[編集] Battle of the Silent Cartographer

The following day, the crew of Pillar of Autumn launched an attack on the Silent Cartographer island, in their attempt to uncover the purpose of the ring. Fighting their way through the heavily defended Covenant positions, the Master Chief and a handful of Marines, supported by Echo 419 and Bravo 22, discovered the location of Alpha-Halo's Control Room. However, a pair of Covenant Dropships landed and engaged the defenders of the LZ, appearing to kill all the marines that were with the Chief.

[編集] Flood Containment Facility

Meanwhile, Captain Jacob Keyes, along with 2nd Squad landed nearby in Pelican dropship Victor 933 and proceeded to infiltrate a structure in a swamp, which they had been told by a captured Elite named 'Qualomee was a weapons cache. They later met up with Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson's "Fire Team Charlie", who had proceeded to the structure and engaged the Covenant they encountered in the upper levels of the facility. After receiving a transmission from a troubled marine present further into the facility, they set out to provide aid.

While exploring the lower levels, the UNSC forces eventually come across a sealed door, locked down by the Covenant. With increasing curiosity the UNSC opened the door and explored the room. After a short time, the "weapons cache" Keyes was looking for revealed itself in the form of the Flood. The Covenant had sealed the facility after they had unwittingly released the monstrous parasite. The Flood attacked second squad who barely got a message to Keyes and escaped. However the message was too late as the Flood attacked Keyes' Fire Team, infecting Keyes along with Privates Riley, Kappus, Jenkins, Mendoza, and Bisenti, and about 3 others before a pair of marines got out of the room, one of whom was killed just outside and one Marine who escaped by playing dead. Sergeant Johnson also escaped due to his immunity to the Flood because of his Boren's Syndrome.

[編集] Assault on the Control Room

Meanwhile, the Master Chief was inserted into a network of tunnels by Foehammer. After fighting his way through, he recieved a radio transmission from Fire Team Zulu, who were pinned down in a valley. The Master Chief rushed to assist, fighting his way across a bridge to an elevator, which he rode down to the floor of a canyon. There, he fought off a Wraith Tank, two Shades, a Ghost and multiple ground forces. The Chief and the Marines fought through a system of adjacent canyons, until reaching a dead end, were the Chief left Fire Team Zulu for evac. He then got through to a large pyramid, on top of which was the Control Room. Upon reaching the room, Cortana accessed Halo's systems and discovered a horrible secret buried in the ring, and that Captain Keyes had walked right into it.

[編集] The Flood

Three hours after the assault on the Control Room, the Master Chief arrived near Victor 933s crash site onboard Echo 419. He then entered the lightly guarded structure, being watched by the Flood. After entering the Containment Room, he found Private Jenkins' helmet with a built in video camera. After seeing the gruesome events through the eyes of Jenkins, the remaining Flood spewed out of nearby doors. The Master Chief then proceeded to escape the facility, combating Infection and Combat forms. The Master Chief soon caught up with Corporal Lovik's squad, who were advised by Echo-419 to take refuge at a nearby tower.

The survivors went through the swamp in search of a tower, which would be the Evac site for E419. After making it to the structure, the Marines were aided by a mysterious ally, floating constructs known as Sentinels. The Sentinels, commanded by a Monitor, 343 Guilty Spark, defended the marines, eliminating any Flood in the vicinity of the tower. The Monitor then teleported the Master Chief into the Library, referring to him as "Reclaimer".

Covenant forces from the crashed Spirit dropship fled the Containment facility, but were all likely wiped out.

Flood forces in the vicinity of the swamp were wiped out. However, the majority of Flood forces escaped the Containment facility and spread across the Installation, infecting any appropriate hosts. The few surviving UNSC forces were evacuated by Echo-419. Captain Keyes was captured by the Flood.

[編集] Battle of Alpha Base

Meanwhile, the Covenant sent the captured Pelican Charlie 217 and its captured pilot Lt. Rick Hale to insert 30 Spec Ops Elites commanded by Zuka 'Zamamee to assassinate the (absent) Master Chief and clear a landing zone for six Spirit Dropships. Although six of the Elites managed to escape into the base, the rest were killed when the ODST forces flooded Charlie 217 with jet fuel before igniting it, killing the Elites that had remained on the platform. The surviving Covenant forces had by this time neutralized the human control rooms, and liberated a large number of Covenant prisoners.

However, the MLA auto-cannons and various other defense systems managed to destroy one of the Spirit dropships and killed many Covenant troops in the others. Groups of rocket launcher marines then added to the casualties. Despite their numerical superiority, the Covenant forces landing on the butte were soon either killed or captured, and the assault on Alpha Base stalled.

The Covenant ground assault, lead by a Zealot Field Master Noga 'Putumee, made significant progress against the humans due to their use of Spirit dropships to clear the way ahead of the ground forces. However, the seeming rout was designed to lure the Covenant into the firing range of a pair of concealed Scorpion main battle tanks, which then tore into the ranks of the aliens and inflicted major casualties. Field Master 'Putumee was killed by the third shot from the tanks, throwing the alien forces into chaos, and of the 150 infantry with him, only a few survived to retreat.

Meanwhile, the Covenant Spec Ops team and the freed Covenant troops ran into a Marine ambush in which all members of both sides were killed other than the Elite Zuka 'Zamamee and the Grunt Yayap. By this time, however, the Covenant ground assault was in full retreat.

The only known Covenant survivors of the aerial assault were Zuka 'Zamamee and the grunt Yayap who then fled the battlefield in a recaptured Banshee.

[編集] The Library

343 Guilty Spark transported the Master Chief to the Library of Installation 04, where he was tasked with locating and retrieving the Activation Index. Proceeding into the bowels of the huge structure, he fought off wave after wave of Flood, before the Monitor called in Sentinels. He reached a massive elevator that transported him to the second floor of the facility, and fought the Flood on that floor. Upon reaching the Central shaft of the Library, he rode another elevator down to the Index and retrieved it. He then was then teleported back to the Control Room.

[編集] Two Betrayals

Master Chief, after teleporting back to the Control Room, proceeded to activate Installation 04. However, Cortana, who, after spending twelve hours in the control room, had discovered Halo’s true purpose, stops him just in time. After stealing the Activation Index, she told the Chief that Halo will wipe out all life in the galaxy, and turns the Chief against the monitor. Spark sends Sentinels to take the Spartan's head, and the AI inside his helmet. After destroying the Sentinels in the Control Room, Cortana told the Chief to destroy three Phase Pulse Generators to buy some time, in case the Monitor found a way to activate Halo without the index. While Cortana tried to locate the Pillar of Autumn's crash site, the Chief hijacked a Covenant Banshee and set out to destroy the generators.

Upon the destruction of the third generator, Cortana hacked into the teleportation grid that ran across Halo's surface, to the destroyed cruiser Truth and Reconciliation to rescue Captain Keyes.

[編集] Ambush

Silva wanted to engage the Covenant in a medium conflict that would "take the hurt to them. Nothing big, not yet anyway, but the kind of pinpricks that still draw blood", leaving Lieutenant McKay to plan out the mission. She decided to use bait in order to draw the Covenant in with "crashed" Pelicans (Charlie 217's burned-out remains), mock-injured Marines, and a phony distress call. Since Wellsley believed that the Covenant took the Marine force seriously after the Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation, they should monitor human radio traffic and regular recon flights, allowing them to easily pick the bait.

First, the preparation of arranging for the bait took several hours (They had to scourge for bodies of comrades killed on the butte for "volunteer" casualties.) Sure enough, thirty minutes into the wait, McKay saw a Banshee and signaled for the operation to commence. Members of the third squad, some of whom had mock-injuries, pantomimed surprise and hurried back to cover as the Banshee shot plasma fire at them. The Banshee then went away, presumably to tell the Covenant about a new Human location.^[1]

Later, a Spirit Dropship appeared, dropping Jackals, Elites, Grunts, and a pair of Hunters. These were a surprise, though McKay quickly ordered all the heavy weapons and sniper fire to concentrate on the "walking tanks". Soon enough, they went down. However, the dropship returned and hosed the entire area, forcing the Helljumpers to take cover.^[2] Thus encouraged, the Covenant rushed into the rocks to engage. However, the snipers managed to pick off five alien soldiers before the dropship exacted the position. Two snipers were killed by plasma, and another was wounded.

Soon, the mission turned ugly, as the Covenant engaged in hide-and-seek with the Marines. Just as McKay was about to order a retreat, something even worse appeared.

Suddenly, the bizarre creatures, also known as the Flood, attacked both groups. While the Covenant had experience with the Flood, the Helljumpers simply had never seen them before. Three members of the second squad were going down under the Infection forms, while another was being massacred by the Combat forms. Confused pleas and requests for extraction filled the radio, tripling the radio traffic. McKay received her first look when she noticed a Grunt with two Infection forms; she put down the trio with a sustained burst. However, then, Pvt Jenkin's Combat form jumped out, hoping to be killed by the Lieutenant. In order to collect a specimen, she sidestepped and restrained the Flood form. In order to kill the Flood, the Marines and Covenant joined forces, and eliminated the Flood after 15 minutes. Then, they proceeded to return to their hide-and-seek. Finally, with half the Marines killed, the UNSC claimed a victory.

[編集] 最後の行動

[編集] Truth and Reconciliation強襲

マスターチーフがCCS級巡洋艦の1隻であるTruth and Reconciliationに侵入しキースが持っているCNIを奪取するべく行動を開始する。艦長を見つけることには成功したが、時すでに遅くフラッドに感染し死亡した後であった。さらに運悪くフラッドの脅威が迫りつつあり、コヴナントをも圧倒していた。チーフはCNIを奪取するや即座にオータムに向け脱出したのであった。

[編集] Destroying the Autumn

After escaping the Truth and Reconciliation, the Master Chief promptly returned to the Pillar of Autumn. The Spartan crashed the Banshee into the side of the ship to annoy Cortana, and fought the Flood, the Sentinels and the Covenant and entered the ship's bridge. Once he had dispatched the Security Team, he uploaded the AI into the control system. She started the ship's self destruct sequence, only to find the Monitor was on board. Spark began to tap into the ship's systems and data arrays, and stopped the self destruct sequence. Mid-way between offering the Master Chief a quick and painless death, Cortana cut off the transmission and finds that the Monitor is in Engineering and must be trying to take the Autumn's engines offline, the Chief decided to take the engines of manually by cracking the engine's magnetic containment fields. The Master Chief then fought through to Cryo B, and then to Engineering. He destroyed the engines by throwing grenades into the open shafts, and destabilized the engines. After Cortana predicted they had 15 minutes before the engines detonated, the Chief reached the shaft of elevator V-1269, killed the Covenant riding it and used it to reach a Class Seven Service Corridor located along the ship's dorsal structure. Using a Warthog, he drove along the length of the Corridor to External Access Junction 4C where Echo 419 was to pick the Chief up one last time. However, two Banshees shot down the Pelican and killed its pilot. The Chief was then forced to drive another kilometer to Launch Bay Seven, where on of the Longsword fighters attached to the Autumn was docked. The Spartan successfully boarded the ship and escaped.

[編集] Survivors

It is assumed that only 8 members of the Pillar of Autumn were in space and therefore survived the blast, 6 of which were on a Pelican^[3], two Spartans, Linda, who was in a Cryo pod, and the other one, Master Chief, was on a Longsword fighter. Every other person at the battle presumably died when Installation 04 was destroyed. However, since Gunnery Sergeant Pete Stacker and Private Chips Dubbo, among others, have been seen again in later games, it can be assumed that there were other survivors.^[4] Thomas Chang is one of these survivors.

However, it is explained in Halo: The Flood and Halo: First Strike, that the Autumn was operating as a skeleton crew, as the remaining non-essential crew remained in cryo. When the Covenant infiltrated the ship, most of the crew were still asleep and their tubes were shot into space to save them from being killed in the crash.

The Chief managed to retrieve 3 tubes, one containing Linda. The people in the other 2 had died in sleep due to malfunctions. It is not known whether this was a malfunction in one of the cryo storage rooms, or if it happened to almost every tube.

It is unknown how many occupied tubes survived Halo; however, most, if not all, would have been destroyed by the time High Charity arrived.

[編集] 参加したもの

[編集] フラッド

1つの？Brain Form
千以上のCombat Forms
千以上のCarrier Forms
百万以上のInfection Forms

[編集] 関連リンク

[編集] References

↑ Halo: The Flood, page 246
↑ Halo: The Flood page 248
↑ Halo: First Strike
↑ Halo: Combat Evolved End Cutscene

コヴナント戦争中の戦い
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[0] Halo: The Flood, page 246

[1] Halo: The Flood page 248

[2] Halo: First Strike

[3] Halo: Combat Evolved End Cutscene

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