
Propulsion: Boosted Gravity Propulsion DriveĬovenant’s main mode of moving large numbers of troops around on land. Having thus struck the hornets’ nest, we are now heading home with all speed. That being said, I fear that the Covenant will not take kindly to our obliteration of their holy relic. Additionally, SPARTAN-117’s proficient use of arms, and the destruction of the ring, resulted in a significant loss of enemy personnel and materiel. I have gathered a wealth of new information for our database of Covenant weapons, technology, tactics, and society. With respect to our ongoing fight against the Covenant, our time on Halo was well spent. I’m sorry to report that Captain Keyes was lost to the Flood. We used the Pillar of Autumn’s fusion reactors to start a chain reaction that utterly destroyed the ring. When we realized that Halo could destroy all life, SPARTAN-117 and I decided our only choice was to destroy Halo-stop 343 Guilty Spark from completing his assigned task, and deny the Covenant a weapon of unthinkable power. While we abandoned ship, the Captain managed to land the Autumn on the ring, saving the lives of many of the crew. Rather than risk capture, Captain Keyes ordered my upload into SPARTAN 117’s neural network. But the enemy had tracked us and was lying in wait around the ring. Initially, I feared the ring was a Covenant installation.


To my considerable surprise, in orbit around the planet was an artificial ring construct, 10,000 kilometers in diameter. Using astronomical symbols SPARTAN 117 captured from a Covenant vessel, I chose an exit-vector that would place us in an uncharted system near a late-life gas giant planet (new classification, “Threshold”). I’ll be brief.Īfter Reach fell, I followed Cole protocol, and slipped the Pillar of Autumn. As the rich data-bursts attached in this transmission make clear, we have been to hell and back.

Re: SPARTAN-117 and the Destruction of Halo From: Cortana, UNSC Pillar of Autumn shipboard AI
