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Subject: The Mountain in Halo: Reach

Really, what was the Covenant trying to do? Remove a tiny slit out of a mountain?

  • 01.22.2012 4:02 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

What mountain are you talking about?

  • 01.22.2012 4:10 PM PDT

Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Are you talking about the one in Halo Reach, or Menachite Mountain?

  • 01.22.2012 4:13 PM PDT

-Dead Orbit..

i think he means the extremely big double peaked mountain that appears in almost every campaign mission.

  • 01.22.2012 6:45 PM PDT

Yeah, that.

  • 01.22.2012 8:32 PM PDT

"Bet you can't stick it"

The Fall of Reach explains it.

  • 01.22.2012 8:36 PM PDT

"This is the prototype NOVA Bomb, nine fusion warheads encased in lithium triteride armor. When detonated, it compresses its fusionable material to neutron-star density, boosting the thermonuclear yield a hundredfold. I am Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb, temporarily in command of the UNSC military base Reach. To the Covenant uglies that might be listening, you have a few seconds to pray to your damned heathen gods. You all have a nice day in hell..."

Just in case you dont want to read the book...

When the Spartan-II Red Team was deployed to the surface of Reach, Frederic-104, Red Leader, split the Spartans into four groups. Team Delta was assigned to secure Menachite Mountain as a fallback point for Red Team if necessary. Team Delta consisted of all the seriously wounded Spartans and the surviving Marines of Charlie Company, but only some Spartans actually managed to reach the mountain.

Team Beta was destroyed and contact with Team Gamma was lost, so only Frederic-104 and Kelly-087 managed to actually fall back to the mountain when the Covenant began glassing Reach.

The covenant wanted in due to the Forerunner artifact that lay deep within the mountain.
As the Covenant surrounded the mountain, the surviving Spartans managed to enter the facility using the secret Oly Oly Oxen Free code, where they encountered Doctor Catherine Halsey, who had stayed behind to clear information and data inside the base should the Covenant gain entrance. Halsey treated the Spartans of their various wounds as the Covenant began to dig in the mountain searching for the Forerunner artifact. The humans only barely escaped with experimental prototype weapons and MJOLNIR Mark V armor upgrades, and as they retreated, they destroyed what was left of the mountain behind them to annihilate CASTLE base.

  • 01.23.2012 8:46 AM PDT

Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: AGENT BL4CK
Team Delta consisted of all the seriously wounded Spartans and the surviving Marines of Charlie Company


I thought they were with the team that was sent to rescue Whitcomb?

  • 01.23.2012 9:38 AM PDT

Oly Oly Oxen Free

Dig.

  • 01.23.2012 10:05 AM PDT


Posted by: AGENT BL4CK
Just in case you dont want to read the book...

When the Spartan-II Red Team was deployed to the surface of Reach, Frederic-104, Red Leader, split the Spartans into four groups. Team Delta was assigned to secure Menachite Mountain as a fallback point for Red Team if necessary. Team Delta consisted of all the seriously wounded Spartans and the surviving Marines of Charlie Company, but only some Spartans actually managed to reach the mountain.

Team Beta was destroyed and contact with Team Gamma was lost, so only Frederic-104 and Kelly-087 managed to actually fall back to the mountain when the Covenant began glassing Reach.

The covenant wanted in due to the Forerunner artifact that lay deep within the mountain.
As the Covenant surrounded the mountain, the surviving Spartans managed to enter the facility using the secret Oly Oly Oxen Free code, where they encountered Doctor Catherine Halsey, who had stayed behind to clear information and data inside the base should the Covenant gain entrance. Halsey treated the Spartans of their various wounds as the Covenant began to dig in the mountain searching for the Forerunner artifact. The humans only barely escaped with experimental prototype weapons and MJOLNIR Mark V armor upgrades, and as they retreated, they destroyed what was left of the mountain behind them to annihilate CASTLE base.


Damn it! You beat me to the punch. Usually it's me who ends up being the novel-nerd and quoting the precise events of the plot to explain stuff. However, sir, I salute you for being as addicted to the books as I am.

  • 01.23.2012 10:30 AM PDT

There is nothing to suggest that the mountain with the slice missing in Halo Reach is Mechanite mountain (under which castle base is located).

So that summary of the book doesn't really help much.

[Edited on 01.23.2012 11:23 AM PST]

  • 01.23.2012 11:23 AM PDT


Posted by: Wazooty
There is nothing to suggest that the mountain with the slice missing in Halo Reach is Mechanite mountain (under which castle base is located).



Other than that Noble 6 died near it.

This kinda hints towards it being the one, Because there were no more transports off of Reach, and the date of 6 delivering Cortana to the Pillar is different to the date of his death.

So this suggests he travelled for a while, BUT, He also knew that Carter had ordered Jun to escort Halsey to Castle base, So perhaps he/she figured that Castle base was the best/only place to go.

then 6 could've got to the area they did in Lone Wolf, and considering you're up on a platform, 6 could have arrived at the Castle base co-ordinates then looked around for the entrance but then gets swarmed and killed.

  • 01.23.2012 2:09 PM PDT

I always thought it was cut in half by a covenant glassing beam. I'm probably wrong though.

  • 01.23.2012 2:17 PM PDT