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Cortana: We're coming in too fast!
Pilot: Damn! Air break failure! She blew too early! I'm losin' her! Brace for impact!
Cortana: Chief! Chief can you hear me?! At last! Are you allright? Can you move? The others, the impact. There's nothing we can do. Warning. I've picked reports of Covenant dropships on approach. I reccomend moving into those hills. If we're lucky, the Covenant will think everyone aboard this life boat died in the crash. Alert! Covenant dropship inbound! They must be looking for survivors! I reccomend immediate evasion! Alert! Covenant Dropship has detected us, here they come! I'm reading a lifeboat beacon over the next hill! We should check to see if there are any survivors.
Marine: Good to see you, sir! I thought we were the only ones who made it off the Pillar of Autumn.
Johnson: It's a mess, sir. We're scattered all over this valley. We called for evac, but until you showed up, I thought we were cooked.
Cortana: Don't worry, Sergeant. We'll stay here until an evac arrives.
Marine: Heads up! I've got a Covenant dropship heading in! Over here! Another dropship! Down here! Uh oh, another bandit dropping in behind us, they're trying to flank us!
Foe Hammer: This is Pelican Echo 419, anybody readin' me? Repeat: Any UNSC personnel respond!
Cortana/Johnson/Marine: Roger, Echo 419, this is Fire Team Charlie, we read you five by five. Is that you, Foe Hammer?
Foe Hammer: Roger, Fire Team Charlie! Good to hear from you!
Cortana: Foe Hammer, we need transportation to the command shuttle.
Foe Hammer: I'm on my way!
Cortana: Look! More lifeboats! They're coming in fast! If those lifeboats make it down, the Covenant will be right on top of them! Foe Hammer, we need you to disengage your Warthog, the Master Chief and I are going to see if we can save some survivors.
Foe Hammer: Roger, Cortana. Okay, Charlie Team, Warthog deployed, saddle up and give 'em hell!
Cortana: Roger Foe Hammer, stand by to evac survivors and transport them to safety.
Foe Hammer: That's affirmative! Echo 419 going on station, Foe Hammer out!
Cortana: The Master Chief and I need some backup, can you spare a few men?
Marine/Johnson: Sure, Cortana. Allright, who's in?! Volunteers step up, on the double! The rest of you, get to the dropship!
Cortana: This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it. So it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant BattleNet. It turns out they're actually broadcasting tactical data on unencrypted channels! We should show them who they're dealing with! Master Chief, I'm going to use your suit's TransCom System to moniter their chatter. There must be a way to activate this bridge. Look for a switch. There's new traffic on the Covenant BattleNet! A lot more crew made it off the Autumn than I had predicted! The Captain really gave them hell! If we can find Captain Keyes and the other survivors, we have a chance to form an effective resistance! Lifeboat detected! No sign of survivors.
Marine: The lifeboat's trashed Chief. Ammo and supplies are everywhere. But no bodies. Weird.
Cortana: Maybe they took cover in that structure, let's check it out. I've called for an evac.
Marine: Roger that. Marines! Assemble for evac! Pronto!
Cortana: We should secure the area before the dropship arrives.
Foe Hammer: Echo 419 to Cortana, come in.
Cortana: We read you Echo 419. We have survivors and need extraction on the double.
Foe Hammer: Roger Cortana. I've spotted additional lifeboats in your area. One near a rockslide. And another near the head of the river. Hard to see from my altitude, but it looks like there are more survivors!
Cortana: Acknowledged, we're on our way. Lifeboat detected! Marines are concealed in those rocks!
Marine: Sir, I've got a Covenant dropship down there! Okay, marines, retreat!
Foe Hammer: Echo 419 to Cortana, Foe Hammer's on station and ready for another pickup!
Cortana: We read you Echo 419, approach when ready. We're going to look for the last lifeboat, Echo 419.
Foe Hammer: Good luck! Foe Hammer out.
Cortana: Warning! I've picked up reports that the Covenant has secured the Pillar of Autumn's crash site. The good news is the Captain is still alive. The bad news is that the Covenant have captured the entire surviving command crew. Let's hurry and find the final lifeboat, so we can link up with the rest of the survivors. There are some marines, trapped in the hills above that structure!
Marine: You're a sight for sore eyes, Chief, we've been stuck, since we got wounded up here.
Cortana: I'll call in a dropship to pick them up. That's the last of them!
Foe Hammer: Roger Cortana! I'm on my way!
Cortana: Good news! I've located Captain Keyes! He's being held on a Covenant cruiser, the Truth and Reconcilliation, the ship I disabled before we abandoned the Autumn. The Truth and Reconcilliation set down on a desert plateau, roughly 2000 kilometers upspin. There's our ride! Get aboard and let's get out of here!
Foe Hammer: Welcome aboard, Master Chief! We're ready for dust off!
Cortana: We should move out, Lieutenant. And then we'll need your help on a rescue mission.