The Covenent

Trident

Deactivate First Barrier Tower

It's time to bring the fight back to Truth, hopefully before he manages to fire the rings. After your rough landing, examine the new weapon you have: the Spartan Laser. If you hold down the firing button, you'll launch a railgun-esque beam of light where you're aiming. It's incredibly powerful and can hit distant foes, but you only have five shots with it, so don't use it on anything that you can kill easily with your battle rifle. As you move forward, use it to take out the two turrets that watch over your position. There's also a Brute chieftan that possesses a fuel rod gun near the Wraith; if you can get a clean shot, use it on him as well. Don't use the laser on the Wraith itself, though; it's more important to save your ammo for the next tough fight.

Keep in mind that your teammates can use the Spartan laser, and won't use any of its ammo while firing.

So, after destroying the Wraith with a grenade, you should have a couple shots left on the Spartan Laser when you hop into the Warthog and start driving. Avoid the Banshees and start heading up the nearby hill. A couple of Ghosts will attack you here, so fishtail around them and let your gunner take them out, then move to a position where the gunner can fire on the turret on the path and destroy it as well; it's still not time to use those Spartan Laser shots.

Head up the path until you find the two Grunts heading towards their Ghosts. Let the gunner kill them, if possible, then hop out of the Warthog and pull out your Laser. If you look down into the valley, you should spot a Wraith moving into position. On Heroic, a couple of rounds from your Laser will destroy it, and it's definitely what you want to take out here, because otherwise it will be very difficult to take out. If you have extra ammo, use it on the turret to your left, then hop back into the Warthog and move on. You can switch your empty Laser out for a beam rifle at the container here if you like.

Breaching The Tower

As you move into the valley, a number of Grunts and Brutes will appear from a hidden tunnel and start pelting you. If you managed to take out the Wraith and the turret, then bully for you; otherwise you're going to have problems here. (It may be simpler to just restart the mission and try to conserve more Laser ammo if that's the situation you're in, and maybe also pick up the dropped fuel rod gun from the Brute chieftan.)

Anyway, to avoid the bulk of the crowd, rush your Warthog down the hill, through the lake, and into the small glen on the other side of the bunker here, parking it atop the low rise near the cliff wall, then hop out. Any vehicles that want to get to you will have to come around the bunker to do so, where your gunner will be able to toast them. With that done, grab a beam rifle from the dispensary and try to aim down the tunnel here; you should be able to kill numerous Grunts, Jackals, and a Brute or two. When you've cleared the place out, you can return back to the entrance of the tunnel and try to snipe out the gunner on the turret inside to clear your passage.

That's one way to take out a turret.

Alternately, if you're a good shot, you can use the Warthog to move down into the lakebed until the vehicles start coming in, then return to the beam rifle dispensary atop the hill and use those to snipe out the drivers and gunners. It'll be difficult to do so, but if you can clear out the vehicles, you can chuck a few grenades into the tunnel, then ram your Warthog down the middle of it to take out the turret.

Into The Tower

When you clear the tunnel, you can head into the tower. As you might expect, there are plenty of enemies inside, so start clearing out the first room and making your way deeper inside. You'll eventually come to an elevator; you can find another Forerunner terminal by jumping across the gap beyond it. Before riding the elevator, you may want to backtrack a bit and nab one of the Jackal's carbines.

These Brutes aren't going to let you shut down the tower without a fight.

When you ride the elevator up, a Brute chieftan and assorted squadlings will block your path to the control terminal. If you nabbed a carbine, you can duck behind the cover near the elevator, then strafe out and fire at the commander's head to hopefully kill him before he can use invulnerability. With that done, finish the Brutes and flip the switch.

Deactivate Final Barrier Tower

Head back down the elevator and start fighting your way backwards. When you reach the exit to the tower, find a vehicle and head back to the beach, where you'll find a Hornet waiting for you. The Hornet is the USNC equivalent to the Banshee. It's got a rapid-fire machine gun and homing missiles you can fire with the left trigger. You move around with the left stick, as normal, but you can control your height by moving the right stick up and down. You'll get used to it; you'll have to, or the Banshees here will take you out.

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