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The ''Pillar of Autumn'' is a heavily modified '' Video Game , often abbreviated as "POA" or "Autumn". Before the war with the ''. The ''Pillar of Autumn'' was one of only a few ships to escape the ; in actuality the shipboard AI , Cortana , interpreted symbols from an alien artifact into coordinates where the ship could emerge. Covenant battleships, already at the ring due to much faster Slipspace engines, intercepted the ''Pillar of Autumn'' upon its arrival at the planet Threshold. Reluctant to use their more powerful weapons for fear of causing collateral damage to "Halo", the Covenant armada attacked with relatively light fire in coordination with numerous boarding craft filled with assault troops. The boarding parties were charged with retrieving senior officers, including the commanding officer Captain Jacob Keyes , for interrogation. Outmatched on their own ship, Captain Keyes later had the Autumn's crew and marines escape using the remaining lifeboats. Keyes and the rest of the command staff managed to crash the ship on the surface of Halo while the many surviving Marines quickly formed a formidable resistance movement. But their only chance of holding out was to search and salvage the grounded Autumn for additional weapons, vehicles and equipment for their base, before the Covenant could claim the entire ship. After 343 Guilty Spark 's true intentions of activating (Halo) were revealed, Cortana and the Master Chief manually detonated the ship's Fusion Engines in order to destroy Halo, preventing the escape of Flood and Covenant forces as well as the massive destruction that Halo's activation would have brought. |
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