Journey's End
Storm the Forerunner Data Storage Facility

Overview of Journey's End:
Journey's End is an asymmetric map created for the sole purpose of Invasion. It was inspired by the chapter called "Journey's End"of the Halo 3 mission "The Covenant" in which you have to assault the Forerunner Citadel. It isn't meant to be a copy of the campaign chapter so there are major differences, as such, it was inspired by that chapter.

As the Spartans you will assault the bridge contols to activate the light bridge that leads to the Forerunner Data Storage Facility. Once across the bridge, you will have to assemble your team and attack the generators to power down the protective shield blocking your team from the data core. Then you will have to return the core to the awaiting Pelican to win.

As Elites you must first defend the bridge controls and then you must keep the Spartans from disabling the generators. Should you fail to those two things, then you must defend the valuable data core at all costs. If you fail at doing that, then the Spartans will have gained valuable knowledge on Forerunner devices.

Phase One: Attack or Defend the Bridge Controls

Use the covenant barriers to hide or assemble forces for a surprise attack

Phase Two: Attack or Defend the generators

The crashed pelican serves as a backfield spawn for the Spartans, as well as the bunkers captured earlier

The light bridge that is activated after Phase One

The two generators the Spartans must capture. Use the rocks as cover from enemy fire and vehicles

A close up of Red Generator. The generators are colored either red or blue. (Red is farthest form the crashed pelican)

Phase Three: Seize or Defend the Core

The long Core extraction route

A close up of the tower being attacked (the shield door disappears after Phase 2)

Loadouts:

Spartans
Phase 1
Corpsman-AR/Pistol Sprint
Phase 2
Corpsman-AR/Pistol Armor Lock
Recon-DMR/AR Sprint
Phase 3
Air Assault-AR/Pistol Jetpack
Recon-DMR/AR Sprint
Operator-Shotgun/Pistol Hologram
Grenadier-Grenade Launcher/AR Armor Lock

Elites
Phase 1
Warrior-Plasma Repeater/Plasma Pistol Evade
Sentry-Plamsa Rifle/Plasma Pistol Sprint
Phase 2
Warrior-Plasma Repeater/Plasma Pistol Armor Lock
Scout-Needle Rifle/Plasma Rifle Evade
Spec Ops-Needler/Plasma Pistol Active Camo
Phase 3
Ranger-Plasma Repeater/Plasma Pistol Jetpack
Scout-Needle Rifle/Plasma Rifle Evade
Sentry-Plasma Rifle/Needler Armor Lock
Guard-Energy Sword/Plasma Rifle Hologram
Spec Ops-Concussion Rifle/Plasma Pistol Active Camo

Weapons on Map:
Phase 1:
Attackers
3 x DMR (Two of them have 30sec respawn, one has 50sec)
Defenders
1 x Needle Rifle
1 x Needler

Phase 2:
Attackers
1 x Shotgun
1 x Grenade Launcher
3 x Mongooses (Two by Warthog, other by crashed Pelican)
1 x Warthog
Defenders
1 x Plasma Turret
1 x Concussion Rifle
1 x Focus Rifle
2 x Ghosts (one has a slightly longer respawn time than the other, for balancing reasons)

Phase 3:
Attackers
1 x Shotgun (from Phase 2)
1 x Grenade Launcher (from Phase 2)
1 x Sniper Rifle (has one spare clip, so total of 8 shots)
1 x Spartan Laser
1 x Rocket (has low ammo, and it spawns near a mongoose)
4 x Mongooses (3 from Phase 2)
1 x Standard Warthog (from Phase 2)
1 x Rocket Warthog (has 1.5 respawn time, use it wisely)
1 x Falcon
Defenders
1 x Plasma Turret (from Phase 2)
1 x Concussion Rifle (from Phase 2)
1 x Focus Rifle (from Phase 2)
1 x Plasma Launcher
2 x Ghosts (from Phase 2)
1 x Revenant
2 x Banshees (One has a slightly longer respawn time than the other, like the ghosts

Spawning
There are multiple backfield spawns for each team as well as fireteam spawns for each phase. Note: The fireteam spawns are usually slightly ahead of the backfield spawns and may or may not give hints to ambush/flanking tactics...

The first phase is completely focused on close to medium ranged infantry combat. The second phase is devoted to long, medium, and close ranged infantry combat as well as light vehicles. The third phase is centered on vehicle combat with medium vehicles coming into play. Infantry combat is included in the third pahse, but it is mostly during the part when the core is first taken out of its housing and on the trip to the extraction point.

At the start of the match the Spartans are given a slight advantage by having more medium ranged weapons than the Elites, and this advantage is carried over to the second phase when the Spartans gain a Shotgun for the close ranged generator battles. This comes to an end in the last phase, however, when the two teams' equipment becomes balanced out. The reason for this is so the match usually gets to the final phase (unless the two teams are at completely different skill levels). Once at the final phase the truly better team will be victorious.

I've had a blast creating the map. From the initial bunkers to the crashed Pelican, and finally to the large structure and extraction Pelican. The forging experience was great because I got to implement so many of my ideas into one map.

This is my first Invasion map, as well as my first Forge Hub posted map, so I'm sure there are some minor (hopefully not major) flaws in my map. I did my best to balance things out and I hope you guys enjoy the map. I appreciate feedback, good or bad, and I will take any suggestion into consideration. Thanks for playing :)

P.S. If anyone has a video of the map in play (preferabley the whole match), could you post a link to it? It doesn't have to be rendered as I'll download it to my Xbox. I'd like to see my map in action with people who haven't seen it before playing. Thanks.