9. Keyes

Return to the Truth and Reconciliation - now a Flood hive

Mission Flow

  1. Re-enter the infested cruiser
  2. Push through the corrupted decks in search of Keyes
  3. Reach the bridge, find Keyes absorbed by the Proto-Gravemind, and recover his neural chip
  4. Fight to the hangar, take a Banshee, and escape

At a Glance

  • Enemies: Flood and Covenant fighting throughout the ship, cloaked sword Elites, a hangar ringed with Shade turrets.
  • Typical length: ~45 min
  • Collectibles: 3 skulls, 1 terminal

Skull Locations

CatchEnemies throw and drop far more grenades

Special conditions: Heroic or above with no skulls active (modifiers allowed), restart the mission. Speed-run cloaked to the gravity lift, clear the area, wait for the lift to reverse and pull you up - hold the pickup button during the ascent to grab it.

BlindHides the HUD and your weapon

After the fall, through the coolant channels and back up the gravity lift: in the first big hangar, drop down to the corridor with the wrecked Wraith - skull at the corridor's end.

PinataMelee hits knock grenades out of enemies

After getting the override code from Keyes and surviving the Flood/Covenant waves: repeatedly melee Keyes's Flood form until several squishy hits later the skull pops out.

Terminal

Consumed

Upper hangar bay: after the Hunter fight, take the left corridor at the fork to its end. See all 13 terminals and their lore →

Legendary Tips

  • The hangar breakout is the classic death zone - use the doorframes as chokepoints and clear wave by wave (community).
  • Where Flood and Covenant clash, spectate first and mop up after (community).
  • Regenerating health takes real pressure off this attrition-heavy mission in the remake.

Attempting LASO? Read the 17-skull LASO guide first.

Sources: skull locations cross-checked from DayOne, Push Square, and TheGamer guides (July 2026); terminals from Halopedia and Pure Xbox; remake changes from the official PlayStation Blog feature. Tips marked (community) come from player reports and may predate patches. Mission lengths are estimates. Last updated July 28, 2026.

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