**The Pillar of Autumn: grab the early skulls before leaving the bridge**

**The Pillar of Autumn: grab the early skulls before leaving the bridge** Halo: Campaign Evolved main campaign. Not the Anniversary/MCC collectible route. Three skulls are available before the escape becomes a proper firefight. That makes this a convenient opening collectible run, provided you stop following the Marine for a moment and actually look around. **Cryo room to Captain Keyes** **Speed Limit** is in the starting room. Go to the back, use the containers to reach the raised walkway, and follow it to the skull. Crouch-jump if you are catching the edge rather than landing on top. Check the pickup registered before leaving. Continue through the ship toward the bridge. You are not armed yet, so don't treat the early Elite encounter as a fight you need to win personally. Let the Marines and the scripted sequence move it along. **Magnified** is in the armory along this route, in the room marked **B02L**. Look on top of the central weapon rack. It is not hidden in an adjoining combat area, and you don't need to return with a gun to get it. Meet Keyes and complete the bridge scene. Before continuing with the evacuation, go back into the command area for **Perspective**. Walk to the forward windows where the two crew members sit at their stations, then drop into the lower space beneath them. The skull is down there. Those three pickups replace any instinct to search for Anniversary's Iron skull behind the original cryo-room containers. Same mission name, different game and checklist. **Fight toward the lifeboats** Once you have weapons, work through the boarded corridors and rooms. Keep the Marines out of your grenade throws, and avoid chasing a weakened enemy through a doorway before you have seen what is on the other side. A doorway gives you somewhere to break line of sight and recover; use it. Check the Covenant boarding craft you pass for overshields. They are useful supplies, not mandatory detours. Take one when it helps you survive the next stretch rather than repeatedly leaving a fight to search a pod you already emptied. The route eventually goes through the ventilation passages and brings you above the room where the mission began. This is your terminal landmark. **Approach:** pass through the damaged cryo-control office overlooking the starting chamber. The doorway is marked **C04U**. After leaving that office, turn left and back into the neighboring dark office. Interact with the terminal at the rear. It is much later than the three skulls, so do not assume the bridge stop finished the collectible sweep. Continue through the remaining corridors toward the airlock and lifeboat sequence. The terminal detour is not another exit; rejoin the evacuation route after reading it. Before moving on to Halo, your mission checklist should show **Speed Limit, Magnified, Perspective, and Approach**. If one is missing, resolve that particular pickup rather than replaying every early room from memory and hoping the total changes.