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Subject: Video Breakdown - Screen Caps - Images - Dissection

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As it is tradition with most bungie trailers, we dive into the video and dissect it frame by frame.

These screencaps of some of the more "vital" scenes should get the ball rolling.

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Screen Cap 1
Screen Cap 2
Screen Cap 3
Screen Cap 4
Screen Cap 5
Screen Cap 6
Screen Cap 7
Screen Cap 8

Group Shot Enlarged - Blurry
Group Shot Enlarged & Enhanced

Any findings of hidden symbols or anything else will be added to the OP




Septagon Symbol? Credit Goes to GHOST REVOLVER

[Edited on 06.01.2009 2:40 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 1:39 PM PDT
Subject: Video Breakdown - Screen Caps

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I wanna be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

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  • 06.01.2009 1:40 PM PDT

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Group Shot Enlarged & Enhanced

Please forgive the black line, the application added it..

  • 06.01.2009 1:56 PM PDT

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Weapons I assume that will be in the game:
Assault Rifle
Sniper
A knife?


Otherwise, I see a forerunner figure in the first couple caps. 2 and 3 it is easier to see.

  • 06.01.2009 1:59 PM PDT
Subject: Video Breakdown - Screen Caps - Images - Dissection

My Grunty claws will STING!

He's gone, thank the nipple!

Good work! I must say, this looks a lot like the Legendary ending of Halo 3, which tells me this is what was teased. That means I would bet that the Forerunners will play prominently into this (and also another great Bungie story with plot twists as well). Time to reread Fall of Reach!

  • 06.01.2009 2:00 PM PDT
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Can anyone see any 7's?

  • 06.01.2009 2:07 PM PDT

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I'm Judging the fella in the Middle is John (aka Master Chief)
The smaller Spartan to the left is Kelly. (Fastest Spartan and looks agile)
The Spartan to the far right is Linda. (The sniper)
I'm guessing the big guy maybe Fred, I'm not to sure.
I have no clues on the other guy to the right of John either.

Still, thanks for enlarging them for us :D

  • 06.01.2009 2:11 PM PDT

ok so is the center person master chief or just a spartan and then then other thingish is that arbiter or just an elite i want to know what this game is about and cant wait for the beta on ODST

  • 06.01.2009 2:11 PM PDT

Is that a MAC cannon in Screen Cap 3?

  • 06.01.2009 2:13 PM PDT

Posted by: jake RIOT 1
ok so is the center person master chief or just a spartan and then then other thingish is that arbiter or just an elite i want to know what this game is about and cant wait for the beta on ODST

No, they are all spartans. Elites were not allies with Humans during the time period that the game takes place in.

The spartans should be Linda, Sam (tall one), John, Fred, and Kelly. Of course, I could be wrong. They could be other spartans.

  • 06.01.2009 2:15 PM PDT

but john wasnt on reach with them i thought

  • 06.01.2009 2:15 PM PDT

Well if you read First Strike it had to do with the Forunners and if it goes beyond Halo CE wich I doubt there will be involvment with the forunners. So when we see more trailers and info there will be more evidence

  • 06.01.2009 2:17 PM PDT

Wort Wort Wort???

Also, hilarious quote:
Posted by: Vgnut117
True. Now that I think about it having the -blam!- beat out of you with a pool ball in a tube sock by your degenerate pimp is the better choice.

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In screen caps 3 and 4 there is some sort of space structure. What it is nobody but Bungie can say for absolute certain, but what is certain is that it is absolutely 100% venting atmosphere (the blue wisps), which suggests that it has been damaged in some way.

  • 06.01.2009 2:18 PM PDT

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John (aka Master Chief) was on the MAC Orbital platform. He sent in the rest of the spartans (save a few for his mission on the MAC Orbital). So it could still be him. If you've read the book "Fall of Reach," you know that MC is not the only Spartan alive after the Battle of Reach. I am perplaxed by the silouette of the Elite and that clearly is one. Elites were still on the side of the Covenant at this time. In fact the Fall of Reach just precedes the original Halo game.

Nice progressive shots there, btw.
Warlord Alpha, to answer your question, as I eluded to above, it appears to be part of the MAC Orbital platform. This is a series of MAC guns connected around the planet Reach that serve as it's last line of space defense. Master Chief and a few Spartans go to the platform while the rest of them head for the surface of Reach.

[Edited on 06.01.2009 2:22 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 2:20 PM PDT
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Screen Cap 2


Upper left-hand corner. The lights on earth look like a dim Seventh Column symbol...or maybe it's just me...good work, btw, OP.

  • 06.01.2009 2:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: GHOST REVOLVER
Upper left-hand corner. The lights on earth look like a dim Seventh Column symbol...or maybe it's just me...good work, btw, OP.

Damn-nice find there. I have to agree, it seems to me like the nod to the underground army has been dutifully included.

  • 06.01.2009 2:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: PKF_647
Screen Cap 4

Possible seven? I know it's not really define very much, but there's a bunch of lines, and from this perspective, kinda looks like a seven.

  • 06.01.2009 2:41 PM PDT

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#3 is not an orbital defense platform, it looks more like a frigate, similar to the Forward Unto Dawn.

Group Shot: (my speculation from right to left) Linda - Sniper, Joshua/Isaac/Vinh?, Fred, Kelly, and possibly Will because he might even be considered the heavy weapons expert.

  • 06.01.2009 2:43 PM PDT

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updated the OP with the septagon...

sorry paul, i cant see the 7....paint circle it 4 me plz?

  • 06.01.2009 2:48 PM PDT

Posted by: GHOST REVOLVER
Posted by: PKF_647
Screen Cap 2


Upper left-hand corner. The lights on earth look like a dim Seventh Column symbol...or maybe it's just me...good work, btw, OP.

That's not Earth, that's Reach. Earth hasn't been found by The Covenant yet. They find it by the end of Halo 2 and that is why they are on it in Halo 3.

  • 06.01.2009 2:51 PM PDT
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I'm fairly positive this is all 100% accurate, but some feel free to correct me if you find additional information confirming or denying it.

Fermion Remote Scanning Outpost (RSO) as in Halo: The Fall of Reach book and was manned by a 3 man crew. The first voice in the trailer is probably Lieutenant J.G. Bill Streeter. The second voice is more than likely the AI named Doppler who was in charge of Gamma Station.

The rest of the voices are unknown as far as I'm concerned. The Spartan numbers are baffling me, its more than likely another group of trained Spartan II's. It was known that more Spratan II's were trained, but as for them showing up at Reach this is new.

Also here is a Youtube clip I posted of the Halo 2 cutscene that shows the planet Reach.

  • 06.01.2009 2:53 PM PDT

this takes place during halo CE and John cant be with them because he is on the piller of autumn when it jumps from reach and Linda couldnt be there because she is critically wounded in orbit, but who says the game has to follow the books

  • 06.01.2009 2:55 PM PDT

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Hmm, I'm curious now. Maybe these Spartans are Spartan III's. As in "The Ghosts of Onyx" Spartans. I'm talking the first batch of them.

If so, we could have yet another armor set. This time being SPI armor. For those who don't know, SPI armor is slightly similar to Mjolnir armor, but looking like a cut-down version. As well, it has cloaking ability.

I'm just speculating of course, but it's one direction Bugnie may be going with this.

We've experienced Spartan II's in Mjolnir armor, are about to experience being ODST and their armor variants, not maybe we'll have a crack at Spartan III's and the SPI armor.

I actually kind of like the idea of that too. Keeps things fresh while still having a hint or throwback to some what made Halo so great.

  • 06.30.2009 12:00 PM PDT
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Thanks for taking the caps :)

  • 06.30.2009 1:15 PM PDT

Posted by: JediMasterSal 0
Hmm, I'm curious now. Maybe these Spartans are Spartan III's. As in "The Ghosts of Onyx" Spartans. I'm talking the first batch of them.

If so, we could have yet another armor set. This time being SPI armor. For those who don't know, SPI armor is slightly similar to Mjolnir armor, but looking like a cut-down version. As well, it has cloaking ability.

I'm just speculating of course, but it's one direction Bugnie may be going with this.

We've experienced Spartan II's in Mjolnir armor, are about to experience being ODST and their armor variants, not maybe we'll have a crack at Spartan III's and the SPI armor.

I actually kind of like the idea of that too. Keeps things fresh while still having a hint or throwback to some what made Halo so great.
That sounds good.

  • 06.30.2009 1:27 PM PDT