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"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
OP: Interesting analysis. If Reach is the culmination of the game, and the majority of it is focused on various engagements with the covenant before-hand, that could be very interesting indeed.
There is nothing to say that Sam will not feature in the game but die halfway through.
However, Sam died during the Spartans' first ever engagement with the Covenant, right after receiving the Mjolnir armor (unshielded). So, unless this game focuses on engaging human insurgents, I don't think Sam will feature in the game.
And, so far, Bungie has done a good job of making sure that humans are not the Enemy in the Halo games. I don't think they'd change that.
Assuming the analysis of the picture is correct, I'm going to throw in another vote for the larger one being James.
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Speaking of James, who replaced Kurt for the standard Spartan "Blue Team" after he "disappeared"? The original Blue Team was John, Sam, Kelly, Fred, and Linda. Then, when Sam died, Kurt replaced him. When Kurt disappeared, someone must have replaced him. Given that it was James in the museum on Sigma Octanus with John and Kelly, I'd bet it was him. Could the banner be a portrait of the final 5 members of Blue Team? Curiouser and curiouser.
[Edited on 06.02.2009 12:55 AM PDT]