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Giant Enemy Scarab: Attack its weakpoint for massive damage!
Posted by: blarghonk2
Posted by: sammyb123
At this point it's necessary to point out that this trailer does not happen in real-time. It's clear that the trailer represents an extended period of time, say, over a period of hours.
The pings below the defense grid merely is referencing the Covenant dropships being sent down to the ground.
There are no slipspace ruptures under the orbital defense grid.
Also, your theory that this happens AFTER the fall of reach is also flawed. Why would, as seen in the trailer, the entirety of Reach still be intact? First strike clearly indicates that all but a very small area has been glassed.
It would not have been prior to the Fall of Reach, or it would have undoubtedly have been referenced in one of the books. Reach was the most important colony of the Inner Colonies - its importance was only second to Earth. A large battle taking place there prior to the fall of Reach would have been at least briefly referenced to in at least one of the books. It isn't.
The trailer is not in real time. It is a brief look at events which took place over an extended time frame. There is no abstract theory needed to explain the 'multiple pings below the defense grid'. It's simply the Covenant troops being sent to take out the reactors for the orbital guns.
Yes, I beleive that the video footage of the trailer does take place over a long period of time. However, does that conversation really sound like it's not in real time to you? They're clearly responding to one and other, with pauses for them collecting data etc, and there definately would have been more lines between "there might be some enemy ships here" and "holy crap they're everywhere." unless they were jumping right into Reach.
Of course they are going to have snippets of conversations put in real time. The other options are 1) Making the voices like baby chipmunks who inhaled 50 balloons at once, or 2) Making a trailer that doesn't make any sense whatsoever to the prospective customer, by including completely random sound clips which don't interact with each other.
Of course Bungie would let them reply to each other. Otherwise the entire trailer would be incoherent and lacking any real sense of what is going on.
This trailer is pretty much a small montage of audio clips from what happened from the start of the Battle of Reach to midway through it. It is not in real time. Just because they are responding to each other, it doesn't mean that there was some unknown battle which nobody has heard of being at the center of Halo: Reach.
Think about it. The whole game's market pitch was that it involved the fall of Reach. Why would Bungie completely forsake one of the biggest battles in the Halo universe to replace it with some other fight that nobody's heard of? (this includes characters such as Captain Keyes, Master Chief, etc.)
The other possibility is Bungie just using creative techniques to show what is happening over a longer time frame than 90 seconds.
Which do you think is more likely?
[Edited on 06.08.2009 7:55 AM PDT]