- SweetTRIX
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"
I don't see how any of the OP's thoughts lead anyone to believe that time travel played a part in this. You gotta remember the time lines, the events on Reach didn't go on pause while MC was stuck on Halo, they were playing out. MC returned to Reach after the Covenant had already glassed a portion of the planet, and discovered surviving Spartans.
The comments in the trailer make perfect sense with what happened towards the end of the Fall of Reach. There were several in system slipspace ruptures when the Covenant showed up and there were several pings below the orbital defense grid because a frigate snuck towards one of the poles and deployed drop ships while the main force distracted the UNSC defensive line.
Keyes discovered the secret op, the ship was blown away, but several ground forces made it down, which is why the Spartans were deployed in the first place, to prevent the destruction of the planet-side reactors that powered the orbital platforms.
There is no time travel.