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Even having searched for it I find it hard to beileve that this is the first transcript of the trailer that's been posted. Please point me in the direction of the first one/the more discussed one if so.
I've not given people names, (for we don't know them) I've just assigned them a tag so we know who (who we think) says what.
Feel free to dispute my version.
A: Gamma station this is Fermion RSO. Unconfirmed report of an in-system slipspace rupture.
Gamma station - A docking ring orbiting Reach (thankyou x Lord Revan x)
RSO - Remote sensor outpost. (thankyou Zechs00GT and rarkruby)
B: Impossible. Check your source.
[A?]: Reading multiple pings below the orbital defence grid.
This could be the same guy as before, but it sounds a little different to me.
Is he talking about ships? As I remember it, the large starships came out of slip-space outside the orbital defence grid. It seems likely that he is talking about troop transports and landing craft.
It also seems that the orbital defence grid is still in existence at this point.
B: Oh this can't be happening.
C: There's no mistake, it's them!
Likely the Covenant. While it's never actually stated outright, I see this as more for effect than because it'd would be a lie.
D: Winter contingency has been declared, all units are mobilized and ready.
A contingency has been prepared for this situation. I guess Reach (again you never actually get a sign saying 'REACH IS THIS PLANET YOU ARE SEEING FALL', but the evidence I've seen points to it being so) does have quite the military presence and strategic value to require such a plan.
'Winter' to me speaks of both desolation, and also hibernation. A deep defence plan perhaps?
Also note the 'all'. Reach is the centre of most of humanity's war effort, including R&D. I'd quite like to see ALL it's available resources put into a fight.
E: This is Sierra-320 [three-two-zero], prepped for combat insertion.
'Spartan 320? But they only go up to 150 or so!' I hear you cry. There's a discussion of this exact nature going on here. Personaly I think that this refers to a second group of SPARTAN IIs that have been being trained on Reach (where else?). They've not been directly mentioned, but as far as I'm aware, they've not been directly discounted.
As for combat drop, it sounds like someone's going in ODST style, or perhaps even in a more unorthadox manner?
'Sierra' could also just be a callsign, like 'Echo 419'. We attribute it to SPARTANS - S-117, and now S-259 - but it does also stand for the letter 'S' in the phonetic alphabet.
What 'S' means may be another question :)
F: What the hell was that?
Looked like a nuke to me. Ours or theirs?
G: We're coming in hot! Hold on!
H: We just lost our bird!
I: Oh my God!
J: What the hell is happening down there?
K: There'[s/re] still people down here!
Waiting to be evaced? Are they pulling the ships out? Are they cutting their losses and nuking their bases?
L: [City?] just dropped off my map.
Nuked? Something else perhaps? A nuke would leave remains, surely?
M: [...?] evac.
N: [our position is being?] overrun, we'll hold out as long as we can.
Protecting something vital no-doubt. HQ? Weapons research? Strategic emplacement?
O: I need you in that fight Nova-1. Nova-1, come in. Nova-1, do you read me?
As in the Nova bomb perhaps? The taskforce protecting one? The ship carrying one? Admiral Whitcomb and the remains of Red Team?
P: This is Sierra-259 [two-five-nine], you've got SPARTANs on the ground sir. We're not going anywhere.
Again.
More than one SPARTAN. Protecting what? Normal procedure is to pull out when the planet is glassed, I seem to remember.
Points of interest
The trailer can be seen more as a timeline of events, rather than an actual recreation of the fall of Reach. The drastic change of the planet fits in with this (thankyou ApocalypeX)
It is never directly stated that the attacking force is the Covenant, or indeed when the events occur. (thankyou x Lord Revan x)
[Edited on 06.11.2009 8:49 AM PDT]