- MLG Cheehwawa
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- Fabled Mythic Member
It's all BS. If the trailer shows the invasion of Reach, why would the game be about Halo: The Fall of Reach? Reach only gets invaded in the last couple chapters. If you had all of that jumping through characters and time, the storyline would be a POS because it would be too hard to follow, and the gameplay would be incredibly inconsistent mission-to-mission.
The trailer shows the fall of the planet Reach. The game will probably start at the end of TFoR when Reach is invaded, and it will probably stretch into the beginning few chapters of FS which pick up where TFoR leaves off (the planet doesn't fall until in First Strike, 30 mins after the PoA leaves the system). Since S-259 and -320 (from the trailer) weren't with Fred, Kelly, etc. in CASTLE base, it would thus be safe to assume we are playing as new Spartans.
Not new in the sense of from a new Class, but new as in they have never been named before. There were 11 Spartans of Team Beta on Reach, all healthy, left to defend the orbital generators while the other Spartans went on their missions. It's possible that 5 of them got away, and we will experience a largely new story (while still seeing some stuff from TFoR and FS).