- MLG Cheehwawa
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The Spartans in the banner are more than likely (I would be willing to say I'm 99% certain) not be the ones we knew in the novels. People say that the sillhouettes match up with Sam (or Will in some cases), Kelly, John, Fred, and Linda. These Spartans had identical armor, as you could see on the cover of The Fall of Reach.
We also see Kelly in her Mk V armor which she got on Reach on the cover of Ghosts of Onyx, and she looks identical to the Chief from Halo 1. So she's not in the banner.
Since "Sierra-259" takes a focal point in the trailer, and his dialogue suggests that he is one of the Spartans on the ground (... "You've got Spartans on the ground, sir. We're not going anywhere."), it is likely we will be playing a new perspective which runs parallel to the events told in The Fall of Reach (the space battle of Reach) and First Strike (the ground battle of Reach which happened before the PoA left) and blossom into a new story.
If you have read First Strike, you'd know that Red Team split up into four splinter teams. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. Spartan-259 and -320 were not named in the novel, so they would be in one of the two teams with unnamed Spartans (Beta or Delta). Delta was comprised of six crippled Spartans, and the team was split in half. Will, Isaac, and Vinh were the 3 who made it from Delta into CASTLE base, and they were fixed up by Halsey, allowing them to fight again.
The 3 outside are either dead, or not combat-effective. We won't be hobbling around the battlefield. The only other team this leaves is Beta. This was an 11-Spartan team made up of most of the Spartans with no injuries or minor injuries (Alpha and Gamma had minor injuries as well). They were left to defend the generators, but its possible that 5 of them escaped... some how.
So since Kelly isn't in the banner (sillhouette doesn't match the known images of her from the cover of TFoR or GoO), we will not be playing as known Spartans. My best guess for the identities of those in the banner: Unknown, Spartan-320, Spartan-259, Unknown, Unknown.