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Posted by: xAssault12x
Is it just me or do the two sets of planets look alike. In one you are looking at the planets from behind Reach, and on the view from snowbound it looks as if you are on the planet with the rings looking at the large moon and at Reach. Now the two pictures are from different points of time in the Halo Universe so we must factor that in. The picture from the Halo Reach trailer is from before Reach was glassed, and the picture from snowblind is from after Reach was glassed by the Covenant. Now look at the pictures again.
Glassing the planet wouldn't cause it to change to red. Deserts aren't inherently red. In fact, they are more of a brown color. I think that, based on the description of Sanghelios as a red planet with two moons, Snowbound appears to be on one of its moons.
The description of snowbound is as follows; Hostile conditions did not prevent the Covenant from seeking salvage on this buried Forerunner construct.
Hostile conditions = Snow, Ice, and Cold.
Salvage means they dug it up. In order to have time to dig it up before Halo 3, which occurs only a couple months after the FoR, Snowbound would have to be located closer to Covie space.
This helps some of the theories about Sandtrap and Epitaph being located on Reach. Even though no other Forerunner artifacts were not found on Reach by the UNSC it wouldn't be that big of a stretch to assume that they missed something. After all, it wouldn't be the first time that the UNSC was sitting on some Forerunner artifact and didn't even know it.
Epitaph is almost 2000 feet tall. Hard to miss. In fact, according to Bungie, Citadel (one of the new ODST maps) is part of the same structure on the Ark as Epitaph. Epitaph cannot be on Reach. Sandtrap and Sandbox are also on the Ark. This is evidenced by the crashed Albatross on Sandtrap having a description of crashing during the battle of the Ark and Sandbox's description as having the same setting. They are also fairly close to one of the campaign levels from Halo 3 that is on the Ark.
[Edited on 09.07.2009 8:54 AM PDT]