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Gettin' all Herodotean up in here!
See, there are a lot of things that keep me fighting the possibility of this being the same Shield installation as the one the Onyx Slipspace portal led to. Number one, the Chief's chunk of Forward Unto Dawn seems to be in real space, not Slipspace. Fair enough, we don't know what Slipspace actually looks like on the inside, but given this (at about 0:33), this (at about 3:16), and this (at about 1:34), I don't think it looks like normal space internally. For one thing, it appears to be entirely devoid of stars. Which, as this shows (start at 5:38 and 7:28, see about 1:06 for more Slipspace stuff), isn't true of wherever it is Chief and Cortana are floating.
Second, whatever action we're seeing with that weird blue light, it doesn't match up with any entry to a shield installation we've ever dealt with. The entryway to the Onyx Dyson sphere is tiny, being that said Dyson sphere is only a few meters across, and this (start at 1:04) is the only other entry to a Shield-type installation we have on record. Neither matches up with the Halo 4 trailer. The portal/door/tractor beam/space mouth/God eye from the trailer looks much more like the installation that opens up the Ark portal, particularly if you view it from this angle. But there doesn't appear to be any kind of beam involved, so the creation of a Ark-type portal can be ruled out.
We can also extrapolate that whatever it is, it's not really all that happy to see him, being that his piece of the Dawn has fire belching out of it IN SPACE. There are only a limited number of things that can cause that, and given that said piece of the Dawn was not randomly spraying fire at the end of Halo 3, something must have attacked it. And being that this megastructure is the only thing we can see that could have done that (apart from Chief brazenly blowing a door open with a pistol that shoots bombs, what the fu-), it's safe to assume that wherever he's headed, it's not gonna be good times.
My conclusion? Whatever this thing is, it's not anything we have ever dealt with or seen before. It isn't Onyx. It's not the Shield world from Halo Wars. We're crossing the threshold into new territory here, folks.