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Posted by: Master Penguin5
i personally don't think so. just some fancy artwork. although, that picture does look a bit odd. and can they even make a Halo game without a Halo ring? the game is called Halo after all.
Actually they can sadly enough. Even if the story arc for this new trilogy doesn't feature a single Halo installation the fact of the matter is that the name "Halo" itself is now the brand identification for the franchise. From a marketing standpoint it's simply not feasible to take out the 'Halo' prefix for anything related to the franchise otherwise mainstream consumers won't be able to identify it easily.
Just look at:
Halo Wars
Halo: Reach
Halo 3: ODST
Halo: Bloodline
Halo: Helljumpers
Halo: Bootcamp
Halo: Covenant
Halo: Uprising
Halo: The Fall of Reach
Halo: The Flood
Halo: First Strike
Halo: Contact Harvest
Halo: Ghost of Onyx
Halo: Cole Protocol
Halo: Cryptum
Halo etc etc
The list just goes on and on. Even if it has jack diddly to do with an actual Halo which is the case for the majority of the comics, novels, spin off games, and what not, 'Halo' is a brand name.
The situation can be likened to how Modern Warfare was to be its own thing, but instead the 'Call of Duty' moniker was slapped onto it anyways for brand recognition sake regardless of developers, story arcs, etc.
So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Halo 4, 5, and 6 had nothing to do with Halos, or even major characters other than the Chief and Cortana (hell even those two far enough down the line) within them.
On topic I severely doubt that's a Halo ring on the view screen simply because there's nothing around the area that is a Halo or Halo like for that matter. Instead it's just the massive artificial construct the ship is moving towards.