- DeepEcho
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"We came, we saw, we conquered, then realized we had no way home."
Ok, here's a theory, perhaps. Over at Halo2Boards, I have been working on a thread since last October on Time-Space Anomolies that exist in the Halo universe as referenced in the novels as a result of Slipspace transitions, and I think the community has pulled together a pretty good theory. Because it is late, and the theroy is rather lengthy, I will not post it here, but you are of course able to read it under the Halo2Boards Halo3 Rumors forum.
To give the jest of it, it basically involves the influence and role that gravitational forces play durring an object's entrance and exit of Slipspace. The greater the gravitational influence, the greater possiblity that an anomaly could occur. Example: As the Ascendant Justice transitioned to Reach while within Threshold's imense gravitational effect, there were a significant amount of anomolies that occured during the transition and afterwards, such as decreased slip-travel periods and retrogression in time.
Another example: the Forerunner crystal found on Reach for some reason altered gravtitational forces, especially upon slipspace transition. After the first attempt of slipspace transition from Reach aboard the Ascendant Justice-Gettysburg, the time anomolies were significantly higher, sending the whole crew and ship back almost a week in time. Forgive me if none of this makes sense or seems out of the ordinary for a theory, but many pages of very thurough research, posting and diagrams can be found on Halo2Boards under ~Time-Space Anomolies~ if you are still interested.
But back to the topic at hand. While I understand why Master Chief would be seen to cover this ground in unrealistic time frames given the period of the "transmisions" as a result of cinematic time adjustment to keep the flow of the trailer, I will take this subject as though it were actually something of significance and not a cinematic effect.
Using this theory previously stated, time travel should be feasable in the Halo story and could possibly play a role in Halo3 (I won't go any further into that department). When watching the trailer, you notice the light refraction effect that is observed over the hot road (the wavy, swivering of the air put simply). But what if this refraction were not refraction at all, but instead some kind of slipspace exit point from another time, almost like the transition out of teleportation on Halo. (On a side note, for those who are unaware, teleportaion on the Halo's are actually slipspace transitions only on a very small scale, enough that the object going through is not torn atom by atom, but safely delivered to a new location.)
What if much earlier in the game, Master Chief was sent back in time. On Halo2Boards, we believe we may have found two points at which this could have occured. One aboard the Forerunner ship as it leaves High Charity since you never really know what could have happened between that point and when you see Master Chief emerge with the ship at Earth in the final cut-scene (Possible Proof: Remember that the Prophet Truth as a few shards of the Crystal still with him, mentioned at the end of Halo:First Strike in Harbinger, so their gravitational effect may still be enough to send an object far back in time in conjuction with the Forerunner ship and the Master Chief aboard it. Those shards still do have some gravitational altering abilities to them. Notice how the Prophets chair bobs strangely in the presence of the shards at first. Pretty suspicious to me). The other, right after Master Chief has returned to Earth and some how comes into contact with other Forerunner aritfacts and some how is sent through time. Both theories are a bit of a stretch, but they do have quite a lot of Halo universe physics and data to back them up.
So, what if you are watching (in the Halo3 trailer) Master Chief emerge from this time travel through slipspace, represented as the supposed light refraction over the road. Because he has just emerged from over a 900 thousand year time travel event, chances are some kind of after effect occurs and as it does, the Cortana and Gravemind transmisions obscure the Chief as the after-effect teleports him. Or, quite possibly the transmisions occur in time with the after effect as a result of the time travel, where the transmisions are now just catching up in the fabric of time and space, however, that idea may take it a little too far.
Almost all theories and ideas I have seen concerning this strange Master Chief "teleportation" so far could be valid in one way or another, but it most likely is shown just for cinematographic effect in attempt to keep the trailer following smoothly. I mean, do you really want to wait for the Chief to walk that distance? lol. Besides, this is Bungie we are talking about, anything could happen! lol.