- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
How's this for an intro.
The game starts with a cinematic showing the spartans in training (but of course not showing John's face. Maybe even introduce Dr. Halsey and other significant people from John's past. Then john is called to try on the new armor that just finished development, and he gets his first taste of the mjolnir technology. He tests on the armor and gets acquainted witht he new technology, and this is where you, the player, gets to do the obligatory calibration session. Then flash forward to the onset of the covenant attack on reach, the desperation, the panic. As the flashback progresses, telling of Reach's defeat, you get to fight against the attacking covenant, and even see John's first encounter with an Elite. The fight continues, but the situation becomes more desperate as the covenant fleet overpowers Reach's defenses. MAC orbital stations are demolished and ship after ship is destroyed. A cinematic shows your frantic retreat from battle, the desperate calls to fellow fighting spartans, as you board the Pillar of Autumn and prepare to make the blind slipspace jump, as you look out and witness the covenant fleet surrounding, and glassing Reach, your home. Flash to white, and fade in close on MC's visor, slowly zooming out to show the chief, present time (some time after the events of halo2), inside a shaking dropship accompanying marines on their way to engage covenant forces that have all but obliterated the area of new mombasa. And the whole sequence was mc's recollection of his good days on Reach, when you didn't have to wonder if every day was your last, before everyone that he cared for was lost, and before life bacame an endless routine of battle, death, and destruction.