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Subject: THE CHIEF MADE CONTACT WITH THREE NEW SPARTANS IN TRAILER!
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If you guys read the books, the only people that can make contact using HUD lights are Spartans. In the trailer in between 1:00 and 1:05 there are three flashes of light in the top left of the chiefs visor. They are not lighning flashes because those are in the middle. And after the three HUD flashes the Chief quickly nods. And while all this happens he is looking at the capitol ship. And again another flash on the top very top left of the chiefs visor at around 1:11



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  • 06.14.2006 8:12 AM PDT
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i havent read the books but i have heard this theory and it sounds pretty good.

  • 06.14.2006 8:14 AM PDT

but why would we see the lights...wouldn't they only be on the inside?

I'm not sure how it works so I'm only guessing.

EDIT: rewatching it again showed that that's not the only time you see it flash.

After Cortana speaks again, you see the hole in the sky light up, and the same section of the visor light up again, twice. It's still hard to tell whether it's lightning or not, but i believe it is, beacuse I don't think Bungie would reveal that too easily, as it flashes so many times.

So I'm sticking with the idea of lightening

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  • 06.14.2006 8:15 AM PDT

Damn snipers!!!

I have now read the books...

your stupid makes my brain sad

i havent read them either but i think that they can see eachothers lights and silently communicate through a series of flashes............i cant realy see it, its def not very pronounced in the vid. you would think it would be unmistakeable if it were relative

  • 06.14.2006 8:20 AM PDT
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....been there done that...btw it's lightning..a video editing freind compared the lightning in the trailer to that on chief's helmet, he says it's literally the same taking into the midn the convex shape of his visor

  • 06.14.2006 8:21 AM PDT
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vIEW IT IN FULL-SCREEN AND YOU'LL SEE THE FLASHES oops caps were on

  • 06.14.2006 8:22 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

Its the lightning from the storm, the flashes would be on the inside. He would also use comms to communicate with them, and they'd need to be close enough to see the flashes.
He didn't :)

  • 06.14.2006 8:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: Guscon
Its the lightning from the storm, the flashes would be on the inside. He would also use comms to communicate with them, and they'd need to be close enough to see the flashes.
He didn't :)

yer exactly, you can't argue with an expert from pinewood studios

  • 06.14.2006 8:23 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

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Posted by: Guscon
Its the lightning from the storm, the flashes would be on the inside. He would also use comms to communicate with them, and they'd need to be close enough to see the flashes.
He didn't :)

yer exactly, you can't argue with an expert from pinewood studios

Exactly
(what?)

  • 06.14.2006 8:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Guscon
Posted by: XBladeSpartan
Posted by: Guscon
Its the lightning from the storm, the flashes would be on the inside. He would also use comms to communicate with them, and they'd need to be close enough to see the flashes.
He didn't :)

yer exactly, you can't argue with an expert from pinewood studios

Exactly
(what?)

that it was the lightning not spartan wink lights..anyway they would be either red blue or green...thats the team colours

  • 06.14.2006 8:25 AM PDT

beefy

New spartans would be cool but i doubt bungie would put them in it would take some of the spotlight from the chief and for people who have read the books it would be confusing

  • 06.14.2006 8:26 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

Posted by: XBladeSpartan
Posted by: Guscon
Posted by: XBladeSpartan
Posted by: Guscon
Its the lightning from the storm, the flashes would be on the inside. He would also use comms to communicate with them, and they'd need to be close enough to see the flashes.
He didn't :)

yer exactly, you can't argue with an expert from pinewood studios

Exactly
(what?)

that it was the lightning not spartan wink lights..anyway they would be either red blue or green...thats the team colours

I mean with the Pinewood Studios thing

  • 06.14.2006 8:27 AM PDT
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well either way, the other spartans alive should be in halo3 , the battle for earth, its a bit crappy story if for some dull reason in teh books the other spartans left die, and MC is on is own again, no halo isnt like that..

although i dont believe this ones, when the light flashes it shouldnt be that huge, if you can see it from the outside of his helmet, John should be blind by now.
the acknowledge light isnt a huge flash

  • 06.14.2006 8:29 AM PDT

Damn snipers!!!

I have now read the books...

your stupid makes my brain sad

i watched closely...........its reflections...period.

  • 06.14.2006 8:30 AM PDT
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Oh...Oh...Oh....
You're dug so deep u didnt notise that those were only reflections of lightnings in the sky.
Sorry dude try to watch the trailer more attentivly!

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  • 06.14.2006 8:31 AM PDT
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God deamn just look at the sky in the hole its Lightning

How stupid Can you BE

  • 06.14.2006 8:34 AM PDT
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its not that stupid, i think its a good find..

  • 06.14.2006 8:37 AM PDT
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Between 1:00 and 1:04, as John walks through the smoke, you can see three quick flashes in the top right corner of his visor, while this happens he is looking up at the Capitol ship entering the area of the Domed Object, after the 3 lights flash, he quickly nods as if he were talking to someone, 3 light flashes for 3 Spartans?

At 1:12 in the video, during the close up on Johns helmet, in the top right (your left) of his visor, a faint light pops up, if you can imagine from the Halo books, when Spartans comunicate to each other the use acknowlagement lights that blink on Master Chiefs HUD, these lights would most likely be in the corner, off to the side of his visor so as not to obscure his vision.
Now, if that is what I think it is, who, and more importantly how is he comunicating with another Spartan? Are we going to see the return of Kelly, Linda, Fred and Will in Halo 3? I can only hope.
Here is a picture of where to look- Acknowledgement

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Did anyone else get the feeling that the activation of the "structure" was unintentional?

At 1:25 as Spartan-117 steps to the ledge overlooking the object, you can see 27 Covenant Cruisers in a hold position, around the crater, as 9 Banshees ESCORT a lone Phantom, toward the structure.

At 1:26 we can see 3 Cruisers in a hold position above the structure.

At 1:34 when the installation begins to open, the Banshees and the Phantom break formation, and turn away from structure in an evasive pattern.

At 1:39 you can see the Cruiser above Spartan-117 immediately fire up its engines and turn on an out-of-area vector.

And finally, at 1:45, the two remaining Cruisers above the structure fire their engines, again, on an out-of-area vector.

Now, my question to you is, why would the Covenant, who are hell-bent on begginning their Great Journey, flee from its Holy Light? Have you ever seen a spiraling vortex in the sky when Delta Halo was activated?
This really interests me because no theory I have ever seen explains this phenomena, which makes me wonder, what if what was activated, wasn't what everyone thinks it is (the Arc)? Maybe, in some horrible way... something worse.

Also, I'd have to guess it was Truth and his Brutes in the Phantom being escorted to the object, even the ships that are holding around the installation, most likely unfriendly Covenant. Just because they dont turn and fire at John doesnt mean they are friendly.
When the Covenant see something more important ahead of them, they rush into it, no need to fight a Human after the Great Journey begins, right? (if memory serves me correctly...) Think about how Tartarus borderline ignored The Arbiter, and forced Miranda to insert the index on Delta Halo.

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Something else interesting I feel the need to note, exactly what Cortana says.

At 0:34, something eerily similar to the copied Cortanas from First Strike, over and over you hear a sort of stuttered "I..." which leads to "I have defied Gods and Demons." If you listen close enough you can hear a slightly overlayed voice that sounds a lot like Gravemind.

At 0:52 we can again hear the stuttered "I..." which leads to, I think "I am your shield, I am your sword."

At 1:04 we hear her quite clearly say "I know you... your past... your future."

And finally, at 2:04 she says "This, is the way the world ends."

Any Bungie lore lovers will instantly think back to the days of the Cortana letters, which can be found here.



Then read this:

Dude, my theory explains the vortex in the sky. As you can see, its not interacting with the environment (nothings getting sucked into it, no wind so its not a storm, plus hurricanes don't occur in Africa...anyways), so I've hypothesised that it is a giant slipspace being created by the ARK. This slip space was created by the forerunners as a means of escaping this region of space before the Halos were remotely activated by the ARK.

This journey across space could of been mistaken by the forerunners as a "Great Journey" to heaven, since where the forerunners were going would be viewed as a safe heaven, free from flood and place to start over. Anyways, it would also explain why all the COV ships are waiting beneath... they're getting ready to catch a ride across space.

This theory also explains the sudden dissappearance of the forerunners. I also believe that the Halos only kill life, they don't destory inorganics, so it explains why all the forerunner relics are left, as well as all of the forerunner weapons/tech that the cov use.

Now, as you were saying, we see a phantom move towards the center of the structure, but then breaks off when the beam of light cuts through. I'm willing to bet Truth is in the phantom, and he didn't know that the beam of light was coming. I have no idea what the light is... could just be the structure depressuring, or perhaps its opening to form sort of intermediate passage into the slipspace, or maybe its sending a signal out to the Halos / across space to where ever the forerunners went.


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  • 06.14.2006 8:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: MaStOr ChEeF
If you guys read the books, the only people that can make contact using HUD lights are Spartans. In the trailer in between 1:00 and 1:05 there are three flashes of light in the top left of the chiefs visor. They are not lighning flashes because those are in the middle. And after the three HUD flashes the Chief quickly nods. And while all this happens he is looking at the capitol ship. And again another flash on the top very top left of the chiefs visor at around 1:11



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Think about it. There were 3 flashes on his visor. Flashes!

Seriously, come on. You even said yourself, the Spartans communicate using acknowledgment lights, which wink on. They don't flash.

Case closed, it's lightning.

  • 06.14.2006 8:39 AM PDT
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So a storm has winds up to 150mph and in the trailer the winds arent even strong. So that might not even be a storm. And another it's not interacting with anything.

  • 06.14.2006 8:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: MaStOr ChEeF
vIEW IT IN FULL-SCREEN AND YOU'LL SEE THE FLASHES oops caps were on


So, instead of deleting the message and re-typing what you said in a somewhat educated manner, you chose to make an apology of sorts at the end and post anyway?

Nice... Real nice...

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  • 06.14.2006 8:52 AM PDT
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mastor chief i like ur idea,, iff the cortana u see in the trailer is a copy, wouldnt that be just as confusing for ppl that didnt read teh books as placing other spartans (which are in the real storyline just as important as MC, only under his command) in Halo 3.
BTW i also think that if you really play the halo game because of the story, then i strongly recomment to read the books, so i dont see why Bungie wouldnt place characters in the game from the books..

  • 06.14.2006 8:54 AM PDT

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