- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The cutscene detailing the events that took place within the novels should've been in the beginning of Halo 2.
Farewell
A collection of scenes explaining the events that followed post-destruction of Halo. This semi-lengthy cutscene is completely narrated by The Prophet of Truth(although small snips of characters' dialogue do apply in the scenes) and basically tells everything that happened in Halo:First Strike(3rd Halo novel by Eric C. Nylund). We begin with MC's Longsword adrift in space as the camera pans over the Longsword's bow as MC gazes out silently into the debris, how he found a lone surviving Pelican with survivors, a scene of Covenant battleships arriving to investigate Halo's debris field on Cortana's warning, how MC and his ragtag crew captured the Ascendant Justice, going back to Reach(you will be able to move around a corridor of the ship while approaching Reach to see the ravaged world through a window), see Dr. Halsey and the other Spartans, the slipspace-bending crystal, the emergence of the Brutes, the tension between the Elite and the Brutes, High Charity, Tartarus, the Unyielding Heirophant and the amassing Covenant battle fleet(music climaxes), and finally MC/Johnson/other surviving Spartans' departure to Earth to warn humanity of a imminent invasion by the Covenant aboard the UNSC Gettysburg. So I guess this starts with the opening cutscene, the camera pans real close over the bow of the Longsword from left to right(music same as the very beginning of the E3 Teaser trailer-MC hangar freefall), as from inside a silent MC inspects the debris from inside. Cortana warns of multiple Covenant capital ships on approach from the far side of Threshold. And indeed, as the cruisers round the planet coming towards MC's ship..............
It's not a whole motion picture here-as I said, it's semi-lengthy but worth the watch. As long as the music clip from the Teaser Trailer goes. The scenes go from one flash-in to another. Of course, Truth will narrate-the date timeline in the scenes, the heresy and blasphemy of the Demon, 9th age of Reclamation, The Great Journey, the fallback of the Unyielding Heirophant's destruction(a scene where the Covenant amasses their largest fleet along the Unyielding Heirophant-music climaxes here-then Unyielding Hieophant gets destroyed as well as over 500 ships caught in the blast), the Brutes(a trio of Brutes walking the grand hall of the Prophets' sanctum), and so forth. Looking good so far... Cutscene ends with UNSC Gettysburg departing in slipstream from Reach to Earth. This cutscene also has dates and respective subtitles spanning First Strike.
In fact, the whole music from the Halo 2 E3 Announcement Trailer(where MC jumps out of the hangar bay) seems to fit this cutscene well enough.
Yes, I agree. Campaign is the most important and the biggest portion of Halo.