Editing Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn: Lecture

'''''Lecture''''' is a short promotional piece for the ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]'' webseries. It depicts a lecture by [[Lieutenant General]] [[Black (general)|Black]] to a class of [[Corbulo Academy of Military Science|CAMS]] cadets. It was released on [[2012|September 21, 2012]] on [[Halo Waypoint]]<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-US/Universe/detail/forward-unto-dawn-lecture/d737f5b6-1b6c-43f9-a30e-64cf6510cb93 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Forward Unto Dawn: "Lecture"'']</ref> and on YouTube by MachinimaPrime.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNRzUwa3VQU '''YouTube''': ''"Lecture" - Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Special Preview'']</ref>

''Opens to cadets traversing through the hallways of the Corbulo Academy of Military Science. Cuts to a statue of a Spartan.''

''Black raises his hands and looks around the room. None of the cadets raise their hand. The cadets look at each other.''

*'''Black''': "The insurrectionist say that people of one planet owe nothing to the people of another planet. The insurrectionist say the Earth is in the past, and the past is dead. Well, not so long ago, all of [[human]]ity lived on a single planet. Hard to imagine isn't it? But try to think what it is must have been like to be a human back then — to know only one world. Each and every one of us here contributes to the health and well-being of a [[Unified Earth Government]]. How is that fair? 'Why should I give anything to Earth if I don't even live there?' Well, without us, without the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]], colonies starve, planets die. And for what? Now, the insurrectionist, they say they'd rather risk their lives of millions of colonists than do their duty to continue to ensure survival of the trillions of humans spread throughout this galaxy. But not me. No. Me, I say we are all in this together."

Lieutenant General Black states that trillions of humans were spread throughout UEG space in [[2526]]. Before the [[Battle of Earth|Covenant's invasion]], Earth's population numbered in the billions,<ref>''[[Bestiarum]]''</ref><ref>''[[Halo: Glasslands]]''</ref> while [[Reach]], the largest colony, had a population of just 703,314,500 prior to its [[glassing]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 151''</ref> As Earth and Reach were the most populous of the UEG's worlds, none of the other colonies could have had populations exceeding a few hundred million. Thus, even with over 800 colony worlds, the entire human population would have numbered at most somewhere in the tens of billions. While this was no doubt an error in the trailer's script, one may assume that Black was speaking hyperbolically or that he unintentionally misspoke.

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