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{{Center|This article is about the Halo 4 cinematic. For the Halo 2 music piece, see [[Prologue (music)]].}} | |||
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*According to ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', John met Cortana when her chip was inserted into his neural interface for the first time. This occurred just after he received his second-generation [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V MJOLNIR armor]] and took place inside a large tent. However, the cutscene shows John wearing a variant of the Mark IV (see below) and Cortana appears in holographic form; the meeting instead seems to take place inside a bunker. The comic ''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' also shows John being introduced to Cortana via her avatar, although John is correctly depicted as wearing his new Mark V suit. | *According to ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', John met Cortana when her chip was inserted into his neural interface for the first time. This occurred just after he received his second-generation [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V MJOLNIR armor]] and took place inside a large tent. However, the cutscene shows John wearing a variant of the Mark IV (see below) and Cortana appears in holographic form; the meeting instead seems to take place inside a bunker. The comic ''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' also shows John being introduced to Cortana via her avatar, although John is correctly depicted as wearing his new Mark V suit. | ||
*The Spartans' MJOLNIR armor resembles the upgraded [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|Mark VI]] version that Cortana devised for John-117, despite Dr. Halsey not knowing such a variant existed. However, ''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'' establishes these suits as the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|Mark IV]] variant upon which John's revised armor was based,<ref>[http://www.dk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781409334828,00.html '''DK Publising''' - ''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'' '''Preview''']</ref> much like the original Mark VI was canonically based on John's Mark IV variant from ''[[The Package]]'' and ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''. From a production standpoint, the use of the ''Halo 4''-era armor design is | *The Spartans' MJOLNIR armor resembles the upgraded [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|Mark VI]] version that Cortana devised for John-117, despite Dr. Halsey not knowing such a variant existed. However, ''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'' establishes these suits as the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|Mark IV]] variant upon which John's revised armor was based,<ref>[http://www.dk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781409334828,00.html '''DK Publising''' - ''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'' '''Preview''']</ref> much like the original Mark VI was canonically based on John's Mark IV variant from ''[[The Package]]'' and ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''. From a production standpoint, the use of the ''Halo 4''-era armor design is out of necessity to employ existing 3D assets for the cinematic.<ref name="notIV">[https://twitter.com/JoshingtonState/status/474224115608731650 '''Twitter'''] ('''Josh Holmes''': ''We didn't have time to build S-II armor just for intro so we used the S-IV armor in its place. Canonically incorrect I know. :('')</ref> Notably, the suits are shown to possess energy shields; while this may seem anachronistic, MJOLNIR energy shielding prototypes had entered field-testing by [[2531]].<ref>'''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide''', ''page 119'': ''"Energy shielding was a key feature of Mark V, although other Spartan squads had field-tested prototypes of this technology as early as 2531."''</ref> | ||
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