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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
[[ | [[File:H3 Cortana.jpg|200px|right|thumb]] | ||
[[ | [[File:Chief Visor.jpg|200px|right|thumb|[[The Ark|The Ark's]] [[Portal]] reflected on [[John-117]]'s visor.]] | ||
Fade in from white to ruins at the edge of [[New Mombasa]]. A comical warning sign depicting a [[Grunt]] crossing swings in the wind. The camera slowly pulls back as a gust of wind kicks up a cloud of sand. A flash of blue light flows toward and past the camera, a partial image of [[Cortana]] visible. | Fade in from white to ruins at the edge of [[New Mombasa]]. A comical warning sign depicting a [[Grunt]] crossing swings in the wind. The camera slowly pulls back as a gust of wind kicks up a cloud of sand. A flash of blue light flows toward and past the camera, a partial image of [[Cortana]] visible. | ||
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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
[[ | [[File:Ark concept.jpg|thumb|200px|A storyboard image.]] | ||
[[ | [[File:800px-Grunt 360.PNG.png|thumb|200px|An [[Easter Egg]] image.]] | ||
*If you listen carefully, when [[Cortana]] speaks, a voice similar or identical to the [[Gravemind]] is saying the same words. This steadily becomes less and less obvious as the video goes on; by the time she says, "This is the way the world ends," the second voice is completely absent. | *If you listen carefully, when [[Cortana]] speaks, a voice similar or identical to the [[Gravemind]] is saying the same words. This steadily becomes less and less obvious as the video goes on; by the time she says, "This is the way the world ends," the second voice is completely absent. | ||
*In the beginning, you can see an Easter egg - a "Grunt crossing" sign. Bungie replies - "The New Mombasa City Council had an incredibly efficient public works department until and even during the tragic and devastating Covenant invasion." {{ | *In the beginning, you can see an Easter egg - a "Grunt crossing" sign. Bungie replies - "The New Mombasa City Council had an incredibly efficient public works department until and even during the tragic and devastating Covenant invasion." {{Citation needed}} | ||
*The enormous hole in the [[Portal Storm|swirling clouds]] above the middle of the structure in the crater is, according to Bungie, caused by strong, unseen forces from the structure itself. | *The enormous hole in the [[Portal Storm|swirling clouds]] above the middle of the structure in the crater is, according to Bungie, caused by strong, unseen forces from the structure itself. | ||
*It is revealed in ''Halo 3'' that the announcement is an early build of the final scene of the fourth level, [[The Storm]]. | *It is revealed in ''Halo 3'' that the announcement is an early build of the final scene of the fourth level, [[The Storm]]. | ||
*When the Announcement Trailer was first revealed, [[Halo 2]]'s plot had implied that The Ark was located on [[Earth]] and this trailer was believed to be depicting its activation of the [[Halo Array]], until the plot of Halo 3 revealed that it was actually the Portal, which would lead to the true Ark. | *When the Announcement Trailer was first revealed, [[Halo 2]]'s plot had implied that The Ark was located on [[Earth]] and this trailer was believed to be depicting its activation of the [[Halo Array]], until the plot of Halo 3 revealed that it was actually the Portal, which would lead to the true Ark. | ||
*Cortana's final line in the trailer references the [[ | *Cortana's final line in the trailer references the [[Cortana Letters]], a series of cryptic e-mails sent to marathon.bungie.org (a sister site of [[halo.bungie.org]]) as a publicity stunt before ''Halo: Combat Evolved''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s announcement during Steve Jobs's keynote at the Macworld Expo in 1999. The full line from the Cortana Letters is "...your poet Eliot had it all wrong: ''this'' is the way the world ends." This references [[wikipedia:T. S. Eliot|T.S. Eliot's]] poem ''The Hollow Men'', whose final stanza (perhaps the most quoted of all of Eliot's work) goes: | ||
::''This is the way the world ends'' | ::''This is the way the world ends'' | ||
::''This is the way the world ends'' | ::''This is the way the world ends'' | ||
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::''Not with a bang but a whimper.'' | ::''Not with a bang but a whimper.'' | ||
==External | ==External links== | ||
*[http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/3/5b3d8532-65bc-4bf6-b5ea-6ba0f2084d74/h3_e32006_announce_large_uncropped.wmv LARGE Windows Media trailer] | *[http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/3/5b3d8532-65bc-4bf6-b5ea-6ba0f2084d74/h3_e32006_announce_large_uncropped.wmv LARGE Windows Media trailer] | ||
*[http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/3/5b3d8532-65bc-4bf6-b5ea-6ba0f2084d74/h3_e32006_announce_small_uncropped.wmv SMALL Windows Media trailer] | *[http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/3/5b3d8532-65bc-4bf6-b5ea-6ba0f2084d74/h3_e32006_announce_small_uncropped.wmv SMALL Windows Media trailer] | ||