Deliver Hope
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Deliver Hope is a live-action trailer for Halo: Reach, part of the Remember Reach marketing campaign. It was released on the 26th of August, 2010 and has a runtime of 1:06. It has a somber note to it, following the game's noticeably darker tone. The trailer takes place before the events of the actual game,[1] during a battle on an unspecified human colony, where Noble Team destroys a CCS-class Battlecruiser using a Medium Fusion Destructive Device.
Transcript
The video opens with Catherine-B320 running across a battlefield in a ruined human city, holding an MFDD while firing an M6G sidearm with her other hand. Covenant ground forces, including Sangheili Ultras and Unggoy, can be seen assaulting human troops. The view cuts to show Jorge-052, supporting regular human infantry with his heavy machine gun. The camera briefly cuts to show a wider view of the battle, revealing a Covenant CCS-class Battlecruiser hovering above the city, while two UH-144 Falcons fly past the camera, their turrets firing at targets on the ground.
The camera then cuts to Kat's first-person view, with her arming the MFDD. A five-minute countdown appears on her Heads Up Display. She keeps running through the battlefield, and in the background, Carter-A259 can be seen assassinating an Elite. Several shots of Kat running are shown, one from first-person view of her firing her pistol and another showing the reflection of the Covenant cruiser on her faceplate. After Kat leaps over an obstacle, a Banshee swoops overhead, and fires a plasma bolt from its Fuel Rod Cannon. The bolt impacts the ground right next to Kat, and the explosion sends her flying through the air, leaving her and the nuke lying on the ground. The nuke is shown to have two minutes left in its countdown display.
Thom-293, arrives to where Kat is lying, briefly looks at her and then picks up the nuke. Kat's eyes are shown through her cracked visor as she looks at the other Spartan activate his jetpack, take off and fly toward the Covenant cruiser, entering the ship though its gravity lift. Inside, he rushes to a ledge overlooking a hangar bay where multiple Phantoms and Banshees are docked, and countless Unggoy move on the lower floor. The Spartan tosses the MFDD down and starts running back the way he entered the room.
The view cuts to show the cruiser from above, its shields fluctuating uncontrollably as multiple explosions bloom all over its hull. Text is shown on the screen:
- REMEMBER WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
The view zooms out as the explosion engulfs the Covenant ship, to the planet's orbit, where more explosions and fires are seen in different points on the surface. Text shown:
- REMEMBER REACH
The view then fades to black and the Halo: Reach logo appears, along with the game's release date of 9.14.2010. The Bungie and Microsoft Game Studios logos are seen in the lower left and right-hand corners of the screen, respectively. The video ends in the Xbox 360 logo being shown on the screen.
Trivia
- The fact Catherine-B320 does not have a prosthetic arm implies that the events seen in the trailer take place before the Fall of Reach. This was confirmed by Brian Jarrard, who stated that the trailer takes place during the mission where Kat lost her arm. The Spartan who delivers the nuke into the cruiser is also implied to be the previous Noble Six, Thom-293. However, the trailer is intentionally vague about the setting, which may lead casual fans to assume that it takes place on Reach.[1]
- Early storyboards of the trailer showed Kat's arm being severed, presumably by the Fuel Rod Cannon blast that knocks her down, but the scene was deemed too violent for television and subsequently cut.[2]
- The scene shown in the trailer is reminiscent of a part of Halo: First Strike, where Red Team destroys a Covenant cruiser from the inside with a Fury Tactical Nuclear Weapon.
- One Elite Ultra is shown to be wielding both Energy Sword and a Plasma Rifle, a combination that has never been seen before.,
- A "director's cut"/extended version will premiere on September 6th, 2010 exclusively on YouTube. [3]
- The video itself runs for 1:06 minutes, another reference to Bungie's number 7(1+6=7)
- The amount of energy that would be released by the explosive device can be seen on its display (when Catherine drops it). The energy released would be 63 Terajoules. The nuclear bomb that exploded over Hiroshima, during World War II, released 60 Terajoules of energy.
- It's unknown how Catherine-B320 survived the Banshee's Fuel Rod Cannon, as even a Spartan II should've been vaporized by the blast. If one looks closely though, they will see that the projectile did not hit her directly, offering a possibly explanation.
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